Head of a Medusa (?)
Unknown
mid-16th century · Onyx or sardonyx, mounted in silver · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
The distinctive Mannerist style of this cameo, with its shallow, flattened relief and elegantly meandering flourishes such as the snaky locks of hair, seems un-Italian, yet one hesitates to call it French because so little is known as yet about Renaissance carvers in France.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- mid-16th century
- Medium
- Onyx or sardonyx, mounted in silver
- Culture
- probably French
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- The Milton Weil Collection, 1939
