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Italian
A Candelieri Plate
c. 1540-1560, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

 

French
Pair of Mules belonging to Marie-Antoinette
before 1790, Museé Carnavalet, Paris

 

Islamic
'Abbasi Coin
c. 1624-1625, British Museum, London

 

German
Abbot Heinrich von Binsfeld of Cornelimünster and Saint Cornelius
c. 1520-1521, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

     

German
Abbot Johann von Ahrweiler and Saint Norbert
c. 1522, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

English
'Abd al-Wahid bin Mas'ood bin Mohammad 'Annouri
1600, Research and Cultural Collections, University of Birmingham

 

Chinese
Ablution Basin with Arabic Inscription
c. 1570-1580, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

 

Austrian
Adam
c. 1500-1525, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

 

German
Adam Schall, German Mandarin of the First Order, from Athanasius Kircher's China Illustrata
1667, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

 

German
Adelheid, Wife of Arnold von Loe, and Saint James the Less
1519, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Netherlandish
Adoration of the Magi
c. 1520, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

French
Adoration of the Magi
1440-1455

 

Flemish
Adoration of the Magi
c. 1500-1520, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Flemish
Adoration of the Magi
c. 1540, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

 

German
Adoration of the Magi
c. 1600-1650, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Netherlandish
Adoration of the Magi
c. 1425-1430, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin

 

French
The Adoration of the Magi
c. 1400-1425, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

 

Netherlandish
The Adoration of the Magi
c. 1410, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne

 

Netherlandish
The Adoration of the Magi
c. 1425-1430, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin

 

Flemish
Adoration of the Magi from a Retable
c. 1440, Notre-Dame du Vivier, Marche-les-Dames

 

Netherlandish
Adoration of the Magi from a Retable
c. 1460-1465, Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht

 

German
The Adoration of the Magi with Saint Anthony Abbot
c. 1410, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

 

Oceanic
Adze Blade
before 1900, private collection

 

Islamic
Akbar enthroned as a young man, copy of the Gulistan of Sa'di
c. 1600-1610, British Library, London

 

Islamic
'Alam (Processional Standard)
c. 1500-1600, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

 

Islamic
'Alam (Standard)
c. 1600-1650, Riza 'Abbasi Museum, Tehran

 

Italian
Albarello
c. 1480, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

 

Islamic
Alcove Door
1690, Linden Museum, Stuttgart

 

Italian
Aldrevandin Beaker
1300-1400, British Museum, London

 

Islamic
Alexander building a wall across Caucasus against Gog and Magog people, Iskandarname (One of five books of Nizami's Khamsa)
c. 1600

 

Austrian
Alexander Danilovich Menshikov
before 1704, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Italian
Alla Porcellana Dish with a Merchant Ship
c. 1510, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

 

Flemish
Allegorial Millefleurs Tapestry with Animals
c. 1530-1545, Minneapolis Institute of Arts

 

French
Allegory of Time
c. 1500-1510, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

German
Altar Cabinet
c. 1485, Phoenix Art Museum

 

African
Altar Figure of a King
c. 1700-1900, private collection

 

German
Altar Frontal with the Man of Sorrows and Saints
c. 1480-1490, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

African
Altar Group with Oba Akenzua I
c. 1700-1800, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin

 

African
Altar group with Oba Ewuakpe
c. 1700-1800, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin

 

African
Altar Grouping with Lyoba
c. 1700-1800, Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, Vienna

 

Pre-Columbian
Altar of the Warriors
c. 1510, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

     

Pre-Columbian
Altar with the Date 10 Rabbit
c. 1325-1521, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

French
Altarpiece
c. 1525, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Flemish
Altarpiece from Saluzzo
c. 1500, Musée de la Ville, Brussels

 

Flemish
Altarpiece of Ollomont
c. 1500-1525, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels

 

Peruvian
Altarpiece of the Virgin of Copacabana
c. 1650-1675, Museo de Arte de Lima

 

Mexican
Altarpiece of the Virgin of Sorrows
c. 1690, private collection

 

