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Title
Dish
Artist
Artist Unknown, Italy
Physical Description
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.
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1500-1525
Accession Number
1969/2.38
Medium and Support
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) with underglaze painting
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Style/Group/Movement
Renaissance
Title
Descent from the Cross
Artist
Ugo da Carpi
Physical Description
This print depicts the body of a man being lowered from a cross. Two men lean over the top of the cross to remove the nails from the dead man's hands and pass his body down to two other men standing on ladders. Three women and a man lay on the ground in mourning at the foot of the cross.
Artist Life Dates
ca. 1440 - after 1525
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1440-1535
Accession Number
1960/1.176
Medium and Support
chiaroscuro woodcut on laid paper
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Style/Group/Movement
Renaissance
Title
Leaf from a Gradual with St. Lawrence
Artist
Ludovico de Gaci
Physical Description
This leaf from a manuscript contains seven lines of Latin text with musical notation. The initial letter, "C," of the opening word "Confessio" 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.
Century
15th century
Object Creation Date
1489
Accession Number
1986/2.85
Medium and Support
ink, tempera and gold on parchment
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Style/Group/Movement
Renaissance
Title
Dish (Tondino) with portrait of a young woman and grotesque decoration
Artist
Nicola da Urbino
Physical Description
The profile bust of a young woman is depicted in the well of this dish. The rim features a variety of grotesque ornament, including two winged, serpent-like creatures with human heads, whose tails interlace at the top of the plate. Cornucopias full of fruit appear beneath these creatures, followed by weapons and shields, one of which bears the date 1526. At the bottom appears the head of a cherub supporting a vase of fruit.
Artist Life Dates
c. 1480-1537/1538
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1526
Accession Number
1965/2.79
Medium and Support
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
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Style/Group/Movement
Renaissance
Title
The Triumph of the Four Elements
Artist
Artist Unknown, Germany
Physical Description
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.
Century
17th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1600
Accession Number
1969/2.37
Medium and Support
bronze
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Style/Group/Movement
Renaissance
Title
Jason Sowing the Dragon's Teeth
Artist
Artist Unknown, Italy or France
Physical Description
A group of armed men struggles in a landscape while a helmeted female figure hovers on a cloud above them and points to a distant city that lies across an expanse of water. A man at the left with a green cuirass and cloth knotted about his waist and neck stands apart from the combatants and looks up toward the gesturing woman. Behind him appears a row of sword-wielding men locked in combat, with several casualties lying at their feet. On a hillock in the background a pair of oxen, an orange-gold colored sheep, and a winged dragon may be discerned.
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1557-1600
Accession Number
1978/2.38
Medium and Support
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) with underglaze painting
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Style/Group/Movement
Renaissance
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Title
Study of a Scene of Martyrdom or Punishment
Artist
Polidoro da Caravaggio
Physical Description
This drawing represents seven nude men in a landscape with buildings indicated on a hill in the distance. One of the figures, represented full-length and in profile, is bound to a tree or stake on the left. All of the other men appear in half-length in the right part of the drawing. A bearded man sits and gestures in the direction of the bound man. Five other men appear around the seated figure, one of whom carries two long objects over his shoulder toward the man on the left.
Artist Life Dates
c. 1495-c.1543
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1525-1575
Accession Number
2009/1.494
Medium and Support
brown ink on paper
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Style/Group/Movement
Renaissance
Title
Credenza
Artist
Artist Unknown, Italy
Physical Description
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.
Century
Early 16th century
Object Creation Date
1500-1530
Accession Number
1955/1.228
Medium and Support
oak wood
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Style/Group/Movement
Renaissance
Title
Combat of Romans and Dacians (after a relief on the Arch of Constantine, Rome)
Artist
Nicolas Beatrizet
Physical Description
This engraving reproduces a relief sculpture from the second century CE of Roman soldiers under Emperor Trajan conquering the Dacians in what is today Romania. The sculpture was later removed from its original monument built to honor Trajan and incorporated into the Arch of Constantine, erected in Rome by the emperor Constantine between 312 and 315.
The relief depicts mounted Roman soldiers, dressed in their characteristic armor and helmets, surging to the left and right from the center of the scene. A group of soldiers sounding horns stands in their midst. The Romans' vanquished Dacian foes lie trampled beneath the horses' hooves.
Artist Life Dates
c.1515 - after 1565
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1553
Accession Number
1960/2.41
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Style/Group/Movement
Renaissance
Title
Eve Tempted by the Serpent
Artist
Defendente Ferrari
Physical Description
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.
Artist Life Dates
active 1500-1535
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1520-1525
Accession Number
1967/1.38
Medium and Support
tempera on panel
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Style/Group/Movement
Renaissance
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Title
Sibyl with a Child Holding a Torch
Artist
Ugo da Carpi
Physical Description
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 & rh 27 4/5cm x tw 22 3/5cm bw 22 3/10cm.
Artist Life Dates
ca. 1440 - after 1525
Century
16th century
Accession Number
2008/2.420
Medium and Support
chiaroscuro woodcut on beige laid paper
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Style/Group/Movement
Renaissance
Title
Pope Sixtus IV (obverse), and the Ponte Sisto (reverse)
Artist
Lysippus
Physical Description
The front (obverse) of this medal depicts the profile portrait of a man with a tonsure, wearing a cope adorned with acorns and oak leaves and a large clasp. An inscription runs around the border. The reverse represents a bridge spanning a river enclosed within a border of oak leaves. An inscription appears above the balustrade of the bridge.
Artist Life Dates
active 1471-1484
Century
15th century
Object Creation Date
1473
Accession Number
1984/1.285
Medium and Support
cast bronze
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Style/Group/Movement
Renaissance
Title
The Triumph of Plenty
Artist
Artist Unknown, Germany or Belgium
Physical Description
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.
Century
17th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1600
Accession Number
1960/2.5
Medium and Support
bronze
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Style/Group/Movement
Renaissance
Title
Battle of the Romans under Scipio against the Carthaginians
Artist
Agostino di Musi
Physical Description
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.
Artist Life Dates
(Venice, 1490 - 1540)
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
after 1531
Accession Number
1976/1.211
Medium and Support
engraving on paper
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Style/Group/Movement
Renaissance
Title
Crucifixion
Artist
Bartolommeo da Brescia
Physical Description
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.
Artist Life Dates
1506 - 1576 or 1578
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1565-1576
Accession Number
1970/1.177
Medium and Support
etching on paper
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Style/Group/Movement
Renaissance
Title
Pope Nicholas V (obverse), Nicholas V in the Ship "Eclesia" (reverse)
Artist
Andrea Guacioloti
Physical Description
The obverse of this medal depicts a profile portrait of a man with a tonsure. The reverse represents a man holding a cross-staff piloting a boat labeled "Eclesia" along the gunwale. Both sides of the medal have inscriptions around the edge.
Artist Life Dates
1435-1495
Century
15th century
Object Creation Date
1455
Accession Number
1984/1.283
Medium and Support
cast bronze
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Style/Group/Movement
Renaissance
Title
Self-Portrait with carnations
Artist
Bartholomaeus Bruyn the Elder
Physical Description
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.
Artist Life Dates
1493-1555
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1525
Accession Number
1963/2.43
Medium and Support
oil on panel
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Style/Group/Movement
Northern Renaissance
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Title
Head of a Child
Artist
Jacopo Bassano
Physical Description
This drawing depicts the head of a boy looking slightly downward to his right in three-quarters profile.
Artist Life Dates
(c. 1510 - c. 1592)
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
2nd half of 16th century
Accession Number
2009/1.490
Medium and Support
charcoal on paper
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Style/Group/Movement
Late Renaissance
Title
St. Jerome in His Study
Artist
Albrecht Dürer
Physical Description
This engraving depicts a comfortable domestic interior. An old bearded man sits poring over a book at table in the back of the room. A lion and dog rest on the floor in the foreground. Various other objects appear around the room, including a skull, books, slippers, a crucifix, and a pair of scissors.
Artist Life Dates
Nüremberg, 1471-1528
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1514
Accession Number
1993/2.1
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Style/Group/Movement
Northern Renaissance
Title
Busts of Saints Jerome and Gregory
Artist
Atelier of Jörg Syrlin the Younger
Physical Description
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.
Century
late 15th/early 16th-century
Object Creation Date
circa1500
Accession Number
1958/1.59
Medium and Support
lindenwood with polychromy
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Style/Group/Movement
Northern Renaissance
Title
Three Apostles: St. John the Evangelist, St. Thomas, and St. James the Less with the Apostles' Creed
Artist
Jan Joest
Physical Description
Three apostles, each holding an identifying attribute, stand in a row as full-length figures on this painted panel. On the left stands the youthful beardless St. John holding a chalice with a snake coiled in the cup. Next to him appears the bald and bearded St. Thomas, holding an architect's square. The bearded figure of St. James the Less appears on the left with an open book in his left hand and a long fuller's club in his right. Scrolls above each apostle's head contain a line from the Apostles' Creed in Latin.
