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Art and Love in Renaissance Italy
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Two-Handled Vase with the Arms of Medici Impaling Orsini
Florentine region (perhaps Montelupo), 1470–80
Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Women's Committee with additional funds from Robert H. Tannahill, 1937 (37.74)
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Bowl with the Arms and Devices of Pope Leo X and of Families Allied by Marriage with the Medici
Tuscany, Montelupo, possibly Sartori workshop, 1513–21
Inscribed: SENPUR; SUAVE; DIVINA PONTETIA; SUMUS VIVIMUS; RENOVABITUR
The British Museum, London (1855.1201.76)
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Low-Footed Bowl with Bust of a Woman
Urbino or Castel Durante, ca. 1530
Inscribed: LIVIA BELLA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 (1975.1.1084)
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Inkstand with Busts of a Couple and Fede Motif and Inscription
Probably Faenza, ca. 1500
Inscribed: IO.TE.DO.LA.MANE / DAME.LA.FEDE
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund (56.310)
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Plate with Fede Motif
Emilia-Romagna, Faenza, ca. 1490–1510
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia (Wilson-Sani 20)
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Fluted Bowl (Crespina) with an Allegory of Unrequited Love
Faenza, possibly workshop of Virgiliotto Calamelli, dated 1538 twice on the border
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia (Wilson-Sani 27)
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Wineglass or Sweetmeat Cup (Confittiera) with Scenes of Virgil and Febilla
Venice, ca. 1475–1500
Inscribed: VERBLIO; VENITE
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.190.730a,b)
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Ring with Names (Wedding Ring)
Northern Italy, 15th century
Inscribed: LORENSO A LENA LENA
The British Museum, London (AF 1090)
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Jewel with Gold Letters Spelling "Amor"
Franco-Flemish, mid-15th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Cloisters Collection, 1957 (57.26.1)
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Coffer
Siena (?), 15th century
Inscribed: ONESSTÀ FA BELLA DONNA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941 (41.100.188)
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Mandora or Chitarino
Northern Italy, Milan (?), ca. 1420
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964 (64.101.1409)
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Dovizia
Florence, late 15th–early 16th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, From the Collection of James Stillman, Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman, 1922 (22.16.6)
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Velvet Fragments with Medici Arms
Florence or Venice, 1440–1500
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Fletcher Fund, 1946 (46.156.118)
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Marco del Buono Giamberti (Florentine, 1402–1489) and Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso (Florentine, 1415/17–1465)
Cassone with The Conquest of Trebizond
Florence, 1460s
Inscribed at left, on city walls: GO[N]STANTINOPOLI (Constantinople); at left, within city walls: S FRA[N]CES/CO ([church of] San Francesco); upper left, within city walls: S. SOFIA. ([church of] Santa Sophia) DEILO.PER . . . ORI ([undeciphered]; at left center, on city walls: PERA. (Pera [formerly Galata]); on Bosporus: LOSTRETTO. (strait); at center, on city walls: LOSCUTARIO (Scutari [present-day Üsküdar]); farther back: CHASTEL NVOVO (new fortress [Rumeli Hisari]); at right, on city walls: TREBIZOND[A] (Trebizond [present-day Trabzon]); next to conqueror: TAN[B]VRLANA (Tamerlane)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1914 (14.39)
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Paolo di Stefano Badaloni, called Paolo Schiavo (b. Florence, 1397–d. Pisa, 1478)
Inner Lid from a Cassone with Venus Reclining on Pillows
Florence, 1440–45
Museo Privato Bellini, Florence (182)
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Francesco Colonna
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (The Strife of Love in a Dream of Poliphilo)
Couple Embracing (Book 2, C5V)
Venice: Aldus Manutius, December 1499
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1923 (23.73.1)
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Cesare Vecellio (b. Pieve di Cadore, ca. 1521–d. Venice, 1601)
De gli habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri due . . . (Of Ancient and Modern Dress of Diverse Parts of the World in Two Books . . . )
Spose Sposate (Book 1, 126)
Venice: Damiano Zenaro, 1590
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1906, transferred from the Library (21.36.146)
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Bartolomeo di Fruosino, Florentine, 1366/69–1441
Childbirth Tray (Desco da Parto) with a Confinement-Room Scene (recto) and Urinating Putto (verso)
Florence, 1428
Inscribed on front: QUESTO SI FE A DI XXV DAPRILE NEL MILLE QUATTROCENTO VENTOTTO (This was made on the 25th of April, 1428); on reverse: FACCIA IDDIO SANA OGNI DONNA CHFFIGLIA EPADRI LORO . . . RO . . . ERNATO SIA SANZA NOIA ORICHDIA ISONO UNBANBOLIN CHESULI . . . A DIMORO FO LAPISCIA DARIENTO EDORO (May God give health to every woman who gives birth and to the child's father . . . may [the child] be born without fatigue or danger. I am a baby who lives on a [rock] . . . and I make urine of silver and gold.)
