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Title

Joust in the Marketplace

Artist

Lucas Cranach The Elder

Physical Description

This woodcut depicts a town square surrounded by buildings on the top and right edges of the composition as though viewed from above. Within the square is a field delimited by a fence in which a multitude of figures and figures on horseback are engaged in a chaotic battle. Several figures direct large lances toward other figures. Crowds of young and old and male and female figures watch the action from behind the fence and from within doorways, balconies and windows in the surrounding buildings.

Artist Life Dates

1472-1553

Object Creation Date

1506

Accession Number

2012/2.181

Medium and Support

woodcut on laid paper

relevance

rank 11.87504

Primary Keywords

battles

lances

marketplaces

spectators

Title

Baptism of a Warrior by a Bishop Saint (recto); Young Woman's Head (verso)

Artist

Artist Unknown, Germany

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

17th century

Accession Number

1970/2.17

Medium and Support

pen and brown ink with gray wash and black chalk on cream paper

relevance

rank 11.87504

Primary Keywords

baptisms

bishops (prelates)

spectators

Title

Stereoscope Viewer

Artist

Stereo Classics Studio

Physical Description

This stereoscope viewer is made of light brown wood and brass. It has an oval shaped view finder with two glass squares for the viewing holes. There is a handle below and a sliding wood arm with brass brackets to hold the stereoscopic card.

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1925-1980

Accession Number

2010/1.166

Medium and Support

wood and brass

relevance

rank 11.74591

Primary Keywords

glass

spectators

wood (plant material)

Title

Stereoscope Viewer

Artist

Stereo Classics Studio

Physical Description

A stereoscope view made of wood and brass. It has a wooden stick handle that supports the viewer; which is made of a metal case with glass pieces that the viewer can look through. There are two cross shaped pieces of wood attached to the viewer; the horizontal piece of wood slides along the vertical piece, and has two brass holders for the stereoscope card.

Object Creation Date

1925-1980

Accession Number

2010/1.168

Medium and Support

wood and brass

relevance

rank 11.49588

Primary Keywords

brass-work

viewers (spectators)

wood (plant material)

Title

The Farnese Hercules

Artist

Hendrick Goltzius

Physical Description

This impressively large engraving depicts the muscular back of a marble statue of a man. The figure leans upon a club draped with a lion skin and holds three apples in his right hand behind his back. Two men look up at the statue from the lower right corner of the print.

Artist Life Dates

1558 - 1617

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1592

Accession Number

1994/2.13

Medium and Support

engraving on medium weight laid paper

relevance

rank 11.14017

Primary Keywords

apples

clubs (weapons)

engraving (printing process)

mannerist

nudes

spectators

statues