Andor Ruff

The powerfully modelled head is turned three-quarters and slightly raised, the gaze directed upward. The mane, worked in undulating, chisel-textured locks, frames a strongly expressi...

The body is modeled in deep, tufted relief, with the thick, feathery coat suggested by layered, flame-like tufts that sweep across the back and flanks. A full ruff of fur frames the ...

He wears a traditional jester's ruff collar and a curved, decorated cap. Seated at Punch's feet on the left side is Toby.

His right hand rests on a wicker basket heaped with purple grapes and pink fruit, set on the base at his side. He wears the theatrical dress favored by the modelers of the period: a...

Queen Elizabeth I is portrayed standing in elaborate Elizabethan court dress, with an exceptionally detailed gown enriched with intricate foliate decoration, puffed sleeves, ruff col...

King Henry VIII is portrayed in his unmistakable broad Tudor silhouette, dressed in lavish court attire with dramatically modelled sleeves and doublet. Queen Elizabeth I appears in a...

Ribbed skirts, tricorn hats, delicate ruffs, and golden base pedestals highlight meticulous attention to historical Venetian carnival costume detail.

The ruff is finely carved and frames the cheeks. With glass eyes.

A shaggy dog's head sits on top of a formal Elizabethan-style outfit in this oil on wood painting by Paul Pretzer: black latex-like robes, a stiff white ruff collar, and glossy pink ...

The tall hat, deep ruff and long apron set her apart from the ladies of quality of the same year.

These elegant sculptures depict two birds, likely a ruff and a curlew, positioned on intricately designed naturalistic bases.

The costume and lace-edged ruff are treated with comparable attention, their intricate details complementing rather than distracting from the concentrated presence of the sitter.

Pierrot, having a wonderful expression on his face, is wearing a detailed tudor ruff and his bonnet.

The sculpture exhibits deeply textured fur across the ruff and brow, capturing the animalier tradition popular in late nineteenth-century decorative pottery.

She wears a small ruff and a red bodice with a gold chain, under a long dark blue gray gown with a broad fur collar and fur facings, open over a green underdress edged in gold at the...

She wears a small black hat trimmed in gold, a white ruff and several gold chains, and a violet gown with a black collar and short puffed oversleeves over yellow sleeves.

The young king stands with his right hand raised to his chest, wearing a small round hat with a feather and a white ruff. His blue doublet is patterned and edged in gold, belted with...

An older nobleman with a white beard and small ruff stands with his right hand on his hip and his left hand held out to the side.

A young bride stands with her hands folded at her waist, wearing a tall golden bridal crown over long braided hair and a small white ruff. Her white blouse has full puffed sleeves un...

An original antique print, a copper engraving colored by hand, lettered "Habit of a Lady of Quality in France." Shown in profile and looking toward the viewer's left, a woman wears a...

A young woman with fair hair dressed close to her head and a starched ruff looks over her shoulder toward the viewer.

A bearded man in a broad brimmed brown hat and a white ruff stands in profile, turned toward the viewer's right, pointing with one finger.

He wears a brimmed olive hat with a red band and a pink plume, a ruff, and a brown jerkin over full mustard yellow sleeves.

The queen stands facing us in a small crown and a white ruff, holding a gold scepter in her right hand, on the viewer's left, and a blue orb with a cross in her left.

He wears a small round cap wound with a pink band and a broad fluted ruff. Over his shoulders hangs a long red coat lined in green, its front and hanging sleeves crossed with rows of...

The officer is seen from behind and turns his bearded face in profile toward the left, under a red cap with a dark plume and a white ruff at his neck.

A woman walks toward the viewer wearing a small black hat with pink plumes over dark hair, a fluted ruff and a white standing collar. Over her shoulders is a short red cape striped w...

Shown in profile facing the viewer's left, the lady wears a flat gray cap with a pink feather over a white coif, and a high ruff. Her overgown is patterned in blue and white lozenges...

The matron walks toward the viewer in a small brown hat with a white feather and a long white streamer, a small ruff and a gold chain.

The lady wears a small gray hat with a gold band over her hair, a ruff, and gold chains with a pendant. Her short gray jacket is trimmed in gold and has puffed sleeve heads in white ...

The harlequin wears a blue and black diamond-patterned costume with a large white ruff and a vivid red bow.

A young man in a gray cap and a small ruff stands facing the viewer playing a lute, its pink body held against his chest and its neck angled up toward the viewer's left.

