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A page from a manuscript depicting a woman, kneeling to be crowned, while a standing man blesses her. She is surrounded by a court of angels in an architectural setting in the clouds.
Coronation of the Virgin
1508
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink
2013/2.558
This woodcut features a multitude of armored figures, some of which are on horseback, engaged in a battle with swords and lances in a hilly countryside. Two cannons are arranged on the lower right in the foreground and one cannon is being manipulated by a figure in the lower left corner of the composition. Various flags are included in the image including one with a Burgundian cross. In the distance of the scene there is a walled town with mountains positioned behind it.<br />
Hans Burgkmair
Two Scenes of Armies Fighting
1500 – 1532
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink
2012/2.179
This two-color woodcut in black and pale pink depicts a standing female figure against a black background in vertical format. The figure is shown bending over collecting grapes in the folds of her apron. Her skirt is decorated in a bird motif and her hair is windswept. The verso of this print contains an announcement for an exhibition at Weyhe Gallery in New York in March and April of 1951.
Antonio Frasconi (American (North American))
Grape Picker
1946 – 1956
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink
2012/2.187

Albrecht Dürer
Entry into Jerusalem, from the Small Passion
1511
Gift of the Estate of Beatrice Bishop Berle
1993/2.2
This small print depicts a bust-length portrait of a woman within an oval frame. She turns slightly to her left and gazes downward. A bright halo encircles her head.
Bartolomeo Coriolano (Italian (culture or style))
Bust of the Virgin
17th century
Gift of J. Frederick Hoffman
2007/2.141
A woman wearing long robes sits holding a pen in her right hand and props up a blank tablet in her lap. A putto helps support the table from behind and points toward the seated figure. A pot of ink with another pen appears next to his foot.
Bartolomeo Coriolano (Italian (culture or style))
Sibyl Seated with Tablet
17th century
Gift of J. Frederick Hoffman
2009/2.23
This woodcut depicts a town square surrounded by buildings on the top and right edges of the composition as though viewed from above. Within the square is a field delimited by a fence in which a multitude of figures and figures on horseback are engaged in a chaotic battle. Several figures direct large lances toward other figures. Crowds of young and old and male and female figures watch the action from behind the fence and from within doorways, balconies and windows in the surrounding buildings.
Lucas Cranach The Elder
Joust in the Marketplace
1506
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink
2012/2.181
This print depicts the body of a man being lowered from a cross. Two men lean over the top of the cross to remove the nails from the dead man&#39;s hands and pass his body down to two other men standing on ladders. Three women and a man lay on the ground in mourning at the foot of the cross.
Ugo da Carpi
Descent from the Cross
1440 – 1535
Gift of Jean Paul Slusser
1960/1.176
Two women in long robes stand arm in arm in a landscape. One figure holds an olive branch in her right hand, and her companion cradles a cornucopia against her hip.
Bartolomeo Coriolano (Italian (culture or style))
The Alliance of Peace and Abundance
1642
Museum Purchase
1970/1.178

Albrecht Dürer
The Annunciation, from the Life of the Virgin
1498 – 1508
Gift of the Friends of the Museum of Art in memory of Helen B. Hall, Curator Emeritus
1992/1.125
Two seated men, depicted in three-quarter length, with flowing beards and long robes look out from this print. A painting of a seated woman holding a child on her lap sits on an easel between them. A closed book is placed before the man on the left, and a second book sits open next to the figure on the right. This man holds a mahlstick, used by painters to steady their hand as they work, in his right hand. A palette and brushes are placed on a ledge in front of him.
Ludolphe Buesinck
St. Luke and St. Mark with a Portrait of the Virgin and Child
17th century
Gift of J. Frederick Hoffman
2007/2.144
A woman sits on the left holding a nude infant in her lap. An aureole of light radiates around her head as she looks downward toward the child, who returns her gaze. A bearded bishop wearing a miter and holding a crosier kneels before them on the right.
Andrea Andreani (Italian (culture or style))
Madonna and Child with a Bishop
1591
Gift of J. Frederick Hoffman
2007/2.146
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