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Bronze ramo secco bar

Before the native peoples of Italy adopted the Greek traditi…
Cast bronze medal of Leonello d'Este, Marchese of Ferrara, by Pisanello

Leonello d'Este (1407-50) was born into the aristocratic rul…
Silver denarii of the Roman Social War

Coin designs in the ancient world could be very expressive. …
100,000 lire banknote

There is a long tradition of reproducing works of art on a m…
Bucchero ware drinking-cup (kantharos)

This bucchero ware drinking-cup ( kantharos ) has an inscrip…
Gold brooch with a bow in the form of a winged chimaera

There are a number of surviving examples of this type of gol…
Gold ear decoration

The goldsmiths of Etruria became very accomplished from the …
Gold ear-stud

This large gold ear-stud was made during the Etruscan Archai…
Lamp showing a chariot race

The circus, with its long, narrow structure purpose-built fo…
Limestone head of a woman resembling Cleopatra VII

In July 46 BC Julius Caesar (died 44 BC) returned to Rome af…
Marble bust of a girl

The girl is shown dressed in a Greek-style chiton covered by…
Marble bust of Trajan

The bust, one of many issued to commemorate the emperor Traj…
Marble portrait of Tiberius

The head, set into a modern bust, shows the image of the fut…
Terracotta 'Campana' plaque with a scene of a triumphal procession

Named after Giorgio Campana who first published them in the …
Terracotta lamp with a caricatured scene

After Antony and Cleopatra's suicides in 30 BC, Octavian beg…
Terracotta votive womb

It was common practice in antiquity to place terracotta mode…
Tragic theatre mask made of terracotta

This terracotta mask represents a female character from anci…
Carved and engraved rock-crystal standing cup (tazza)

The marvellous translucency of rock crystal ensured that it …
Cloisonné belt-buckle

Though there is no existing evidence, this splendid buckle i…
Gold earring

This gold earring, with inlays of garnet and glass, belongs …
The Borradaile oliphant

The use of the term oliphant derives from the medieval epic,…
The Noah Cameo

This cameo is carved from onyx, with a scene of the family o…
The Punishment of Tityus, a rock crystal intaglio by Giovanni Bernardi

This rock crystal intaglio depicts the punishment of Tityus,…
Agostino Carracci, St Jerome, an unfinished engraving

This unfinished plate (unsigned here but signed on state IV)…
Albrecht Dürer, Satyr Family, an engraving

The composition of Dürer's print is similar to two engraving…
Andrea del Sarto, Four Studies of a Child, a red chalk drawing with red wash

These studies for the infant St John the Baptist, were made …
Andrea Mantegna, Madonna and Child, a copperplate engraving

Mantegna was the first great Italian painter to take engravi…
Andrea Verrocchio, Head of a Woman, a drawing

This is one of several drawings, including one on the revers…
Annibale Carracci, The Drunken Silenus, design for the Tazza Farnese

The subject is taken from classical myth. Set against a sket…
Claude Lorrain, An artist sketching, a drawing

The dark brown wash drawing is made with a brush over black …
Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Country Dance, a drawing

This is a neat pen and brown ink drawing with brown and grey…
Federico Barocci, Landscape with Banks and Trees, a drawing

This landscape was drawn from life in black chalk with a gre…
Giorgio Vasari, Abundance, a drawing

Abundance or Plenty carries a basket of fruit on her right s…
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Theseus Finding the Arms of his Father, a monotype

Before the birth of Theseus, his father had left a sword and…
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Punchinello Carried off by a Centaur, pen and ink sketch

Punchinello is the name of a clown character taken from the …
Giuseppe De Nittis, Portrait de Degas de trois-quart, drypoint

This portrait of the artist Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was etch…
Guercino, Caricature of Four Children, Standing, pen and ink wash

Four children stand in descending order of size. All except …
Jacopo Bellini, St Michael Defeating Satan, a drawing

Although few paintings by Jacopo Bellini (about 1400-70/1) s…
Lorenzo Lotto, An Ecclesiastic in his Study, a drawing

This charming drawing was executed in pen and brown ink, the…
Marcantonio Raimondi, Man Climbing the Bank of a River, a copperplate engraving

Michelangelo (1475-1564) had to abandon his fresco of the Ba…
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…
Perino del Vaga, Vertumnus and Pomona, a drawing

The two central figures of this story are taken from Ovid's …
Pier Leone Ghezzi, Dr James Hay as Bear Leader, a drawing

This pen and ink drawing is a caricature of the tutors and y…
Pietro da Cortona, Jason Carrying off the Golden Fleece, a drawing

This is one of the finest finished compositional studies in …
Raffaellino del Garbo, Studies for Christ Rising from the Tomb and Hand Studies

This beautiful drawing was made from the model in metalpoint…
Salvator Rosa, Jason and the Dragon, an etching

In this signed etching , Jason pours the magic potion given …
Stefano della Bella, A Fury, a drawing

This sheet is taken from an album of costume studies by the …
The Battle of Zonchio (Navarino), woodcut coloured using stencils

The battle shown here was fought in August 1499 off Zonchio,…
Titian, St Eustace or St Hubert, a drawing

The scene is set in a hilly landscape with classical ruins a…
Two Lovers, a niello print

Niello is a type of black enamel, made by fusing a powder of…
Ugo da Carpi, Diogenes, a woodcut after Parmigianino

The ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes (about 400-325 BC) re…
William Kent after Carlo Maratta, Cleopatra dropping the pearl into the wine, a red chalk drawing

Kent (1684/5-1748) travelled widely around Italy between 170…
Cameo of Agrippina the Elder

The cameo shows a bust of Agrippina, grand-daughter of Augus…
Cobalt-blue glass model boat

This glass model boat, with its pointed bow and upright ster…
Terracotta group of 'knucklebone' (astragalos) players

The two figures play a game similar to the modern game of 'j…
Guercino, Charity with an Old Man, a pen and ink sketch

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, better known as Guercino, was b…
Silver scudo of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, as Duke of Milan, attributed to Leone Leoni

This coin has a superb portrait of Charles V on the front, s…
Decorative reliefs from a cuirass

These two embossed bronze reliefs probably formed part of th…
Marble statue of a youth on horseback

The statue portrays a young man mounted on a horse: he is sh…
Red-figured neck-amphora (jar), attributed to the Libation Painter

The elongated shape of this vase is characteristic of amphor…
Red-figured water jar (hydria), attributed to the Lipari Painter

The Lipari Painter liked to enliven the traditional black-an…
Red-figured wine bowl (volute-krater), attributed to the Baltimore Painter

The principal scene depicted on this wine bowl is dominated …
Terracotta plaque with a chariot-racing scene

Plaques of this type were named after Marchese Giorgio Campa…
Enamelled gold pendant after Raphael

The centre of this quatrefoil jewel is a blue-stained chalce…
Ippolito Rombaldoni, Virgin and Child, a maiolica plaque

Maiolica is tin-glazed earthenware. A glaze containing tin o…
Annibale Carracci, An Angel Playing a Violin, a drawing

This musical angel drawn in red chalk is a study for a figur…
Antonio Correggio, Study for Eve, a red chalk drawing

In 1522 Correggio (about 1489-1534) was commissioned to pain…
Antonio Pisanello, Three Men Standing, a drawing

An inscription on the drawing, probably contemporary and per…

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