German
Altarpiece Wings with Saints and Scenes from the Christmas Story
c. 1515, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

   

French
Altarpiece with the Bearing of the Cross, Crucifixion and Resurrection
completed 1533, Church of Rumilly-lès-Vaudes

 

Netherlandish
Altarpiece with the Passion of Christ
c. 1492-1495, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

French
The Amourous Courtesan
18th Century, Musée Jean de la Fontaine, Château-Thierry

 

Italian
The Anatomy Lesson, from Fasciculo di Medicina
1494, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

German
Anatomy of the Bones of the Human Body (Anathomia Ossium Corporis Humani)
1493, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich

 

Dutch
Anatomy Theater at Leiden
c. 1700, Wellcome Library, London

 

Oceanic
Ancestor Figure (Tino)
c. 1750-1800, Musée de l'Homme, Paris

     

Flemish
Angel holding a Shield with a Coat of Arms
c. 1450, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels

 

French
Angel of the Annunciation
c. 1450-1500, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes

 

Italian
Angel of the Annunciation
c. 1430-1440, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

   

German
The Angel of the Annunciation
c. 1500, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Italian
Angel Relief
c. 1430-1435, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Islamic
The Anhalt Medallion Carpet
c. 1500-1550, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

   

Islamic
Animal Carpet
c. 1550-1600, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Netherlandish
Animals in a Wood
1543, British Museum, London

 

English
Anne Boleyn
c. 1530-1540, National Portrait Gallery, London

 

Italian
Annoni-Visconti Marriage Bowl
1569-1571, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

 

American
Annunciation
c. 1730, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur

 

German
Annunciation
c. 1446-1449, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

 

German
Annunciation
1484, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

 

Pre-Columbian
Anthropomorphic Sculpture
c. 1350-1521, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Anthropomorphic Sculpture (Macehualli)
c. 1500, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Netherlandish
Antipendium of the Order of the Golden Fleece
c. 1425-1440, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

 

Bohemian
Antiphonary Leaf with the Nativity
c. 1405, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

German
Apes Performing on Horseback
after 1450, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

 

Dutch
Arcadian Landscape
c. 1615

   

German
The Archangel Gabriel on an Ornamented Pedastal
c. 1490, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

 

German
Archangel Michael
c. 1450-1500

 

German
The Archangel Michael Weighing a Soul
c. 1470, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Italian
Architects and Scholars Studying inside the Colosseum
c. 1515, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

 

Islamic
The Ardabil Carpet
1539-1540, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

African
Arm Cuff
c. 1700-1800, private collection

 

American
Armchair
c. 1765-1775, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

French
Armchair
c. 1760-1770, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

French
Armchair, One of a Set of Four
c. 1730, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

 

French
Armoire
c. 1715-1720, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

 

Italian
Armor belonging to a Member of the Von Match Family
c. 1450, Schloss Churburg

 

Austrian
Armor for a Hussar
c. 1590-1600, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz

 

Austrian
Armor for an Infantry or Light Cavalry Officer
c. 1555-1560, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz

 

German
Armor for the Field
c. 1500-1510, private collection

 

Italian
Armor for the Field
c. 1600-1610, private collection

 

English
Armor for the Field and Tournament, made for Duke Friedrich Ulrich of Brunswick
c. 1610-1613, private collection

 

German
Armor for the Joust of Peace
c. 1490-1520, Wallace Collection, London

   

Austrian
Armor for the Joust over the Tilt
c. 1570-1580, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz

   

German
Armor of Albrecht of Brandenburg
c. 1526, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

 

English
Armor of Charles I as a Boy
c. 1616, Royal Armories Museum, Leeds

 

German
Armor of Charles V (The KD Armor)
c. 1525, Real Armería, Madrid

   

English
Armor of Henry VIII
c. 1539, Royal Collection, Windsor

 

Flemish
Armor of Philip I
c. 1500, Real Armería, Madrid

 

