Cameo of Venus and Cupid, Probably a Hat Badge Mounted as a Pendant

c. 1500-c. 1550 (cameo and frame); c. 1575-c. 1600 (pendant)

Italian

Status: On View, Gallery 238
Department: Applied Arts of Europe

Title: Cameo of Venus and Cupid, Probably a Hat Badge Mounted as a Pendant
Place: Northern Italy (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1500–1600
Medium: Gold, chalcedony, enamel, pearls, and glass
Dimensions: 10.8 × 4.9 cm (4 1/4 × 1 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf
Reference Number: 1992.536
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Otto von Falke, Die Kunstsammlung Eugen Gutmann (Berlin, 1912), pp. IV, 11, no. 29, pl. 9.
Yvonne Hackenbroch, “An Early Renaissance Cameo, Sleep in Venice” in Studi di storia dell’arte in onore di Mina Gregorio, ed. Elisa Acanfora and Michaela Sambucco Hamond (Milan, 1994), pp. 92-95, fig. 1.
Yvonne Hackenbroch, Enseignes, Renaissance Hat Jewels (Florence, 1996), pp. 132-135, fig. 137.
Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 57-58 and 94, no. 22, ill.

Mantua, Palazzo Te and Palazzo Ducale. Gonzaga: La Celeste Galeria, Sept. 2-Dec. 8, 2002, cat. 83.

Eugen Gutmann, Berlin, by 1912 [see von Falke 1912, p. 11, no. 29]. Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago, by 1992; given to the Art Institute, 1992.

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