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Mary and Elizabeth

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Lionne déchirant la poitrine d'un arabe

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Lion Devouring a Horse (Lion dévorant un cheval)
This black and white print depicts a male lion attacking the body of a horse near a rocky cave. Only the front portion of the horse is shown, lying on its side on the ground. The lion crouches above the horse and presses down with its front paws, claws extended, as it sinks its teeth into the horse's neck. There is a fierce, wild eyed expression on the lion's face. The scene is set in an undefined rocky landscape.
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The Concert
The circular room’s ceiling is painted with a sky motif populated by cupids; the room also features ornamental mouldings above four windows that depict musical instruments, and busts on pedastals are placed between the windows. A large number of well-dressed men and women sit while a group of musicians in the center of the room perform on a piano, flutes, cellos, a harp, and other stringed instruments. The print is framed by an ornamental border, and a stretch of tasseled fabric below the scene contains a title and a coat of arms.<br /><br /><u>Marks/Inscriptions:</u><br /> In plate, l.c.: Le Concert / A Madame La Comtesse de Saint Brisson; and l.r.: Par son très humble et très obéissant / Serviteur Duclos In plate, in lower margin, l.l.: Dessiné par Aug. de St. Aubin. Graveur du Roi; abd l.c.: A Paris chés Chereau Graveur rue St. Jacques près les Mathurins / Avec Privilége du Roi; and, l.r.: Gravé par A.J. Duclos<br /><br /> Collector's mark on verso: DB.W enclosed in a rectangle. (Copied onto sheet in objec
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'Bauernkrieg' (Peasant War Cycle). Losbruch (Outbreak)

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Adam and Eve (Fall of Man)
This black and white print has a long vertical format showing two nude figures standing in front of a tree trunk. The female is holding an apple in each hand and has her left foot resting on a tablet with the letters HGB. Her face is turned to look at the figure behind her. This figure holds her shoulder with one hand and with the other places a leafy branch in front of her genitalia. On the bottom left corner is a date 1519.
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Susanna and the Elders
A nude woman sits at the edge of a pool in a garden with a fountain visible in the foreground. Two bearded men lean on a gate next to her. The closer figure extends his left hand toward the woman, while the other points toward a town visible in the distance.
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Descent from the Cross
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.
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Sibyl Seated with Tablet
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.
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Sibyl with a Child Holding a Torch
A woman sits in an interior holding a book in her right arm, which is propped upon a ledge. She reads by the light of a torch held by a child standing next to her. Print trimmed to image frame. Image was previously folded at center (multiple folds). Paper size: lh 27 3/5cm &amp; rh 27 4/5cm x tw 22 3/5cm bw 22 3/10cm.
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Melencolia I

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Ornament
This small print depicts an ornamental pattern composed of curled acanthus leaves and spiralling vines terminating in flowers or buds. The plant ornament forms a symmetrical pattern around a central motif inscribed with the initials &quot;HSB,&quot; which are conjoined. This motif is framed by two horn-shaped containers that end in monsters&#39; heads.
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The Betrayal of Christ, No. 3 of the Series of 8 Prints from "The Passion"

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Carceri d'Inuenzione, Plate V

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The Gothic Arch, from the 'Carceri'

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The Detraction of Good Things [Detractio Bonorum] from Sebastian Brant's "Stultifera navis [The Ship of Fools]" published by Johann Bergmann
Text on both sides. One side has the image of a man with dogs at his feet. There is also a jester at his feet, kneeling down.
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Illustration from an Augsburg Bible (Incunabulum)

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Entellus and Dares

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Combat of Romans and Dacians (after a relief on the Arch of Constantine, Rome)
This engraving reproduces a relief sculpture from the second century CE of Roman soldiers under Emperor Trajan conquering the Dacians in what is today Romania. The sculpture was later removed from its original monument built to honor Trajan and incorporated into the Arch of Constantine, erected in Rome by the emperor Constantine between 312 and 315.<br /> The relief depicts mounted Roman soldiers, dressed in their characteristic armor and helmets, surging to the left and right from the center of the scene. A group of soldiers sounding horns stands in their midst. The Romans&#39; vanquished Dacian foes lie trampled beneath the horses&#39; hooves.
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Ecce Homo (Passion Series)
A bearded man, wearing only a crown of thorns, a loincloth, and a long robe, stands stooped and sorrowful at the top of a short flight of steps. A man wearing a pointed cap and holding a scepter in his left hand emerges from the doorway behind him and points toward him with his right hand. A riotous crowd, full of grimacing and leering faces, stands on the steps and ground below. A column and a bundle of switches appear through the window behind the crowned figure. A small snarling dog appears in the foreground next to the steps where the artist&#39;s initials &quot;M + S&quot; are inscribed.
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Map of the Sun. Illustration from, 'Mundus Subterraneus,' by Athanasius Kircher

