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Renaissance Gold and Agate Cameo Ring Depicting Homer

$7,678.48
£5,672.08
€6,500VAT Included
CA$10,660.29
A$10,856.35
CHF 6,232
MX$131,001.53
NOK 72,225.78
SEK 73,217.91
DKK 49,568.65

About the Item

Period: Late 16th century Provenance: Italy Ring size: 8 Weight: 18.2 gr This Renaissance cameo can be attributed to the end of the 16th century, is made of agate, and inserted in a probably Nineteenth-century classical yellow gold setting: the stem is adorned with two masks enclosed inside a volute, the lower part is characterized by foliage decorations and grooves, also present in the night closure of the cameo. The upper part of the frame, oval, has further small, fluted decorations which further embellish the ring and frame the agate cameo, where we recognize a depiction of the profile of Homer, a poet of Ancient Greece to whom the authorship of the 'Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as the two most famous Greek poems. Homer's iconography is recognizable by some details, starting from the headdress from which curly hair emerges, as well as the thick beard, the presence of the laurel wreath – symbol par excellence of glory, wisdom and poetry – but above all, its attribution can be returned with certainty by the fact that he is represented with white eyes, without pupils, as tradition wanted him blind, although it cannot be ruled out that it was a popular belief derived from the fact that the name Homer meant, in ancient Greek, "the one who does not see", thus becoming the prerogative of his iconography, as well as a symptom of prophetic qualities.

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