Netherlandish
Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham
c. 1488-1501, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Flemish
Arms of Maximilian I von Habsburg, from the Chapel of the Holy Blood
c. 1496, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Netherlandish
Arms of Nicolaas Ruterius, Bishop of Arras
c. 1520-1525, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

German
Arms of the Counts of Virneburg
c. 1480-1500, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

English
Army Uniform Coat
c. 1799-1800, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

   

German
Arrest of Christ
c. 1410, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

 

German
Ars Memorandi per Figuras Evangelistarum
c. 1470, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

 

Bohemian
Articulated Crown
c. 1400-1500, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

English
Assumption of the Virgin
c. 1450-1500, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

 

Islamic
Astrolabe-Quadrant
1480-1481, private collection

 

Mexican
Atrial Cross
before 1556, Basilica Mexico City, Mexico City

 

German
Augsburg Cabinet
c. 1660, Art Institute of Chicago

   

French
Awaiting the Chase, from the Hunt tapestries
c. 1650-1660, Minneapolis Institute of Arts

 

Islamic
Babur admiring rock sculpture at Urwa near Gwalior (Page from Baburname)
c.1590, British Library, London

 

German
Backplate and Pauldrons
c. 1475-1500, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

American
Bacon's Castle
c. 1655, Surry County, Virginia

       

Islamic
Bahram Gur slays the dragon, from a Khamseh of Niziami
1442-1443, British Museum, London

 

Dutch
Bailiff Table
c. 1630-1640, private collection

   

Islamic
The Ballard Ottoman Prayer Carpet
c. 1575-1590, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

French
Balustrade from Hôtel de Nevers, Paris
1719-1720, Wallace Collection, London

 

Spanish
Banner of Cortes
c. 1519, Chapultepec Castle, Mexico City

 

Indian
Banyan for the European Market
c. 1750, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Dutch
Banyan made from Chinese Silk
c. 1750-1760, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

French
Banyan with Matching Vest
c. 1790-1795, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

French
Banyan with Matching Waistcoat
c. 1720-1730, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

French
Baptism of Christ, from a Folding Altarpiece
c. 1400, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

French
Baptism, from the Seven Sacraments tapestries
c. 1450-1475, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Spanish
Baptismal Font made from a Sculpture of Quetzalcoatl
c. 1521, Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlan

   

Italian
Barbute
c. 1455-1460, Art Institute of Chicago

 

French
Barrel Flask
c. 1600-1700, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf

 

Islamic
Basin Made for Sultan Qa'itbay
c. 1468-1496, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Spanish
Basin with the Arms and Device of the degli Agli Family of Florence
c. 1400-1440, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Islamic
Basin with the Arms of Maria of Castile
c. 1454-1455, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Native American
Basket Jar
c. 1790, private collection

 

Netherlandish
Battle of Gods and Giants
c. 1575, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

 

Flemish
Battle Scene
c. 1570-1600, Minneapolis Institute of Arts

 

German
Beaker with Hunting Scene and Prunt Decoration
c. 1650-1675, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf

 

Japanese
A Beauty Reading a Letter
c. 1730

 

English
Bed Hanging
c. 1750-1800, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Indian
Bedcover or Hanging with a Battle Scene, made for the Portuguese Market
c. 1700-1800, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

English
Bedcover with Embroidered Foliage and Animals
c. 1620, Art Institute of Chicago

 

Italian
The Behaim Beaker
c. 1495, Corning Museum of Glass

   

Islamic
Bell
c. 1600-1800, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Italian
Belle Donne Charger
c. 1500-1530, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Islamic
Bellini Carpet
c. 1500-1700, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Pre-Columbian
Bells from a Necklace
c. 1469, Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City

 

Italian
Betrothal Goblet
c. 1590, British Museum, London

 

Flemish
Biblical Tapestry
c. 1500-1600, private collection

 

Native American
Bird Effigy
c. 1770, Museo de América, Madrid

 

German
The Birth of the Virgin
c. 1520, Mauritshuis, The Hague

 

German
Black and White Three Quarter Armor for an Officer of Bodyguards
c. 1575, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz

 

