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The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) (r) is a structured vocabulary for generic concepts related to art and architecture. It was developed by The Getty Research Institute to help research institutions become consistent in the terminology they use.Learn More
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Description
Primary Description:
Transparent pale green glass; gold leaf sandwiched between two sheets of glass. Roundel with low footring; two sheets of glass, edge of lower sheet folded to form base ring; decorated in gold leaf: rustic scene in two concentric circles which contain inscription; on right, shepherd, short-haired and beardless wearing girdled tunic and leggings, holding syrinx in both hands with crook leaning against right knee; to his right, tree, pollarded, with leafy branch; to his left, jar and three rams, in field, dots and five leaf sprays.
Exhibitions (4)

Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art
Venue(s)
Kimbell Art Museum 2007-11-18 through 2008-03-30

Ambrose and Agustine: The Origins of Europe
Venue(s)
Museo Diocesano 2003-11-01 through 2004-06-01
(exhibit title) Ambrogio e Agostino: Le sorgenti dell'Europe

Glass of the Caesars
Venue(s)
British Museum 1987-11-18 through 1988-03-06
Romisch-Germanisches Museum 1988-04-15 through 1988-10-18
Musei Capitolini 1988-11-03 through 1989-01-31
Corning Museum of Glass

Age of Spirituality
Venue(s)
Metropolitan Museum of Art 1977 through 1977
Publications (32)
Den tidlige kristne billedverden (2020)
illustrated, p. 13;
Things that travelled : Mediterranean glass in the first millennium CE (2018)
illustrated, p. 34 (fig. 2.6);
Prudentius' Hymns for Hours and Seasons: Liber Cathemerinon (2016)
illustrated, cover;
BIB# 146504
Fire and Ice: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum (2012)
illustrated, p. 32, fig. 62;
The Yearning for Venetian Glass: Beauty that Traversed Oceans and Time (2011)
illustrated, p. 18, fig. 3;
Rōmaikē kai palaiochristianikē yalourgia 1os ai. p.Ch.-6os ai. m.Ch. (Roman and Early Christian Glassware) (2009)
illustrated, p. 38;
BIB# 112638
Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art (Kimbell Art Museum) (2007)
illustrated, p. 192-193, fig. 22;
BIB# 103158
Glass: A Pocket Dictionary of Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking (2006)
illustrated, p. 41;
BIB# 96551
387 d.c./ambrogio e agostino/le sorgenti dell'europa (2003)
illustrated, p. 323, no. 276; p. 429;
BIB# 78110
The Art of Living (2001)
p. 628;
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001)
illustrated, p. 43;
BIB# 68214
Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume Two (2001)
cover, jacket ill.; pp. 249-250, pl. 842;
BIB# 58895
Aurea Roma. Dalla citta pagana alla citta Cristiana (2000)
illustrated, p. 628, cat. no. 332;
BIB# 67277
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: Checklist of the Exhibition (1999)
illustrated, p. 32;
BIB# 63967
Drink may you Live! Roman motto glasses in the context of Roman life and death (1996)
illustrated, p. 109, fig. 5;
BIB# AI48482
Glass: A Pocket Dictionary of Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking (1993)
p. 38; back cover;
BIB# 35660
'81 Nihon no garasu ten : ima garasu ga kataro to shiteiru mono wa = Glass '81 in Japan (1981)
illustrated
BIB# 32754
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1974) (1974)
illustrated, p. 23, #22;
BIB# 28793