Ye Booke of Howrs

The Bower Meadow, 1872. 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British, 1828–1882)

“Gustaham Slays Lahhak and Farshidvard”, Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Islamic Art

Bequest of Monroe C. Gutman, 1974 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper

Firdawsi’s Shahnama, Iran, Shiraz, ca. 1560, The David Collection, Copenhagen

ab.1522-1526 Everhard Rensig, Gerhard Remisch - Maria, wife of Jacob Hase of Kall-Helstert, and her four daughters with Saint Peter (panels from the cloisters at the Cistercian abbey of Mariawald, in Germany)

Illuminated page with a botanical border taken from ‘Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne’ (1505-1510) by Jean Bourdichon (1457?-1521).

Totila before Saint Benedict by Benozzo Gozzoli, European Paintings

Rogers Fund, 1915 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Tempera on wood

An illustration of a sandworm (aka “king ragworm”) from William Carmichael McIntosh‘s A monograph of the British marine annelids v. 2, pt. 2 (1910). The worm is labeled Nereis virens in the text, which is an older scientific name for the species now known as Alitta virens.

Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist by Francesco Granacci, European Paintings

Purchase, Gwynne Andrews, Harris Brisbane Dick, Dodge, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds, funds from various donors, Ella Morris de Peyster Gift, Mrs. Donald Oenslager Gift, and Gifts in memory of Robert Lehman, 1970 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Tempera, oil, and gold on wood