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Intaglio   Listen
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Intaglio  n.  (pl. E. intaglius, It. intagli)  A cutting or engraving; a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a design depressed below the surface of the material; hence, anything so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc.; opposed to cameo. Also used adjectively.





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"Intaglio" Quotes from Famous Books



... In 1887 I passed some weeks at a hotel in Venice. A number of Italian naval officers dined at our table-d'hote every evening. One of them showed us an intaglio which he had bought. It represented a hunter on an elephant firing at a tiger. The owner wished to know something about it. Baron von Rosenfeld, a chamberlain of the Emperor of Austria, remarked at once that it was as old as the days of flint-locks, because smoke was rising ...
— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland
... was from his hand. He was the third son of John Henning, friend of Scott and Dr. Chalmers, on the strength of his famous miniature restoration of the Parthenon frieze, of which he engraved the figures on slate in intaglio; and he was well known besides not only for these copies of the Elgin marbles, but for his portrait-busts and medallions. Precision in all things was one of his characteristics, and even showed itself in the inscriptions in his family Bible, wherein he set ...
— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann


Words linked to "Intaglio" :   diaglyph, glyptic art, printing, photogravure, gravure, glyptography, printing process


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