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Gold earrings

These earrings come from a Phoenician tomb in the cemetery o…
Terracotta figure of a tambourine player

This fired clay female tambourine player comes from a tomb a…
'Parure', consisting of tiara, necklace, pendant, earrings and bracelet

This parure (a complete set of jewellery) consists of five p…
Belluno grave group

The original assemblage comprised a fine gold and garnet clo…
Brass hanging lamp with a griffin-head handle

The body of the lamp is boat-shaped with a filling hole for …
Carved ivory leaf from a diptych

This splendid leaf is one of the last great commissions of p…
Cast gilt bronze pax

Plaquettes depicting devotional subjects were almost certain…
Fragment of a cornelian breccia cameo, 'The Head of Flora', carved by Benedetto Pistrucci

Cameo cutting is the carving in relief of a gem, hardstone o…
Gilded silver brooch

This brooch was worn to fasten a cloak or mantle. The decora…
Glass 'betrothal' goblet

The bowl of this emerald-green 'betrothal' goblet has painte…
Glass flask with a portrait of Henry VII, King of England

On one side of the flask is a portrait medallion of Henry VI…
Gold bracelet made by Giacinto Melillo

Giacinto Melillo (1846-1915) was an outstanding pupil of the…
Gold-glass medallion

This gold-glass 'medallion' bears the busts of a man and wom…
Gold-glass medallion showing Herakles

The disc depicts a husband and wife and a small image of the…
Grave group from Sutri

This group of objects includes most of the rich grave goods …
Hat badge

This elaborate badge is made in embossed and chased gold rel…
Maiolica dish

This maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware) dish is painted with …
Maiolica dish by Giulio da Urbino

In 1527 troops of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (reigned …
Maiolica salt cellar

This maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware) salt cellar is signed…
Micromosaic brooch with the Lamb of God, made by the firm of Castellani

The brooch is made of glass and gold mosaic, set in enamelle…
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…
Panel from an ivory casket: the empty Sepulchre

This plaque is one of four, which though now separated, must…
Porcelain plate

This soft-paste porcelain plate is painted in underglaze blu…
Table Night Clock, made by Pietro Tommasi Campani

In the last quarter of the seventeenth century the night clo…
The Aldrevandini Beaker

The Aldrevandini beaker is a uniquely well-preserved example…
The Clephane horn

Entire carved elephant tusks, known as oliphants, were used …
The Gumedruta ring

This ring is engraved with a female bust and inscribed in re…
The Lycurgus Cup

This extraordinary cup is the only complete example of a ver…
The Sutri drinking horn

The simple form of this drinking-horn was probably introduce…
Venus and Mars in Vulcan's net, an onyx cameo by Domenico Calabresi

The scene depicted here illustrates an incident in the story…
Wooden panel from a cassone (marriage chest)

This wooden panel is all that survives of a cassone , or che…
Agnolo Bronzino, Study of a Standing Man, a study in chalk

Although Bronzino (1503-1572) specialized as a portrait pain…
Albrecht Dürer, Three Orientals, a drawing

This drawing is based on three figures in the background of …
Andrea Mantegna, Allegory of Vice and Virtue, a drawing

This unfinished drawing forms the upper half of a compositio…
Andrea Mantegna, St James on his way to Execution, a drawing

This is the earliest surviving drawing by Mantegna. As a you…
Andrea Mantegna, The Calumny of Apelles, a drawing

The drawing was done in three shades of brown ink with some …
Antoine Lafréry, The Colosseum, an engraving

Within a few years of arriving in Rome from France in 1544, …
Antonio Pollaiuolo, The Battle of the Nudes, a copperplate engraving

This large engraving of ten fighting men was the most influe…
Claude Lorrain, A Bank of Trees, a drawing

This superb drawing combines a range of techniques used by t…
Claude Lorrain, The Tiber from Monte Mario, a drawing

This brush drawing is made on white paper, with tonal variet…
Cornelis Cort, St John the Baptist in the Wilderness, an engraving after Girolamo Muziano

This signed print is one of ten engravings by Cort (1533-78)…
Domenico Beccafumi, An Apostle, a woodcut

This powerful figure standing on the edge of a pavement in s…
Domenico Ghirlandaio, The Birth of the Virgin, a pen and brown ink drawing

Domenico Ghirlandaio (about 1448/9-1494) was a talented and …
Edward Lear, L is much disturbed by several large flies, a drawing in pen and ink

Edward Lear (1812-1888) is most famous as the author of vers…
Filippino Lippi, A Nude Man, a silverpoint drawing

This sketch is in silverpoint , heightened with white on mau…
Fra Bartolommeo, Drapery study of two kneeling figures, a brush drawing

This brush drawing in brown and white distemper is painted o…
Francesco Villamena, Street Fight, an engraving

Attempts by the Pope to play off the great powers of France …
Francis Towne, Ariccia, a watercolour with pen outlines

Ariccia, a small town in the Alban Hills to the south of Rom…
Frederico Barocci, The Annuciation, an etching

Barocci (about 1535-1612) was the greatest Italian painter o…
Giovanni Antonio Canaletto, The Doge of Venice Departing for the Lido, a drawing

In the centre of the drawing is an immense barge. The Veneti…
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carceri, Plate XI, an etching

Piranesi's etchings of imaginary prisons held a hypnotic fas…
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, View of the Capitol, Rome, a drawing

This drawing, in pen and brown ink over red and black chalk,…
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, A Pastoral Journey, a drawing in paint

Castiglione (1609-64) was a Genoese painter and etcher. His …
Giovanni Fattori, Cavalleggeri in perlustrazione (Light cavalry on patrol), pen lithograph

This pen lithograph shows two cavalrymen stationery on horse…
Hendrik Goltzius, Self-portrait, a drawing

The medium used for this fine drawing is the traditional Ren…
Jacopo de' Barbari, Cleopatra, a drawing and print

This is the only authenticated drawing by the Venetian paint…
Jacopo Pontormo, Two Monks Standing, a chalk drawing

This drawing is a study for a painting of the Supper at Emma…
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Environs of Rome, an etching

Corot (1796-1875) is more famous for his soft, evocative lan…
J.M.W. Turner, Messieurs les voyageurs on their return from Italy (par la diligence) in a snow drift upon Mount Tarrar —

Turner first visited Italy in 1819 with the encouragement of…
John Robert Cozens, Mount Etna from the Grotta del Capro, a drawing with watercolour wash

On 27 May 1777, the amateur artist Charles Gore (1726-1807) …
John Singer Sargent, View from a Window, Genoa, a watercolour with pencil and oil

Born in Florence of American parents, John Singer Sargent (1…
Leonardo da Vinci, Bust of a warrior in profile, a silverpoint drawing

This study is drawn in metalpoint , specifically silverpoint…
Leonardo da Vinci, Military Machines, drawing from a notebook

This is one of a number of sheets of drawings by Leonardo in…
Leonardo da Vinci, The Abdomen and Leg of a Man, a drawing

This study of the left side of a nude man is mainly concerne…
Leonardo da Vinci, Virgin and Child with Cat, a drawing

The drawing shows the seated Virgin holding the Christ Child…
Michelangelo, A battle-scene; two figures, a pen and brown ink drawing

This sheet of paper bears sketches by Michelangelo (1475-156…
Michelangelo, An old man wearing a hat (Philosopher), a pen and brown ink drawing

Michelangelo (1475-1564) would have been in his early twenti…

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