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| Anonymous Italian Artist Three Episodes from the Story of Adam and Eve ca. 1400-1450 turquoise cameo Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi) The Ascension, with Christ giving Keys to St Peter ca. 1426-30 marble (rilievo schiacciato) Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Luca della Robbia Child Music Makers ca. 1431-38 marble (detail of frieze ornamenting a singing gallery) Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence |
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| Antonio di Pietro Averlino (called Filarete) Cincinnatus at the Plough ca. 1450 bronze plaquette Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist The Murder of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra ca. 1450-1500 onyx cameo Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Ah good my Lord be patient, she is dead,
And all this raging cannot make her live.
If words might serve, our voice hath rent the air,
If tears, our eyes have watered all the earth,
If grief, our murdered hearts have strained forth blood –
Nothing prevails, for she is dead, my Lord.
– Christopher Marlowe, from Tamburlaine, part II (1590)
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Diomedes stealing the Palladium 15th century bronze plaquette British Museum |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Bacchus discovering Ariadne on Naxos (copied from an ancient gem in the Gonzaga Collection, Mantua) 15th century bronze plaquette Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Agostino di Duccio St Bridget of Sweden enthroned 1459 marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Lorenzo di Pietro (called Vecchietta) The Scourging of Christ ca. 1460 bronze Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Antonio del Pollaiuolo Combat of Naked Men ca. 1470-80 terracotta Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| attributed to Andrea Mantegna The Entombment ca. 1480 bronze (partially gilt) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Domenico dei Cammei Noah with his Family, the Ark, and pairs of Animals and Birds (formerly owned by Lorenzo de' Medici) ca. 1480-90 onyx cameo British Museum |
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| Galeazzo Mondella (called Moderno) Hercules and the Nemean Lion ca. 1488-89 bronze plaquette Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (called Antico) Hercules and the Ceyrneian Hind ca. 1496 bronze medal Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| attributed to Andrea Bregno Pair of Angels, recarved into an Annunciation ca. 1490 marble relief Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |