deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Windsor Castle, Eton College, Victoria Bridge, Old Windsor Lock
Object type: page
Date: 1868 – 1873
Materials: paper
Techniques: albumen print, letterpress printing, line block
Location: berkshire
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: castle, landscapes in the temperate zone, river bank, landscape with bridge, viaduct or aqueduct, university building, college

Foto's op vierde ongenummerde pagina na pagina 32.
Sleeve Button
Object type: cuff link
Date: 1750 – 1750
Materials: gold
Helft van een sprei, ivoorkleurig, doorgestikt in schelpmotief
Object type: bedspread
Date: 1750 – 1750
Materials: silk, wool
Techniques: napping
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous

Helft van een sprei van ivoorkleurige zijdesatijn, gevuld met een tussenlaag van (geruwde) wol; doorgestikt met lichte zijden draad in schelpmotief in het midden en in de hoeken.
Tea caddy (part of a service)
Object type: tea caddy
Date: 1750 – 1770
Materials: hard paste porcelain
Subjects: men
Portret van Chang en Eng Bunker
Object type: print
Date: 1834 – 1874
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: thailand, historical persons, siamese twins
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2233

De beroemd geworden bijnaam ‘Siamese tweeling’ is door (populaire) media overgenomen om te verwijzen naar met elkaar vergroeide tweelingen.
Portret van Louis Legendre
Object type: print
Date: 1818 – 1842
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228a
Miss East, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-8) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes
Object type: photograph
Date: 1891 – 1891
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: w. duke, sons & co.
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1870 – 1920
Subjects: portraits,women,actresses

Trade cards from the set "Actors and Actresses" (N145-8), issued in the 1880s by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes. There are eight subsets of the N145 series. Various subsets sport different card designs and also promote different tobacco brands represented by W. Duke Sons & Company. This card is from the eighth subset, N145-8. Note that actors' names are spelled differently on cards throughout set and are not dependable for accuracy.
Parti fra  Bratlandsdalen, Suldal, Noorwegen
Object type: photograph
Date: 1870 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: norway
Artist: knud knudsen
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1832 – 1915
Subjects: norway
Inscriptions: number: ‘K. Knudsen, Bergen’, caption: ‘3375 PARTI FRA BRATLANDSDALEN SULDAL’

Bergweg van boven af gezien, met rechts daarvan een wild stromende rivier. Er zijn geen mensen afgebeeld. Suldal is een gemeente in de Noorse provincie Rogaland.
51. Buitenzorg: Plantentuin
Object type: photograph
Date: 1895 – 1915
Materials: cardboard, paper, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: buitenzorg
Artist: Anonymous
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘51. Buitenzorg: Plantentuin’

De Victoria Regia vijver in de botanische tuin te Buitenzorg (Bogor), Nederlands-Indië.
Kimono with Pheasants amid Peonies
Object type: kimono
Date: 1901 – 1950
Materials: paste, silk
Techniques: embroidery, resist
Culture: japanese
Subjects: pheasants,peonies

Vividly colored pheasants and peonies appear against a ground that graduates delicately from light brown to beige, from top to hem. The depiction of pheasants amid the “king of flowers,” as peonies were known in East Asia, has a long history in Japanese pictorial arts and is associated with summer. The auspicious peony motif originated in China and began appearing in Japanese decorative arts in combination with long-tailed birds. Here, rocks, birds, and pink- and apricot-colored flowers are depicted on the front of the kimono, with the left and right halves of the composition almost merging at the back in a modern rendering of a classical pattern. The realistic depiction of the flowers and the birds reflects the influence of Western oil painting.
Design for a Chimneypiece
Object type: drawing
Date: 1734 – 1789
Materials: ink
Techniques: brush, pen, wash
Artist: jean charles delafosse
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1734 – 1789
Subjects: fireplaces,profiles,women
Portret van Louis-Eugène Cavaignac
Object type: print
Date: 1848 – 1848
Materials: paper
Techniques: aquatint, etching
Location: london
Subjects: commander-in-chief, general, marshal, historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, signature: ‘LCavaignac’
Huizen aan een rivier met een waterval en stroomversnellingen, vermoedelijk in Frankrijk
Object type: photograph
Date: 1905 – 1910
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: france
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: prospect of village, silhouette of village, rapids, river bank, waterfall, river (+ landscape with figures, staffage), france

