EditorialSampler, Medium: silk, wool canvas Technique: embroidered, Embroidered sampler. Silk on wool canvas showing Adam and Eve surrounded by plants and animals. Below, three moralizing Bible verses and figures with a brick house and large chalice. Meandering...
EditorialFolding fan with paper sheet on which 'The Judgment of Paris', on a frame of mother-of-pearl lace and embossed with 'metal and quatre couleur', Folding fan with paper sheet on which 'Gouache' Judgment of Paris', on a frame of mother-of-pearl lace and e...
EditorialNymph and Putti in a Vintage Scene; Nymph with a Wreath and Putti with Garlands of Flowers, Oil on slate, (a) 9 1/2 x 23 1/4 in. (24.1 x 59.1 cm); (b) 9 5/8 x 23 3/4 in. (24.4 x 60.3 cm), Paintings, Piat Joseph Sauvage (Flemish, Tournai 1744?1818 Tourn...
EditorialCabinet. Antwerp (?). Ca.1650. The paintings that decore the cabinet offers a Calvinist vision of concept of Love and Beauty, through a moralizing interpretation of Metamorphosis of Ovid. Ebony wood and copper. Lazaro Galdiano Museum. Madrid. Spain.
EditorialCabinet. Antwerp (?). Ca.1650. The paintings that decore the cabinet offers a Calvinist vision of concept of Love and Beauty, through a moralizing interpretation of Metamorphosis of Ovid. Ebony wood and copper. Lazaro Galdiano Museum. Madrid. Spain.
EditorialCabinet. Antwerp (?). Ca.1650. The paintings that decore the cabinet offers a Calvinist vision of concept of Love and Beauty, through a moralizing interpretation of Metamorphosis of Ovid. Ebony wood and copper. Lazaro Galdiano Museum. Madrid. Spain.
EditorialDiamond cutter The Diamond cutter (title on object) The Menselyk Bedryf (series title), Workplace where diamonds are cut. With moralizing caption claiming that the inner beauty of man is more important than showing externally with diamento and rubies, ...
EditorialFolding fan with paper sheet on which 'The Judgment of Paris', on a frame of mother-of-pearl lace and embossed with 'metal and quatre couleur', Folding fan with paper sheet on which 'Gouache' Judgment of Paris', on a frame of mother-of-pearl lace and e...
EditorialAquamanile in the Form of Aristotle and Phyllis, late 14th or early 15th century, South Netherlandish, Bronze; Quaternary copper alloy (approx. 72% copper, approx. 17% zinc, H. 32.5 cm, w. 17.9 cm, l. 39.3 cm, wt. 6062 g., Metalwork-Bronze, An aquamani...
EditorialNymph and Putti in a Vintage Scene; Nymph with a Wreath and Putti with Garlands of Flowers, Oil on slate, (a) 9 1/2 x 23 1/4 in. (24.1 x 59.1 cm); (b) 9 5/8 x 23 3/4 in. (24.4 x 60.3 cm), Paintings, Piat Joseph Sauvage (Flemish, Tournai 1744?1818 Tourn...
EditorialAquamanile in the Form of Aristotle and Phyllis, late 14th or early 15th century, South Netherlandish, Bronze; Quaternary copper alloy (approx. 72% copper, approx. 17% zinc, H. 32.5 cm, w. 17.9 cm, l. 39.3 cm, wt. 6062 g., Metalwork-Bronze, An aquamani...
EditorialMoralizing Scene with an Old Woman and a Man; Adriaen van de Venne, Dutch, 1589 - 1662; 1631; Oil on paper; 16.7 x 11.4 cm (6 9/16 x 4 1/2 in.).
Editorial0310000133 Dish with portrait of a woman, c1490-c1525. Maiolica dish painted with a woman in profile, and a scroll inscribed 'P?DORMIRENONSAQUISTA', ('nothing is gained by sleeping'). When applied to maiolica, the term 'belle donne', (Italian for 'beau...