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Julia Laplaca
Last Updated
May 25, 2022 1:16 p.m.

96 Items in this Learning Collection
Double-sided Pendant with the Annunciation and the Resurrection
Side A: Etched pendant lined with gilt border with image of two figures, male and female.<br /> Side B: One main figure with a staff surrounded by many figures.
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St. Christopher carrying the Christ Child
A standing, bearded figure of St. Christopher, broken off at the knees, holds the Christ child on his right shoulder while leaning upon a staff in his left hand. The child, whose head is encircled by a halo, wears a long cloak over his robe and rests his left hand upon an orb in his lap. The red and brown polychromy is a later addition.
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Coronation of the Virgin
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.
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Historiated Initial 'O' with St. John the Baptist

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Seraph, half of a medallion from the west rose window of Reims Cathedral
A lunette-shaped panel composed of red, blue, white, brownish purple and yellowish brown stained glass joined together by lead cames depicting a seraph. Four leafy fronds, taken from another medieval window, have been inserted here between the seraph's head and shoulders. The panel is the upper half of a roundel originally installed in the west rose window of Reims Cathedral.
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Leaf from a Gradual
A double-sided illuminated manuscript leaf with one column of seven staffs&nbsp;containing brown ink notes and Latin blackletter script. Some red rubrication is&nbsp;present. A large illuminated initial &ldquo;S&rdquo; is found on the verso, decorated with vegetal&nbsp;and floral forms in blue, green, scarlet, and gold leaf.
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Bowl with radial design and inscribed rim
"A Persian inscription is incised into the broad band of lustre decorating the vessel's rim. The main element in the decoration is a loosely drawn eight-pointed star from which a further series of eight- and sixteen-pointed stars are generated; beyond them are registers filled with medallions and cartouches. This structure, unusual in ceramic decor, is reminiscent of that found on metalwork vessels of this same period from Iran."<br />  
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Floriated Bible Leaf
Two columns of light brown Latin blackletter script with foliate borders of red, blue,&nbsp;and gold leaf.
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Leaf from a Psalter
Double-sided illuminated manuscript leaf with two blocks of Latin blackletter script&nbsp;framed by floriated borders of blue, red, and gold leaf featuring interlace and an&nbsp;illuminated initial.
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Leaf from a Gradual

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Leaf from Missal or Book of Hours
A double-sided illuminated manuscript leaf with two columns of black Latin&nbsp;blackletter script with some red rubrication and illuminated initials in red, blue, and&nbsp;gold leaf.
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Calendar Leaf (January) from a Book of Hours
A double-sided illuminated manuscript leaf with three columns of text in gold leaf,&nbsp;red, and blue French blackletter script encased by a floriated border. There are two&nbsp;small miniatures, one on either side of the leaf, framed in arched compartments.<br /> <br /> The illustrated compartment on the recto features a seated man wearing a long blue&nbsp;tunic and red cap seated at a table in an interior marked by a stone fireplace. A&nbsp;smaller servant boy dressed in a long tunic presents the man with a platter. The&nbsp;compartment on the verso contains a landscape with a winding river where a man&nbsp;kneels, dressed in pants and a tunic shirt, and draws water into copper jugs.
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Baking Bread, Labor of the Month for December
This enamel roundel depicts three figures in an interior. In the foreground a man with a soft pointed cap maneuvers small round loaves of bread in an oven with a long wooden paddle. Behind him a woman with an elaborate headdress and another figure prepare more loaves for baking. The silvery gray tones of this grisaille enamel impart the scene with a subtle luminosity.
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Gushtasp Slays the Wolf, from the Shahnama of Firdausi

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Priest Celebrating a Mass (Leaf from the Tarleton Hours)
This page of an illuminated manuscript on thin parchment is vertically oriented. Centered in the upper two-thirds of the page is a window-shaped scene of a priest celebrating mass. The priest, with red and white robes and a tonsure, holds up a communion wafer at an altar that has a bible and a communion goblet on it and an image of two figures with halos behind them. The altar and the priest’s robes are trimmed with gold leaf. Behind the priest are two kneeling figures, a man and a woman. They are in the interior of a gothic church, with stone vaulting above them. Below the scene are four lines of calligraphy with the first letter, a ‘D’, highly decorated. Decorative detailing surrounds the text and the scene. The left side consists of an ivy-like plant growing out of the "D", and the bottom and right sides have different foliate-derived design depicted in ink, tempera and gold.
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Silk Fragment

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Silk Fragment

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Chasuble (Back)

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Embroidered Panel

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Tapestry;Border Fragment (Central cartouche depicting 'Atlanta and the Caledonia

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Luhrasp Addresses the Heroes, from the Shahnama of Firdausi
This Persian miniature is attributed to the Shiraz and Timurid schools, ca. 1460. The painting is done in ink, opaque watercolor and gold leaf on paper. The scene, <em>Luhrasp Addresses the Heroes</em>, is part of the Shahnama of Firdausi, the Persian book of kings. 
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Brocatelle

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Processional cross with triumphant Christ (Christus triumphans) flanked by busts of the evangelists, Saints Matthew, John, Mark, and Luke (obverse); and suffering Christ (Christus patiens) flanked by busts of the Virgin Mary, God the father, Saint John and unidentified male saint with cross (Saint Philip?) (reverse)
The arms of the cross end in quatrefoil-shaped terminals. The front (obverse) is gilded and features a molding along the edges. The back (reverse) has a deep azurite blue ground and a gilded band punched with tiny rosettes that runs along the border.
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Leaf from a Book of Hours

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Candlestick with decoration of the Labors of the Months

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Champlevé enamel plaque with Christ in Majesty

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Architectural ceiling boss with four faces, probably from the Church of St. Andrew at Cullompton
This ceiling boss features four faces with traces of paint that are arranged in a radial pattern with the crowns of their heads converging on a single, central point. Two of the faces are female, identifiable by the wimples worn on their heads, while the other two, wearing small pointed caps and sporting beards, are male. The symmetrical regularity of the piece is counterbalanced by subtle asymmetries introduced by differences in detail and the sequence of facial types.
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Self-Portrait with carnations
This elegant self-portrait depicts a half-length figure of a man in three-quarters profile with his left arm resting on a stone ledge. The somber colors of his garb, consisting of a white shirt with a dark robe, is offset by luxurious details: the fur collar of his robe, the black ribbon and gold chain around his neck, the embroidered collar and cuffs of his shirt, and the three rings on his right hand. Two pink carnations appear on the ledge before him.
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Scenes of Martyrdom and Monastic Figures

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A Censer, Chalice and Incense Boat

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Capital with vines

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Diptych

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Velvet

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Enthroned Madonna and Child with angels and Saints Louis of Toulouse, Zenobius, John the Evangelist, and John the Baptist
The majestic figure of the Virgin with the infant Christ on her lap sits enthroned in the center of this painted panel. Her elaborate throne rests upon a dais and is enclosed on three sides by panels bristling with Gothic ornament. Two bishop saints holding croziers stand at the foot of the dais accompanied by two other saints who stand behind them, while fourteen angels crowd the background.
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Christ giving communion to the Apostles in an historiated initial "C"
Eight robed male figures, each with a halo, kneel before a v-shaped bench or rail. They face a male figure with a crossed halo that stands on the other side of the bench, holding a golden chalice in his left hand and a circular white wafer imprinted with a crucifixion scene in his right. An altar draped with a red cloth appears behind him. The entire scene is enframed within the letter &quot;C.&quot;
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Pair of turned oak columns

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Faucet with Peacock Spigot and Lion-Headed Spout
This large bronze faucet features a peacock spigot and a lion-headed spout.
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Coconut Cup
This cup is fashioned from a coconut shell set in a shallow bowl supported on a long, narrow stem and held in place by three straps and a tall neck band. The shallow domed lid has a plain, overhanging rim and terminates in a finial with a statuette of a nude sea nymph and serpent. The metalwork is densely decorated with various masks, animals, fantastic creatures, and vegetal ornament.
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Arms of Maximillian. Illustration from 'Quadriuium ecclesiae,' by Ioh. Hug, Lat

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Lintel Fragments (From a set of 5)
Two and a half prints, identical, long piece of wood with repeating pattern.
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Martyrdom of St. Matthew
A haloed man kneels in three-quarter profile in the left center of the foreground of the composition. A male figure stands behind the haloed figure in a wide stance with an ax raised above the kneeling figure's head. In the background is another male figure wearing a pointed hat and a jester or demonic figure shown falling of a column in the distance in the upper left.
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Annunciation
An angel, holding a scepter in his left hand and making a gesture of speech with his right, interrupts the Virgin at her reading. She kneels on the floor and rests her left hand on an open book placed atop a lectern. A vase with a flowering lily sits on the floor between the angel and the Virgin and a small white dove encircled by a halo hovers between them. The scene unfolds within an elaborate and richly decorated interior that includes a chair and canopied bed in the background.
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Gamepiece of an Armed Knight Throttling a Monstrous, Bearded Chimera
Round, carved gamepiece featuring the image of a figure in armor sitting on top of and stabbing a winged creature with a beard.&nbsp;
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Relief Panel with the Lamb of God ("Agnus Dei")

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Leaf from a Glossed Bible (Pauline Letter with Commentary; Epistle to the Thessalonians)

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Man of Sorrows

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Busts of Saints Jerome and Gregory
This pair of finely carved bust-length figures depicts two men in ecclesiastical garb. On the right appears an older figure who wears elaborate vestments and a papal tiara with a book in his left hand. His deeply lined and wrinkled face conveys a patient wisdom and authority as he stares directly ahead. His more youthful companion, dressed in a simpler collared robe and brimless cap, glances introspectively aside. He grasps an unfurled scroll in his left hand and a diminutive lion stares out from its perch on his left shoulder.
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The Triumph of Plenty
This bronze plaque features a pair of oxen pulling a four-wheeled wagon with six passengers. The seated driver holds a rod in his right hand and a two-tined fork in his left. An older figure holding a flaming vessel stands behind him, followed by a seated figure wearing classical drapery and a laurel wreath. The next figure, seated in the middle of the cart, is an older female, nude to the waist, who holds a cornucopia full of fruit and raises her left hand to point skyward. Two smaller standing figures appear next, one holding a bowl of fruit. The final figure is a reclining female nude holding a flower in the crook of her right arm.
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Charles V and his Brother Ferdinand I
Two male figures wearing voluminous patterned garmets and flat brimmed hats face one another, surrounded by an ornamental, classically inspired frame. Larson 2/7/18<br /> &nbsp;
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Architectural ceiling boss with two dragons, probably from the Church of St. Andrews at Cullompton
Two rampant dragons with open wings, wide flared tails and red-painted eyes stand facing one another with a large plant form held between them.
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Fragment from a Choir Stall
Carved animal figure on pedestal.
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Pope Boniface VIII Presiding over the Sacred College

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Cuttings from an illuminated manuscript consisting of several decorative border pieces, containing dolphins, cherubs, portrait cameos and the arms of Cardinal Antonio Pallavicini.

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Incense burner lid with peacock-shaped finial

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Baptismal Basin with Lamb of God ('Agnus Dei')

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Fragment of a gaming piece with male slaying beast, possibly Hercules and the Erymanthian boar, zigzag pattern with incised circles in border
Fragment of circular gaming piece carved in elephant ivory in high relief. Standing male figure wearing knee-length robe holds sword in right hand and stabs inverted beast in the chest. Forelegs of beast end in hooves; head of beast characterized by large eye and pronounced nostril. Left arm of figure and rear half of the beast missing. Border contains zigzag pattern with bead motif.
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Console with bird in vine scroll, rinceau, and angel
A three-quarter length angel, robustly carved in high relief, emerges from a cloud bank on the curved inner face of the console. The outer face of the console bears a tightly wound vine scroll carved in shallower relief with a bird at its center. The bird grasps the vine with its left leg while stretching back to grasp a cluster of grapes in its beak.
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Chest (no lock)

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The Nativity of the Virgin
This painted panel depicts an intimate domestic setting consisting of a bedchamber with a fireplace and a smaller vaulted antechamber that opens out on a garden. A haloed woman wearing a white veil rests in bed, having recently given birth. She leans to her right as she reaches toward a basin held by an attendant and looks across the room to the infant who is held on the lap of another servant. A halo also encircles the head of the child and a pair of angels fly above her. Several other attendants and midwives bustle about the room, while another woman, more richly clad than the servants, gazes on the child from her seat at the foot of the bed. In the antechamber sits a haloed man in a long white beard, who leans forward to hear news of the birth from the child standing in front of him. A companion sits behind him and a servant passes through the door into the bedchamber.
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Velvet Chausable with embroidered panel of St. Paul

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Saint Sebastian

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Dish with an Escutcheon,

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Kneeling Angel Holding a Shield

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Medallion

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Achilles and Hector
This engraving depicts a frieze-like arrangement of figures in horizontal format. Two central figures are engaged in a duel on horseback. Several other nude male figures are engaged in battle throughout the composition. The artist's monogram is placed in the upper left corner of the image.
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Candlestick with scenes of paired figures drinking

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Dish: Abraham and the Three Angels

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The Banker and his Wife
A husband and wife, looking at books and coins on a wood table. She has a red dress and a white head covering, he is wearing all dark colors and a dark hat.
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Hymnal

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Cisele Velvet

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Caricatures of Voltaire (Thirty-seven heads of Voltaire)

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Cloisters, Arles

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Monreale
This photograph is a composite of nine individual photographs, each depicting a view of a ornate column’s capital.
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Capital from the palace-city of Medinat al-Zahara with stylized acanthus leaves, vine rinceau and fleurons
This capital, based upon the Roman composite order, features stylized acanthus leaves and rinceau on the bell of the capital, which terminates in a band of bead-and-reel motif on the astragal. This, in turn, is capped by an echinus decorated with three fleurons and vine rinceau on each face as well as four projecting volutes also decorated with rinceau and fleurons. Originally the bell of the capital had two tiers of acanthus leaves, but the capital has been cropped below the top of the first tier and the tips of the leaves, which once curved outward from the surface of the capital, have been sheared off.
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Intérieur de la mosquée d'Omar, le Rocher—Interior of the mosque of Omar: the Rock
Interior view of a chamber surrounded by a polygonal arcade. The lower register of the photograph shows a large, roughly hewn stone slab.
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Crossbow fibula with vegetal ornament on the catchplate
This fibula, a type of brooch used to pin outer garments, features a crossbar that ends in three onion-shaped terminals, which give the fibula a shape reminiscent of a crossbow. An arched bow connects the crossbar to the longer catchplate, which is ornamented with vegetal motifs.
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Head of Polydeukion (favorite pupil of Herodes Atticus)

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Adoration of the Magi
This unfinished painted study depicts a crowd of figures gathered around three richly dressed men and a woman and child, who appear on a flight of stairs near the entrance to a large building decorated with classical columns and pilasters. An elderly bald man wearing a red cloak trimmed with ermine kneels with his head bowed at the top of the stairs before a kneeling woman who holds an infant in her right arm. Another man wearing a turban decorated with a large feather stands behind the kneeling man and holds a gold censer hanging from a chain in his left hand. A third richly dressed man stands at the bottom of the stairs with his back turned toward the viewer. A number of other figures crowd around this central group from the sides. A large ox sits in the right foreground with a donkey standing behind it.
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St. John the Evangelist on Patmos
St. John the Evangelist sits in the foreground with a book open on his knee and quill pen poised over its pages. Two books rest next to him and an eagle has alighted on an adjacent rock. St. John looks up and to his right to see a standing figure of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ, who appear in a glowing mandorla hovering in the sky. A vast panoramic view of a bustling harbor and formidable mountains unfolds behind St. John and extends into the distance.
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Presentation in the Temple (Leaf from a Book of Hours)

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Schöne Madonna
Bust of Madonna with head facing down and to the side. The main sculpture is of wood with layers of paint on the face and veil.
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Madonna and Child with St. Thomas Aquinas and a Bishop Saint
This rectangular panel depicts four sacred figures rendered in dark hues with passages of vibrant red against a gold background. The upper edge of the gilded frame bears the prayer known as the &quot;Hail Mary&quot; (&quot;Ave Maria Gratia Plena Domin[us tecum]&quot;).
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The Mourning St. John the Evangelist with two male figures (fragment of a crucifixion from a portable altarpiece)
This carved bone sculpture depicts John the Evangelist in profile with his hands held before him, bowing his head in mourning. A male figure wearing a knee-length robe stands on the right and holds a club in his left hand. A second male figure appears behind the saint in a similar pose of grief.
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Small Chest
Small, ornately carved chest with metal hardware.
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The Annunciation
An angel, draped with a flowing red mantle, descends on the left from a bank of clouds. He holds a scepter and twisting scroll in his left hand while he points with his right toward a white dove encircled by a halo of light that descends toward a woman dressed in long robes and a veil. She sits, holding a book open on the lectern before her, and draws back slightly with her right hand raised and her eyes downcast. Six cherubim sit above on the edge of the cloudbank, which opens to reveal a male figure barely visible in the blinding light that fills the cloud.
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Leaf from a Choir Book with Nativity

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Leaf from a Book of Hours

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Sanctification cross with scenes from the life of Christ and the Virgin Mary and the Evangelists
This small carved boxwood cross is divided on each face into five compartments containing Christian religious scenes. The cross is set in a stand decorated with mother-of-pearl and green glass-paste stones.
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Holy Family
Three figures, one woman with two children, one is holding a bird.
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Madonna and Child

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Angel
This sculpture represents an angel bending slightly toward the left with his head tilted downward. Carved slots in his back would have held his wings, and the figure has lost his forearms and hands as well as his legs below the knees.
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Aquamanile, Lion

