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One canonical page per artwork: what it is, where it was found, every owner it passed through, where it has been exhibited, what has been written about it, and what it has made at auction. Every claim carries a cited public source.

276 records

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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Christ Preaching, Healing the Sick, and Blessing the Children ("The Hundred Guilder Print")

c. 1647-1649 · Etching

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C

Unknown Roman workshop (ancient carving); restored 1772-1774 by Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Guillaume Grandjacquet to designs attributed to Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Warwick Vase

2nd century AD · White marble

The Burrell Collection, Glasgow

Unrecorded English goldsmith (Canterbury or an itinerant craftsman working in southern England)

The Gloucester Candlestick

1107-1113 · Gilt copper alloy

Victoria and Albert Museum, London. On display, Medieval and...

Unrecorded medieval goldsmiths' workshops serving the French crown (pommel, guard and grip); blade replaced and scabbard restored in later centuries

Epee du sacre des rois de France

Composite, 10th to 19th century · Gold with filigree work

London embroiderers of the opus anglicanum trade, workshop unidentified

The Syon Cope

c. 1300-1320 · Linen ground

Muhammad al-Idrisi

Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi'khtiraq al-'Afaq (The Tabula Rogeriana)

Text completed 1154 CE at Palermo · Arabic geographical treatise

No single original survives. The text is preserved in roughly...

Albrecht Durer

Knight, Death and the Devil

1513 · Engraving on laid paper

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C

William Henry Fox Talbot

Latticed Window at Lacock Abbey

August 1835 · Photogenic drawing negative: paper sensitized with silver...

National Science and Media Museum, Bradford