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Showing results for "2nd half of 16th century" in Object Creation Date.
- 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
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- A Group of Peasants Eating
- Artist
- Jacopo Bassano
- Physical Description
- A group of figures are seen kneeling at the lower left in preparation of eating an al fresco meal. The figures consist of two women, two men, and a child, accompanied by a dog, curled up at the bottom right and two lambs or sheep at the right side. Two standing men and a cow are visible, as is the landscape behind the figures that include trees and a house.
- Throughout, the work is unified by the consistent fluid and dense pen strokes that describe the figures and animals as well as the distant landscape and sky.
- Artist Life Dates
- c.1510-c.1592
- Object Creation Date
- 2nd half of 16th century
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.521
- Medium and Support
- pen and ink on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Samson's Vengeance
- Artist
- Anonymous Flemish?
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 2nd half of 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1960/2.83
- Medium and Support
- brush, red ink wash and Sanquine on cream paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Coconut Cup
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Germany
- Physical Description
- 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.
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 2nd half of 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1969/2.36
- Medium and Support
- coconut shell with gilded silver
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Arabesque Panel with Grotesques and Animals
- Artist
- Anonymous Italian
- Physical Description
- A decorative design based on curving arabesque forms around a central axis also incorporates gortesque figures.
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 2nd half of 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1963/2.7
- Medium and Support
- graphite, pen and brown ink with ink wash, mounted
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Sparrow on a Bamboo Branch
- Artist
- Kanô Gyokuraku
- Physical Description
- A plump sparrow is perching on a bamboo branch, which is bending from the main branch on the left side of the painting. The bamboo has young and mature leaves. The background is left as blank. The mounting is made of creamy silk brocade with blue green silk brocade strips. Brown brocade pieces are pasted on the top and the bottom of the mounting. There is a seal in red ink on the left corner. Wrinkles on the top and right lower side of the bid; some smaller worm holes and one large hole underneath the bird, but all repaired.
- Artist Life Dates
- active 1550 - 1590
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 2nd half of 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1968/2.54
- Medium and Support
- Hanging scroll: ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000