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Lamp

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Double Cloth

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Prayer Book of Service for the Dead, manuscript page

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Curios for Noel Consideration

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Created by
Julia Laplaca
Last Updated
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46 Items in this Learning Collection
Deep bowl with vegetal and calligraphic designs
The vibrant coloring of this deep bowl consists dark brown, muddy brown, yellow-green and ivory. The design is organized around an inscription which appears above the base far down on the side. Above the inscription running horizontally is a separate enclosed design which looks like arcaded doorways with a string with a ball on it cutting each arcade in half for a total of seven. Opposite this is a series of four and one-half arcades in a vertical direction. Between these two areas there is a design repeated on opposite sides of the bowl with floral circular motifs on each side of a large, abstracted pear-shape form. The circles are brown and yellow-green and the pear form is orange and brown. Beneath each circle is a 'base' narrowing towards the center and directing the eye to the base. The base is covered with a shield-like design of orange and brown. The ivory background is not filled in but certain lines have been incised to add greater interest.  <br />  
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Prayer Book of Service for the Dead, manuscript page

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Lamp

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Libyan Sibyl, a leaf from an early printed book

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Star-shaped tile with molded floral design
This star-shaped ceramic tile is decorated with floral patterns and shapes. This kind of tile seems to be very popular in the 15th and 16th centuries of the Iranian Islamic world. The relief decoration is moulded and unglazed while the ground is glazed in blues with black underglaze and covered with a clear overglaze. 
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Tintern Abbey
A large, Gothic ruin dominates the scene. The west portal of a large church stands with full light, from the left, illuminating its portal. Along its second story ivy grows across the facade while trees cluster in the L-shaped angle toward the right and other vegetation is evident along the roofline of the structure. Several women enter through the main doorway of the building. A stone wall encircles the structure and two houses occupy the land immediately to the left of the church ruin. In the foreground a lane leads past the church with a man leading a black horse and a running hound in the right foreground, and a figure with its back to the viewer is visible at the left foreground. Behind the scene, dark, wind-swept clouds indicate a recent storm that has now passed, allowing golden light to suffuse the landscape.
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Wolgund Sends a Message to Hugdieterich

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Equestrian Statuette of Marcus Aurelius

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The Virgin Mary

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Head of Dionysus (or Apollo)

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Head of Polydeukion (favorite pupil of Herodes Atticus)

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Seated figure with tripartite crown
The moulded head of the terracotta figurine represents a royal personnage. He wears a three-lobed crown, spherical earrings, and a necklace. He is seated with his legs bent from the hips at right angles to the upper part of the body. The legs are crossed and thus form a circular base which allows the essentially two-dimensional figure to remain erect. The assembling of the limbs was apparently done after the figurine had been cast.
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Mourning Virgin from Crucifixion group
This standing figure of the Virgin turns slightly toward the left with her head bowed and hands clasped before her in a restrained expression of grief. Her robe is gilded, which contributes a regal note to this somber figure.
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Standing Christ
This figure of Christ wears a volumnious mantle and strides forcefully forward with his left leg. His hands, now broken off, once held either a cross-staff or a globe while he made of gesture of blessing with the other. His robe appears to have originally been gilded and then painted over with red to impart his garment with a lustrous quality.
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Fragment from a Choir Stall
Carved animal figure on pedestal.
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Carved Wood Panel

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Pair of turned oak columns

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Venus Marina

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Crucifixion
Wooden scultpure of the body of Jesus Christ as it would appear crucified on a cross.
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Study for a Chapel in Vienna
This study depicts a rectangular chapel with the side walls bent outward at an angle in order to provide a clearer view of the decoration. The chapel design centers upon a sarcophagus placed beneath a painted altarpiece of the Virgin and Child, which are both set within a semicircular architectural projection that extends dynamically from the wall. On the left the pair of angels that support a large oval-shaped painting reach vigorously outward, their wings overlapping the pilasters. On the right appears another sarcophagus surmounted by a pair of putti. Leaning out from the oval niche above the sarcophagus is a female half-figure—probably a portrait of the deceased—making a gesture of devotion toward the altar.
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Bust of a Satyr
This small bust-length figure represents a mustached satyr turning his head toward his left. He wears an animal skin tied at his right shoulder over his bare chest. The liquid character of the cast bronze admirably captures the rippling muscles of the satyr's chest and the flowing curls of his hair and the animal pelt.
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The Mourning Virgin

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Panel

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Panel

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The Annunciation
In this painting, rendered entirely in gray monochrome, a technique known as grisaille, an angel descends on a bank of clouds toward a woman who kneels on the floor before a prie-dieu. She looks downward and turns away from the angel in a gesture of humility, and her head is illuminated by the light from a luminescent dove in the cloud above her. A bearded man looks down from the summit of the cloud, nearly engulfed in light, and a number of cherubim appear throughout the scene. The robust forms and grounded materiality of the woman's body and the furniture around her give way to light-filled clouds and diffused forms in the upper part of the canvas as the heavenly and worldly realms come together.
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Angel Appearing to Hagar in the Wilderness

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Christ on the Mount of Olives
This is a large semi-circular painting (lunette) with several figures arranged to accomodate the shape of the canvas. It is night time, so the scene is enveloped in darkness. In the top center area, there is an angel, surrounded by bright light, who holds out a golden goblet toward a man kneeling before him. This man, with arms outstretched, looks up toward the goblet and the face of the angel. His face is illuminated by the light. He is wearing a bright red robe and a dark blue cloak. In the left foreground, there are three men who are sleeping. Two are sitting on the ground and the third, an elderly man with white hair, is reclining in front of them. They have dark blue and brown cloaks wrapped around them. On the lower right, shown in the far distance, is a group of people walking toward the kneeling figure. This scene is painted in dark tones of brown, green, blue and gray, except for the red robe of the kneeling man and areas on faces, arms and legs which are highlighted by a bright light.
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Choir Book Page

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Leaf from a Bible (Glossary of Hebrew Names)

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Leaf from a Gradual
A double-sided illuminated manuscript leaf with one column of seven staffs&nbsp;containing brown ink notes and Latin blackletter script. Some red rubrication is&nbsp;present. A large illuminated initial &ldquo;S&rdquo; is found on the verso, decorated with vegetal&nbsp;and floral forms in blue, green, scarlet, and gold leaf.
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Leaf from a Book of Hours
This manuscript page contains a column of Latin text surrounded by generous margins. A pair of slender flowers with small green leaves run the length of the text along the left margin. Three decorated initials appear on the left edge of the text block. Each initial is painted gold on a pink and blue ground with white scrollwork and enclosed within a frame. Two rectangular line-fillers, colored pink and blue with white scrollwork, appear in the right half of the text column.
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Leaf from a Book of Hours

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Uniface Alexander VII

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Francesco Carrara I (obverse); Angel with Lamb (?) (reverse)

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Pope Paul IV (obverse), Christ Giving the Keys to Peter (reverse)

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Pope Clement IX (obverse), and the Ponte Sant' Angelo (reverse)
The front (obverse) of the medal presents a profile portrait of a bearded man wearing a cassock, cap, and stole. The reverse depicts a bridge spanning a river. A winged figure flies above the bridge blowing a trumpet, while a nude male figure reclines below the bridge in the foreground and a wolf nurses at his feet. Inscriptions run around both the border edge of both sides of the medal.
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Basin

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Leaf from a Psalter
Double-sided illuminated manuscript leaf with two blocks of Latin blackletter script&nbsp;framed by floriated borders of blue, red, and gold leaf featuring interlace and an&nbsp;illuminated initial.
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Illuminated Leaf
Illuminated manuscript page with Arabic calligraphy that is framed by floriated,<br /> cloud-band borders, stylized cartouches, and marginal vignettes.
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Decorative Ewer with Satyrs
The ewer in this drawing is decorated with cavorting satyrs, lions, and grotesque masks.
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Leaf from a Book of Hours

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Cutting from a Secular Manuscript with Perceval Attacked by Twenty Knights

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Leaf from a Bible with Daniel in the lions' den aided by the prophet Habakuk
Two columns of Latin text fill this page taken from a bible manuscript. A painting in a gold rectangular frame is located in the lower right column. An angel descends from a blue semicircular disc in the upper right corner of the painting and grasps a larger figure by the hair with both hands. This second figure holds a jug in his left hand and a plate with bread in his right. A third figure, dressed in a white robe, reaches up toward this larger figure from an enclosure below. He appears against a black background and four gray animal heads overlap his torso.
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Sheepskin Manuscript Page I

