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Historical Archive: People other than rulers, ecclesiastics, saints, and personifications

about 1500 to present


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woman: Memento Mori bead poss. from a rosary, ivory, c.1500 France or Flanders, PMA 2007-133-1. This object has its own page.
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hunters: St. Giles and the deer, oil on panel c.1500, LNGA, which has its own page with companion panel
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Lady and the Unicorn, wool/silk tapestry, c.1500, Cluny. For more panels and details see Cluny.
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people of Athens: St. Paul preaching in Athens, 16th c. Majolica platter (coppa amatoria), Urbino workshop, Arezzo MS 14750
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companions: Rape of Europa; Ganymede, 16th c. Majolica platter (coppa amatoria), shop of Girolamo di Lanfranco dalle Gabicce, Arezzo MS 14591
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16th c. mount for Roman or 15th c. intaglio of Antoninus Pius: standing youth, gold, CdM Chab. 2093. For gem obverse see CdM.
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servant, guards: Albrecht Altdorfer 1509-18, Pilate washing his hands, from altarpiece of St. Sebastian, Abbey of St. Florian. For details see Austria.
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woman shamed for infidelity, faience, Deruta 1510 (Giovanni Maria Vasaro?), Louvre OA 9205
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shepherds: Annunciation and Nativity triptych, enamel, frame gilt copper on wood with traces polychrome and gilding, early 16th c. Limoges, Master of the Large Foreheads, PMA 1930-1-62. For detail see PMA.
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guards: Triptych of St. Stanislaus the Bishop from church in Pławno, painted and gilt limewood, Krakow c.1510-20, MNW Śr. 18. This work has its own page.
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memorial brass of Jane Agmondeshan 1519, Ewell
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Spinning/reading, wool/silk tapestry, c.1520, Cluny Cl. 2182. For scale and details see Cluny.
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Good Thief from a Crucifixion, walnut, School of Kalkar (Germany) c.1520, UMMA 1976/1.233. This work has its own page.
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musicians: Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp, Iran, mid 1520s-30s, Met 1970.301. This manuscript has its own page with more courtiers.
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guards mocking Jesus: Meerbeck carver, Passion c.1525-30, North Paradise, Cathedral, Hildesheim, which has its own pages
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honorable Roman: Lucretia, stained glass, circle of Master of the "Kanis Triptych", Netherlandish c.1530, CMA 1951.335. For detail see CMA.
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Passion scenes, poss. Arnt van Tricht, oak predella fr. Kalkar c.1530-40, Schn A859. For full work see Schn.
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honorable Roman: Lucretia, Majolica platter (coppa amatoria) c.1540, Casteldurante workshop, Arezzo MS
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Jean de Court (Vigier), enamel, Baking Bread: Labor for December, 1540-60, UMMA 1977/1.168
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Nicolas de Bonont and his wife and 15 children with Crucifixion, 1547, in St. Séverin, Paris, which has its own page.
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Galiot de Genouillac as St Paul: Léonard Limosin (attrib.), enamel on copper from Feuillantines convent (Paris), repeating Chartres composition, mid 16th c. Limoges, Louvre MR XIII suppl 210
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virgins: Hermann tom Ring, Last Judgement/Triumph of Death 1550-52, oil/panel, Utrecht ABM s40. For full work see Utrecht.
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portrait of François de Scepeaux, François Clouet, oil on wood, 1566, IMA 2004.158. For view with frame see IMA.
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Jews, Egyptian soldiers: Crossing the Red Sea, enamel/copper, Jean de Court 1575-85, SF 48.2. For details see SF.
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memorial brass of Dorothy Taylare/Taylard, d.1577, and children, Ewell
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youths: Vincenzo Possanti, 1584 bronze chandelier "of Galileo", Pisa cathedral, which has its own pages with full work
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Kaspar von Dechau, d. 1588, sandstone, HildMus G28. For oblique view see Hildesheim funerary monuments.
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followers of John: John the Baptist triptych, enamel/copper, Martin Didier Pape late 16th c., SF 1952.32a-c, which has its own page with executioner
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hunter: Hunting horn assoc. Henry IV of Navarre/France, ivory, France late 16th-early 17th c., Belgrade MAA 541. For other views see Belgrade MAA.
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grave stone of Frau von Meltzing d. Sept. 14, 1599, Kloster Wienhausen/parish church, which has its own page with full work
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onlookers: Circumcision, 17th-c. marble relief in St. Séverin, Paris, which has its own page.
