Textile FragmentThe royal textile factories of al-Andalus were famous throughout the medieval world in a period when luxury textiles constituted one of the most valuable possessions in a ruler’s treasury as well as in the trousseaux of wealthy brides
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Among his many exhibits at the Paris Salon of 1763, Greuze showed a head of a boy and two heads of girls; all were the same relatively small size of the present picture but no two were identified as a pair
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There is no record of this picture prior to its purchase between 1882 and 1884 by William Graham (1817–1885), a Glasgow merchant, major supporter of the Pre-Raphaelites, and notable collector of early Italian paintings
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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
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Alexander, Christine. 1953. „A Statue of Aphrodite.“ Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 11.9: pp. 241–51, bulletin cover.von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1958. „Greek Marble Sculptures
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Inscription: Signed and inscribed: (lower center) NICOLAVS·ZAFVRI·PINXIT·; (top, in Greek) [Christ] being dragged to the cross; (beside Christ’s head, in Greek) Jesus Christ; (right, on banner) SPQR
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From a hypogeum (so-called “tomb B�) on the property of Savino Scocchera in Mandorleto Grotticelle, east of Canosa, Italy 1895, found in a tomb near Canosa, Apulia, Italy; [by 1904 and until 1906, with Cesare and Ercole Canessa, Naples and Paris]; acquired in 1906, purchased from C
Avenue in Gallery 162 Figure of a woman removed from funnel-jar, 06.1021.248a, b.
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