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Ivory salt cellar

Portuguese traders arrived on the west coast of Africa durin…
The Thwaite cross

This cross was found near Thwaite, Suffolk, in 1999. It is a…
Archer's bracer

This archer's bracer is made of cuir bouilli (boiled leather…
Chatelaine plate

This copper-alloy plate, originally tinned to resemble silve…
Gold medallion with the Adoration of the Magi

One side of the disc depicts the three Magi (Wise Men) appro…
Gold-glass medallion

This gold-glass 'medallion' bears the busts of a man and wom…
Ivory diptych with the Annunciation and the Crucifixion

This diptych is carved with two Biblical scenes. The left wi…
Ivory plaque depicting Christ in Majesty

This pointed oval plaque was discovered some time ago by the…
Miniature tabernacle, carved in boxwood

This elaborate tabernacle was designed as a portable object …
Steatite plaque with Crucifixion scene

The figures of the Virgin Mary and St John raise their right…
Stone cross shaft

This carved stone is the lower part of the shaft of a free-s…
Albrecht Dürer, Virgin and Child with a monkey, an engraving

The poses of the Virgin and Child reflect the classicism and…
Christ before Herod, a woodcut

This large woodcut is probably the earliest print in The Bri…
Madonna and Child, a woodcut

The Virgin sits on a cushion placed on a tiled floor, a posi…
Peter Paul Rubens, Study for a crucified Man, a drawing

This is clearly a study for a crucified figure, most probabl…
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Star of the Kings, a drawing

This drawing, in pen and brown ink, depicts a Netherlandish …
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Three Crosses, a drypoint

Rembrandt often retouched his etched plates with a drypoint …
Gold hyperperon of Emperor Manuel I Comnenus

In the twelfth century the emperors of the Comnenian dynasty…
Silver riksdaler of Christina, queen of Sweden

Gustav II Adolf, king of Sweden (Gustavus Adolphus, reigned …
Altar cross

This engraved fourteenth-century altar cross is believed to …
Carved stone capital

This capital is a remnant from the priory of Lewes in Sussex…
Cast gilt bronze pax

Plaquettes depicting devotional subjects were almost certain…
Crucifixion figure of the dead Christ

This figure of Christ is one of the most beautiful surviving…
Funerary badge of the Black Prince

This lead badge is of a type that would have been worn at th…
Ippolito Rombaldoni, Virgin and Child, a maiolica plaque

Maiolica is tin-glazed earthenware. A glaze containing tin o…
Ivory of the Virgin and Child

The curve of the elephant tusk creates the exaggerated sweep…
Ivory panel with the Miracle of Cana

This panel once decorated the cover of a Gospel Book (now in…
Ivory plaque with the Adoration of the Magi

This panel presents a solemn hieratic image of the Adoration…
Ivory pyxis with the Healing of the Demoniac

This pyxis , acquired from an old English collection in Newc…
Magdeburg Panel

This panel is one of a group of sixteen ivory plaques depict…
Panel from an ivory casket: Christ carrying the Cross

This plaque is one of four, which though now separated, must…
Panel from an ivory casket: the Crucifixion of Christ

This plaque is one of four, which though now separated, must…
Plaquettes illustrating scenes from the life of Christ

The lead plaques record a set of designs illustrating Christ…
Seal-die of Godwin and Godgytha

This seal-die, made from walrus ivory, was discovered in a g…
Silver censer from the first Cyprus treasure

This censer, together with a bowl , a paten, and twenty-four…
The Tring Tiles

The first official miracle attributed to Christ occurred at …
Tilman Riemenschneider, Adoration of the Magi, a limewood panel carving

This panel is likely to have formed the right wing of a much…
The Hinton St Mary Mosaic

There were traces of a substantial building complex, probabl…
Albrecht Dürer, Head of the dead Christ, a drawing

This dramatic drawing of the dead Christ is made in charcoal…
Andrea Mantegna, Madonna and Child, a copperplate engraving

Mantegna was the first great Italian painter to take engravi…
Claude Mellan, The Sudarium, or Veil of St Veronica, an engraving

A story, not found in the Gospels, describes how a woman of …
Hans Baldung, called 'Grien', The Virgin and Child and the Dove of the Holy Spirit, a drawing

Hans Baldung (about 1485-1545) was a highly imaginative and …
Leonardo da Vinci, Virgin and Child with Cat, a drawing

The drawing shows the seated Virgin holding the Christ Child…
Lucas van Leyden, Christ Presented to the People, a copperplate engraving

The story comes from John's Gospel (19:5). The Roman prefect…
Marco Zoppo, Dead Christ Supported by Angels, and St James Healing the Lame Man, drawings

These two drawings by Marco Zoppo (about 1432-1478) were pro…
Martin Schongauer, Christ bearing the Cross, a copperplate engraving

This ambitious composition was Schongauer's largest and most…
Master ES, Virgin and Child Enthroned Between Two Angels, a copperplate engraving

The Virgin holds a sceptre and is enthroned as Queen of Heav…
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Christ on the Cross,a drawing

This beautiful black chalk drawing shows the crucified and l…
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Four studies of a crucified man, a drawing

This is a preparatory drawing in red chalk for the figure of…
Paolo Veronese, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, a drawing

The subject of this drawing by Veronese (1528-1588), is the …
Parmigianino, The Entombment, an etching

Before moving to Rome in 1524, the young Parmigianino (1503/…
Peter Paul Rubens, The 'Coup de Lance', a drawing

This drawing was made in preparation for an engraving by Boe…
Pietro Testa, Three Saints Imploring the Virgin, an etching

The towers of Lucca, Testa's home town in Tuscany, appear in…
Raffaellino del Garbo, Studies for Christ Rising from the Tomb and Hand Studies

This beautiful drawing was made from the model in metalpoint…
Raphael, Heads of the Virgin and Child, a drawing

This drawing is one of a series made by Raphael in his early…
Raphael, Nude Man with raised arms, a drawing

This is one of a series of black chalk drawings for an altar…
Raphael, The Virgin and Child, a drawing

This drawing is made of black chalk with a few touches of wh…
Rembrandt van Rijn, Christ Healing the Sick, an etching

This was the most famous of Rembrandt's prints throughout th…
Rembrandt van Rijn, Christ presented to the People, a drypoint

This imposing image represents a high point in Rembrandt's c…
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Entombment, an etching

This is one of a series of prints made by Rembrandt in the 1…
Fragment of an ivory panel showing the Baptism of Christ

This panel fragment is made of walrus ivory carved in high r…
Fragments of a glass bowl with biblical scenes

These fragments formed part of a bowl blown from colourless …
Ivory triptych with the arms of John de Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter

The triptych is made from elephant ivory. The Coronation of …
Reliquary pendant of the Holy Thorn

This reliquary is made of gold, with an exterior of amethyst…
The More Jewels

The objects here are all associated with Sir Thomas More (14…
Ludvig von Siegen, Holy Family and St John the Baptist, a mezzotint print

Mezzotint (literally translated as 'half-tone') was a printm…
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Epifania, a drawing

This cartoon is drawn with black chalk on 26 sheets of paper…
Raphael, Studies of the Virgin and Child, a drawing

This sheet of rapid studies is drawn in pen and ink. The thr…

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