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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 2706815, member: 5833&quot;]Working it out relieved my epistemic distress over why this cameo, given to the V&amp;A by its maker, James Ronca, is identified as Psyche</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]274932[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>when this painting</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]274933[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>&amp; the gem that made this impression</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]274934[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>are both titled Iris.&nbsp; What is the &#039;correct&#039; identity of a subject if an original work is named one thing but the artist copying from it names his work something else?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It was the appearance of the plaster impression on eBay that gave me the final link in the explanation of how the misidentification had occurred, in the days before the Internet, &amp; enabled me to make a cogent argument for Iris instead of Psyche.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The entry may not have been changed completely because the original ID was made by someone at the British Museum who published a scholarly paper arguing for the cameo&#039;s being the lost Ronca Psyche mentioned in an exhibition catalogue, &amp; who is still in her position at the Brit.&nbsp; The same catalogue lists another work by Ronca, The Rainbow, a subject he had done at least a couple of times before.&nbsp; If you remember your mythology, Iris is the goddess of the rainbow.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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