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Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian sculptor, urban planner, architect, painter, set designer, and playwright during the Renaissance. He designed many churches, monuments, and the canopy over the high altar at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
20th century
bronze
Diameter: 4.2 cm (1 5/8 in.)
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Naples was a center of medal and coinage minting for several centuries in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Gift of Mrs. Jerome B. Zerbe
H. 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)
medium: Pressed glass, diamond thumbprint
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 46.140.36 1946
Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946
Celia Laighton Thaxter
American, Portsmouth, New Hampshire 1835–1894 Isle of Shoals, New Hampshire
H. 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)
medium: Glazed and painted earthenware
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 1997.337 1997
Purchase, Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore Foundation Gift, 1997
Each of the four gospels in this book opens on a page with brilliantly illuminated borders depicting the author of the text as well as birds-principally peacocks, symbols of the immortality of the soul-and fountains, representing the fountain of life and the salvation of the soul. This volume consists of 428 leaves with texts in Greek. Its level of sophistication suggests that it was probably written and decorated in a monastery in Constantinople.
Byzantium, Constantinople
ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; leather binding
Sheet: 28 x 23 cm (11 x 9 1/16 in.)
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Gospel Books were carried in procession through Byzantine churches.
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Celadons, spoons, seals, and bronze mirrors were the most common burial objects in tombs during the Goryeo period (918–1392). Once used to contain colored powder, rouge, and eyebrow gel for makeup, this small container was one of the standard goods that furnished elites' tombs. Both women and men used the grain powder of rice or millet for whitening their skin, safflower extract for rouge, and plant ash or soot for eyebrow gel. Yet, natural-looking makeup seems to have been the most favorable one in Korea according to the travelogue by Xu Jing (1091–1153), the Chinese diplomat who visited Korea in 1123.
Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)
inlaid celadon ware
Diameter: 8.3 cm (3 1/4 in.); Overall: 2.6 cm (1 in.)
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This ceramic container was used to store either incense or cosmetics.
Gift of John L. Severance
Dimensions unavailable
medium: Paper, painted by hand and mounted on linen
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 14.106.14a, b 1914
Cadwalader Fund, 1914
Italy, Venice, 16th century
Overall: 91.5 x 34 cm (36 x 13 3/8 in.)
The Charles G. King Jr. collection; Gift of Ralph King in memory of Charles G. King Jr.
temporal: Moderne vor 1945
49,3 × 39,7 cm
mat: Aquarell auf Papier
class: Zeichenkunst
type: Zeichnung
provenance: 1946 Nachlass der Künstlerin, Graz. – 2014 Ankauf Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
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Jade disks of later centuries developed from the Neolithic period’s plain design to incorporate dense surface decoration. This example bears raised dots with finely incised spirals--so-called grain patterns--arranged in diagonal rows.
China, Warring States period (475–221 BCE)
jade (nephrite)
Diameter: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.)
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The disk's outer rim is incised with a 47-character poem written in seal script, dated to the <em>gengyin </em>year of the Qianlong emperor's reign [1770].
Anonymous Gift
This leaf was taken from a gradual, a large volume containing songs for the mass. This single leaf shows the introductory passage for Easter Sunday. The initial <em>R</em> is filled with the representation of the resurrection of Christ. The depiction of Saint Francis of Assisi in the floral decoration points to an origin from a Franciscan monastery. Due to the great plague, the mendicant orders to which the Franciscans belonged were the recipients of civil charitable donations. Naples, where the leaf is said to have been made, was struck by a severe earthquake around the middle of the 1300s, in addition to the plague.
Italy, Naples
ink, tempera, and gold on parchment
Sheet: 55 x 40 cm (21 5/8 x 15 3/4 in.)
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The Virgin Mary is shown twice on this leaf, once at the top standing to the side of the open tomb and again in the bottom border, crowned and holding the infant Christ.
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
41 3/4 x 22 5/8 x 22 1/2 in. (106 x 57.5 x 57.2 cm)
medium: Mahogany, white pine
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 30.120.58 1930
The Sylmaris Collection, Gift of George Coe Graves, 1930
The scene depicted on this tsuba is of a fisherman using a cormorant bird to catch fish. As this activity has traditionally occurred at night, the fisherman holds a torch over the water to help the bird find the fish. In his other hand, he holds a rope attached to the bird. A ring is tied around the bird's neck to prevent it from swallowing the fish it catches. The bird with its head submerged can be seen at the lower left of the tsuba. On the back, a cormorant has emerged from the water with a fish in his mouth. While cormorant fishing is no longer a primary means of catching fish, the practice has continued as a tourist attraction in areas such as Gifu in central Japan. Cormorant fishing is a summer activity.
Japanese
H: 3 × W: 2 11/16 × D: 1/4 in. (7.6 × 6.9 × 0.6 cm)
medium: sentoku (copper-tin alloy), copper, shibuichi (silver-copper alloy), gold
culture: Japanese
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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Prayer nuts or "paternosters" are generally made from boxwood and carved with extreme refinement and delicacy with openwork Gothic tracery. They came into fashion as private devotional accessories in the Netherlands in about 1500 to 1530. About 50 prayer nuts are still known to survive.
Northern Netherlands (Holland)
boxwood
Overall: 5.8 x 4.8 cm (2 5/16 x 1 7/8 in.)
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This miniature masterpiece was held and caressed within the palm of the holder as they prayed and meditated on their faith. What do you use to focus or engage in quiet concentration?
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
bamboo, metal, brass, pewter (?), and iron
Overall: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.)
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A famous Japanese poem describes the Tatsuta River dyed in crimson, a reference to autumn maple leaves floating on its surface, and a likely source for the imagery on this pipe.
Gift of Laurence H. Norton, Robert C. Norton, and Miriam Norton White in memory of Mr. and Mrs. D. Z. Norton