German
Blessed Simon Martyr
c. 1479, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich

 

German
The Blessed Suso
c. 1470-1480, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

 

Dutch
Block-Printed Textile
c. 1700-1750, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Dutch
Block-Printed Textile
c. 1700-1800, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

German
Blue and Gold Parade Armor of Maximilian II
16th, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

 

Islamic
Blue Mosque, Tabriz (Muzaffariyah)
1465, Tabriz

 

English
Blue Silk Brocade
c. 1660-1670, Courtauld Institute of Art, London

 

Islamic
Blue-eyed mendicant dervish with snake head staff, Album leaf
c. 1570, British Museum, London

 

Indian
Blue-Resist Panel with Vines and Birds, made for the American Market
c. 1750, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

French
Boar Hunt
c. 1445, Burrell Collection, Glasgow

 

English
Bodice
c. 1660-1665, Museum of London

   

English
Bodice
c. 1630-1639, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

   

Spanish
Bodice, Skirt and Surcoat (Jubón, Basquiña and Ropa)
c. 1550-1600, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

French
Book of Hours
c. 1460-1470, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Netherlandish
Book of Moresques (Variarum Protractionum)
c. 1555, Designmuseum Danmark, Copenhagen

   

German
Bottle in the Shape of a Landsknecht
c. 1600-1650, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf

 

Islamic
Bottle with Tulips and Triple Balls
c. 1525-1550, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Pre-Columbian
Boturini Codex (Tira de la Peregrinación)
c. 1530-1541, Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City

 

Islamic
Bowl
1643-1644, British Museum, London

 

Islamic
Bowl
1622-1623, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Italian
Bowl with a Pair of Lovers
c. 1420-1430, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Islamic
Bowl with a Portuguese Ship
c. 1425-1450, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Islamic
Bowl with Faceted Sides
c. 1600-1700, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

   

Italian
Bowl with the Goddess Diana
c. 1440-1460, Musée de la Renaissance, Écouen

 

Flemish
Brass of Kateline Daut
c. 1461, Sint-Jacobskerk, Bruges

 

German
Braunschweig Guild Hall
Braunschweig

 

Pre-Columbian
Brazier in the Form of Chalchiuhtlicue
c. 1500, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

German
Breastplate
c. 1475-1500, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

German
Breastplate with Crucifixion and Kneeling Figure
c. 1550, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

German
Bridal Pair
c. 1470, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

German
Brigandine
c. 1500-1550, Art Institute of Chicago

 

English
Buff Coat
c. 1640-1650, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

English
Buff Coat associated with Charles I
c. 1640, Hampton Court Palace, London

 

French
Bureau Mazarin
c. 1692-1700, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

 

French
The Burghley Nef (Salt Cellar)
1527-1528, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

German
Burgonet
c. 1650-1700, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Italian
Burgonet Alla Romana Antica
c. 1550-1555, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Italian
Burgonet, Buffe and Breastplate
c. 1550-1600, Cleveland Museum of Art

 

Flemish
The Burgundian Netherlands in 1435
1435

 

Italian
Bust of a Member of the Capponi Family
c. 1500, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Italian
Bust of a Young Roman Emperor
c. 1550, private collection

 

Italian
Busts of Two Warriors
c. 1483-1485, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

 

French
Buves Hours
c. 1450-1460, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

German
Buxheim Saint Christopher
1423, John Rylands Library, Manchester

   

Italian
Ca' Contarini-Fasan
begun 1475, Venice

   

Italian
Ca' Foscari
begun 1452, Venice

 

French
Cabaret Set: Tray, Cup, Saucer, Sugar Bowl and Cream Jug
c. 1757-1758, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Islamic
Cabinet Doors from the Palacio de los Infantes
1400-1450, Museo de la Alhambra, Granada

 

English
A Cabinet-Maker in His Office
1770, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Pre-Columbian
Cactus
c. 1450-1500, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Flemish
Caesar in Rome Tapestry
c. 1460

 

Islamic
Calligraphic Plaque
c. 1650-1700, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

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