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Automaton of a black man with a clock encased in his chest

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Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the “Age of...
Cameos were widely found in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century collections. The cameo held by Cornelis de Man’s dealer in his painting Visit to a Curiosity Dealer contrasts the whiteness of the portrait bust with the darkness of the background ...
PublisherHarvard University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.371-394
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00141.018
Chapter subject tags:Jewelry--Private collections

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