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Cameos, precious jewels whose charm never wanes, are now one of the most prestigious craft expressions of Italy, particularly Campania.<\/em><\/p>\n

Torre del Greco<\/strong>, a town on the Gulf of Naples, is now the capital of cameo making<\/strong>, a tradition that nevertheless dates back to the Mesopotamian civilization.<\/p>\n

But let’s find out together how the practice of carving precious stones, semi-precious or hard, and shells<\/strong> to create fine jewelry came about…<\/p>\n

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Cameos draw their origin from the earliest<\/strong> Egyptian seals<\/strong>, dating back to 3000 BC. Carving was done on soft materials, such as clay or wax, to seal a letter or container. However, the same seals were, even then, worn as amulets or good luck charms<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It was the Greeks<\/strong>, in 400 B.C., who were the first to employ cameos as jewelry for ornamental purposes<\/strong>. Greek engravers worked on hard, precious, and semiprecious stones ( chalcedony<\/strong>, jasper<\/strong>, carnelian<\/strong>, turquoise<\/strong>, and malachite<\/strong>), selecting them by color and ability to filter light.<\/p>\n

Soon cameos also conquered ancient Rome<\/strong>. Rings, earrings, brooches and lockets portrayed gods, mythological heroes and illustrious historical figures. By the time of Augustus, one can speak of a vast production of cameos, mostly made of semi-precious stones, such as topazes <\/strong>and amethysts<\/strong>, or sardonyx stone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\"Sardonice,<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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Instead, with the decline of the Roman Empire, their production suffered a sharp decline and throughout the<\/strong> Middle Ages<\/strong> they were used mainly to adorn reliquaries, crowns or caskets with religious subjects<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

From the Renaissance<\/strong> onward there was a new interest in classicism, and cameos came back into fashion again, and their success has never waned since.<\/p>\n\n

Ancient knowledge of cameo carving was gradually rediscovered. It is said that a seaman from the Bay of Naples had begun to engrave on sea shells<\/strong> during a long sea voyage. Thus began the tradition ofengraving on shells<\/strong> with their typical layered structure, necessary for such processing.<\/p>\n\n

And in the mid-18th century, explorations enabled the discovery of new varieties of shells<\/strong>, which are still used today. These include the shells of the Cassis<\/em> family<\/strong> (the Madagascarensis<\/em> o Sardonica<\/em> Madagascar and yellow-orange in color, the Rufa<\/em> of the vast area between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific and red in color, the Cornuta<\/em> of tropical seas and orange in color) are the most suitable for engraving, as their surface is composed of two distinctly different color layers<\/strong> and allows the relief figure to be perfectly isolated from the background.<\/p>\n\n

It was not until the early 1800s that cameos were recorded in Torre del Greco<\/strong> by Roman artists who were experts in engraving on semi-precious stones. Early experiments in making small bas-reliefs from shell fragments, which are easier to engrave, can also be traced to this era.<\/p>\n

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\"Ascione<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Continued…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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