This is an original antique copper engraving from 1757, colored by hand, lettered "Habit of a Wealthy Merchant of London, in 1588" A bearded merchant stands facing the viewer in a fl...

A bearded man strides toward the viewer's right, one hand on his hip and the other stretched out. He wears a green hat with a red scarf wound around the crown, a small ruff and sever...

He wears a black hat crowned with white plumes and a pink rosette, a small ruff, and a crimson robe lined and edged with ermine and bordered with white embroidery.

Portrait Of Caterina Giunta, Wife Of Venetian Senator Giunta, circa 1630 by Justus SUSTERMANS (1597-1681) sales to $150,000 Large 17th Century Italian Venetian Portrait of Caterina...

Precise lines, which embody the grace of the sign and the elegance of shape. With Getlucky, backrest and seat are geometric forms, perfectly balanced; this special dialogue between s...

This fine original watercolour by the British artist William John Wainwright depicts a striking portrait of a Renaissance gentleman holding a sheet of parchment and quill. Dressed in...

The figures in the foreground are a reference to the status of the city: the burgher woman with a hood is shown in accordance with her standing with ruff and full-length skirt, but h...

Her attire undoubtedly plays a central role in the work due to the opulence with which it is depicted; it consists of a sumptuous gown in shades of orange, made of damask fabric with...

Elizabeth I is depicted here dressed in a black gown, with a fur collar, gilt ruff, and black hood or coif, with a large, jewelled necklace on her breast.

The young Don Carlos is portrayed in elaborate Renaissance court dress, with a prominent ruff collar, doublet and trunk hose. He stands beside a table in a richly detailed interior, ...

Sergent Suisse de la Garde du Pape (Rome) – A sergeant of the Papal Swiss Guard shown in elaborate historical uniform with armor, ruff and plumed helmet. This particularly decorative...

During the first decades of the seventeenth century, English women's fashions moved gradually away from the rigidly structured garments and elaborate standing ruffs of the late Eliza...

Particularly interesting comparisons may be drawn with Allori’s Portrait of a Young Man in the Kress Collection at the Columbia Museum of Art, notably in the pose, the treatment of t...

Most recently she was exhibited at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland in 2021 as part of the exhibition ‘How to Win at Photography – Image-Making as Play’ along with artists such as ...

Most recently she was exhibited at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland in 2021 as part of the exhibition ‘How to Win at Photography – Image-Making as Play’ along with artists such as ...

Their elegant attire reflects the transition from the late Renaissance into the early Baroque period, with Marie de' Medici wearing an elaborate gown with lace ruff and jeweled bodic...

The companion plate illustrates the Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata), Eurasian Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola), Ruff (Tringa pugnax), and Black-winged Stilt (Charadrius himantopus).

This portrait depicts a young red-headed sitter in 16th-century-inspired dress, wearing a soft red cap with plume, a high ruff, and an embroidered bodice. Works of this type were pro...

Most recently she was exhibited at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland in 2021 as part of the exhibition ‘How to Win at Photography – Image-Making as Play’ along with artists such as ...

Most recently she was exhibited at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland in 2021 as part of the exhibition ‘How to Win at Photography – Image-Making as Play’ along with artists such as ...

Most recently she was exhibited at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland in 2021 as part of the exhibition ‘How to Win at Photography – Image-Making as Play’ along with artists such as ...

Most recently she was exhibited at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland in 2021 as part of the exhibition ‘How to Win at Photography – Image-Making as Play’ along with artists such as ...

Most recently she was exhibited at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland in 2021 as part of the exhibition ‘How to Win at Photography – Image-Making as Play’ along with artists such as ...

Ruffs and Reeves in Breeding Plumage, Ornithological Lithograph c.1895 This vivid antique chromolithograph, dating from around 1900, presents a stunning group of Philomachus pugnax,...

Comprised of a cable link chain suspending a stylized bird on a swing pendant Accented by yellow gold wire ruff and hair with hanging grooved tail feathers Head and wing are platinum...

Bianca wears a dark red dress, perhaps a zimarra, embroidered in gold with a plunging neckline and a raised collar of the shirt curled in a ruff and also edged with precious lace, em...

The composition presents Myddelton in formal dress with an elaborate ruff collar and chain of office, framed within an ornamental oval surrounded by symbolic engineering and scientif...

The painting depicts a harlequin in a fitted rose colored outfit with a long cap and a mustard yellow starburst ruff playing a tiorbino, set against an abstract blue background sugge...