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The painter of this canvas copied a composition of the Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci (Bologna, 1560- Rome, 1609). The original painting (oil on canvas, 170 x 225 cm) by Carracci is now preserved in the Pinacoteca di Brera. “Our artist” probably based himself on a reproduction print after the Carracci painting. In 1610 the French publisher, François Langlois...

Throughout the many Kingdoms in the Cameroon Grasslands region (Bamileke - Bamum - Tikar) employed a range of Regalia to assert their political, economic and religious power. Presented publicly in lavish displays of wealth and power, many court objects distinguished their elaborate bead embroidery. Of the many ritual items...

Throughout the many Kingdoms in the Cameroon Grasslands region (Bamileke - Bamum - Tikar) employed a range of Regalia to assert their political, economic and religious power. Presented publicly in lavish displays of wealth and power, many court objects distinguished their elaborate bead embroidery. Of the many ritual items...

Throughout the many Kingdoms in the Cameroon Grasslands region (Bamileke - Bamum - Tikar) employed a range of Regalia to assert their political, economic and religious power. Presented publicly in lavish displays of wealth and power, many court objects distinguished their elaborate bead embroidery. Of the many ritual items...

Throughout the many Kingdoms in the Cameroon Grasslands region (Bamileke - Bamum - Tikar) employed a range of Regalia to assert their political, economic and religious power. Presented publicly in lavish displays of wealth and power, many court objects distinguished their elaborate bead embroidery. Of the many ritual items...

Throughout the many Kingdoms in the Cameroon Grasslands region (Bamileke - Bamum - Tikar) employed a range of Regalia to assert their political, economic and religious power. Presented publicly in lavish displays of wealth and power, many court objects distinguished their elaborate bead embroidery. Of the many ritual items...

De Shimadzu company in Kyoto made anatomical models of humans and models of plants and mineral specimen. Their specimen department was established in 1895. In contrast to the usual h...

This Madonna has a more profane look with her hair tied back. Such features appear to be a characteristic of many 18th-century sculpted Madonnas. She carries Jesus like ordinary mothers would hold their babies in their arms. The polychrome paint and gilding of the terracotta statue are relatively well preserved. The figures are placed in a wooden shrine...

Alessandro Castelli made a name for himself as a painter of landscapes, especially from the area around Rome. Initially trained as an engraver, he worked at the Calcografia Camerale,...

During the Counter-Reformation, the traditional cult of saints was encouraged, and spiritual exercises were recommended to come closer to God. In the pai...

This elegant, beautifully polished angel holds his hands together as if in prayer. The sculpture may have been part of a wooden pulpit. The fact that the statue has been carefully wo...

This Wooden Model is considered the second generation of a "Madame Du Coudray's Babymachine," a mannequin for teaching obstetrics, invented in the 18th C. by a midwife determined to combat the ignorance of country midwives who endangered the lives of women and children. Madame Du Coudray spent twenty-five years traveling the towns and cities of France, teaching her methods and selling her ingenious "Babymachine." Only one example of the original machine, patented in 1778, survived and is on display in Flaubert and the History of Medicine in Rouen. It includes a life-size mannequin representing the lower part of the female body, a doll the size of a new-born baby, and various accessories demonstrating female anatomy...