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St. Jerome in His Study
This engraving depicts a comfortable domestic interior. An old bearded man sits poring over a book at table in the back of the room. A lion and dog rest on the floor in the foreground. Various other objects appear around the room, including a skull, books, slippers, a crucifix, and a pair of scissors.
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Saint Jerome in His Chamber
Print trimmed to image frame line. Paper repaired along the right edge of the print. Paper size: h 24 7/10cm x tw 18 3/5cm &amp; bw 18 4/5cm.
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Oceanus (from a Series of 6 Mythological Figures)
A powerfully muscled nude man sits astride a fearsome sea creature. He grasps an oar in his left hand and the beast's reins in his right, while a cloth billows out behind him. A variety of humanoid creatures frolic in the seascape in the background.
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The Sea Monster
Two figures are seen riding through the water in the foreground; the woman is nude save for an elaborate headdress, the man holds a tortoise shell as a shield and has an antler-like object on his head and has a serpent-like body which supports the woman. Behind is a minutely described landsape with walled town, castle, and along the opposite bank o the water, nude females swimming and a man running in alarm to the water&#39;s edge.
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Descent into Limbo

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Fury
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The skeletal figure of Fury extends his left leg and arm, the latter encircled by a snake. Fury, mouth agape, is surrounded by winding tree branches, snakes, a dragon-esque creature, and a swan. </span></span> Larson 2/12/18&nbsp;</p>
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Adoration of the Magi, from 'The Life of the Virgin', in the manner of Lucas van

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Sibyl Seated with Tablet

Accession Number
2009/2.23

Title
Sibyl Seated with Tablet

Artist(s)
Bartolomeo Coriolano

Artist Nationality
Italian (culture or style)

Object Creation Date
17th century

Medium & Support
chiaroscuro woodcut on laid paper

Dimensions
10 1/16 in. x 7 1/2 in. ( 25.6 cm x 19 cm )

Credit Line
Gift of J. Frederick Hoffman

Label copy
Bartolomeo Coriolano
Italy, circa 1599–circa 1676
Seated Sibyl with Tablet
1637–42
Chiaroscuro woodcut printed with line block and one tone block on laid paper
Gift of J. Frederick Hoffman, 2009/2.23
Why did Guido Reni choose to have his drawings reproduced through Coriolano’s chiaroscuro woodcuts? The medium had largely fallen into neglect in Italy during the seventeenth century. Reni’s financial difficulties at the end of his life, fed by an insatiable gambling habit, probably lured him to the relatively easy profits promised by prints made after his work, yet most artists used the far more common medium of engraving to create such reproductive prints. Reni’s deeper motivations are indicated by the similarities between this print of a sibyl holding a blank tablet and Ugo da Carpi’s woodcut of a related subject from 1518. The link suggests that Reni selected the unusual medium of chiaroscuro woodcut in order to promote an association with Raphael, whose work had been famously reproduced in this medium by Ugo da Carpi over a century earlier.
(6/28/10)

Subject matter
The print depicts an ancient prophetess, known as a sibyl, holding a pen and awaiting a prophecy that she will inscribe on the blank tablet held in her lap. The chiaroscuro woodcut was probably made by Coriolano after a drawing by the famous painter Guido Reni (1575-1642). Reni, in turn, apparently found inspiration for this work in a chiaroscuro woodcut of a similar subject made by the artist Ugo da Carpi after Raphael over a century earlier.

Physical Description
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.

Primary Object Classification
Print

Primary Object Type
chiaroscuro woodcut

Collection Area
Western

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Keywords
chiaroscuro woodcuts
drafting
prophets
putti (motifs)
tablets (information artifacts)

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