EditorialVintage, Raised, cast, and applied gilt silver, Hexagonal in plan, slight engraved decoration on foot; belly plain, shaped neck straight; hexagonal domed cover, crowned with putto on cask, extending upward to cover lip; handle in form of acanthus tendr...
EditorialCalendar leaf from Sforza Hours. Sforza Hours. N. Italy [Milan]; circa 1490. [Whole leaf] Calendar page from October. A man and woman riding with hawks, the woman having already released her bird. The lifelike rendering of the two horses probably refle...
EditorialCalendar page for September. At top; Scorpio. Historiated border with landscape and wine making; basket of grapes, man treading grapes in a barrel, another pours the grape juice into the second barrel. Hours of Joanna of Castile. S. Netherlands [Bruges...
EditorialCalendar leaf from Sforza Hours. Sforza Hours. N. Italy [Milan]; circa 1490. [Whole leaf] Calendar page from October. A man and woman riding with hawks, the woman having already released her bird. The lifelike rendering of the two horses probably refle...
EditorialMiniature of wine-making, on a calendar page for September. Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?); between 1310 and 1320. Source: Royal 2 B. VII, f.79v. Language: Latin, with French image captions.
EditorialCalendar page for September. At top; Scorpio. Historiated border with landscape and wine making; basket of grapes, man treading grapes in a barrel, another pours the grape juice into the second barrel. Hours of Joanna of Castile. S. Netherlands [Bruges...
EditorialMurals in the Hall of the Zodiac, Palazzo d'Arco in Mantova. In the early 16th century the palace belonged to Luigi Gonzaga (1500-1532). Libra, the scales. The original fresco has been destroyed by the addition of a fireplace in the 17th century. Right...
EditorialMurals in the Hall of the Zodiac, Palazzo d'Arco in Mantova. In the early 16th century the palace belonged to Luigi Gonzaga (1500-1532). Libra, the scales. The original fresco has been destroyed by the addition of a fireplace in the 17th century. Right...