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Table

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Hanging altar lamps

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Italian Medieval and Ren

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Julia Laplaca
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230 Items in this Learning Collection
Leaf from a Gradual
A double-sided illuminated manuscript leaf with one column of seven staffs&nbsp;containing brown ink notes and Latin blackletter script. Some red rubrication is&nbsp;present. A large illuminated initial &ldquo;S&rdquo; is found on the verso, decorated with vegetal&nbsp;and floral forms in blue, green, scarlet, and gold leaf.
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Double-sided Pendant with the Annunciation and the Resurrection
Side A: Etched pendant lined with gilt border with image of two figures, male and female.<br /> Side B: One main figure with a staff surrounded by many figures.
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Corselet Bearers
This print shows a procession of men walking from right to left across the foregound of the picture.They are dressed in short tunics and have laurel wreaths on their heads and some have swords.Some carry poles on which there are breast plates and helmets and some are holding litters piled with furniture, vessels and cups. There is an elephant that is partially shown at the far left.The background area is blank.<br /> There are traces of additional diagonal hatching marks that had been added at a later date; those lines have been removed.
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Tile

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Pietà (The Lamentation of the Virgin)

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Battle of the Sea Gods
This black and white print depicts an animated and detailed scene of nude figures and mythical beasts on the surface of the sea.Two men, with seaweed hair and riding half horse/half fish creatures, strike out at each other. A man and a woman ride a beast with a scaly body and the head of a fierce dog. In the background, a man holding a trident stands with his back to the viewer. Action and motion are expressed with billowing drapery, flowing hair and moving waves. The wide mouthed expressions of the figures and animals suggest yelling and noise in this chaotic scene. Among the many details depicted by the artist is a plaque held by the woman that has his initials.
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Majolica Platter

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Trapunto-work Coverlet, December 12th

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Velvet

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Velvet

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Velvet

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Velvet

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Brocatelle

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Cuttings from an illuminated manuscript consisting of several decorative border pieces, containing dolphins, cherubs, portrait cameos and the arms of Cardinal Antonio Pallavicini.

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Table

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Silk Brocatelle

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Handwoven Linen, Vest lining; Velvet; Embroiders, from a vest (Louis XVI)

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Handwoven Linen, Vest lining; Velvet; Embroiders, from a vest (Louis XVI)

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Handwoven Linen, Vest lining; Velvet; Embroiders, from a vest (Louis XVI)

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Basin

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Views of Rome. 118. The Aqueduct of Nero Leading to the Palatine: a Branch of the Aqua Claudia

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Angel Appearing to Hagar in the Wilderness

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Head and Hand

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Textile

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The Triumph of the Four Elements
Two horses pull a wagon carrying four female passengers in this small bronze plaque. The driver, a seated nude male with a cap takes the reins in his left hand and raises a whip in his right. Behind him sit two pairs of taller female figures, each wearing a long flowing mantle.
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The Elector Palatine Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz being offered the crown of Armenia

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Hanging altar lamps

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Flap from a cope?

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Credenza
The front of this handsome oak credenza, or sideboard, is divided into halves by three pilasters. Each half is outfitted with a drawer and a door below. The decorative and functional components are artfully arranged across the front of the piece to form a balanced composition of repeated geometric shapes and harmonious proportions.
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Music-making Angels and Cherubs Adoring the Holy Spirit

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Study of the Hand of the Magdalene; Verso: Lower Half of a Male Nude

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Study of Figures

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Madonna and Child

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Epiphany

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Embroidered Panel

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Portrait of a Lady (Catherine de'Medici?)
Woamn facing left, white ruffled collar, brown coat, facing left.
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The Virgin and the Cradle
This sober, pyramidal composition consists of five figures within an interior. A seated woman and child occupy the center of the composition while flanking her to the left is a kneeling older woman with her left hand on the child her right hand on the cradle. To the right of the seated woman is a putti holding a ewer and standing next to a basin. Standing behind the seated woman is a standing woman with hands raised. All of the women are dressed in generalized classical drapery.
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Dimostrazioni dell'Emissario del Lago Albano (outlet of Lake Albano), Tav. VII,

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Christ Healing the Lame Man (?)

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The Vision of St. Dominic

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Historiated Initial 'O' with St. John the Baptist

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Study for a Chapel in Vienna
This study depicts a rectangular chapel with the side walls bent outward at an angle in order to provide a clearer view of the decoration. The chapel design centers upon a sarcophagus placed beneath a painted altarpiece of the Virgin and Child, which are both set within a semicircular architectural projection that extends dynamically from the wall. On the left the pair of angels that support a large oval-shaped painting reach vigorously outward, their wings overlapping the pilasters. On the right appears another sarcophagus surmounted by a pair of putti. Leaning out from the oval niche above the sarcophagus is a female half-figure—probably a portrait of the deceased—making a gesture of devotion toward the altar.
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The Prophet Ezekiel, from the "Six Seers on the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel"

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Madonna and Child with St. Thomas Aquinas and a Bishop Saint
This rectangular panel depicts four sacred figures rendered in dark hues with passages of vibrant red against a gold background. The upper edge of the gilded frame bears the prayer known as the &quot;Hail Mary&quot; (&quot;Ave Maria Gratia Plena Domin[us tecum]&quot;).
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The Gothic Arch, from the 'Carceri'

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Serpent Speaking to a Young Man
An engraving depicting a man sitting below an apple tree and conversing with a human-headed serpent. He is observed by a woman in drapery and a man who appears to be running away. In the distance there is a large fortified city.
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Allegory of Ancient and Modern Poetry

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Crucifixion
Wooden scultpure of the body of Jesus Christ as it would appear crucified on a cross.
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Virgin of the Apocalypse
A woman dressed in a rose-colored robe with a blue mantle and flowing white veil stands on a silver crescent moon among a bank of dark clouds. A halo of stars encircles her head. She clasps both hands before her. The heads of two putti peak out from beneath her mantle next to her left hip. Her right foot treads upon a long serpent that curves back upon itself with an open mouth.
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Standing Soldier and Woman (Mars and Venus?)
This ink and chalk drawing on paper depicts two figures in Roman attire embracing. One is a woman and one is a man. They are standing in the right side of the drawing.<br />
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Kneeling Shepherd
A man in humble attire, shown in three-quarter view, is seen kneeling at the left side of the image; his hands are clasped in front of him in prayer. At the lower right is a sleeping lamb nestled into a schematically rendered background.
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Untitled (Head of an Old Man with a Long Beard)
This sheet is dominated by the head of an old man with a voluminous beard, seen in 3/4 view, with head turned to the figure's left. Grey tones dominate the drawing, and the suggestion of the man's hunched shoulders in the background increases the sense that he is leaning his head towards the viewer.
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Sheet of Studies with Male Portrait
A bust-length study of a bearded man appears on one side of this sheet. His torso faces frontally, but his head is turned in 3/4 profile to his left. He wears a shirt with a collar and a hat with a plume. The reverse of the sheet is filled with approximately 12 small sketches of heads, faces, limbs, and full-length figures. A sketch of a radial star shaped decorative pattern is on the right edge. In the middle of the sheet is a basket of fruit and flowers and in the upper left there is a drawing of a figure rowing a boat in a landscape. 
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Untitled (Sketch of a Woman Carrying a Bundle and Female Figures)
This ink sketch on paper contains a woman in the upper center hunched over with a bundle on her back. The lower half contains two female figures with an obscured female profile in between. On the left is a half-length figure of a woman seen from the back wearing a dress. In the center is the head of a woman in profile wearing a headscarf. On the right is a woman, drawn to her hemline, standing in three-quarters profile facing right, wearing a heavy robe.<br /> The reverse has a sketch of a young male turning to face slightly backward with left arm upraised.
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Untitled (Studies of Female Heads)
These ink sketches, on a portion of a larger sheet, depict different female heads, most ornamented with accessories. A study of a woman’s face in profile fills the upper left corner. Her hair is bound. A nearly frontal view of another woman’s face is at the center bottom of the sheet. She looks down to her left and wears a jeweled headpiece or crown. Three other smaller and more lightly sketched heads also appear on the sheet, two along the left edge and one on the right.
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Head of a Child
This drawing depicts the head of a boy looking slightly downward to his right in three-quarters profile.
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Veduta del Romano Campidoglio con Scalinata che va allla Chiesa d' Araceli

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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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Study of a Standing Male Nude
A nude, muscular man, seen from behind, leans upon his left leg, which is propped on a rock. He grasps a stick for support with his left hand, while bending his torso to the right and looking downward. The lighting and colors vaguely suggest an outdoor environment.<br />
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Senatus populusque Romanus / monumenta marmorea magistratuum / triumphorumque ab urbe condita ad / tempora divi Augusti ruderibus in foro / egestis eruta impensa Al ex(andri) Farnesii card(inalis) / Pauli III Pont(ificis) Max(imi) nepot(is) in Capitolio p(osita), from Piranesi's Lapides Capitolini (1762)
Large double-folio print, with fold marks. Contains various monuments and their text from ancient Rome. Title plate beneath print indicates that the fragments were from ancient Rome and found in various ancient ruins, with the exception of fragment XLIX, currently (at time of print) in the collection of the Collegio Romano, a building then housing the Jesuits' Rome seminary.<br />Print is patched. Separate plate marks are visible between image and inscription. The image is patched from four segments, while the text below is patched from two segments. Paper bears no watermark. Folio fold marks are noted on copy in file. Large text portions read as follows: <br />Inscription 1 (in image plate, center): senatus populusque Romanus / monumenta marmorea magistratuum / triumphorumque ab urbe condita ad / tempora divi Augusti ruderibus in foro / egestis eruta impensa Al ex(andri) Farnesii card(inalis) / Pauli III Pont(ificis) Max(imi) nepot(is) in Capitolio p(osita) <br />Inscription 2 (in separate text plate attach
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Choir Book Page

