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| Keywords: Italian - Brooch with a Landscape Scene - Walters 4346.jpg Micromosaics crafted from miniature glass tesserae mosaic tiles decorated paperweights boxes and brooches which were popular as tourist art and souvenir jewelry The Vatican workshops were largely responsible for their production and featured many examples as part of the Vatican's contribution to 19th-century expositions The mosaics often represent genre scenes or scenic landscapes like this brooch which depicts the waterfalls at Tivoli a well-known site near Rome early Other date century 19 micromosaic glass tesserae on gold cm 4 45 diam accession number 43 46 13558 Collection of George W Kosmak date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift of Miss Katherine Kosmak and Mr George Kosmak 1975 Objects of Adornment Five Thousand Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Gallery Baltimore Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum New York; Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk; Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh; San Antonio Museum of Art San Antonio; Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa; Honolulu Academy of Arts Honolulu; New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans; Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee; Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis; Toledo Museum of Art Toledo; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota 1984-1987 Bedazzled 5 000 Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum Frist Center for the Visual Arts Nashville; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2006-2009 Shrunken Treasures Miniaturization in Books and Art The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2009 Bedazzled 5 000 Years of Jewelry El Paso Museum of Art El Paso 2010 Jewelry - Ancient to Modern The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979-1980 Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum and the Zucker Family Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1987 place of origin Rome Italy Walters Art Museum license Jewellery in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Micromosaics Waterfalls in Tivoli in art 19th-century jewellery Brooches | ||||
