gems

May 22, 2017
Italian gem-engraver and medallist Giovanni Bernardi died on 22 May 1553 in Faenza.

August 26, 2015
Gem-engraver and medalist Filippo Rega was born on 26 August 1761 in Chieti , a central-Italian town then in the Bourbon Kingdom of Naples .

March 12, 2014
Roman gems @ thegetty : These dramatic masks are less than ½ an inch tall, but are packed with theatrical punch.