Artist Life Dates
1455-1460 - 1519
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1500-1519
Accession Number
1973/2.77
Medium and Support
oil on panel, mounted on panel
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Style/Group/Movement
Northern Renaissance
Title
Ornament
Artist
Hans Sebald Beham
Physical Description
This small print depicts an ornamental pattern composed of curled acanthus leaves and spiralling vines terminating in flowers or buds. The plant ornament forms a symmetrical pattern around a central motif inscribed with the initials "HSB," which are conjoined. This motif is framed by two horn-shaped containers that end in monsters' heads.
Artist Life Dates
1500-1550
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
16th century
Accession Number
1960/2.26
Medium and Support
engraving on paper
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Style/Group/Movement
Northern Renaissance
Title
St. John the Evangelist on Patmos
Artist
Joos van Cleve
Physical Description
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.
Artist Life Dates
active 1511 - 1540/1541
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1525
Accession Number
1958/2.77
Medium and Support
oil on panel, mounted on panel
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Style/Group/Movement
Northern Renaissance
Title
Death of the Virgin (reverse copy after Schongauer)
Artist
Israhel Meckenem
Physical Description
A four-poster bed with curtains drawn back within an interior is angled towards the viewer, showing a woman reclined on the bed and attended by numerous figures. A lighted taper is placed in her hands, with assistance of a young man on the left side of the bed. Others of the figures stand or kneel with figures hands clasped in prayer; at the lower left corner are two men kneeling at the foot of the bead looking at a book of prayers. The overall effect is concern and movement around the still figure of the woman.
Artist Life Dates
d. 1503
Century
Late 15th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1490-1500
Accession Number
1960/2.46
Medium and Support
engraving on fine off-white laid paper
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Style/Group/Movement
Northern Renaissance
Title
The Farnese Hercules
Artist
Jacob Bos
Physical Description
This engraving reproduces a colossal marble sculpture of Hercules leaning upon his club, which is draped with a lion skin. Bos carefully records the powerful musculature of the figure and sets the statue within a niche.
Artist Life Dates
active c.1520-c.1580
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1562
Accession Number
1994/2.17
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Style/Group/Movement
Late Renaissance
Title
Study for an Overdoor Decoration in the Sala Regia of the Vatican
Artist
Taddeo Zuccaro
Physical Description
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.
Artist Life Dates
(1529 - 1566)
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1564
Accession Number
1966/1.93
Medium and Support
pen and brown ink with brown wash on buff paper
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Style/Group/Movement
Late Renaissance
Title
Ecce Homo (Large Passion Series)
Artist
Albrecht Dürer
Physical Description
A crowd of men, rendered as a dense mass of bodies and faces that bristles with pikes and spears, gather before a porch attached to an ornately decorated stone building. A bearded man, wearing rich dress and a turban leans over the balustrade of the porch toward the crowd with his arms outstretched and his hands open as he turns his head to look at the man standing beside him. This sorrowful figure wears only a crown of thorns and a long robe that is partly opened by the man standing behind him to reveal his lean body flecked with drops of sweat or blood.
Artist Life Dates
(Nüremberg, 1471 - 1528)
Century
Late 15th-Early 16th century
Object Creation Date
1498-1500
Accession Number
1953/1.48
Medium and Support
woodcut on paper
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Style/Group/Movement
Northern Renaissance
Title
The Nativity of the Virgin
Artist
Sano di Pietro
Physical Description
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.
Artist Life Dates
1405-1481
Century
15th century
Object Creation Date
1448-1452
Accession Number
1977/2.1
Medium and Support
tempera and gold on panel
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Style/Group/Movement
Early Renaissance
Title
Solicitudo Rustica (Rustic Cares) from the Large Landscapes after Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Artist
Pieter Brueghel
Physical Description
This print offers an expansive vista over a river valley bordered by high mountains in the distance. In the foreground a peasant sits on the ground hammering the blade of his scythe as another man leans against a tree and gazes into the valley. Boats, towns, and villages dot the landscape.
