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Gospel Book with Enameled and Jeweled Silver PlaquesThis Gospel manuscript was copied by the scribe Grigor the priest (k’ahanay), probably in Cilicia in the thirteenth century.[1] In the seventeenth century, the manuscript was further embellished with silver repoussé plaques produced by the silversmith Astuatsatur Shahamir in a workshop in Kayseri, as indicated by the inscriptions, which read: on the front, top, „Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace“; on the front, bottom, „This Gospel was made through his honestly earned assets to pray and praise our Savior, Jesus Christ“; and on the back, bottom, „And I, unworthy Astuatsatur Shahamir, decorated this with silver in the year of the Armenians 1140 [AD 1691] in the city of Kayseri, with God’s help
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Beneath a curiously distended double arch of the nave of a church illuminated with bottle glass windows, the Virgin demurely extends her hand, on which a bearded Joseph places a ring rendered in raised, gilded pastiglia—the same technique used for the collar of the officiating priest and for the haloes decorated with pseudo-Kufic lettering
New York, 1954, p. 9. Franco Mazzini.

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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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A traveling troupe of commedia dell’arte actors entertains a party of Venetians enjoying a summer holiday on the mainland. Such performances often ended with a minuet, depicted here. The dancing couple may be the lovers Lelio and Isabella (sometimes called by other names), the only actors in the troupe who did not wear masks
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Studying first with François Élie Vincent (1708–1790), a miniaturist whose Paris studio was in the same street as her father’s shop, Adélaïde Labille embarked upon her career before she was twenty
B. D. B. Gattières, 1785, p. 22 [Collection Deloynes, vol. 14, no. 345].

Baron James Mayer de Rothschild (by 1865–d. 1868) ; his son, baron Gustave de Rothschild (until d. 1911) ; his son, baron Robert de Rothschild (d. 1946) ; by descent through the Rothschild family (until 2009) ; [ sold by private agreement through Christie’s, London ; to MMA ]
Radcliffe 1972, p. 47; Allen 2008a, pp. 194–99, cat. 16A. 13.

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The Artist: Only during the last five decades has Donato de‘ Bardi emerged as an important figure in the history of north Italian painting, notable for the manner in which he responded to Netherlandish and French painting and set the stage for the achievement of Vincenzo Foppa—the outstanding painter of fifteenth-century Lombardy
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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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