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Carceri d'Inuenzione, Plate V

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Venduta della Piazza di Monte Cavallo

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Venduta del Tempio di Giove Tonante

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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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Madonna and Child with a Bishop
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.
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Bust of the Virgin
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.
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Vue d'un Coin de Calais

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Amphitrite

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Untitled

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Madonna and Child
A woman in a red and blue dress is sitting in a woodland setting with a baby on her lap. The baby is holding a paper envelope (or a folded note), while her right hand is outstretched. Another small child crouches at her side. He holds a cross in his left hand, and pets a lamb with his right hand. 
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Presentation of Christ in the Temple
A crowd gathers around an altar in a Temple. The christ child is held by a bearded man, Simeon, on the right, while across the surface a woman kneels, holding a cage up to the altar. Behind the kneeling woman are Joseph (bald, in a large sleeved garment), Mary, and Anna (who is pointing to Mary).&nbsp;
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A Soldier Killing a Naked Man

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Detail of a Decorated Ceiling

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Back of an Ambassadorial Coach

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Second frontispiece for Volume II of 'Le antichita romane e d'Italia'

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Iscrizione del Mausole della Famiglia de' Plauzi a Ponte Lugano (XI of t. III, L

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Views of Rome. 129. S. Maria Degli Angeli. Interior. Formerly the Central Hall o

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Views of Rome. 75. The Waterfall at Tivoli

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Views of Rome. 73. So-called Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli. Interior With Two Fig

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Views of Rome. 27. The Harbour and Quay, Called the Ripa Grande

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Views of Rome. 104. The Trevi Fountain (La Fontana di Trevi)

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Views of Rome. 63. The Temple of the Sibyl, Tivoli

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Views of Rome. 36. The Pyramid of Caius Cestius

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Views of Rome. 56. The Arch of Constantine

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Views of Rome. 30. The Castel S. Angelo

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Campo S. Salvatore e Scuola di S. Teodoro

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I principii del disegno. Series of 25, NO. 22. Head of an Old Man Crowned with

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Various cavalry exercises, series of 19; Cavalier with lady on horseback

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Various cavalry exercises, series of 19; Cavalier charging, sword in hand

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Various cavalry exercises, series of 19; Commander on horseback giving orders

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Upright Ornament with Bull and Satyrs
This decorative image is organized along a vertical axis wtih fanciful creatures, grotesque heads, depictions of carved gems and harpies.
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The Plague
Left and right sides of print are seperated by an herm. The left side of the print is a darkened pseudo-interior, with light illimunating two female figures and dead lambs. The right side of the print is set in front of a barn(?) and features figures reacting to the body of a deceased woman in the foreground. BL 2/28/18
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Ornament Print: Military Trophies

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Ornament sheet with Jupiter and Ganymede, Pl. n. 9 from a series of 24 entitled

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Study for an Overdoor Decoration in the Sala Regia of the Vatican
This drawing depicts two addorsed female figures reclining on a triangular slope. The women are partly clothed, and the one on the left wears an elephant-shaped headpiece. Between their shoulders appears a blank escutcheon held by two putti. Nude men in the background strain to hold back piles of objects that include shields and spears.
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The Triumph of Plenty
This bronze plaque features a pair of oxen pulling a four-wheeled wagon with six passengers. The seated driver holds a rod in his right hand and a two-tined fork in his left. An older figure holding a flaming vessel stands behind him, followed by a seated figure wearing classical drapery and a laurel wreath. The next figure, seated in the middle of the cart, is an older female, nude to the waist, who holds a cornucopia full of fruit and raises her left hand to point skyward. Two smaller standing figures appear next, one holding a bowl of fruit. The final figure is a reclining female nude holding a flower in the crook of her right arm.
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Studies of Girls' Heads

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Studies of a Nude Child

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Four Episodes in the Life of a Saint

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Four Episodes in the Life of a Saint

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Four Episodes in the Life of a Saint

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Four Episodes in the Life of a Saint

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The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine, with St. Jerome (?)

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The Raising of the Youth of Nain (Luke 7:11-17)

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The Crucifixion with St. Francis (?) and St. Jerome

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Academic Study of a Male Nude as Hercules

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Two Standing Female Figures

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Landscape View with Farm (recto) ; Standing Female Figure with SPQR Banner (verso)

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Studies of Putti; studies of a Female Saint and various heads

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The Coat of Arms of the Della Chiesa Family

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St. Dominic Distributing the Rosaries

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Lamentation

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The Alliance of Peace and Abundance
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.
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Crucifixion
From the height of a cross, a crucified man, wearing a crown of thorns and a loincloth, looms over a dramatic landscape. Three heads with wings appear near the top of the cross, and a skull and crossed bones lay at its base. A vast prospect of distant mountains and a bustling port unfolds through the background.
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Antique Vase

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Tapestry

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Damask

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Silk Panel

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Embroidery

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Velvet

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Velvet

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Velvet

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Velvet

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Double Cloth

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Double Cloth

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Damask

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Design for an Illusionistic Wall Decoration with Alternative Suggestions

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Study for a Ceiling with Allegorical Figures (recto); Architectural sketch (vers

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Two Seated Female Figures before a Rondel

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A variant of the same composition in reverse, in black chalk (verso)

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A Standing Franciscan Monk : Studies of Hands (recto) Studies for a man's left arm holding the neck of a stringed instrument; Draped torso of a man looking up (verso)

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Descent into Limbo

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A Roman Sacrifice

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Needlework

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Embroidery

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Velvet

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Velvet Chausable with embroidered panel of St. Paul

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Cisele Velvet

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Dish
This maiolica dish is covered by a radial pattern consisting of abstract leaves and curling tendrils punctuated with flowers all centered around a yellow disk in the center of the well. The harmony of the design stems from radial symmetry of the pattern as well as the restricted palette of blue and a soft brass-yellow.
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Bird on a Bamboo Branch
The lower section of the fan has rocks and grasses with mushrooms and several daffodils in bloom. A bird white bird with black face and blue head sits on a thin branch that is coming down from the upper left section of the fan. 
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Majolica Platter

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Prospetto del Lastricato e de'margini dell'antica via Appia, plate 25 of 'L'Anti

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Battle of the Romans under Scipio against the Carthaginians
A group of men wage battle against each other in a rocky landscape. Some of the men wear ancient Roman armor while others are only partially clothed. The combatants wield spears and swords, and some are on horseback. The mounted soldier in the center of the scene holds a large banner. A burning city is visible in the distance.
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(after Domenico Maria Canuti's Fresco in the Palace

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Eve Tempted by the Serpent
A nude woman with long hair flowing down her back grasps a tree branch with her right hand and bends it downward in order to more easily pluck the green fruit dangling at its tip with her left hand. Her white body contrasts starkly with the darker tones of the surrounding landscape. The less conspicuous figure of a serpent with the head of a bearded man coils about the trunk of the tree next to the woman and fixes her with his stare.
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A Miraculous Healing by St. Anthony of Padua (recto) Same drawing in reverse (verso)

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Studies of Four Heads

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Ornamental Design: A Grotesque Winged Figure (recto); Beginning of an Architectu

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Ornament Print from a series: 'Grottesco in diversche manieren'
Within an elaborate decorative framework consisting of griffins, birds, dogs, and fantastic half man-half beast creatures is a central panel with the image of a nude woman standing on a column holding a victor&#39;s wreath in either hand. Approaching for either side is a man in a quadriga holding a banner; each also holds a line that extends up to the wreath in the woman&#39;s hand.
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Façade of a Cardinal's Palace Decorated for a Reception

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Study for an Altarpiece: Virgin and Child Enthroned between St. Peter and St. Pa

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Street Scene for Theatrical Set

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Map of the Sun. Illustration from, 'Mundus Subterraneus,' by Athanasius Kircher

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Holy Family with Young St. John the Baptist, called the Virgin with the Long Thi

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Divers Manners of Ornamenting Chimneys Series. Pl. 48. Mantlepiece with frieze decorated with the head of Medusa between two centaurs. (Ch. dont la frise est décorée d'une tête de Méduse entre deux centaures.)

