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Title: Angel Holding a Palm and a Crown
Artist: Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Physical Description: Paper size: lh 17 1/5cm & rh 17cm x tw 22 7/10cm & bw 23cm. Plate size: h 9cm x w 14 1/10cm. Image size: lh 8 1/10cm & rh 8 3/10cm x tw 13cm & bw 12 1/10cm.
Artist Life Dates: 1732-1806
Accession Number: 2008/2.438
Medium and Support: etching on beige laid paper
relevance: rank 11.61351
Primary Keywords: angels; crowns (headdresses); etchings

Title: Egúngún headress (erin type)
Artist: Adugbologe Workshop of Abeokuta, Yoruba Peoples Nigeria
Physical Description: A massive, baroque, and busy wood-carved headdress with stylized face (showing classic Yoruba features) of bulging eyes with defined upper lids, long, straight, triangular nose, symmetrical scarification patterns consisting of three horizontal lines on each cheek, a short beard from ear to ear just underneath the lower lip. Two large “ears” protrude on either side of head and act as “scaffolding” for numerous attachments of symbolic content: birds and lions predominate, but also visible are amulets, wooden claws and beads, crosses, and an insignia shield of some kind. The ears terminate in two oblong mirrors with lions leaping off of each. Layers of pigment are visible, giving impression it has been repainted over time.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1960
Accession Number: 1985/1.183
Medium and Support: wood, mirrors, pigment, gourd, beads, metal
relevance: rank 11.36364
Primary Keywords: ancestors; birds; headdresses; lions; masquerades; spirits

Title: Esther before Ahasuerus
Artist: Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Physical Description: A bearded man, wearing majestic red robes with a large ermine collar and a green turban surmounted by a crown, sits on a throne at left. He leans forward, holding a long thin scepter in his right hand while touching his chest with his left. Before him stand two women supporting a third, who has fainted. This third woman wears a splendid blue robe ornamented with a row of opulent clasps, a luxurious golden cloak lined with pink fabric, and a crown that seems to tilt precariously on the back of her head. The man looks intently into the face of the fainted woman, while the two women, in turn, watch his expression closely.
Artist Life Dates: 1591-1666
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: 1639
Accession Number: 1963/2.45
Medium and Support: oil on canvas
relevance: rank 11.24270
Primary Keywords: baroque; crowns (headdresses); oil paintings; old testament; scepters

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Title: The Coronation of the Virgin [ Le Couronnement de la Vierge] from a Book of Hours
Artist: Simon Vostre
Physical Description: A woman in the center being crowned. There are angels surrounding her. Christ on a thrown is blessing her.
Century: 16th century
Object Creation Date: 1508
Accession Number: 2013/2.558
Medium and Support: woodcut on laid paper
relevance: rank 11.12430
Primary Keywords: angels; christianity; clouds; crowns (headdresses); halos; thrones; thrown

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