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Holy Face

Gerard David (Netherlandish, Oudewater ca. 1455–1523 Bruges)

Date: ca. 1485–90
Accession Number: 1975.1.2486

Kitab suwar al-kawakib al-thabita (Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars) of al-Sufi

`Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903–86)

Date: late 15th century
Accession Number: 13.160.10

Water Deity (Chalchiuhtlcue)

Date: 15th–early 16th century
Accession Number: 00.5.72

A Goldsmith in His Shop, Possibly Saint Eligius

Petrus Christus (Netherlandish, Baarle-Hertog (Baerle-Duc), active by 1444–died 1475/76 Bruges)

Date: 1449
Accession Number: 1975.1.110

Saint Anthony Abbot

Attributed to Niclaus of Haguenau (German, ca. 1445–before 1538)

Date: ca. 1500
Accession Number: 1988.159

Crossbow of Count Ulrich V of Württemberg

Attributed to Heinrich Heid von Winterthur (probably Swiss, active Stuttgart, recorded 1453–1460)

Date: dated 1460
Accession Number: 04.3.36

Crib of the Infant Jesus

Date: 15th century
Accession Number: 1974.121a–d

Ewer

Medici, Florence

Date: ca. 1575–87
Accession Number: 17.190.2045

Tournament or Cavalry Shield

Date: ca. 1450
Accession Number: 25.26.1

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Workshop of Robert Campin (Netherlandish, ca. 1375–1444 Tournai)

Date: ca. 1427–32
Accession Number: 56.70a–c

Beaker ("Monkey Cup")

Date: ca. 1425–50
Accession Number: 52.50

Helmet

Date: ca. 1525–1550
Accession Number: 04.3.456a

Lucretia

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483–1520 Rome)

Date: 1483–1520
Accession Number: 1997.153

Bacchanal with a Wine Vat

Andrea Mantegna (Italian, Isola di Carturo 1430/31–1506 Mantua)

Date: ca. 1470–90
Accession Number: 1986.1159

"Alberti Dvreri pictoris et architecti praestantissimi De vrbibvs..."

Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg)

Date: 1535
Accession Number: 125.97 D932

Margaret of Austria

Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins) (Netherlandish, active fourth quarter 15th century)

Date: ca. 1490
Accession Number: 1975.1.130

Burgonet with Falling Buffe

Date: ca. 1550
Accession Number: 04.3.217; 22.140

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi (Italian, Florence ca. 1406–1469 Spoleto)

Date: ca. 1440
Accession Number: 89.15.19

Chalice à Soleil

Date: 1532–33
Accession Number: 1996.287

Helmet

Date: late 15th century
Accession Number: 1983.413

Bowl with the Arms of Pope Julius II and the Manzoli of Bologna surrounded by putti, cornucopiae, satyrs, dolphins, birds, etc.

workshop of Giovanni Maria Vasaro (Italian (Castel Durante), active early 16th century)

Date: 1508
Accession Number: 1975.1.1015

'Saz'-style Drawing of a Dragon amid Foliage

Shah Quli (active 1520–66)

Date: ca. 1540–50
Accession Number: 57.51.26

The Unicorn in Captivity (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Date: 1495–1505
Accession Number: 37.80.6

Three Standing Figures (recto); Seated Woman and a Male Hermit in Half-length (verso)

Stefano da Verona (Stefano di Giovanni) (Italian, Verona (?) 1374/75-?ca. 1438 Castel Bragher)

Date: 1435–38
Accession Number: 1996.364a, b

'Lotto' Carpet

Date: 16th century
Accession Number: 08.167.1

Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56)

Peter Peck (German, Munich, 1503–1596)

Date: ca. 1540–45
Accession Number: 14.25.1425

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483–1520 Rome)

Date: ca. 1504
Accession Number: 16.30ab

Descriptio pbvlicae gratvlationis, spectacvlorvm et lvdorvm, in aventv sereniss: Principis Ernesti Archidvcis Avstriae Dvcis Vrgvndiae

Author: Jean Boch (Belgian, 1545–1608)

Date: 1595
Accession Number: 239 B63 Q

"Farhad Carves a Milk Channel for Shirin", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami

Nizami (Ilyas Abu Muhammad Nizam al-Din of Ganja) (probably 1141–1217)

Date: A.H. 931/A.D. 1524–25
Accession Number: 13.228.7.5

Brasero

Date: late 15th–early 16th century
Accession Number: 68.215.2