Onderdeel van Fotoalbum van een Franse amateurfotograaf met bezienswaardigheden in Frankrijk, Zwitserland en Italië.
Case (Inrō)
Object type: inrō
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: bronze, metal
Culture: japanese
Subjects: human figures
Joe Jefferson Dressed as a Great Mogul, India, in 1508, from the set Actors and Actresses, First Series (N70) for Duke brand cigarettes
Object type: print
Date: 1888 – 1889
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: w. duke, sons & co.
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1870 – 1920
Subjects: men,actors

Trade cards from the "Actors and Actresses" First Series (N70), issued in a set of 50 cards in 1888-89 to promote W. Duke Sons & Co. brand cigarettes.
Project for the Decoration of a Spandrel: Winged Female Figure Holding a Tablet and a Crown
Object type: drawing
Date: 1524 – 1606
Materials: chalk, paper
Techniques: brush, wash
Artist: paolo farinati
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1524 – 1606
Subjects: women
Design for Festival Architecture for an Entry into Paris for the King of Sweden, Fredrerick I of Hesse
Object type: drawing
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: ink
Techniques: brush, pen, wash
Artist: guillaume thomas raphaël taraval
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1701 – 1750
Subjects: architecture
Drie staande vrouwen in gesprek
Object type: drawing
Date: 1874 – 1927
Materials: chalk, paper
Techniques: brush
Artist: johan antonie de jonge
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1864 – 1927
Untitled (Niece Elizabeth with "Inky" at Oaklawn)
Object type: photograph
Date: 1903 – 1903
Location: united states
Artist: alfred stieglitz
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1864 – 1946
Quartier des Gobelins, plate 20 from Le Long de la Seine et des Boulevards
Object type: print
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: france
Artist: louis auguste lepère
Artist role: print maker
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1849 – 1918
Jongen een blinde bedelaar begeleidend
Object type: drawing
Date: 1770 – 1825
Materials: ink, paper, pencil
Techniques: pen
Artist: simon andreas krausz
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1760 – 1825
Subjects: beggar
Gezicht op de Singel bij de Huiszittenbrug
Object type: cabinet photograph
Date: 1875 – 1896
Materials: paper, cardboard
Techniques: collodion silver print
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: city-view in general; 'veduta', canal, the usual house or row of houses, bridge in city across river, canal, etc.
Inscriptions: stamp: ‘Gebr. Douwes / Atelier / Grimburgwal 15 / Amsterdam’, collector's mark: ‘13,29’ Lugt 1641b, inscription: ‘94. / Singel b/d Huiszittens brug v/d afbraak.’

Onderwerpsrubriek binnen de Atlas Amsterdam: Oude Schans, Schoutensteeg, Singel (Korte), Singel.
Dames-modegids, 15 juni 1881, No. 653
Object type: fashion print
Date: 1881 – 1881
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, hand coloring
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: bench, clothing for the upper part of the body (shawl) (+ women's clothes), gloves, mittens (mitaines) (+ women's clothes), fashion plates, dress, gown (+ women's clothes), picking fruit, dog, parasol, sunshade (+ women's clothes)
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘DAMES-MODEGIDS 15 JUNI 1881’

Een jongetje in een blauw pakje, plukt kersen uit de boom voor de jonge vrouw met parasol. Op de bank ligt een grote shawl. Prent uit het modetijdschrift Dames-modegids (1873-...).
Portret van Lothar Bucher
Object type: print
Date: 1848 – 1854
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: berlin
Subjects: historical persons, portrait of a writer
Inscriptions: workshop stamp: Lugt 2141c, collector's mark: Lugt 2228
–Mister Mayor, what is a bibiscite? –It is a Latin word that means yes, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, April 30, 1870
Object type: print
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Artist: honoré daumier
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1808 – 1879
Subjects: satire,men
Decorated ware jar depicting boats
Object type: jar, decorated ware, boat
Date: 3500 – 3300
Materials: paint, pottery
Location: egypt
Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 500 – 451
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Exterior, seven rim fragments with top loop of tendril
St. John the Evangelist, from "Christ, Mary and the Apostles"
Object type: print
Date: 1590 – 1610
Techniques: etching
Artist: antonio tempesta
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1555 – 1630
Subjects: men,saint john the evangelist,punishment
Ceremonial Hanging (palepai)
Object type: religious ritual object
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: cotton, fiber, paper, silk, silver
Techniques: brocade, lacquer, patterning, weave
Culture: paminggir
Location: indonesia
Subjects: boats, figures (representations), seas, waves

