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The Prophet Malachi, from "Prophets and Sibyls"

Anonymous

1480–90

Fragment

Italian

16th century

Part of a sheet (?)

Italian

19th century

Lucretia Preparing to Kill Herself

Enea Vico

ca. 1542

Terracotta fragment of a skyphos (deep drinking cup)

Etruscan

late 5th century BCE

Saint Martin and the Beggar

Vittore Carpaccio

1493–1500

Border

Italian, Venice

1650–1700

Della Magnificenza e d'Architettura de' Romani (On the Grandeur and the Architecture of the Romans by Gio. Battista Piranesi, Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of London)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1761, 1765

Saint John the Baptist in the desert, a lamb by his side

Antonio da Trento

ca. 1527–30

L'Idea della Architettura

Vincenzo Scamozzi

1615

Title page from Fiori di Ricami (page 6r)

Matteo Florimi

1604

Rear view of the curial chair, from "Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi disegnati ed incisi dal Cav. Gio. Batt. Piranesi, Vol. I" (Vases, candelabra, grave stones, sarcophagi, tripods, lamps, and ornaments designed and etched by Cavalieri Giovanni Battista Piranesi)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1778–80

Fragment

Italian

16th–17th century

Inscriptions and Fragments from the Tomb Chamber near that of L. Arruntius, tome 2, tavola 17 from "Le Antichità Romane" (Roman Antiquities)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

published 1756–57

Sheet with overall fan design in yellow, green, and red

Anonymous

late 18th–mid-19th century

Saint Jerome

Agostino Carracci

late 19th century, based on 16th–17th century original

Putto's Head Looking to the Right with a Shell Beneath the Chin within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini

1727

Bell Lyre (chime)

Leopoldo Franciolini

ca. 1895

L'Architettura di Vitruvio esposta in Italiana favella ed illustrata, con comenti e tavole centro quaranta in tre volumi da Luigi Marini

Marcus Pollio Vitruvius

1836–37

Hercules and Omphale

probably Italian

late 17th–early 18th century

Contemplation of heavenly things, allegory of charity

Jacobo Margottini

ca. 1641

Phiale, miniature

Etruscan

3rd–2nd century BCE

Wilton album, folio 69: Allegory of learning, a woman seated at left with a compass in her left hand and a tablet in her right hand, a putto holding a feather at right

Guido Reni

ca. 1600–42

Design for an ewer

Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau

1548–49

Tabernacle frame

Italian, Marches

early 17th century

Jar

Italian, Venice (Murano)

19th century

The Chastisement of Cupid

Doccia Porcelain Manufactory

1770–80

Profile of a Bearded Old Man Turned to the Right

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

ca. 1645–50

Towel

Italian, Sicily

17th century

Earring, trumpet-shaped

Etruscan

5th–3rd century BCE

Tinned-Copper Plaque with a Personification

Byzantine

350–400

Piece

Italian, Cantù

19th century

A partly naked bacchante seen from behind, facing right and holding an oval dish in her left hand, her drapery in her right, set against a black background inside a rectangular frame

Antonio Ricciani

ca. 1795–ca. 1820

Fibula, fragment

Etruscan

7th–6th century BCE

Saint Jude, holding a halberd in his right hand, from "Piccoli Santi" (Small Saints)

Marcantonio Raimondi

ca. 1500–27

Exterior view of the main door of the Tomb of Mamia [...], from "Antiquités de Pompeïa, tome second, Antiquités de la Grande Grèce..." (Antiquities of Pompeii, volume two, Antiquities of Great Greece...), volume 2, plate 42

Francesco Piranesi

1805

Fragment

Italian

17th century

Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 14 (recto)

Cesare Vecellio

1601

Tassel

Italian

17th century

Saint Mark the Evangelist and Saint Sinibaldus Venerated by Members of a Lay Confraternity

Cristoforo Cortese

ca. 1425–34

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