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Italian 15th Century, A Lady, 1475/1485, marble, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.326

A Lady

Italian 15th Century · 1475/1485 · marble ·  Accession ID  1939.1.326

Winding from our right to left, a procession of dozens of people, mostly men and many in black and gray armor on foot and horseback, weaves through rocky hills to the gates of a city in this long, horizontal painting. The people we can see have light skin, and they are small in scale against the landscape. Throughout the procession, dogs nip at the heels of horses that walk, rear, or buck. Many of the armored men carry tall spears. The men not wearing armor mostly wear crimson-red robes over black stockings or short black tunics over stockings with one white leg and one mauve-pink leg. To our right, a man wearing black armor and a black wreath around his blond hair rides a gold throne on a large, gold platform being pulled by two cream-white horses. A gold canopy hangs over his head. Facing our left in profile, he points a scepter down at a person sitting in front of him, lower down on the base. That person wears a simple, lilac-purple tunic and slouching, denim-blue boots as he turns and looks up at the crowned man, hands raised. Three men and one woman sit in alcoves on the side of the base facing us with their hands behind their backs. The men wear black armor while the woman wears a muted sea-green dress. The letters “SPQR” are written in gold across the chest of a rider to our right. The procession in front of the throne passes around a tall golden structure like a fountain. At the top of that structure, a woman surrounded by gold rays to create an ellipse. The soldiers at the front of the procession cross a short, arched bridge leading into the city, and one rider carries a gold banner with a stylized, splayed black bird. Towers and domes in shades of cream, coral, and pink peek above the crenelated city wall. To our right, the landscape beyond the procession is dotted with trees leading to rocky mountains in the deep distance. The horizon line comes four-fifths of the way up the composition. A few wispy white clouds float across a sky that deepens from white along the horizon to lapis blue across the top edge of the panel.
Biagio d'Antonio, Italian 15th Century, The Triumph of Camillus, c. 1470/1475, tempera on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.153

The Triumph of Camillus

Biagio d'Antonio, Italian 15th Century · c. 1470/1475 · tempera on panel ·  Accession ID  1939.1.153

A woman kneels in front of a baby under a stone structure to the right as a man sits and dozes in front of a landscape to the left in this wide, horizontal painting. All three people have pale, peachy skin with rosy cheeks and gold, flat, disk-like halos. To our right, the woman’s head and shoulders are covered with a white cloth as she crosses her hands across her chest. She wears a rose-pink dress under a voluminous, sky-blue robe lined with spruce green. The robe puddles on the floor behind her feet, and one section has been pulled forward to be used as a blanket for the baby. The child has blond hair and round cheeks, and is swaddled in white under the robe. He is propped up against stacked rolls of hay. A room-like space with pale pink stone walls stretches back beyond the woman. The wall to the left is pierced with an arched opening. A trough lines that wall on the woman’s side of the opening, and another is perpendicular to it, just beyond the baby. An ox pokes its head through the opening, and an ass looks across the second trough. To our left, the man sits with at least one knee pulled up. He has long blond hair, a white beard, and wears a sapphire-blue tunic and red robe. He leans one elbow on his bent knee and rests his head in that hand, his eyes closed. A staff with a sack tied to the end rests against his other shoulder. He sits on a flat, green area at the foot of sheer-cut, green, rocky hills. More hills, trees, and a path lead back into the distance to towns along the horizon. The upper and lower edges of the panel are painted with pale pink similar to the building, making it seem that we look through a partial frame at the scene.
Fra Filippo Lippi, Italian 15th Century, The Nativity, probably c. 1445, oil and tempera (?) on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.279

The Nativity

Fra Filippo Lippi, Italian 15th Century · probably c. 1445 · oil and tempera (?) on panel ·  Accession ID  1939.1.279

Italian 15th Century, Virgin and Child with Saint John, painted terracotta, Widener Collection, 1942.9.147

Virgin and Child with Saint John

Italian 15th Century · · painted terracotta ·  Accession ID  1942.9.147

Italian 15th Century, Andrea Mantegna, The Triumph of Caesar: The Senators, before 1506, engraving in black on laid paper, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund, 1991.178.1

The Triumph of Caesar: The Senators

Italian 15th Century, Andrea Mantegna · before 1506 · engraving in black on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.178.1

Italian 15th Century, Faun Battling a Snake, c. 1500, engraving, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.5785

Faun Battling a Snake

Italian 15th Century · c. 1500 · engraving ·  Accession ID  1943.3.5785

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia, Italian 15th Century, The Entombment with Three Birds, c.1500/1504, engraving, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.5770

The Entombment with Three Birds

Giovanni Antonio da Brescia, Italian 15th Century · c.1500/1504 · engraving ·  Accession ID  1943.3.5770

Andrea Mantegna, Italian 15th Century, Four Dancing Muses, after 1497, engraving on laid paper, Gift of W.G. Russell Allen, 1941.1.10

Four Dancing Muses

Andrea Mantegna, Italian 15th Century · after 1497 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1941.1.10

Andrea Mantegna, Italian 15th Century, Four Dancing Muses, after 1497, engraving on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.5769

Four Dancing Muses

Andrea Mantegna, Italian 15th Century · after 1497 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.3.5769

Italian 15th Century, Andrea Mantegna, The Adoration of the Magi (Virgin in the Grotto), c. 1500, engraving on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.1329

The Adoration of the Magi (Virgin in the Grotto)

Italian 15th Century, Andrea Mantegna · c. 1500 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.3.1329