The 517 Artworks of media Gold and containing the word john prip, gold, 1975

This exquisite and enigmatic portrait and its pendant (1975.1.85) are most likely the works by the Venetian painter and illuminator Jacometto, recorded by the connoisseur Marcantonio Michiel in the collection of a Venetian patrician in 1543. Michiel, who praised them as 'a most perfect work,' identi...

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Written in gold on a red background is an inscription that identifies this miniature as a self-portrait of the famous Bruges illuminator, Simon Bening: 'Simon Bennik, the son of Alexander, painted this himself at the age of 75 in 1558.'Simon Bening became one of the most famous illuminators of the s...

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Gold arm-ring with funnel-shaped finials and incised designs. The object, also called an ‘oath ring’, is one of nine currently known finds of its kind from northern Central Europe. Oath rings have been found in hoards and in men’s graves from the late Bronze Age. Such rings presumably identified the...

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