Cameo Signature Help Needed

I hope it arrives quickly and safely!

 

This guy is now on eBay for a pretty penny...

 

AI response to a search for Filippo Verge:

The person you are likely referring to is either
Filippo Tignani or Antonio Vergé (often referred to only by his surname Vergé), both prominent 19th-century Italian cameo engravers, or possibly Filippo Rega, an 18th/19th-century engraver. There is no widely known artist named "Filippo Verge".

Then the first result after the summary links to this thread & to the cameo signatures one. A number of the images are also from our board, although only one of them is of a piece by this Filippo.

Out of curiosity, I tried again but made a typo & put 'Filippo Vergé caneo', which got me an abbreviated form of this version produced by correcting to 'cameo':

Filippo Vergé was a gemstone engraver active in Rome during the Victorian era, known for his high-quality cameos.
Vergé specialized in carving cameos on materials with integral layers or banding, such as agate or carnelian, to create contrast and depth in the artwork. His works often depicted figures from mythology or religious iconography.
Key details about his work include:

• Signature: His cameos are typically signed, sometimes on the back of the stone with "Filippo Vergé Roma" or simply "Vergé".
• Subject Matter: Known subjects include the Virgin Mary, Menelao, and Antinous as Dionysus-Osiris.
• Style: His work is often associated with the Etruscan Revival or Archaeological Revival style, and his pieces were sometimes set in gold and enamel mountings in the style of famous jewelers like the Castellani.
• Relationship to Antonio Vergé: Some sources suggest Filippo may be related to Antonio Vergé, another prominent gemstone engraver who produced hardstone cameos for Fortunato Castellani in the mid-19th century.

The pieces described & the employment by Castellani are all Antonio. Since both are recorded as being at the same address, I think there is more than a suggestion that they were related. The AI is one turkey short of gobbledegook.

 

It usually is.
To think that people take medical advice from AI.

 

The flood of misinformation produced is truly alarming. So many people think that if something appears in writing it must be true, and so many are not curious or questioning enough to do any cross checking.

 

Very true, has always been so. Used to be if someone read something in a newspaper it had to be true! Now it's worse with the internet