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Perseus and Andromeda on an onyx cameo

This photo by Ross Andrus, 6 June 2010.

Intricate gold and black pendant with a multi-layered carved gemstone depicting mythological figures and sea creatures

Unknown artist. V&A determines it to have been carved in Milan, ca. 1580 – 1590.

This is displayed in 2010 in room 57..

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.