The Paminggir aristocracy employed a type of ritual hanging commonly known as a ship cloth, a name that refers to one of the principal motifs of such textiles. These hangings display a very limited repertoire of patterns, including one or two red ships, a single blue ship, tree images, buildings, and rows of stylized anthropomorphic figures. The indigenous name for textiles of this type, palepai, probably goes back to the old Javanese word lepih, which means “to fold” or “to double.” Palepai served as markers of status and perhaps even denoted descent. Indeed, title, claim to leadership, and certain other privileges accompanied the possession of palepai. These textiles were also important requisites during rites of passage, such as marriage, death, or accession to a higher rank—events that were thought to be unstable moments fraught with danger. The ship images that appear on this palepai would have indicated an appropriate agent of safe conduct from one stage of life to another. The red vessels are also understood to represent the upper world, the abode of the ancestors, which can be reached by the ship of death. Since the Lampung economy was based on sea trade, ships served as symbols of wealth and power as well.
Scene from a Drama
Object type: woodblock print nishiki e
Date: 1726 – 1792
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: nishiki e, woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: katsukawa shunshō　勝川春章
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1726 – 1792
Subjects: swords,men,actors
Nederlands Indië, cent,1858
Object type: coin
Date: 1858 – 1858
Materials: copper
Techniques: striking
Location: utrecht
Artist: willem iii (koning der nederlanden)
Artist role: koning
Artist dates: 1817 – 1890

Koperen munt. Voorzijde: tussen jaartal gekroond rijkswapenschild. Boven kroon landsaanduiding en onder wapenschild waarde-aanduiding. Keerzijde: tweeregelig Maleis opschrift in Arabische tekens, waaromheen omschrift in het Javaans. Gladde rand.
Portret van een vrouw met een baby op schoot, aangeduid als Nelly Merten
Object type: semi enamel
Date: 1880 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, celluloid, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: ghent
Subjects: historical persons - bb - woman, infant, baby ~ the ages of man
Inscriptions: name: ‘Nelly Merten’, inscription: ‘Photographie/ Cles. de Trez & Cie./ 3 Rue de la Corne, 3/ GAND/ Maison/ a/ BRUGES/ Rue Notre Dame, 14/ Maison/ a/ BRUXELLES/ Rue du Pont neuf, No. 1/ Maison a ANVERS/ 28, Rue du Vallon vert, 28/ 12 Cartes satinée./ Les Clichés sont conservés’
At the Maison d'Or
Object type: print
Date: 1897 – 1897
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: france
Artist: henri de toulouse-lautrec
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1864 – 1901
Sealing from net
Object type: sealing, from net
Materials: cord, mud
Location: egypt
Landschap met antieke ruïnes
Object type: print
Date: 1610 – 1614
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: landscape with ruins - ii - ideal landscapes
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘9’, collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Heuvelachtig landschap met antieke ruïnes en diverse figuren. Op de achtergrond schepen op het water. Prent uit een serie van zes met landschappen.
Buckle
Object type: buckle
Date: 401 – 600
Materials: brass
Culture: gallo-roman or merovingian
Location: france
Telegram aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: telegram
Date: 1898 – 1898
Materials: paper, pencil
Techniques: printing, writing
Location: baden-baden
Artist: baronne madeleine deslandes
Artist role: schrijver
Artist dates: 1866 – 1929
Subjects: the hague, painter, philip zilcken
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Paardenhoofd met hangende leidsels, van voren gezien
Object type: print
Date: 1801 – 1801
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: joannes bemme
Artist role: print maker, printer
Artist dates: 1775 – 1841
Subjects: horse (+ head of an animal)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Portret van een onbekende vrouw in een tuin met bloemen in haar hand
Object type: photograph
Date: 1920 – 1940
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print, snipping
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: adolescent, young woman, maiden, cut flowers; nosegay, bunch of flowers
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Post Card This Space for communication The Address to be written here’
Zeilboot op een vaart
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1834 – 1903
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: johan hendrik weissenbruch
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1824 – 1903
Subjects: sailing-ship, sailing-boat, canal

