Gallery
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Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden on her wedding day, wearing the famous Cameo tiara. It was made for Empress Josephine, first wife of Napoleon I, by the French Crown Jeweller Marie-Etienne Nitot in Paris in 1811. The centre oval depicts Cupid and Psyche.
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A Greco-Roman bust of a woman's head with a diadem, c. 100 BCE-100 CE.
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Diodotus of Bactria wearing the diadema, a white ribbon which was the Hellenistic symbol of kingship.
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The Imperial Diadem as worn by Christian emperors of the Roman world.
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A gold diadem. Greek, probably made in Alexandria, Egypt, 220 - 100 BC. The piece probably belonged to a noble woman of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt. The clasp is shaped as a protective Herakles knot.
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Elliptical diadem from Mycenae, Greece. 16th century BC.
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This piece was originally a diadem with two additional foliate elements, (c. 1870). The Walters Art Museum.
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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)