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17th c. added companions of St. Ursula, Nef of St. Ursula, gold/silver gilt/copper/enamel, which has its own page
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companion to saint: Stigmatization of St. Francis, tapestry, c.1600-50, Ypres, which has its own page
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Welcome glass (Humpen) of Thomas v. Sanitz zu Brausfelde Erbesessin, enameled glass, Germany 1616, CMA 1948.233
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soldiers: Battle of the Milvian Bridge, Andrea Camassei (1602/49), Lateran Baptistery narthex, Rome, which has its own interior page.
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3-year-old, ex-voto from chapel of Notre-Dame d’Assistance, oil on canvas, dated 1648, Lille Hospice Comtesse D 62.1. For more 17th-c. children, see l’Hospice Comtesse.
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woman: infant Hercules attacked by snake, ivory c.1660, Master of the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, SF 52.6.4. For other views see SF.
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elders: Joan van Noort/Jan van Noordt, Susanna and the Elders c.1660, Utrecht RMCC s75, loan from Instituut Collectie Nederland, Amsterdam, NK 1700
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elders: Susanna and the Elders, Joan van Noort c. 1670, SF 2007.22
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African? man and woman: covered cup with allegory of Africa, zebu horn, circle of Georg Pfründt c.1680, KGM K 3429, which has its own page
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hunter: Engraved musket powder horn, cow, ox, or buffalo horn, 18th c. US, UMMA 2007/1.101. This work has its own page.
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shepherd and snails, faience tile, Lille first half 18th c.: Lille Hospice Comtesse, which has its own page with architectural context. For men and women shepherds see Lille Tiles.
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hunter, gold glass tumbler, Bohemia c.1730, CMA 1946.458
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shepherdess and shepherd: coffee pot, silver gilt and niello with ebony? Moscow 1777, MAAB. For another view see MAAB
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schoolboys: Death of St. Cassian, ceramic 1784, Imola
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captives: composite with Roman cameos, Luigi Valadier 1785, Louvre MR 46, which has its own page
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enslaved man: Anti-slavery medallion, William Hackwood (Wedgwood) 1787 England: stoneware, steel, ivory. AIC 1912.326
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Robinson Crusoe in Attire, J.F. Binder (?), Robinson Crusoe in Serbian, Buda 1799, Belgrade MAA 4246. For full opening see Belgrade MAA.
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peddler robbed by monkeys, enameled glass Peddler Goblet, Murano 19th c., CMA 1953.364. For other sides see CMA.
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billiards players, porcelain, central Europe early 19th c., Belgrade MAA 1230. For other views see Belgrade MAA.
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guards: Resurrection of Christ, tin-glazed earthenware, Utrecht or Rotterdam 1800-50, PMA 1992-6-2a--l. For full work see PMA.
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honorable Romans: clock in the form of The Oath of the Horatii (aft. Jacques- Louis David), bronze gilt and marble, clockwork: Le Roy, early 19th c., Musée Carnavalet Paris
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Baron Paul Pérignon, Thomas Couture c.1850, oil on canvas, UMMA 1965/2.66
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Portrait of a Lady, prob. Anne Simms Reeve, Frederick Sandys 1860, oil on panel, UMMA 1987/1.158. For detail see UMMA.
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Emile Bernard (1868-1941), Corner cabinet with Breton scenes 1891-92, wood with polychrome, IMA 2010.38. For other views see IMA.
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butterfly woman grille, cast bronze, René Lalique 1899-1900, KGM 1901.111. For other views see Berlin.
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soldiers: Ludwig Gies, Dance of Death 1917, bronze, SMBMünz 18209057
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Mrs. Bernagozzi, Amleto Montevecchi 1920, aquarelle, Imola 301
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Maurice Marinot, vase in the shape of a head, blown and acid etched glass, French c.1928, CMA 1929.114. Art object copyright: artist/heirs.
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Stephen Decatur, Jr., and Thomas MacDonough, United States stamp: Navy issue, USS Saratoga, 1936-37, p.c. For ship detail see Private Collections.
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Émile Mâle memorial, 1965. For more views see Chartres.
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Simon Shiroka reliefs, National Library of Kosovo, Pristina, Andrija Mutnjaković 1974-86, which has its own page
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Conrad Atkinson, NEAnderthal, mixed media 1989, UMMA 2004/2.106. Art object copyright: artist/heirs.