Blad 17 recto uit een schetsboek met 43 bladen.
Menat Counterpoise, Amasis
Object type: menat counterpoise
Date: 570 – 526
Materials: faience
Location: egypt
Portret van Maria II Stuart
Object type: print
Date: 1688 – 1726
Materials: paper
Techniques: mezzotint
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: london, maria ii stuart (koningin van engeland, schotland en ierland)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Portret van Maria II in een ovaal. In de ondermarge haar naam en titels.
Uitboezeming bij het vertrek der heeren studenten van Leydens Hoogeschool als Vrijwillige Jagers
Object type: brochure
Date: 1830 – 1830
Materials: paper
Techniques: printing, sewing
Location: leiden
Artist: diederik jacobus den beer poortugael
Artist role: dichter, officier
Artist dates: 1800 – 1879
Subjects: leiden
Inscriptions: date
Wenceslaus Xaverius Neumann de Puchholtz
Object type: print
Date: 1772 – 1799
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: prague
Subjects: prague, historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Geboorte van Mozes
Object type: stained glass
Date: 1550 – 1550
Materials: glass
Techniques: enamel painting
Location: antwerp
Artist: dirck pietersz. crabeth
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1520 – 1574

De Geboorte van Mozes (Exodus 2) bestaat uit twee onderdelen. Een rechthoekig glaspaneel met de hoofdvoorstelling erop en een kleiner paneel met een ronde bovenkant waarop de architectuur van het grote paneel doorloopt. Links op het grote paneel ligt de moeder van Mozes in het kraambed, rechts wordt het kindje gewassen. Op de achtergrond de scène waar Mozes, verstopt in een mandje, in de Nijl wordt gezet.
Man en paard
Object type: print
Date: 1898 – 1898
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Artist: charles haslewood shannon
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1865 – 1937
Subjects: horse, sitting on the ground
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent maakt waarschijnlijk deel uit van een serie met twaalf voorstellingen. Over deze serie is verder niets bekend. Het betreft voornamelijk voorstellingen met betrekking tot de twaalf maanden van het jaar en oogsten.
Fotoreproductie van een prent van de triomf van Neptunus
Object type: page
Date: 1852 – 1857
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: salted paper print
Subjects: triumph of neptune
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Duch. No. 214. col. V. Sestich’

Foto op blad met zeven foto's tegenover pagina 60.
Vroegere kapittelzaal v. d. Domkerk, thans groot-auditorium der Universiteit, Utrecht
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1897 – 1910
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph
Location: buiksloot
Artist: johan marinus schalekamp
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1844 – 1912
Subjects: auditorium ~ theatre, etc., church (exterior)

Vermoedelijk is deze prentbriefkaart oorspronkelijk gedrukt in de periode 1897-1905 en zijn op verso later een deelstreep en lijnen voor het adres bijgedrukt, zodat de kaart na 1905 alsnog geldig was en verkocht kon worden.
Ite deae pelagi
Object type: print
Date: 1697 – 1763
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Subjects: when turnus sets the trojan ships on fire they turn into sea-nymphs at cybele's request, (decorated) ceiling
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Dit is een prent naar een plafondschildering in het Koninklijk Paleis.
Fauteuil met hoog opgetrokken rugleuning en bekleed met een beige stof met een bruin ruitmotief
Object type: seating furniture
Date: 1921 – 1921
Materials: wood
Location: netherlands
Artist: wim schuhmacher
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1894 – 1986

Fauteuil van donker getint eikenhout rustend op vier lage poten. De poten zijn zowel aan de voor- als achterzijde onderling verbonden door middel van een brede regel met een golvende rand aan de onderzijde. De fauteuil heeft brede wangen waarop de armleggers liggen. De armleggers verbreden naar de voorzijde. De aan de buitenzijde gebogen wangen verbreden naar de voor- en bovenzijde. De fauteuil heeft een hoog opgetrokken rugleuning. De zitting en een los kussen zijn bekleed met een beige stof met een bruin ruitmotief.
Portret van Charles Gobinet
Object type: print
Date: 1691 – 1691
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: france
Subjects: paris
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Portret van Charles Gobinet (1612-1690) afgebeeld in ovale omlijsting met tekst, waaronder console met Latijnse tekst bestaande uit vier regels.
Glass mosaic box (pyxis) fragment
Object type: fragment, mosaic box pyxis
Date: 34 – 33
Materials: glass
Culture: roman

Translucent cobalt blue, turquoise blue appearing green, purple, opaque yellow and white. Vertical rim, tapering upward, with recessed band below to receive lid; slightly everted shoulder line; cylindrical side, tapering slightly downward. Marbled mosaic pattern formed from serpentine lengths of canes in different colors with streaks of white and yellow, some overlapping to give different shades and colors. Polished exterior, with pitting of surface bubbles; dulling, pitting, and creamy iridescent weathering on interior, rim, and jagged edges.
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 490 – 470
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Exterior, at left, an unidentified object hanging from wall; part of head of youth to left
Religieus draagteken met Maria van Loreto
Object type: history medal
Date: 1750 – 1850
Materials: silver
Techniques: striking

