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Title: Annunciation
Artist: Artist Unknown, Antwerp School, Belgium
Physical Description: 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.
Century: 16th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1520
Accession Number: 1992/1.135
Medium and Support: oil on panel
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Title: Upright Ornament with Bull and Satyrs
Artist: Agostino Musi
Physical Description: This decorative image is organized along a vertical axis wtih fanciful creatures, grotesque heads, depictions of carved gems and harpies.
Artist Life Dates: Active 1514-1536
Century: 16th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1520
Accession Number: 1960/2.133
Medium and Support: engraving on paper
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Title: Holy Family with Young St. John the Baptist, called the Virgin with the Long Thi
Artist: Marcantonio Raimondi
Artist Life Dates: Ca. 1475-before 1534
Century: 16th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1520-1525
Accession Number: 1960/2.48
Medium and Support: engraving on paper
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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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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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