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No. 18a from the Opere varie series

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Arabesque Panel with Grotesques and Animals
A decorative design based on curving arabesque forms around a central axis also incorporates gortesque figures.
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Death Leading an Old Man to His Grave, No. 5 of The Five Deaths series

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Death Carrying a Woman on His Shoulder, No. 4 of The Five Deaths series

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Death Carrying a Child on His Back, No. 3 of The Five Deaths series

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Death Carrying a Child in His Arms, No. 2 of The Five Deaths series

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Death on Horseback Holding a Trumpet, No. 1 of The Five Deaths series

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A Door Knocker with Arms Resembling Those of the Medici

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An Arabesque Frieze with Alternative Suggestions

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Elymas the Prophet, Struck with Blindness by St. Paul

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An Urn Decorated with Two Seated Figures Personifying Justice and Prudence, the

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An Urn Decorated with a Mascaron, Rams' Heads Supporting a Garland between Shells, and Cloven Hoofs for Feet

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An Urn Decorated with Vestals Performing a Sacrifice and Below, Eagles; the Hand

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Urn Decorated with Two Seated Putti, Rams' Heads as Handles, Garlands and Cornuc

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An Urn Decorated with Two Seated Female Figures, Each Accompanied by a Putto, th

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An Urn Decorated with Draped Winged Mermaids, and in the Center an Oval Relief u

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An Urn Decorated with a Classical Relief, Two Seated Figures, and Rams' Heads Su

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An Urn Decorated with Two Winged Figures Holding a Relief, the Handles Formed by

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An Urn Decorated with Two Female Figures Seated on Rams' Heads and Stretching Op

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An Urn with Garlands and Snakes as Handles and Two Seated Mermaids Holding a Cro

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An Urn Decorated with Rosettes and Eagles Holding in their Beaks the Tails of Me

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Urn with Crocodiles and a Child Driving Sea-Creatures

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Painted Wall Decoration for a Bedroom, with Alternative Suggestions

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Fantasy of Roman Ruins (recto); Sketch of a Colonnade with Superstructure (Stage

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Studies of Birds

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Frieze, Soffits, Columns, plate 9 from Trofei di Ottaviano Augusto innalzati per la vittoria ad Actium e conquista dell'Egitto con vari altri ornamenti antichi
A black and white etching depicting several fragments of friezes and columns, followed by textual descriptions in Italian.
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Study of Fragments of Etruscan Friezes at Corneto from Trattato della introduzione e del progresso delle belle arti in Europa ne’ tempi antichi
A black and white etching depicting several Etruscan friezes.
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Views of Rome. 51. Colonna Trajana

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View of the Principal Square of a North Italian Town

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Imaginary Prisons Series. Pl 9. Prison IX.

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Views of Rome. 79. Entrance Door to Part of the Villa Called the 'Sette Bassi' o

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Paestum Series. Pl. I. Vue de ce qui reste encore des murs de l'ancienne ville

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Pope Paul IV (obverse), Christ Giving the Keys to Peter (reverse)

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Roman Antiquities Series. Vol. III, Pl. V. Mattoni quadrati segati e linee diag

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The Virgin Mary, Infant Jesus, St. John and St. Joseph

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Empedocles
A man wearing a tunic, cape and boots stands in a minimal landscape. His walking stick seems to be falling away from him at the right as the man points upwards toward the sun&#39;s rays, as well as extends his right hand towards fire at the lower left.
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Marsiglio Carrara I (obverse); Plumed Helmet (reverse)

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Jacopino Carrara (obverse); Plumed Helmet (reverse)

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Niccolo Carrara (obverse); Horned Helmet (reverse)

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Ubertino Carrara (obverse); Winged Demon (reverse)

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Jacopo Carrara I (obverse); Plumed Helmet (reverse)

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Jacopo Carrara II (obverse); Plumed Helmet (reverse)

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Francesco Carrara II (obverse); Angel (reverse)

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Francesco Carrara I (obverse); Angel with Lamb (?) (reverse)

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Sketches of Seven Brackets, Two Vases, Two Capitals, a Lectern, Mascaron, Standi
Designs for bases, pitchers, capitals, lecturns, and wall brackets are scattered across the sheet. Most are quickly sketched and elaborate on the theme of scrolling designs.
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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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Standing Young Man

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Hercules
A nude man seen from behind raises a staff to ward off the blow of a standing female figure, also with a staff. The woman&#39;s swing is directed to two seated figures at the lower left: a nude woman and a satyr. In the distance is an elaborate gated city and landscape.
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L'Alliance de la Poésie et de la Musique (The Alliance of Poetry and Music)
Two women clad in flowing robes sit beneath a curved colonnade at the center of this delicately painted scene. The woman on the left, wearing a blue mantle, holds a lyre in her right hand and leans toward her companion, who holds open a musical score on her lap to which she points with her right hand. Books are piled on the steps next to the woman on the left and a putto sits next to her with a scroll unrolled across his lap. A second putto stands next to the other seated woman and plays a viol. A winged putto hovers over the heads of the two women, holding a small trumpet in his left hand and a laurel crown in his right, which he is about to place on the head of the woman with the lyre. Two bust-length portraits of men in oval frames wreathed with laurel hang from the columns in the background.
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MS leaf: Bifolio from a Missal

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Leaf from a Breviary

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Leaf from a Breviary

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Leaf from a Gradual

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Leaf from a Gradual with St. Lawrence
This leaf from a manuscript contains seven lines of Latin text with musical notation. The initial letter, &quot;C,&quot; of the opening word &quot;Confessio&quot; is made from a curved vegetal form. The text is preceded by a painted miniature in a circular frame that is, in turn, enclosed by a golden square. The miniature depicts a man with a tonsure and a golden halo standing in a verdant landscape. He holds a palm leaf in his left hand and rests his right hand on a grill. The left and upper margins of the page are decorated with green and pink leaves and flowers and small gold circles.
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Triumph of St. Michael; Verso: Female Head

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Equestrian Statuette of Marcus Aurelius

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Landscape with a Church beside a Lake
This drawing depicts a serene landscape. A road running alongside a stream appears in the foreground among rocky outcrops, thick vegetation and bushy trees. The vista opens out in the middle ground and includes a lake at the right with a church standing on its shores at the left. A town is visible on the far shore of the lake and low mountains rise in the distance.
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Cut Velvet

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Damask

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Damask

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Silk Brocade

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Standing Woman Holding a Crown

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Standing Man in a Turban

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Manuscript Leaf

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The Seated Violinist
This etching portrays a lively tavern scene in the 17th century Dutch Republic.The large room has rough plank walls and a stone floor. There is an open hearth on the right and a long table with a bench in the background. There are many figures engaged in various activities, but most are clustered around a seated man playing a violin. One man stands to watch, another, with arms upraised, is singing and a woman tends to a young child. The scene is depicted in great detail and there is lettering on the bottom of the print.
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St. Simon
This black and white print has a vertical format with a single standing figure. The figure, shown in profile, has the right arm upraised with palm up. He is wearing voluminous drapery and has a halo and bare feet. There is a long bladed saw on the ground beside him.
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St. Jerome Reading in an Italian Landscape

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The Resurrection
A muscular figure surrounded by an aureole of light steps down from a plain rectangular tomb. Six soldiers, depicted in a variety of complex postures, recoil from the figure in shock.
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A Boar Hunt

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Corner Decoration of a Painted Ceiling

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The Adoration of the Shepherds

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The Stag Brought to Bay (From a series of 9 prints, 'Chasses à différents animau

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A Hungarian Horseman (From a series of 11 prints, 'Cavaliers nègres, polonais et

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Death on Horseback Holding a Trumpet, from "The Five Deaths". No. 1 of a series of 5.

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96 Items in this Learning Collection
Double-sided Pendant with the Annunciation and the Resurrection
Side A: Etched pendant lined with gilt border with image of two figures, male and female.<br /> Side B: One main figure with a staff surrounded by many figures.
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St. Christopher carrying the Christ Child
A standing, bearded figure of St. Christopher, broken off at the knees, holds the Christ child on his right shoulder while leaning upon a staff in his left hand. The child, whose head is encircled by a halo, wears a long cloak over his robe and rests his left hand upon an orb in his lap. The red and brown polychromy is a later addition.
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Coronation of the Virgin
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.
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Historiated Initial 'O' with St. John the Baptist

