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Tapestry with the Annunciation

Date: ca. 1410–20
Accession Number: 45.76

Hercules Chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses

Ugo da Carpi (Carpi ca. 1480–1532 Bologna)

Date: ca. 1518 (?)
Accession Number: 20.24.76

Tondo mirror frame

Italian, Siena

Date: ca. 1490–1500
Accession Number: 1975.1.2101

"Khusrau Hunting", Folio from Khusrau and Shirin

Hatifi

Date: dated A.H. 904/A.D. 1498–99
Accession Number: 69.27

Silk 'Kashan' Carpet

Date: 16th century
Accession Number: 58.46

Cornetto in A

Date: ca. 1575
Accession Number: 52.96.1

Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio

Designed by Francesco di Giorgio Martini (Italian, Siena 1439–1501 Siena)

Date: ca. 1478–82
Accession Number: 39.153

Samson and Delilah

Albrecht Altdorfer (German, (?) ca. 1480–1538 Regensburg)

Date: 1506
Accession Number: 06.1051.2

Three Allegorical Figures and Studies of a Seated Man

Circle of Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) (Italian, Florence (?) ca. 1370–1425 Florence (?))

Date: ca. 1420
Accession Number: 1975.1.335

Paten with Abraham and Melchizedek

Hans Wertinger (German, Landschut ca. 1465–1533 Landshut)

Date: 1498
Accession Number: 2008.278

The Sixteen Luohans

Wu Bin (active ca. 1583–1626)

Date: dated 1591
Accession Number: 1986.266.4

Standing Virgin and Child

Attributed to Nikolaus Gerhaert von Leiden (North Netherlandish, active Strasbourg, ca. 1460–73)

Date: ca. 1470
Accession Number: 1996.14

Safavid Courtiers Leading Georgian Captives

Date: mid-16th century
Accession Number: 52.20.12

The Baptism of Christ

Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) (Italian, Bassano del Grappa ca. 1510–1592 Bassano del Grappa)

Date: ca. 1590
Accession Number: 2012.99

The Anhalt Medallion Carpet

Date: probably first half 16th century
Accession Number: 46.128

Bononiensis de architectura libri quinque quibus cuncta fere architectonicae facultatis mysteria docte, perspicue . . .

Author: Sebastiano Serlio (Italian, Bologna 1475–1554 Fontainebleau)

Date: 1568–69
Accession Number: 120 Se6

Saint Stephen

Hans Leinberger (German, active 1510–1530)

Date: ca. 1525–30
Accession Number: 1981.57.2

Cape

Date: second half 16th century
Accession Number: 06.941

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) (Italian, Siena 1398–1482 Siena)

Date: 1445
Accession Number: 1975.1.31

Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate

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

Date: ca. 1510
Accession Number: 1975.1.120

Portrait of a Man, possibly Matteo di Sebastiano di Bernardino Gozzadini

Attributed to the Maestro delle Storie del Pane (Italian (Emilian), active late 15th century)

Date: 1494(?)
Accession Number: 1975.1.95

The Right Hand of God Protecting the Faithful against the Demons

Jean Fouquet (French, Tours ca. 1425–ca. 1478 Tours)

Date: ca. 1452–1460
Accession Number: 1975.1.2490

Sallet in the Shape of a Lion's Head

Date: ca. 1475–80
Accession Number: 23.141

Tughra (Official Signature) of Sultan Süleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520–66)

Date: ca. 1555–60
Accession Number: 38.149.1

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg)

Date: probably 1519
Accession Number: 14.40.633

Welcoming Spring

Unidentified Artist

Date: 15th century
Accession Number: 1981.410

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck and Workshop Assistant (Netherlandish, Maaseik ca. 1390–1441 Bruges)

Date: ca. 1430
Accession Number: 33.92ab

Celestial globe with clockwork

Gerhard Emmoser (working 1556–died 1584)

Date: 1579
Accession Number: 17.190.636

Ewer

Date: Chinese porcelain (Wanli period), 1573–1620; English mounts, ca. 1585
Accession Number: 44.14.2

Virgin and Child

Attributed to Claus de Werve (French, ca. 1380–1439, active in Burgundy, 1396–ca. 1439)

Date: ca. 1415–17
Accession Number: 33.23