The reconstructed portal is composed of five medieval elements. Neither the bases nor the arch of rosettes were part of the medieval monument. The two jambs of gray Carrara marble were apparently recarved from sections of antique sarcophagi
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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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The repayment of 9 ½ minas of silver was made in Kanesh, and because the tablet
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reportedly the parish church, Castelfranco di Sopra, near Florence (until late 18th century); the Baglioni family, villa Baglioni, Cerreto (late 18th century–about 1903); [Stefano Bardini, Florence, until 1903; probably sold for 115,000 lire through A
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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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Signature: Signed inside foot in red: J.M.H.Inscription: Copernicus: (in gold panel below) Copernic. Systeme planétaire; (in banderoles) Motu/octave spherae; (in shield above) Thom
in this style,[8] and more designs in this idiom were produced until the 1840s.[9]
Bonne of Luxembourg (d. 1349) ; Charles V, King of France (by descent, d. 1380) ; Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Paris (until 1882) ; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris (June 12–17, 1882, no. 3) ; Baron Horace de Landau, Florence (d
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Each of Moretto’s rare portraits of the 1520s and 1530s demonstrates his innovative approach to the genre, culminating in the outstanding Portrait of a Man (National Gallery, London, NG 1025) of 1526, one the earliest full-length, life-size, independent portraits in Italy
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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.