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Seraph, half of a medallion from the west rose window of Reims Cathedral
A lunette-shaped panel composed of red, blue, white, brownish purple and yellowish brown stained glass joined together by lead cames depicting a seraph. Four leafy fronds, taken from another medieval window, have been inserted here between the seraph's head and shoulders. The panel is the upper half of a roundel originally installed in the west rose window of Reims Cathedral.
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Leaf from a Gradual
A double-sided illuminated manuscript leaf with one column of seven staffs&nbsp;containing brown ink notes and Latin blackletter script. Some red rubrication is&nbsp;present. A large illuminated initial &ldquo;S&rdquo; is found on the verso, decorated with vegetal&nbsp;and floral forms in blue, green, scarlet, and gold leaf.
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Bowl with radial design and inscribed rim
"A Persian inscription is incised into the broad band of lustre decorating the vessel's rim. The main element in the decoration is a loosely drawn eight-pointed star from which a further series of eight- and sixteen-pointed stars are generated; beyond them are registers filled with medallions and cartouches. This structure, unusual in ceramic decor, is reminiscent of that found on metalwork vessels of this same period from Iran."<br />  
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Floriated Bible Leaf
Two columns of light brown Latin blackletter script with foliate borders of red, blue,&nbsp;and gold leaf.
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Leaf from a Psalter
Double-sided illuminated manuscript leaf with two blocks of Latin blackletter script&nbsp;framed by floriated borders of blue, red, and gold leaf featuring interlace and an&nbsp;illuminated initial.
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Leaf from a Gradual

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Leaf from Missal or Book of Hours
A double-sided illuminated manuscript leaf with two columns of black Latin&nbsp;blackletter script with some red rubrication and illuminated initials in red, blue, and&nbsp;gold leaf.
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Calendar Leaf (January) from a Book of Hours
A double-sided illuminated manuscript leaf with three columns of text in gold leaf,&nbsp;red, and blue French blackletter script encased by a floriated border. There are two&nbsp;small miniatures, one on either side of the leaf, framed in arched compartments.<br /> <br /> The illustrated compartment on the recto features a seated man wearing a long blue&nbsp;tunic and red cap seated at a table in an interior marked by a stone fireplace. A&nbsp;smaller servant boy dressed in a long tunic presents the man with a platter. The&nbsp;compartment on the verso contains a landscape with a winding river where a man&nbsp;kneels, dressed in pants and a tunic shirt, and draws water into copper jugs.
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Baking Bread, Labor of the Month for December
This enamel roundel depicts three figures in an interior. In the foreground a man with a soft pointed cap maneuvers small round loaves of bread in an oven with a long wooden paddle. Behind him a woman with an elaborate headdress and another figure prepare more loaves for baking. The silvery gray tones of this grisaille enamel impart the scene with a subtle luminosity.
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Gushtasp Slays the Wolf, from the Shahnama of Firdausi

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Priest Celebrating a Mass (Leaf from the Tarleton Hours)
This page of an illuminated manuscript on thin parchment is vertically oriented. Centered in the upper two-thirds of the page is a window-shaped scene of a priest celebrating mass. The priest, with red and white robes and a tonsure, holds up a communion wafer at an altar that has a bible and a communion goblet on it and an image of two figures with halos behind them. The altar and the priest’s robes are trimmed with gold leaf. Behind the priest are two kneeling figures, a man and a woman. They are in the interior of a gothic church, with stone vaulting above them. Below the scene are four lines of calligraphy with the first letter, a ‘D’, highly decorated. Decorative detailing surrounds the text and the scene. The left side consists of an ivy-like plant growing out of the "D", and the bottom and right sides have different foliate-derived design depicted in ink, tempera and gold.
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Silk Fragment

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Silk Fragment

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Chasuble (Back)

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Embroidered Panel

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Tapestry;Border Fragment (Central cartouche depicting 'Atlanta and the Caledonia

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Luhrasp Addresses the Heroes, from the Shahnama of Firdausi
This Persian miniature is attributed to the Shiraz and Timurid schools, ca. 1460. The painting is done in ink, opaque watercolor and gold leaf on paper. The scene, <em>Luhrasp Addresses the Heroes</em>, is part of the Shahnama of Firdausi, the Persian book of kings. 
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Brocatelle

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Processional cross with triumphant Christ (Christus triumphans) flanked by busts of the evangelists, Saints Matthew, John, Mark, and Luke (obverse); and suffering Christ (Christus patiens) flanked by busts of the Virgin Mary, God the father, Saint John and unidentified male saint with cross (Saint Philip?) (reverse)
The arms of the cross end in quatrefoil-shaped terminals. The front (obverse) is gilded and features a molding along the edges. The back (reverse) has a deep azurite blue ground and a gilded band punched with tiny rosettes that runs along the border.
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Leaf from a Book of Hours

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Candlestick with decoration of the Labors of the Months

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Champlevé enamel plaque with Christ in Majesty

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Architectural ceiling boss with four faces, probably from the Church of St. Andrew at Cullompton
This ceiling boss features four faces with traces of paint that are arranged in a radial pattern with the crowns of their heads converging on a single, central point. Two of the faces are female, identifiable by the wimples worn on their heads, while the other two, wearing small pointed caps and sporting beards, are male. The symmetrical regularity of the piece is counterbalanced by subtle asymmetries introduced by differences in detail and the sequence of facial types.
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Self-Portrait with carnations
This elegant self-portrait depicts a half-length figure of a man in three-quarters profile with his left arm resting on a stone ledge. The somber colors of his garb, consisting of a white shirt with a dark robe, is offset by luxurious details: the fur collar of his robe, the black ribbon and gold chain around his neck, the embroidered collar and cuffs of his shirt, and the three rings on his right hand. Two pink carnations appear on the ledge before him.
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Scenes of Martyrdom and Monastic Figures

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A Censer, Chalice and Incense Boat

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Capital with vines

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Diptych

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Velvet

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Enthroned Madonna and Child with angels and Saints Louis of Toulouse, Zenobius, John the Evangelist, and John the Baptist
The majestic figure of the Virgin with the infant Christ on her lap sits enthroned in the center of this painted panel. Her elaborate throne rests upon a dais and is enclosed on three sides by panels bristling with Gothic ornament. Two bishop saints holding croziers stand at the foot of the dais accompanied by two other saints who stand behind them, while fourteen angels crowd the background.
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Christ giving communion to the Apostles in an historiated initial "C"
Eight robed male figures, each with a halo, kneel before a v-shaped bench or rail. They face a male figure with a crossed halo that stands on the other side of the bench, holding a golden chalice in his left hand and a circular white wafer imprinted with a crucifixion scene in his right. An altar draped with a red cloth appears behind him. The entire scene is enframed within the letter &quot;C.&quot;
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Pair of turned oak columns

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Faucet with Peacock Spigot and Lion-Headed Spout
This large bronze faucet features a peacock spigot and a lion-headed spout.
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Coconut Cup
This cup is fashioned from a coconut shell set in a shallow bowl supported on a long, narrow stem and held in place by three straps and a tall neck band. The shallow domed lid has a plain, overhanging rim and terminates in a finial with a statuette of a nude sea nymph and serpent. The metalwork is densely decorated with various masks, animals, fantastic creatures, and vegetal ornament.
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Arms of Maximillian. Illustration from 'Quadriuium ecclesiae,' by Ioh. Hug, Lat

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Lintel Fragments (From a set of 5)
Two and a half prints, identical, long piece of wood with repeating pattern.
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Martyrdom of St. Matthew
A haloed man kneels in three-quarter profile in the left center of the foreground of the composition. A male figure stands behind the haloed figure in a wide stance with an ax raised above the kneeling figure's head. In the background is another male figure wearing a pointed hat and a jester or demonic figure shown falling of a column in the distance in the upper left.
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Annunciation
An angel, holding a scepter in his left hand and making a gesture of speech with his right, interrupts the Virgin at her reading. She kneels on the floor and rests her left hand on an open book placed atop a lectern. A vase with a flowering lily sits on the floor between the angel and the Virgin and a small white dove encircled by a halo hovers between them. The scene unfolds within an elaborate and richly decorated interior that includes a chair and canopied bed in the background.
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Gamepiece of an Armed Knight Throttling a Monstrous, Bearded Chimera
Round, carved gamepiece featuring the image of a figure in armor sitting on top of and stabbing a winged creature with a beard.&nbsp;
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Relief Panel with the Lamb of God ("Agnus Dei")

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Leaf from a Glossed Bible (Pauline Letter with Commentary; Epistle to the Thessalonians)

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Man of Sorrows

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Busts of Saints Jerome and Gregory
This pair of finely carved bust-length figures depicts two men in ecclesiastical garb. On the right appears an older figure who wears elaborate vestments and a papal tiara with a book in his left hand. His deeply lined and wrinkled face conveys a patient wisdom and authority as he stares directly ahead. His more youthful companion, dressed in a simpler collared robe and brimless cap, glances introspectively aside. He grasps an unfurled scroll in his left hand and a diminutive lion stares out from its perch on his left shoulder.
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The Triumph of Plenty
This bronze plaque features a pair of oxen pulling a four-wheeled wagon with six passengers. The seated driver holds a rod in his right hand and a two-tined fork in his left. An older figure holding a flaming vessel stands behind him, followed by a seated figure wearing classical drapery and a laurel wreath. The next figure, seated in the middle of the cart, is an older female, nude to the waist, who holds a cornucopia full of fruit and raises her left hand to point skyward. Two smaller standing figures appear next, one holding a bowl of fruit. The final figure is a reclining female nude holding a flower in the crook of her right arm.
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Charles V and his Brother Ferdinand I
Two male figures wearing voluminous patterned garmets and flat brimmed hats face one another, surrounded by an ornamental, classically inspired frame. Larson 2/7/18<br /> &nbsp;
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Architectural ceiling boss with two dragons, probably from the Church of St. Andrews at Cullompton
Two rampant dragons with open wings, wide flared tails and red-painted eyes stand facing one another with a large plant form held between them.
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Fragment from a Choir Stall
Carved animal figure on pedestal.
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Pope Boniface VIII Presiding over the Sacred College

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Cuttings from an illuminated manuscript consisting of several decorative border pieces, containing dolphins, cherubs, portrait cameos and the arms of Cardinal Antonio Pallavicini.

