Cameo Jewelry: a little History
Cameo is a stone or a shell hand carved or engraved using the different chromatic levels of several materials".
This is a synthetic and harsh definition that doesn’t give the real essence of what a cameo means for Italian colture and tradition and for every woman in the known world.
This is our Family definition at Eredi Jovon:"A cameo is a piece of art, is a part of the Italian history, something for the life, something that you can use but, above all, something that points out your taste for elegance and grace".
Descending through generations, through collection in museums, even tucked away in antique stores, the shell cameo excites and inspires the viewer to enjoy the object for its craftmanship.
As more individuals become acquainted with this exquisite, miniature art form, discovering the cameo's historic appeal as well as aesthetic beauty, cameo collecting will grow.
Let's look at the roots of the word"CAMEO":
Same historians believe the word"cameo"derives from the Hebrew/Arabic word"KAMEA"meaning charm or amulet; somebody else think the latin root of the word"cameo"anyway means"to engrave".
The ancestor of nowadays cameos were the seals used for personal documents or household goods, the"intaglios": intaglios and cameos are both forms of Glyptics art (the Greek word"Glyptos"means"to engrave").
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