1967, excavated under the direction of David Stronach and John Hansman, representing the British Institute of Persian Studies and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago; acquired by the Museum in 1969, as a result of its financial contribution to the excavations
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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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Two Ceramic Tiles (nos. 02.5.91 and 1971.235.2)Major renovations undertaken about 1578 in the private quarters (or harem) of Istanbul’s Topkapı Palace during the reign of Sultan Murad III (r
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Donnan, Christopher B. Moche Portraits from Ancient Peru.
BottleA different type of cut-glass object is represented by a rather sizable number of globular bottles with a slighly tapering neck that ends in a large splayed mouth, and standing on a tapering foot
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Link to the Artist Project Y.Z.
Gallery 171 The amphora comes from a shipwrecked cargo vessel (Grand Congloué B)
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. 40); Herzogen von Leuchtenberg, Munich and St
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