Искусства и ремесла Средневековья

Je,velry and Precious Stones

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grave douЬts whether Theophilus with his goats could have managed it ! Vasaгi speaks with characteristic enthusiasm of the glyptics of the Greeks, ' 1 whose ,voгks in that manner may Ье called divine." But, as he continues, "many and very many years passed over during which the art was lost ". . . . until in tl1e days of Lorenzo di Medici the fashion for cameos and intaglios revived. In the Guild of the :Мasters of Wood and Stone in Florence, the cameo-cutteгs found а piace, neverthelcss it seems fitting to include them at this point amo11g je\\ 1 eilers, instead of among carvers. The Italians ceгtainly sнcceeded in performing feats of Iapidary art at а later period. Vasari шentions two cups ordered Ьу Duke Cosmo, one cut out of а piece of lapis lazuli, and thc othcr from an enormous heliotrope, and а crystal galley with gold rigging was made Ьу the Sanachi bгothers. In tl1e Gгeen Vaults in Dresden may Ье seen numerous specimens of valuaЫe but hideous products of this class. In the seventeenth century, the art had run its course, and gave place to а taste for cameos, ,vhich in its turn was run iпto the ground. Cameo-cutting and gem engraving has always been accoшplished partly Ьу means of а drill; the deepcst point to Ье reached in the cutting would Ье punctured first, and then the suгfaces cut, chipped, and grouш1 a,vay until the desired level ,vas attained. This is оп шuch the sаше principle as that adopted Ьу шаrЫе cutters to-day.