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Ivory salt cellar

Portuguese traders arrived on the west coast of Africa durin…
Gold medallion with the Adoration of the Magi

One side of the disc depicts the three Magi (Wise Men) appro…
Ivory diptych with the Annunciation and the Crucifixion

This diptych is carved with two Biblical scenes. The left wi…
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…
Albrecht Dürer, Virgin and Child with a monkey, an engraving

The poses of the Virgin and Child reflect the classicism and…
Frederico Barocci, The Annuciation, an etching

Barocci (about 1535-1612) was the greatest Italian painter o…
Jacques Bellange, The Annunciation, an etching

In this signed etching , Mary has been interrupted at her re…
Madonna and Child, a woodcut

The Virgin sits on a cushion placed on a tiled floor, a posi…
Master FVB, The Annunciation, a copperplate engraving

Flemish painters had represented the Annunciation in domesti…
Gold saluto of Charles I of Anjou, king of Naples and Sicily

The French prince, Charles of Anjou took power in the kingdo…
Altar cross

This engraved fourteenth-century altar cross is believed to …
Cast gilt bronze pax

Plaquettes depicting devotional subjects were almost certain…
Gold and enamel reliquary cross

This superb small pendant is said to have been found on the …
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…
Panel from an ivory casket: the Crucifixion of Christ

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

This plaque is one of four, which though now separated, must…
Silver censer from the first Cyprus treasure

This censer, together with a bowl , a paten, and twenty-four…
Tilman Riemenschneider, Adoration of the Magi, a limewood panel carving

This panel is likely to have formed the right wing of a much…
Andrea Mantegna, Madonna and Child, a copperplate engraving

Mantegna was the first great Italian painter to take engravi…
Antonio Correggio, Study for Eve, a red chalk drawing

In 1522 Correggio (about 1489-1534) was commissioned to pain…
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…
Martin Schongauer, The Death of the Virgin, a copperplate engraving

According to the thirteenth-century Golden Legend of Jacobus…
Master ES, Virgin and Child Enthroned Between Two Angels, a copperplate engraving

The Virgin holds a sceptre and is enthroned as Queen of Heav…
Paolo Veronese, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, a drawing

The subject of this drawing by Veronese (1528-1588), is the …
Parmigianino, Virgin and Child with Saints, study for a composition

This is a pen and brown wash drawing over red chalk. It was …
Pietro Testa, Three Saints Imploring the Virgin, an etching

The towers of Lucca, Testa's home town in Tuscany, appear in…
Raphael, Heads of the Virgin and Child, a drawing

This drawing is one of a series made by Raphael in his early…
Raphael, The Virgin and Child, a drawing

This drawing is made of black chalk with a few touches of wh…
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Entombment, an etching

This is one of a series of prints made by Rembrandt in the 1…
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…
Set of silver 'apostle' spoons

The top of each handle is modelled with a figure of one of C…
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…
Taddeo Zuccaro, The Flight into Egypt, a drawing

The study is drawn over black chalk in pen and grey and blac…
Crucifix

The cross consists of silver plaques arranged on a wooden co…
Icon of Triumph of Orthodoxy

The overthrow of Iconoclasm in AD 843 was seen as a triumph …
Icon with four Church feasts

The icon consists of two curved vertical panels, each carved…
Portable altar

The altar is made from a combination of metalwork, ivory car…
The Borradaile Triptych

This triptych is named after Charles Borradaile, who purchas…
The Holy Thorn Reliquary of Jean, duc de Berry

The thorn is displayed behind a crystal window and is identi…

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