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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 671335, member: 5833&quot;]You guys are doing just fine without me, carry on.&nbsp; I&#039;m off to the turtle show.</p><p><br /></p><p>OK not just yet.&nbsp; Right &amp; Right.&nbsp; St. Cecilia, patron saint of music, &amp; an especially beautiful one.&nbsp; The organ is her traditional instrument, but she is sometimes shown with others.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]185296[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]185297[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And the 1st cameo is of Moses, not by Moses/Moise, facing front, after the sculpture of Michelangelo (which was affected by a mistranslation in the Bible that led people to understand that Moses had horns, when it should have been something more like &#039;radiance&#039;).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]185298[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The next one is described as Moses holding a staff entwined with a serpent, speaking with (the personification of) Peace, who holds an olive branch.&nbsp; It is signed with one of the variants used by Valerio Belli, as he is usually called now.&nbsp; ( [USER=8184]@Jivvy[/USER] the Pan you like in the auction catalogue is by Belli or someone who did similar work on rock crystal.)&nbsp; I will have to be on the lookout to see if I have anything like this in my cameo photo collection.&nbsp; May have, but probably not correctly labeled.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes Raspe, who compiled the catalogue of Tassie&#039;s impressions, which is where the snippet Jivvy is asking about comes from, couldn&#039;t resist editorializing about a piece, &amp; he does that here, complaining about the practice of Renaissance gem engravers of mixing religious (sacred) images with secular ones, in a way that only confused others, rather than making the idea clear.&nbsp; Says Belli is particularly guilty of this, although he says the cameo is &#039;pretty enough&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The catalogue is written in English &amp; French, in side by side columns.&nbsp; Those old style lower case &#039;S&#039;s play havoc with OCR.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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