Bust of a bearded man in a cap, mid-19th century, Italian, Rome, Onyx, gold mount, Visible cameo: 44.6 x 34.2 mm, Lapidary Work-Gems, Luigi Saulini (Italian, 1819–1883), Luigi Saulini first drew his subjects’ portraits, sometimes after sending them to a photographer around the corner. In this bust of an unknown gentleman (it has been mistakenly taken for a self-portrait), he extracted powerful contrast and a sense of volume from the two strata
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