Artist Life Dates
c. 1525-1569)
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1530-1569
Accession Number
1959/2.92
Medium and Support
etching with engraving on paper
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Style/Group/Movement
Northern Renaissance
Title
The Lamentation
Artist
Hans Baldung Grien
Physical Description
Three grief-striken figures lament over the body of a dead man lying on the ground before them. One of these figures, a robed woman who clasps her hands in agony, leans forward to peer into the face of the dead man, who is rendered with dramatic foreshortening. To the left of this woman sits a long-haired man wiping his eyes while another woman with wild unkempt hair seated next to him raises her arms in abject sorrow. Three nails and a pair of vessels sit in the immediate foreground next to the artist's initials "HGB."
Artist Life Dates
1484/85-1545
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1515-1517
Accession Number
1960/1.168
Medium and Support
woodcut on paper
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Style/Group/Movement
Northern Renaissance
Title
Madonna by the Wall
Artist
Albrecht Dürer
Physical Description
A young woman, dressed in long robes with her veil drawn over her head, sits next to a wall holding an infant in her lap. She is turned slightly to her right and gazes sweetly upon the child who twists to face the viewer and holds an apple in his left hand. A stream meanders through the landscape of trees and city walls behind them.
Artist Life Dates
Nüremberg, 1471-1528
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1514
Accession Number
1958/1.95
Medium and Support
engraving on laid paper
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Style/Group/Movement
Northern Renaissance
Title
The Good Thief on the Cross
Artist
Artist Unknown, School of Kalkar, Germany
Physical Description
A bearded man, wearing a loincloth and a long trailing headband, hangs from a cross by his arms, which have split open beneath the ropes that bind them. His left leg hangs downward and passes behind his right foot, which perches precariously on a forked branch. He strains to his left and gazes upward with his mouth open in a tortured movement augmented by the dramatic sweeps of drapery that frame his torso.
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1520
Accession Number
1976/1.233
Medium and Support
walnut with polychrome
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Style/Group/Movement
Northern Renaissance
Title
Madonna and Child with St. Thomas Aquinas and a Bishop Saint
Artist
Artist Unknown, Umbria, Italy
Physical Description
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 "Hail Mary" ("Ave Maria Gratia Plena Domin[us tecum]").
Century
15th century
Object Creation Date
1440-1480
Accession Number
1992/1.134
Medium and Support
tempera and gold on panel
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Style/Group/Movement
Early Renaissance
Title
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)
Artist
Neri di Bicci
Physical Description
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.
Artist Life Dates
1418-1492
Century
15th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1475
Accession Number
1942.6
Medium and Support
tempera and gold on wood
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Style/Group/Movement
Early Renaissance
Title
Panel of Ornament with Two Sirens
Artist
Lucas Van Leyden
Physical Description
This print depicts an ornamental design. The central axis of the design is composed of a fanciful stand with a nude winged boy holding a trident, seen from the back, seated on the top. A pair of sirens holding small banners flank the base, and a pair of hybrid sphinx-like creatures perch near the top. The letter "L" appears in the center of the stand and the date "1528" is inscribed in the base.
Artist Life Dates
1494-1533
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1528
Accession Number
1960/2.134
Medium and Support
engraving on paper
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Style/Group/Movement
Northern Renaissance
Title
Baking Bread, Labor of the Month for December
Artist
Jean de Court, called Vigier
Physical Description
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.
Artist Life Dates
active 1541-1564
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
1540-1560
Accession Number
1977/1.168
Medium and Support
enamel
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Style/Group/Movement
Northern Renaissance
Title
The Flagellation (Large Passion Series)
Artist
Albrecht Dürer
Physical Description
At the center of this densely detailed print stands a male figure, nude except for a loincloth, with his hands tied behind him to a column. He is encircled by a crowd of figures, including three men who beat him with whips, switches, and fists. A fourth figure leers at him grotesquely, while another sits on the ground with his feet against the column and pulls the ropes holding their victim. Another figure, wearing elaborate armor, kneels in the foreground as he prepares his switches. Onlookers, some wearing elaborate turbans and robes inspired by Turkish clothing, stand behind the torturers. A crown of thorns sits in the lower right corner and a small dog appears in the center foreground next to the artist's initials.
Artist Life Dates
(Nüremberg, 1471 - 1528)
Century
Late 15th century
Object Creation Date
1497
Accession Number
1960/2.35
Medium and Support
woodcut on paper
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Style/Group/Movement
Northern Renaissance
Title
The Virgin and the Cradle
Artist
Marcantonio Raimondi
Physical Description
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.
Artist Life Dates
ca. 1475-before 1534
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1520
Accession Number
1995/1.81
Medium and Support
engraving on medium-weight, slightly textured, off-white laid paper
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Style/Group/Movement
Italian Renaissance
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