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The 71 Artworks of media Parchment and containing the word danish unknown goldsmith, parchment, 400

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Danish Unknown Goldsmith - Shadow Puppet (leather)Shadow Puppet (leather)Danish Unknown Goldsmith

Schattenspielfigur aus Kamelleder. Die auffallend große, durchbrochen gearbeitete Figur stellt einen Reiter mit einem Jagdfalken dar. Die Figur ist aus zahlreichen kleineren und größeren Lederstücken zusammengenäht und teilweise so verbunden, dass Einzelteile separat bewegt werden konnten wie Oberkö...

Pergamon Museum (Berlin, Germany)
 
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Danish Unknown Goldsmith - Anglo-Dutch Attack on Gibraltar and the Battle of Vélez-MálagaAnglo-Dutch Attack on Gibraltar and the Battle of Vélez-MálagaDanish Unknown Goldsmith

Oil on parchment (artist unknown), depicting the 2 related historical events that took place during the War of the Spanish Succession: the capture of Gibraltar (August 4, 1704) and the Battle of Vélez-Málaga (August 24, 1704).In the foreground is a French 3-decker ship with 104 guns (probably Le Fou...

Naval Museum (Madrid, Spain)
 
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Danish Unknown Goldsmith - The Death of SennacheribThe Death of SennacheribDanish Unknown Goldsmith

One of two surviving miniatures from a book of Old Testament prophets made in Sicily around 1300, the illumination shows three separate episodes from the Israelites/

J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, United States)
 
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Danish Unknown Goldsmith - Northumberland BestiaryNorthumberland BestiaryDanish Unknown Goldsmith

The bestiary--a collection of descriptions and images of real and imaginary animals intended to provide readers with moral lessons--was one of the most important traditions to emerge from medieval England. Although bestiaries were a kind of medieval encyclopedia of animals, they explored the world o...

J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, United States)
 
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J.-F. Léauté (French, Active Circa 1790–1830) - Très Belles Heures de Notre-Dame de Jean de Berry, the Heures de Turin-MilanTrès Belles Heures de Notre-Dame de Jean de Berry, the Heures de Turin-MilanJ.-F. Léauté (French, Active Circa 1790–1830)

The Heures manuscript for Jean de Berry, which was started in about 1380, is one of the finest achievements of late-Gothic European culture. The volume originally contained about 400 folios and at least 280 illuminations. It was divided in two parts: the first remained in France (now in the Biblioth...

Palazzo Madama (Torino, Italy)
 
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Simon Bening - Book of HoursBook of HoursSimon Bening

This diminutive Book of Hours is one of Simon Bening’s prayerful jewels, intended for use at regular intervals throughout the twenty-four- hour day (ideally every three hours). It was a reminder of the omnipresence of God, meant to be attached to its owner, or stored with precious possessions. There...

The Met Cloisters (New York, United States)
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Gerard David - The AnnunciationThe AnnunciationGerard David

This leaf may have been part of a grand Breviary, a type of book containing the psalms, scripture readings, antiphons, and prayers for each day of the liturgical year. Such large-format Breviaries were produced in Flanders in the early sixteenth century. The style of this miniature resembles that of...

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Gilles Hardouyn - Book of HoursBook of HoursGilles Hardouyn

When printed books first began to supplant manuscripts, their makers strove to make the product look like books written by hand. In this book of hours, woodcut printed illustrations were 'illuminated' with color, like coloring books that were filled in with hand painting. This book was made by the b...

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Joannes Koulix - Leaf from the Epistle to the HebrewsLeaf from the Epistle to the HebrewsJoannes Koulix

This leaf, the first page of Saint Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews written in Greek, is decorated with a handsome rectangular headpiece and a letter topped with a portrait bust of the author. The leaf was originally part of a Praxapostolos, a text used only for the celebration of the Eucharist, which ...

 
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