Cameo with Saint Nicholas
This glass paste imitation cameo is of Saint Nicholas of Myra, who wears clerical dress identifying him as a bishop.
Expensive cameo and semiprecious hard stone carvings for personal devotion were so highly prized that imitations in glass paste were produced for the general populace in Byzantium and abroad.
Expensive cameo and semiprecious hard stone carvings for personal devotion were so highly prized that imitations in glass paste were produced for the general populace in Byzantium and abroad.
Artwork Details
- Title: Cameo with Saint Nicholas
- Date: 12th–13th century
- Geography: Made in Venice ?
- Culture: Byzantine or Italian
- Medium: Moulded glass paste
- Dimensions: Overall: 1 x 13/16 x 5/16 in. (2.6 x 2 x 0.8 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1918
- Object Number: 18.145.9
- Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters
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Giovanni Pisano
ca. 1301, with later additions
Central Italian
carved 1000s, assembled 1100s or 1200s
French
ca. 1150–60
British
ca. 1173–80
French
ca. 1145
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