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Incense burner lid with peacock-shaped finial

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Baptismal Basin with Lamb of God ('Agnus Dei')

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Fragment of a gaming piece with male slaying beast, possibly Hercules and the Erymanthian boar, zigzag pattern with incised circles in border
Fragment of circular gaming piece carved in elephant ivory in high relief. Standing male figure wearing knee-length robe holds sword in right hand and stabs inverted beast in the chest. Forelegs of beast end in hooves; head of beast characterized by large eye and pronounced nostril. Left arm of figure and rear half of the beast missing. Border contains zigzag pattern with bead motif.
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Console with bird in vine scroll, rinceau, and angel
A three-quarter length angel, robustly carved in high relief, emerges from a cloud bank on the curved inner face of the console. The outer face of the console bears a tightly wound vine scroll carved in shallower relief with a bird at its center. The bird grasps the vine with its left leg while stretching back to grasp a cluster of grapes in its beak.
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Chest (no lock)

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The Nativity of the Virgin
This painted panel depicts an intimate domestic setting consisting of a bedchamber with a fireplace and a smaller vaulted antechamber that opens out on a garden. A haloed woman wearing a white veil rests in bed, having recently given birth. She leans to her right as she reaches toward a basin held by an attendant and looks across the room to the infant who is held on the lap of another servant. A halo also encircles the head of the child and a pair of angels fly above her. Several other attendants and midwives bustle about the room, while another woman, more richly clad than the servants, gazes on the child from her seat at the foot of the bed. In the antechamber sits a haloed man in a long white beard, who leans forward to hear news of the birth from the child standing in front of him. A companion sits behind him and a servant passes through the door into the bedchamber.
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Velvet Chausable with embroidered panel of St. Paul

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Saint Sebastian

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Dish with an Escutcheon,

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Kneeling Angel Holding a Shield

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Medallion

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Achilles and Hector
This engraving depicts a frieze-like arrangement of figures in horizontal format. Two central figures are engaged in a duel on horseback. Several other nude male figures are engaged in battle throughout the composition. The artist's monogram is placed in the upper left corner of the image.
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Candlestick with scenes of paired figures drinking

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Dish: Abraham and the Three Angels

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The Banker and his Wife
A husband and wife, looking at books and coins on a wood table. She has a red dress and a white head covering, he is wearing all dark colors and a dark hat.
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Hymnal

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Cisele Velvet

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Caricatures of Voltaire (Thirty-seven heads of Voltaire)

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Cloisters, Arles

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Monreale
This photograph is a composite of nine individual photographs, each depicting a view of a ornate column’s capital.
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Capital from the palace-city of Medinat al-Zahara with stylized acanthus leaves, vine rinceau and fleurons
This capital, based upon the Roman composite order, features stylized acanthus leaves and rinceau on the bell of the capital, which terminates in a band of bead-and-reel motif on the astragal. This, in turn, is capped by an echinus decorated with three fleurons and vine rinceau on each face as well as four projecting volutes also decorated with rinceau and fleurons. Originally the bell of the capital had two tiers of acanthus leaves, but the capital has been cropped below the top of the first tier and the tips of the leaves, which once curved outward from the surface of the capital, have been sheared off.
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Intérieur de la mosquée d'Omar, le Rocher—Interior of the mosque of Omar: the Rock
Interior view of a chamber surrounded by a polygonal arcade. The lower register of the photograph shows a large, roughly hewn stone slab.
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Crossbow fibula with vegetal ornament on the catchplate
This fibula, a type of brooch used to pin outer garments, features a crossbar that ends in three onion-shaped terminals, which give the fibula a shape reminiscent of a crossbow. An arched bow connects the crossbar to the longer catchplate, which is ornamented with vegetal motifs.
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Head of Polydeukion (favorite pupil of Herodes Atticus)

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Adoration of the Magi
This unfinished painted study depicts a crowd of figures gathered around three richly dressed men and a woman and child, who appear on a flight of stairs near the entrance to a large building decorated with classical columns and pilasters. An elderly bald man wearing a red cloak trimmed with ermine kneels with his head bowed at the top of the stairs before a kneeling woman who holds an infant in her right arm. Another man wearing a turban decorated with a large feather stands behind the kneeling man and holds a gold censer hanging from a chain in his left hand. A third richly dressed man stands at the bottom of the stairs with his back turned toward the viewer. A number of other figures crowd around this central group from the sides. A large ox sits in the right foreground with a donkey standing behind it.
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St. John the Evangelist on Patmos
St. John the Evangelist sits in the foreground with a book open on his knee and quill pen poised over its pages. Two books rest next to him and an eagle has alighted on an adjacent rock. St. John looks up and to his right to see a standing figure of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ, who appear in a glowing mandorla hovering in the sky. A vast panoramic view of a bustling harbor and formidable mountains unfolds behind St. John and extends into the distance.
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Presentation in the Temple (Leaf from a Book of Hours)

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Schöne Madonna
Bust of Madonna with head facing down and to the side. The main sculpture is of wood with layers of paint on the face and veil.
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Madonna and Child with St. Thomas Aquinas and a Bishop Saint
This rectangular panel depicts four sacred figures rendered in dark hues with passages of vibrant red against a gold background. The upper edge of the gilded frame bears the prayer known as the &quot;Hail Mary&quot; (&quot;Ave Maria Gratia Plena Domin[us tecum]&quot;).
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The Mourning St. John the Evangelist with two male figures (fragment of a crucifixion from a portable altarpiece)
This carved bone sculpture depicts John the Evangelist in profile with his hands held before him, bowing his head in mourning. A male figure wearing a knee-length robe stands on the right and holds a club in his left hand. A second male figure appears behind the saint in a similar pose of grief.
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Small Chest
Small, ornately carved chest with metal hardware.
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The Annunciation
An angel, draped with a flowing red mantle, descends on the left from a bank of clouds. He holds a scepter and twisting scroll in his left hand while he points with his right toward a white dove encircled by a halo of light that descends toward a woman dressed in long robes and a veil. She sits, holding a book open on the lectern before her, and draws back slightly with her right hand raised and her eyes downcast. Six cherubim sit above on the edge of the cloudbank, which opens to reveal a male figure barely visible in the blinding light that fills the cloud.
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Leaf from a Choir Book with Nativity

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Leaf from a Book of Hours

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Sanctification cross with scenes from the life of Christ and the Virgin Mary and the Evangelists
This small carved boxwood cross is divided on each face into five compartments containing Christian religious scenes. The cross is set in a stand decorated with mother-of-pearl and green glass-paste stones.
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Holy Family
Three figures, one woman with two children, one is holding a bird.
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Madonna and Child

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Angel
This sculpture represents an angel bending slightly toward the left with his head tilted downward. Carved slots in his back would have held his wings, and the figure has lost his forearms and hands as well as his legs below the knees.
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Aquamanile, Lion

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Lamp

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Double Cloth

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Prayer Book of Service for the Dead, manuscript page

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Leaf from a Gradual

Accession Number
2015/2.7A&B

Title
Leaf from a Gradual

Artist(s)
Italian

Object Creation Date
15th century

Medium & Support
ink and gold leaf on parchment

Dimensions
22 ¾ in x 15 ½ in (57.78 cm x 39.37 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Carrol Robertsen

Subject matter
This double-sided leaf contains seven lines of Latin blackletter script with musical notation. The verso includes a large illuminated initial “S”. This leaf belongs to a medieval gradual book, also known as a choir book and contains sung devotionals or choral music for masses and saint feast days, including introits—the first sung elements often introduced by illuminated initials, usually initiated with the celebrant—tracts, alleluias, offertories, and communions. The large size of this gradual allowed for more than one chorist to use it at a time. The verso contains an Introit of Mass.

Physical Description
A double-sided illuminated manuscript leaf with one column of seven staffs containing brown ink notes and Latin blackletter script. Some red rubrication is present. A large illuminated initial “S” is found on the verso, decorated with vegetal and floral forms in blue, green, scarlet, and gold leaf.

Primary Object Classification
Bound Work

Primary Object Type
manuscript

Additional Object Classification(s)
Unbound Work

Collection Area
Western

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Keywords
Medieval (European)
historiated initials
illuminations (visual works)
manuscripts (documents)
text (layout feature)

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