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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 8652575, member: 5833&quot;]The original is a painting by Guido Reni, sometimes, weirdly, known as Aurora&#039;s Chariot.&nbsp; I say weirdly because it is obviously the Chariot of the Sun driven by Apollo, encircled by the Hours.&nbsp; Aurora, with the Genius of Light, is leading the way, as Dawn comes before the Day.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have seen portrait cameos in traveling cases like this, but never one of these plaster casts.&nbsp; I do not know offhand which of the gem engravers might have converted the painting into an intaglio, quite possibly more than one of them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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