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"This print is part of a series comprised of a title page, frontispiece, and 122 plates. Each of these 122 plates contains four oval scenes depicting Saints and Religious Events for each day of the year. This etching was originally one of four oval…

"Together with two other female saints, these panels were originally stacked in two groups of three, one above the other, to form the piers flanking the main panels of an altarpiece. By this date Giovanni di Paolo’s work must have begun to seem out…

Medium: Engraving

Dimensions: 3-1/4 x 1-7/8 in. (8.3 x 4.8 cm)

Inscription: Lettered monogram lower right: 'MAF'

Medium: Red chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions: 6 x 4 7/16in. (15.3 x 11.3cm)
Annotated on paper support on verso, in blue crayon, "It5 [or s] - A13" along upper left border; below, "Moretto da Brescia"; at center, in graphite,…

"This miniature was originally included in an antiphonary volume illuminated by Sano di Pietro for the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena. The scene inside the initial D illustrates one of the responses for the Feast of Saint Agatha…

Overall (confirmed): 5 3/8 × 3 1/2 × 3 1/8 in. (13.7 × 8.9 × 7.9 cm)

"This small, half-length statuette depicts the early Christian saint Agatha gazing heavenward with her hands bound behind her back. According to legend, the Sicilian…

panel
132 x 178 cm

"This is one of the most important examples of Venetian painting from the 16th century, signed and dated Sebastianus Venetus faciebat Rome 1520 on the parapet in the foreground, where the henchmen’s knife has been placed. In a…

The lady in the picture is shown with the attributes of Saint Agatha, the third-century Sicilian martyr who was reported to have been tortured for rejecting the marriage proposal of the Roman governor. A dish with Agatha’s severed breasts and the…

Sixteen female saints; half-length figures with their respective attributes, arranged in four rows.
Woodcut
Height: Height: 216 millimetres
Width: Width: 166 millimetres
Inscription content: Lettered with the names of the individual saints on…

Plate 63: Portrait of a lady traditionally identified as Giulia Gonzaga, half-length, turned to right; after Sebastiano del Piombo. c.1836
Etching and engraving
Height: Height: 271 millimetres
Width: Width: 214 millimetres
Inscription content:…