Private collection (on loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York [L.1995.17])
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Giovanni di Ser Giovanni Guidi, called Lo Scheggia (Florentine, 1406–1486)
Childbirth Tray (Desco da Parto) with The Triumph of Fame (recto) and Medici and Tornabuoni Arms and Devices (verso)
Florence, ca. 1448
Inscribed: SEMPER
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase in memory of Sir John Pope-Hennessy; Rogers Fund, The Annenberg Foundation, Drue Heinz Foundation, Annette de la Renta, Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Richardson, and The Vincent Astor Foundation Gifts, Wrightsman and Gwynne Andrews Funds, special funds, and Gift of the children of Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Logan, and other gifts and bequests, by exchange, 1995 (1995.7)
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Jacopo Pontormo (Florentine, 1494–1557)
Childbirth Bowl (Tafferia da Parto) with The Naming of John the Baptist (interior) and Della Casa and Tornaquinci Arms (exterior)
Florence, 1526–27
Inscribed: IO
Galleria degli Uffizi, Istituti Museali della Soprintendenza Speciale per il Polo Museale Fiorentino, Florence (1890 n. 1532)
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Childbirth Bowl (Scodella) and Tray (Tagliere) with Confinement-Chamber Scenes and Landscape
Castel Durante, ca. 1525–30
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (48.1333.a,b)
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Cradle
Italy, 16th century
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Purchased with the John D. McIlhenny Fund (2000.117.1)
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Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano (b. Rome, ca. 1499–d. Mantua, 1546)
Apollo and Cyparissus or Apollo and Hyacinth, 1520s
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (347/1863)
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Phallic-Head Plate, 1536
Gubbio, Workshop of Maestro Giorgio Andreoli (?), 1536
Inscribed in reverse on banderole: OGNI HOMO ME GUARDA COME FOSSE UNA TESTA DE CAZI (Every man looks at me as if I were a dickhead); on back: 1536 / EL BREVE DENTRO VOI LEGERITE COME I GUIDEI SE INTENDER EL VORITE (If you want to understand the meaning, you will be able to read the text like the Jews do); also inscribed with painter's mark FR and a pair of scales
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Purchased (France, Madan, and Miller Funds) with the assistance of The Art Fund, the Resource / V & A Purchase Grant Fund, and numerous private donors, 2003 (WA2003.136)
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Attributed to Desiderío da Firenze (Florentine, documented in Padua 1532–45)
Satyr and Satyress, after 1524 (?)
Musée National de la Renaissance, Château d'Écouen (E.CI. 2752a, b)
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Chopines
Venice, ca. 1600
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1973 (1973.114.4 a,b)
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Fra Filippo Lippi (b. Florence, ca. 1406–d. Spoleto, 1469)
Portrait of a Woman and a Man at a Casement, ca. 1440–44
Inscribed on edge of woman's cuff: LEALT[À]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889 (89.15.19)
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Francesco Laurana (b. Vrana, near Zara (now Zadar, Croatia), ca. 1420–d. Avignon, ca. 1502)
Portrait Bust of Beatrice of Aragon, ca. 1474–75
Inscribed on tablet: DIVA BEATRIX / ARAGONIA
The Frick Collection, New York (1961.2.86)
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Giovanni di Ser Giovanni Guidi, called Lo Scheggia (Florentine, 1406–1486)
The Adimari Cassone, ca. 1443–50
Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence (8457)
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Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) (Florentine, 1444/45–1510) and Workshop, probably Bartolomeo di Giovanni (Florentine, act. ca. 1475–ca. 1500/1505)
The Banquet in the Pinewoods: Scene Three of The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, 1483
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (2840)
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Biagio d'Antonio (Florentine, 1446–1516)
The Betrothal of Jason and Medea, 1487
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (PE 102)
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Giorgione (b. Castelfranco Veneto, 1477/78–d. Venice, 1510)
Portrait of a Woman (Laura), 1506
Inscribed on back: 1506 ADI PRIMO ZUGNO FO FATTO QUESTO DE MA[NO] DE MAISTRO ZORZI DA CHASTEL FR[ANCO] CHOLEGA DE MAISTRO VIZENZO CHAENA AD INSTANZIA DE MIS[SER] GIAC[OMO] . . .
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie, Vienna (31)
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Lorenzo Lotto (b. Venice, ca. 1480–d. Loreto, 1556)
Venus and Cupid, late 1520s
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, in honor of Marietta Tree, 1986 (1986.138)
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Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian (b. Pieve di Cadore, ca. 1488–d. Venice, 1576)
Venus Blindfolding Cupid, ca. 1565
Borghese Gallery, Rome (170)
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