Zilveren penning met draagoog, op de voorzijde Maria van Loreto met omschrift, op de keerzijde twee engelen voor het Heilige Huis van Loreto, met afsnedetekst en omschrift.
Peter the Great
Object type: plaque
Date: 1767 – 1833
Materials: ivory
Subjects: men,profiles

Forms a pair of profile portraits of Russian czars along with 1972.145.36, Catherine II (Catherine the Great). Kholmogory, a settlement at the mouth of the Northern Dvina River possessed a thriving ivory- and bone-carving industry using the by-products of the hunting and whaling activities at nearby Archangelsk.
Overwinning van de Denen op de Zweden
Object type: history medal
Date: 1677 – 1677
Materials: silver
Techniques: striking
Location: copenhagen
Artist: christoffer schneider
Artist role: medailleur
Artist dates:  – 1701
Subjects: koning, christiaan v (koning van denemarken en noorwegen), faeröer, zweden, noordse oorlogen, schonense oorlog

Zilveren penning. Voorzijde: drie maal dooreen gevlochten het monogram van Christian V van Denemarken tussen twee kronen en lauwerkrans. Keerzijde: opschrift in lauwerkrans
Vrouw draagt een brandend hart op een schaal terwijl ze met haar voet op een rijksappel steunt
Object type: titelblad, titelpagina
Date: 1686 – 1686
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: the sacred heart, orb (symbol of sovereignty; sphere with cross on top) - bb - female ruler
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Titelpagina voor: Bois, Mattheus. Christelyke Sin- en Geestryke Annotatien, Zijnde een versameling van vele Christelijcke Ondervindingen. Amsterdam: Jacob van den Velde, 1686.
Ontwerp voor voetstuk
Object type: design drawing
Date: 1780 – 1780
Materials: chalk, graphite, ink, paper
Techniques: brush, pen
Location: antwerp
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: furniture and household effects
Urformen der Kunst
Object type: photograph
Date: 1928 – 1928
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: rotogravure
Location: berlin
Subjects: plants (in general)
Inscriptions: number: ‘80’

facher Vergrößerung. Afkomstig uit losbladige uitgave.
Annotaties
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1897 – 1910
Materials: paper
Artist: willem witsen
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1860 – 1923
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘[...]’

Pagina 1 uit een schetsboek met 19 bladen.
Vase with stylized leaves and an ornamental border
Object type: vase
Date: 1902 – 1902
Materials: cobalt, glaze, paint, porcelain
Techniques: firing, forming, relief, vitrification
Location: berlin
Inscriptions: mark: ‘scepter/ twee cijfers (99 of 66[?])/ 59/ rode rijksappel met 'K.P.M'/ F.B (1902)/ 672[?]1/ 9599/ diameter symbool met II.’

Vase. Porcelain. Berlin, Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur, 1902, possibly by Heinrich Lang.
Head of Silenos
Object type: head of silenos
Date: 200 – 101
Materials: terracotta
Culture: cypriot
Subjects: heads,silenus

The head is mold-made and solid. The back is probably handmade. The head is preserved with part of the neck in back. He has a high furrowed forehead. His head is bald, with just a few locks of hair above the thick, projecting jug ears.
Portret van Denis Pétau
Object type: print
Date: 1659 – 1731
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Artist: pieter van gunst
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1658 – 1731
Subjects: paris
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Denis Pétau, een Franse jezuïet, theoloog en historicus. Onder het portret zijn wapenschild.
Fragment of a Frieze with a Geometrical Pattern
Object type: fragment
Date: 401 – 700
Materials: limestone
Techniques: carving, relief
Location: egypt

The monastic community of Bawit, founded in the 300s by Apa (Father) Apollo at a small village, grew to consist of numerous complexes with residences, chapels, and service structures and two large churches profusely decorated with sculptures and paintings, often reused from other sites, all affiliated with the Coptic church. The more important buildings were decorated with courses of sculpted stone freely combining floral and geometric motifs inspired by classical art – rosettes, acanthus leaves, meander patterns – with more recent Christian themes. These sculptural elements, demonstrating the Byzantine love of complex patterning with lush textures, were originally painted in rich, vibrant colors like those surviving in textiles.