. . "Exceptionally for the Renaissance, this is a signed cameo, bearing the signature of Gian Giacomo Caraglio, who was born in Verona and later worked in Venice and then Cracow and who was best known as a printmaker. Bona Sforza, daughter of the duke of Milan, married Sigismund I, king of Poland, in 1518. At Sigismund\u2019s death in 1548 she returned to Italy, where she died in 1557. The cameo is inlaid with gold that enhances details of Bona\u2019s chain and hairnet, and a silver Medusa\u2019s head is inset on her breast, in the same spirit of jewelry within jewelry. The only other gem signed by Caraglio, an agate similarly bedecked with gold representing Barbara Radziwill, Bona\u2019s successor as queen of Poland, is in the M\u00FCnzkabinett, Munich. The dainty frame, although dated 1554 on the reverse, is a nineteenth-century invention.[James D. Draper, 2008]"@en . .