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Knife Handle (Kozuka)

Knife Handle (Kozuka)

Design for the Stage for 'Intermedio 6', from an Album with Plates documenting the Festivities of the 1589 Wedding of Ferdinand I and Christine of Lorraine by Bernardo Buontalenti (Bernardo delle Girandole)|Epifanio d'Alfiano

Design for the Stage for 'Intermedio 6', from an Album with Plates documenting the Festivities of the 1589 Wedding of Ferdinand I and Christine of Lorraine

Bernardo Buontalenti (Bernardo delle Girandole)|Epifanio d'Alfiano, 1589–1592

Bell

Bell

Dish with winged putto by Cipriano Piccolpasso

Dish with winged putto

Cipriano Piccolpasso, 1572

The Festival of Fools by Pieter van der Heyden|Pieter Bruegel the Elder|Aux Quatre Vents|Volcxken Dierix

The Festival of Fools

Pieter van der Heyden|Pieter Bruegel the Elder|Aux Quatre Vents|Volcxken Dierix, after 1570

Festival of Fools by Pieter Bruegel the Elder|Pieter van der Heyden|Aux Quatre Vents

Festival of Fools

Pieter Bruegel the Elder|Pieter van der Heyden|Aux Quatre Vents, after 1570

A Cartouche and Two Shields Surrounded by Allegorical Figures. by Andrea Lilli (Lilio)

A Cartouche and Two Shields Surrounded by Allegorical Figures.

Andrea Lilli (Lilio), 1570–1631

La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorti di recami, page 23 (recto) by Giovanni Ostaus|Giuseppe Salviati (Giuseppe Porta, called Il Salviati)

La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorti di recami, page 23 (recto)

Giovanni Ostaus|Giuseppe Salviati (Giuseppe Porta, called Il Salviati), 1567

Cupid and Apollo with a lyre by Paolo Farinati

Cupid and Apollo with a lyre

Paolo Farinati, ca. 1568

Bowl with Allegory of Peace

Bowl with Allegory of Peace

Three Muses seated below a flying putto who grasps a lyre with both hands, a cruciform composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Gallery of Ulysses (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau by Giorgio Ghisi|Francesco Primaticcio

Three Muses seated below a flying putto who grasps a lyre with both hands, a cruciform composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Gallery of Ulysses (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau

Giorgio Ghisi|Francesco Primaticcio, ca. 1560–69

The Wounded Paris Carried from the Field of Battle by Francesco Primaticcio|Master FG

The Wounded Paris Carried from the Field of Battle

Francesco Primaticcio|Master FG

Apollo on Parnassus (Apollon sur le Parnasse) by Etienne Delaune|Nicolo Dell'Abbate

Apollo on Parnassus (Apollon sur le Parnasse)

Etienne Delaune|Nicolo Dell'Abbate, 1540–83

Mercury standing holding a cadecus in his right hand, a lyre in his left by Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

Mercury standing holding a cadecus in his right hand, a lyre in his left

Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola), ca. 1536–40

狩野元信周辺 伯牙鍾子期図|Bo Ya Plays the Qin as Zhong Ziqi Listens by Kano Motonobu

狩野元信周辺 伯牙鍾子期図|Bo Ya Plays the Qin as Zhong Ziqi Listens

Kano Motonobu, 1530s

A frieze arrangement with a putto weating a laurel crown riding a goat at left and many infants playing musical instruments in front by Master of the Die|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

A frieze arrangement with a putto weating a laurel crown riding a goat at left and many infants playing musical instruments in front

Master of the Die|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi), 1530–60

Perfume Burner Surmounted by a Satyr by Desiderio da Firenze

Perfume Burner Surmounted by a Satyr

Desiderio da Firenze, ca. 1530–40

Plate (tondino) by Maestro Giorgio Andreoli

Plate (tondino)

Maestro Giorgio Andreoli, 1519

Apollo sitting on Parnassus surrounded by the muses and famous poets by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)|Marcantonio Raimondi

Apollo sitting on Parnassus surrounded by the muses and famous poets

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)|Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1517–20

The Opening of the Seventh Seal, from The Apocalypse by Albrecht Dürer

The Opening of the Seventh Seal, from The Apocalypse

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

Olympus naked seated on a tree stump holding pipes, set within a niche by Marco Dente

Olympus naked seated on a tree stump holding pipes, set within a niche

Marco Dente, ca. 1515–27

Mercury Presenting a Panpipe to Minerva by Giulio Bonasone|Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)

Mercury Presenting a Panpipe to Minerva

Giulio Bonasone|Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)

The Mocking of Christ, from "The Small Passion" by Albrecht Dürer

The Mocking of Christ, from "The Small Passion"

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1508

Cover

Cover

Plaque: Titleholder with Calabash Rattle

Plaque: Titleholder with Calabash Rattle

Seated Musician

Seated Musician

The Genius of Music

The Genius of Music

The Bath House (copy) by Albrecht Dürer

The Bath House (copy)

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Ornament

Ornament

Capital

Capital

Seated tambourine player

Seated tambourine player

Bodhisattva in a Mountain Grotto, Playing a Stringed Instrument (Vina), Leaf from a Dispersed Pancavimsatisahasrika Prajnapramita Manuscript

Bodhisattva in a Mountain Grotto, Playing a Stringed Instrument (Vina), Leaf from a Dispersed Pancavimsatisahasrika Prajnapramita Manuscript

Pellet Bell in the Form of a Kala Head

Pellet Bell in the Form of a Kala Head

Kinnari Playing the Vina

Kinnari Playing the Vina

Seated Female Musicians

Seated Female Musicians

唐 彩繪陶持箜篌樂伎女俑|Female musician with harp

唐 彩繪陶持箜篌樂伎女俑|Female musician with harp

Figure Rattle

Figure Rattle

Plaque with a Dancer and a Vina Player

Plaque with a Dancer and a Vina Player

Terracotta statuette of woman playing a tympanon

Terracotta statuette of woman playing a tympanon

Ceramic Whistle in the Form of a Standing Figure

Ceramic Whistle in the Form of a Standing Figure

Faience Sistrum Inscribed with the Name of Ptolemy I

Faience Sistrum Inscribed with the Name of Ptolemy I

Standing female kithara player

Standing female kithara player

Fragment of a terracotta calyx-krater (mixing bowl) by Black Fury Painter

Fragment of a terracotta calyx-krater (mixing bowl)

Black Fury Painter, ca. 400–380 BCE

Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) by Painter of the Louvre Centauromachy

Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Painter of the Louvre Centauromachy, mid-fifth century BCE

Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask) by Painter of Oxford 1920

Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask)

Painter of Oxford 1920, ca. 470–460 BCE

Skyphos by Brygos Painter

Skyphos

Brygos Painter, ca. 490–480 BCE

Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Naos sistrum with the name of Apries

Naos sistrum with the name of Apries

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