(i lock my door upon myself)

Presentation Scene with Saint Peter Martyr and Three Donors, Giovanni di Balduccio, ca. 1340, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Cloisters

The Cloisters Collection, 2001 Size: Overall: 31 ½ x 33 7/8 x 5 11/16in. (80 x 86 x 14.5cm) Medium: Marble

Saint Jerome and the Lion, 1450, Rogier Van Der Weyden

Baroque Pearl Mounted as a Grotesque Beast, 1590, Art Institute of Chicago: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance

Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf Size: 2.1 × 3.1 cm (13/16 × 1 1 /4 in.) Medium: Gold, enamel, diamonds, and baroque pearl

At the Hippodrome

Intaglio with Male Portrait Bust, 500s, Cleveland Museum of Art: Medieval Art

Size: Overall: 4.3 x 2.5 cm (1 11/16 x 1 in.) Medium: amethyst with gold mount

Grave Stele (Relief), c. 50 BC, Cleveland Museum of Art: Greek and Roman Art

The multiple figures, inscription, use of perspective, and architectural frame distinguish this ambitious relief as one of the most important of its type. The Greek inscription on the base reads, “To Sbardia, also named Tate, Eumelos, son of Aphrodisios, her father, [set this up].” The deceased is shown seated on an elaborate chair. A servant girl holding a fan suggests Sbardia’s high social standing. At the bottom right corner, a hen perches on an upturned basket, a symbol of “the good life.” The stele incorporates a “springing” gable supported by engaged half columns with simplified Corinthian capitals. Other features relate to beliefs about mortality and the afterlife. Above and to the left of her chair is her winged psyche (soul) shown leaving her body. Figures of the three fates are shown in the pediment above, reminding us that human life is finite. Size: Overall: 73.6 x 42.5 cm (29 x 16 ¾ in.) Medium: marble

Louis Ammy Blanc (1810 - 1885)

 Watch (circa 1665) by Henry Jones (British, 1632–1695).

 Metal case, silver lining.