Ballock Knife with Sheath – British – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/32778
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Inscription: (Exterior legend): [image of a flower] ATTENDITE . ET . VIDETE . SI EST . DOLOR . SICVT . DOLOR . MEVS([image of a flower] Look and see if [there] is sorrow like my sorrow [Lamentations 1:12])(Interior legend): O CRUX
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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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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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For over a century scholars have considered whether or not this sympathetic portrait of an old man is a self-portrait by El Greco. Lafond (1906) described the seemingly Romantic notion as at best a plausible hypothesis, and a number of more recent scholars (for example, Wethey 1962) have rejected the idea, mainly on the basis of comparisons with presumed self-portraits inserted by El Greco into several of his major religious pictures (see also Christiansen 2003)
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Mosque LampThis lamp has a flattened, almost globular body with a long flared neck and a low folded foot. Three suspension loops are attached to the body. The enameled and gilded decoration consists of three main registers and four narrower bands of continuous vegetal patterns
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