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Michelangelo and pupil, Girl with a spindle, a black chalk drawing

Michelangelo (1475-1564) was not known as a great teacher. H…
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Portrait of Andrea Quaratesi, a drawing

According to Giorgio Vasari, one of Michelangelo's biographe…
Michelangelo, Design for Laurentian library door and Designs for the Laurentian library door from the vestibule (recetto

The Laurentian library was built in Florence to house the co…
Michelangelo, Grotesque heads; Hercules and Antaeus, a red chalk, black chalk and stylus drawing

The three grotesque heads in this drawing by Michelangelo (1…
Michelangelo, Ideal head of a woman, a black chalk drawing

Michelangelo (1475-1564) created sophisticated studies of pr…
Michelangelo, Lazarus, a red chalk drawing

This drawing by Michelangelo relates to a gigantic altarpiec…
Michelangelo, One kneeling and three seated nude men; A male torso, leadpoint and pen and brown ink drawings

In 1508 Michelangelo (1475-1564) was commissioned by Pope Ju…
Michelangelo, Studies after the Codex Coner and Studies after the Codex Coner and for the façade of San Lorenzo, red cha

After a period of living in Rome, the artist Michelangelo (1…
Michelangelo, Studies for a double wall tomb and Studies for a double tomb, black chalk drawings

Michelangelo (1475-1564) made these dynamic designs for an u…
Michelangelo, Studies for Haman, a red chalk drawing

Michelangelo (1475-1564) was commissioned to paint the Sisti…
Michelangelo, Studies for the Last Judgement, black chalk drawing

Michelangelo (1475-1564) spent the last thirty years of his …
Ottavio Leoni, Self-portrait, an engraving

Ottavio Leoni (1578-1630) was one of the most fashionable an…
Paolo Veronese, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, a drawing

The subject of this drawing by Veronese (1528-1588), is the …
Parmigianino, Figures in a Ferry Boat, a drawing

In this ordinary scene, an oarsman pushes the boat off the b…
Parmigianino, Virgin and Child with Saints, study for a composition

This is a pen and brown wash drawing over red chalk. It was …
Paul Bril, Trees at the Edge of a Pool, a pen and ink drawing

This drawing, characteristic of Bril's hand, is drawn in pen…
Pietro Testa, Three Saints Imploring the Virgin, an etching

The towers of Lucca, Testa's home town in Tuscany, appear in…
Raphael, Head and shoulders of a young woman, a drawing

This is a drawing from early in Raphael's career. It is draw…
Raphael, Heads of the Virgin and Child, a drawing

This drawing is one of a series made by Raphael in his early…
Raphael, The Dream of Scipio or Vision of a Knight, a drawing

This drawing in pen and brown ink is a cartoon for a paintin…
Samuel Amsler, Portrait of Carl Philipp Fohr, an engraving

Carl Philipp Fohr (1795-1818) came from Heidelberg and spent…
Sandro Botticelli, Abundance or Autumn, a drawing

This is one of the most elaborate and beautiful drawings by …
Taddeo Zuccaro, The Flight into Egypt, a drawing

The study is drawn over black chalk in pen and grey and blac…
Thomas Jones, Houses in Naples, oil on paper

From 1776 to 1783 the Welsh artist Thomas Jones (1742-1803) …
Vittore Carpaccio, St Augustine in his Study, a drawing

This is a preparatory sketch for Carpaccio's painting in the…
Jacopo de Barbari’s View of Venice

This view of Venice is one of the most spectacular achieveme…
Gold aureus commemorating the consecration of the emperor Hadrian

This gold coin was issued by Antoninus Pius, the successor o…
Cameo double portrait of the emperor Trajan and his wife Plotina

This double portrait shows the Roman emperor Trajan and his …
Head from a statue of the god Dionysus

This sculpture shows Dionysus, Greek god of wine, and imitat…
Britannia on a copper coin of Hadrian

Modern British coins often feature the figure of Britannia, …
Bust of Antinous

Antinous was Greek and born in Mantineum, a small place near…
Maiolica collecting-box
Wall painting showing a coastal landscape

The interior walls of wealthy Roman houses were often covere…
Letter to Charles Townley from Gavin Hamilton, describing excavations in Italy

In this thirteen-page letter to Charles Townley, Gavin Hamil…
Brass sestertius of Titus, showing the Colosseum

Roman coins often depicted buildings and monuments in the ci…
Bronze sestertius of Nero with harbour scene

Under the emperor Nero (reigned AD 54-68) the artistic achie…
Bronze sestertius with the Circus Maximus

The Circus Maximus was the greatest hippodrome (chariot-raci…
Cast bronze medal of Pietro Aretino

Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) was a great celebrity of the sixt…
Askos in the form of a duck

This type of ornate ceramic askos , in the form of a duck, w…
Askos with painted scenes and applied figures

This vase is basically an askos , a simple globular spouted …
Black Gloss boss-centred dish (phiale) with relief decoration

The phiale , with its distinctive bossed centre, was a shall…
Bronze axe-head

This elaborate bronxe axe-head, decorated with palmettes and…
Bronze bust of a woman

This distinctive bronze bust of a woman is one of the earlie…
Bronze handled dish (patera) showing Scylla

The centre of the dish has relief decoration showing the sea…
Bronze head of a young man

This hollow-cast bronze head came from a life-sized statue t…
Bronze model of a 2-horse chariot (biga)

The very animated horse (its companion is now missing) is pu…
Gold fibula (brooch) with lions and sphinxes

This remarkable gold fibula has a small bow formed from thre…
Gold necklace with lion-headed terminals

This magnificent lion-head necklace is said to have been fou…
Marble statue of a Roman priestess

The statue, carved from a slab of Carrara marble, shows the …
Pottery perfume bottle (alabastron), attributed to the Pescia Romana Painter

This perfume-bottle is decorated with polychrome painting re…
Red-figured cup (kylix)

The interior of this red-figured cup ( kylix ) shows a scene…
Red-figured wine bowl (bell-krater), signed by the painter Python

To seduce the virtuous Alkmene, Zeus assumed the form of her…
Terracotta head shaped like a vase

This terracotta head of a fashionable lady from southern Ita…
Terracotta perfume flask (askos) in the form of a lion

This exquisite terracotta perfume bottle in the shape of a l…
Terracotta seated figure

This is one of five seated figures found in the 'Tomb of the…
Crucifix

The cross consists of silver plaques arranged on a wooden co…
Glass tazza

This clear glass tazza, or footed bowl, has an armorial shie…
Maiolica storage jar

This maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware) storage jar is painte…
Claude Lorrain, Study of an Oak Tree, a drawing

This is one of the finest of a group of tree studies drawn i…
Francis Towne, Temple of Saturn, a watercolour

Born in Isleworth and apprenticed to a coach painter, Towne …
Michelangelo, A seated male nude twisting around, a pen and brown ink drawing with brown and grey wash and lead white

Michelangelo (1475-1564) made this drawing for a scene calle…
Michelangelo Buonarotti, The Fall of Phaeton, a drawing

This classical myth is taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses . At …
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Epifania, a drawing

This cartoon is drawn with black chalk on 26 sheets of paper…
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Four studies of a crucified man, a drawing

This is a preparatory drawing in red chalk for the figure of…
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules victorious over Discord, a drawing

Hercules was the classical figure famous for his heroic deed…
Pier Francesco Mola, The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, a drawing

This dramatic scene is painted with a broad brush and using …
Raphael, Nude Man with raised arms, a drawing

This is one of a series of black chalk drawings for an altar…
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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