Plate with David’s Confrontation with Eliab – Byzantine – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464376
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Lantern Recent studies point to the production of glazed ceramics in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Syria at multiple locations and indicate that several types were produced at each of the various centers
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Saint Matthew is shown seated in a dark interior lit by an oil lamp and assisted by an angel in his writing of the gospel. The diminutive scenes in the background, whose subjects have been debated, relate to his life as presented in the Golden Legend
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The Artist: The Sienese master Simone Martini was one of the greatest and most influential painters of his time. His work combines an astonishing mastery of naturalistically observed details with an exquisite technique
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Marking: Arms (central panel, left window): D’or au chevron de sable charge sur sa pointe d’une chaine de quatre chainons d’argent elle meme placee en chevron. For Ingelbrechts (Ingelbrechts or Ymbrechts) of Malines and Spain
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Catherine Benincasa was born in Siena about 1347, died in 1380, and was canonized in 1461. She was a member of the Dominican order, a mystic, and minister to the poor and plague-stricken. This picture illustrates Saint Catherine’s miraculous levitation and exchange of her bloody heart with Christ
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This beautiful and moving picture was acquired in 1908 by one of Bellini’s most eloquent admirers, the great British critic Roger Fry (1866–1934), who was employed by the Museum at the time (see Fry 1908)
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Two Zoomorphic Bottles (69.153 and 1999.145)Like the blue bottle decorated with applied threads of blue glass (X.21.210), the playful utilitarian objects 69.153 and 1999
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The Artist: Giotto is the key figure of Western painting. His emphasis on solidly described figures and his exploration of a rational pictorial space set the course of European art for the next five hundred years
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