Inscription: On the verso of the parchment mount: in the center, a painted medallion with the arms of Frederick, fourth marquess of Londonderry, and inscribed FREDERICH MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY ROMA MDCCCLVI
1483/84–1561 Bruges) ca. 1530–35 The Right Hand of God Protecting the Faithful
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15th–early 16th century Falchion Italian, Venice ca. 1490 Gauntlet for the Left Hand
Carly Still, assistant horticulturist at The Cloisters, discusses the importance of beauty and fragrance in the medieval appreciation of flowers.
symbolic associations, it overflowed with practical uses: rose water was made for hand
Not on view This diminutive head of a crowned king fits into the palm of the hand
The invention of lithography around 1800 made it possible to produce an extraordinarily large edition of prints from a single drawing executed on a block of limestone.
seemingly looking backwards, reexamined the special qualities of prints made by hand
During the 1580s, the Carracci were painting the most radical and innovative pictures in Europe.
In Rome, Annibale’s painting was transformed through his first-hand encounter with
The maker’s hand is visible in burnishing and hammer marks on the instrument’
Avenue in Gallery 207 This animal pen is populated with goats, tended to with one hand
The Met, The Frick Collection, and the Doerner Institut team up to investigate changes to the composition and the discoloration of some paint passages.
suggested that the painting had been finished after Vermeer’s death by another hand
includes copper, silver, and gold, forming natural layered designs that are cut and hand
