NECKLACE Cameo Handmade K14 Yellow Gold 14116

Handmade K14 Cameo necklace for lovers of vintage style, a unique piece of jewelry in blue. Elegant choice for romantic looks!

Comes with SENZIO Belibasakis Certificate of Authenticity in a luxury jewelry package.

Cameo

It is a relief carved in stone. Cameos were usually carved by sculptors on stones that had two layers of material. Each layer was a different color. Engraving was usually done on the lighter material so that the darker material underneath would appear as a background.

In cameos, the carved representation is in relief, i.e. raised. If the representation is intaglio (dug, dented) then the object is called a cameo or intaglio. The technique of intaglio is much more ancient and goes back to the 2nd millennium BC, on seal stones or ring stones, while cameos began to be made during the Alexandrian and Roman times, when masterpieces were carved in stone. After the Roman era, cameo production waned, to be reborn in the Renaissance along with lithography (sculpture) in general. It was during this later period that artists preferred shell and coral as materials for carving cameos, and this technique flourished in Naples, Italy.

The name comes from the Latin cameus, which probably refers to the Greek word "kamata".. But perhaps the word is due to the name of the famous stonemason of the Middle Ages, Domenico De Camei. Large collections of Roman and Medieval cameos exist in the National Library of France, and in the museums of Vienna, Florence and St. Petersburg. Nowadays the manual engraving of cameos tends to disappear, because there are machines (called Ultrasonjc Mill but also CNC) that engrave representations on stones. Cheap cameo imitations are made with cast glasses.