The Behaim Globe (Erdapfel)
1492-1494 · Two clay-moulded hemispheres laminated in...
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
Renaissance
Artworks made 1400 to 1600. 69 recorded, each with a cited chain of ownership. The era is read from the year on each record; the record's own date line is what counts.
69 artworks
The Hunt-Lenox Globe
c. 1504-1510 · Copper
New York Public Library, Rare Book Division
The Mainz Psalter
1457 · Letterpress printing in black
Royal Collection, Royal Library
Armor for the Joust of Peace
Late 15th century · Steel
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Trinity College Harp
c. 1350-1500 · Carved willow soundbox
Long Room, Old Library, Trinity College Dublin
ex "Kurtz" Violin
c. 1560 · Spruce
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Half Armor attributed to Don Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba y Fernandez de Cordoba, Duke of Sessa (1520/1524-1578)
16th century · Steel and gold
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Henricus Martellus's World Map
c. 1489-1491 · Hand-drawn and colored manuscript map
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
"Tahmuras Defeats the Divs", Folio 23v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
c. 1525 · Opaque watercolor
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries
c. 1425-1450 · Wool
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Chain of Lovers' Knots, Cheapside Hoard
1590-1620 · Gold
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Crown of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, known as the Crown of the Andes
16th century · Gold
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York