David Teniers the Younger – Judith with the Head of Holofernes – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437778
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Mosque LampThis lamp has a flattened, almost globular body with a long flared neck and a low folded foot. Three suspension loops are attached to the body. The enameled and gilded decoration consists of three main registers and four narrower bands of continuous vegetal patterns
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Watteau, the son of a roofer, left Valenciennes for Paris about 1702 to work there as a copyist and assistant to Claude Gillot (1673–1722) and Claude III Audrun (1658–1734). He became interested in theater and fell under the spell of Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)
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This painting, one of the key works of Ter Borch’s maturity, probably dates from about 1660–62. Though it was painted when the artist lived in Deventer, the luxurious interior and elegantly attired figures evoke the cosmopolitan milieu of Amsterdam
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From Rome From before 1631 and until 1902, in the Giustiniani Collection, Rome; 1902, purchased from the Giustiniani family through Giuseppe Sangiorgi by Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson (Mary Clark Thompson), New York; 1902-1923, collection of Mary Clark Thompson; acquired in 1926, bequest of Mary Clark Thompson
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Folio from the Anonymous Bagdad Qur’anThis illuminated folio and folio no. 55.44 come from different sections of one of the acknowledged masterpieces of calligraphy and book production in the Islamic world
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Inscription: (on banderole held by Micah): D[omi]n[u]S . egredit[ur] . de . loco . / IsAie . XXVOI / S[an]c[t]o . suo . (the Lord embarks from His holy place, [Isaiah 26:21 or Micah 1:2-3])(on frame of mirror):
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