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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 547149, member: 5833&quot;]Very true.&nbsp; When you look at old tourist guides for Rome, you see photography studios with addresses not far from those of big name cameo cutters.&nbsp; I can just imagine someone coming into, say, Filippo Tignani&#039;s workshop &amp; being told to go to a nearby photographer &amp; have their picture taken, with instructions regarding which way to face, although Tignani could probably readily do either way.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cameos of famous people, popes, rulers &amp; their relatives, are often taken from coins or medals.&nbsp; In those cases, I do see faithful reproduction, regardless of chirality:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]169500[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]169501[/ATTACH] </p><p>A gem engraver who made their own version of an imaginary/fictitious figure was free to have this goddess or that nymph face this way or that.&nbsp; (Have you ever seen a lassie?)&nbsp; Have to think they would have chosen the direction that required less manipulation of the stone/they knew gave them better results.&nbsp;&nbsp; Since we see both orientations, have to think they did have preferences.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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