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Terracotta trefoil oinochoe (jug)

Etruscan

ca. 550 BCE

Wilton album, folio 44a: Christ Crowned with Thorns

Annibale Carracci

1606

Wood Cutters, plate 13 from "Le Arti che vanno per via nella citta di Venezia"

Gaetano Gherardo Zompini

1785

Interior view of the Church of S. Maria degli Angeli which in ancient times was the principal hall of the Baths of Diocletian, from "Vedute di Roma" (Views of Rome), part I

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

mid-18th century

Piece

Italian

17th century

Edging

Italian, Venice

16th–17th century

Giovanni Aurispa, Secretary to Popes Eugene IV and Nicholas V (ca. 1369–1459)

Italian

16th century

Fragment

Italian, possibly Milan

17th century

Plan showing the location of the Circus Maximus, tab. 36 from "Della Magnificenza e d'Architettura de'Romani" (On the Grandeur and the Architecture of the Romans by Gio. Battista Piranesi, Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of London)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1761

Ornamento nobile...Fatta da Lucretia Romana (Libro V of the Corona), page 4 (recto)

Cesare Vecellio

1620

Interior view of the Colosseum, from "Vedute di Roma" (Views of Rome), part I

Francesco Piranesi

ca. 1750–78

Wineglass

Italian, Venice (Murano)

17th century

Jousting Lance

Italian

16th century

Black Sol Day

Howard Cook

1937

St. James Major

Anonymous, Italian, 16th to 17th century

16th–17th century

Two Studies of a Man

Santi di Tito

ca. 1575

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple

Lorenzo de' Ferrari

1700–44

The Adoration of the Magi

Carlo Maratti

17th century

Two scenes set inside elaborate frames and sculpture work; at top a triumphal procession with three men at center carrying Goliath's severed head on a spike, David following behind, at bottom King Saul seated at center watching David walk away holding his sling; after the frescoes by Pietro da Cortona in the Palazzo del Pigneto, Rome

Girard Audran

1668

Border

Italian

17th century

Three Female Heads

Gaetano Gandolfi

1734–1802

Portrait of a lady

Northern Italian

cameo ca. 1580, mount second half 19th century

A seated Sibyl, head resting in her left hand

Bartolomeo Coriolano

ca. 1640

Title Page to Volume 1, tome 1, tavola 1 from "Le Antichità Romane" (Roman Antiquities)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1756–57

Libro quarto. De rechami per elquale se impara in diuersi modi lordine e il modo de recamare...Opera noua, page 5 (recto)

Alessandro Paganino

ca. 1532

I dieci libri dell'architettura di M. Vitruvio, tradotti & commentati da Mons. Daniel Barbaro eletto Patriarca d'Aquileia, da lui riueduti & ampliati; & hora in piu commoda forma ridotti.

Marcus Pollio Vitruvius

1567

Bearded man wearing a turban, depicted in bust length from behind in three-quarters view, from "Collection of heads" (Raccolta di teste)

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

ca. 1770

The Great Hall within the Farnese Palace, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Anonymous

late 16th century

Death of Cato

Berardino Gentile

late 18th century

Interior view of the Pantheon, from "Vedute di Roma" (Roman Views), part II

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

ca. 1750–78

Goddess, after the antique

Italian

17th–18th century

Esemplario di Lauori..., page 24 (verso)

Giovanni Andrea Vavassore

August 1, 1532

Plate 18: Mercury Falling in love with Herse (Mercurius Herses amore accenditur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

Antonio Tempesta

1606

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

ca. 1494–1500

Meditationes

Johannes de Turrecremata

October 17, 1473

Architectural detail of the plinth of the pedestal of Trajan's Column, tavola 15 from "Trofeo o sia Magnifica Colonna Coclide..." (The Trophy or Magnificent Spiral Column)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1774–79

Evening boots

Italian

1968–69

David with the Head of Goliath

A. Rimini

1844

Handles of a situla

Etruscan

6th–5th century BCE

Writing cabinet

Italian, Genoa

late 16th–early 17th century

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