From a room above the chapter house of the Monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza, near Hortigüela, Burgos, Spain (sold by the government in the nineteenth century); Private Collection ; [ Sr. Colominas, Barcelona (sold 1931)]
Paintings-Fresco Credit Line: The Cloisters Collection, 1931 Object Number: 31.38.2a, b
baron Arthur de Schickler, Martinvast, France (by 1908–d. 1919); his daughter, comtesse Hubert de Pourtalès, Martinvast (1919; sold to Duveen); [Duveen, Paris, and Wildenstein, Paris, 1919, as by Alvise Vivarini; sold to Salomon]; William Salomon, New York (d
Arts 5 (May 1924), p. 264, ill. p. 263, as in the collection of Andrew W.
Parnassus 2 (March 1930), p. 6. Harry B. Wehle. "The Exhibition of the H. O.
The Concourse of the BirdsThe manuscript from which this painting comes was produced in 1483 at the Timurid court of Sultan Husayn Baycara at Herat. It contains four illustrations that may or may not be by the hand of Bihzad, the most famous artist of that era, but represent his innovative, perfectionist style
P. Dutton & Co., 1970. no. 157, p. 180, ill. (b/w). Swietochowski, Marie.
Museum of Art Bulletin vol. 33, section II (1938). pp. 15–16, ill. frontispiece (b/
Zurich, October 22–24, 1942. p. 22, no. 254 & pl. XIII.
Footed BowlAlong with gilded examples, the most treasured glass objects in the Islamic world were the enameled ones, which developed during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in Syria and Egypt under the Ayyubids and Mamluks
B. Tauris, 2012, fig. 1.7.
Pair of DoorsThis pair of doors once belonged to a minbar and most probably came from the base of its stairs.[1] An elaborate geometric design centered on twelve-pointed stars arranged in staggered rows decorates the front of the doors, which are constructed of rosewood
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1930. pp. 99–100, ill. fig. 44 (b/w).
This is an early work by Alessandro Bonvicino, known as Moretto da Brescia, who, along with Girolamo Romanino, was the dominant painter in the city of Brescia (then in the westernmost area of Venice’s mainland empire) in the first half of the sixteenth century
Brescia, 1898, p. 108 [see Ref. Begni Redona 1988]. P[ietro]. d[a] P[onte].
Tughra of Sultan Süleyman the MagnificentThe Ottoman Turkish sultans controlled one of the most efficient, well-organized, and effective governmental bureaucracies of early modern times; at the apex of this governmental structure was the Ottoman Imperial Chancery, which created, copied, and recorded all official governmental orders or decrees, known as firman, as well as treaties and official correspondence
Atil 1987, p. 41, no. 4.
