Storage jar decorated with mountain goats – Chalcolithic – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/324917
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The Artist: Nicholas Hilliard, the son of Richard Hilliard, an Exeter goldsmith, made his earliest known miniatures in 1560. He served his apprenticeship as a goldsmith, beginning in 1562 with Robert Brandon, whose daughter Alice he was to marry in 1576
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Muzzarelli chapel, church of the convent of Sant’Andrea Apostolo, Ferrara (until at least 1787); Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, Herzog von Leuchtenberg, Munich (until d. 1824; cat., 1825, no. 35); Herzogen von Leuchtenberg, Munich and St
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This arresting portrait of an unidentified young Florentine is dated by most scholars to the 1530s. During that decade Bronzino was often engaged in painting members of a close-knit circle of acquaintances with whom he shared literary interests, and this sitter—who so conspicuously holds open a book—may be from among that group
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This sculpture is carved out of a single slab of ivory and represents the seated Mary holding the infant Jesus (mostly missing) in her lap. Mary’s face is moon-shaped, with a high, wide forehead, a pointed chin, and almond-shaped eyes
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This altarpiece depicts Saint Roch (ca. 1348–1376/79), known as a plague saint for his miracles in curing the sick. He became a popular figure in art following the Black Death in the fourteenth century and the Italian plague outbreak of 1477–79
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[With Stefano Bardini, Florence]; between 1893-1905, acquired by William Waldorf Astor in Italy; until 1983, collection of William Waldorf Astor, later First Vicount Astor of Hever Castle and his descendants; July 1983, purchased by Robin Symes through Sotheby’s, London; [from 1983, with Robin Symes, London]; purchased by Mrs
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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, New York; acquired in 1903, gift of Mrs
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