This magnificent - yet, to be honest, also somewhat tawdry - #crown is #spolia for #spoliaSunday this week. No less than 40 ancient #cameo decorations were used in this piece of arrant Napoleonic fakery called the "crown of #Charlemagne", which he used in his imperial coronation.
@antmoose @MuseeLouvre @abby_fecit @Livia_en_Roma @NCDrusus38 @p_historians @rogueclassicist @BrianDu04700318 Saw this crown as part of the Treasures of Notre Dame exhibition, this past January. It did look cheap, but the cameos are cute.👑❤️🥹
@antmoose @MuseeLouvre @abby_fecit @Livia_en_Roma @NCDrusus38 @p_historians @rogueclassicist @BrianDu04700318 Tasteful just wasn’t in his oeuvre.
@antmoose @MuseeLouvre @abby_fecit @Livia_en_Roma @NCDrusus38 @p_historians @rogueclassicist @BrianDu04700318 Looks a bid spooky. The front one gives deaths head vibes. The "contemporary" Danish cameo parure is still intact, better quality with an interesting history thecourtjeweller.com/2021/02/the-st…
@antmoose @MuseeLouvre @abby_fecit @Livia_en_Roma @p_historians @rogueclassicist @BrianDu04700318 Some Julio-Claudian right there, it seems to me.