The Holy Bible, conteyning the Old Testament, and the New
1611 · Letterpress printing in black letter
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and...
Every work, cited
Artworks
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 artworks
The Great Dish from the Mildenhall Treasure
4th century CE · Silver
British Museum, London
Mosque Lamp Bearing the Name of the Mamluk Sultan al-Malik al-Nasir
ca. 1340 · Glass
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Oseberg Tapestry Fragments
c. 834 CE or somewhat earlier · Tapestry weave
Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France
c. 1324-1328 · Grisaille
The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Platter
second half 19th century · Lead-glazed earthenware
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, European Sculpture and...
The Ancient of Days
1794 · Relief etching printed in colour
The Whitworth, The University of Manchester
The Wine of Saint Martin's Day
c. 1565-1568 · Glue-size tempera
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria
c. 1615-17 · Oil on canvas
National Gallery, London
Violin, the 'Lady Blunt'
1721 · Spruce top
Private collection, owner not publicly identified
The Rothschild Faberge Egg
1902 · Gold
State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Trumpets of Tutankhamun
c. 1336-1327 BC · Silver trumpet
Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza