Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate Matthams Spencer is a Paris-based writer who covers jewelry. The opposite of its better-known cousin, the cameo, intaglio is ...

Intaglio is an ancient carving technique for adding details to a workpiece, by manually removing material from a surface with only basic hand tools. If enough material depth is removed, the resulting ...

The transfer of engraved images, first in clay and stone, onto another surface is an art form with utilitarian origins dating back to ancient Mesopotamia. Over the millennia, Asian artists began to ...

The Parisian jeweler Marc Auclert uses one-of-a-kind elements such as Roman intaglios and pre-Columbian amulets in his ...