Preface / Henry A. Millon -- Introduction / Clifford Malcolm Brown -- Classical gems and media interaction / John Boardman -- Et in arcadia ego: satyrs and maenads in the ancient world and beyond / Martin Henig -- Early Christian gems and their rediscovery / Jeffrey Spier -- Carolingian engraved gems: 'golden Rome is reborn'? / Genevra Kornbluth -- 'Interpretatio christiana': gems on the Shrine of the three kings in Cologne / Erika Zwierlein-Diehl -- Isabella d'Este Gonzaga's Augustus and Livia cameo and the 'Alexander and Olympias' gems in Vienna and Saint Petersburg / Clifford Malcolm Brown -- The Renaissance cameo-cut vase and its antecedents / Hugh Tait -- The use of cameos in the mounts of sixteenth-century Milanese pietre dure vases / Kirsten Aschengreen Piacenti -- Glyptic sources of Renaissance art / Toby Yuen -- The symbolism of stones: engraved gems at the Medici grand-ducal court (1537-1609) / Martha McCrory -- Reproducing and reading gems in Rubens' circle / David Jaffé -- Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc and antique glyptic / Marjon van der Meulen -- Engraved gems and northern European humanists / Marianne Maaskant-Kleibrink -- Giant cameos of the late eighteenth century in precious tablets with cameos and jewelry / Ingrid S. Weber -- An eighteenth-century collector as patron: the 4th Duke of Marlborough and the London engravers / Gertrud Seidmann -- The classical hero as ideal ruler on two early nineteenth-century Russian cameos / Julia O. Kagan -- The last gems: Italian neoclassical gem engravings and their impressions / Douglas Lewis
