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Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex] vocum ex optimis quibusq[ue] musicis selectarum

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Il  secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci

Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci

Title from canto part. First published in 1581. Parts for canto, tenore, alto, basso, and quinto, bound in 1 v.

Il  secondo libro de madrigali a cinqve voci

Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinqve voci

Title from canto part. The canto, tenore, alto, basso and quinto parts bound in one volume.

Thipian with its oasis-like gardens, Mt. Sinai

Thipian with its oasis-like gardens, Mt. Sinai

Photograph shows armed men looking out over valley and mountains. J177968 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph taken from the summit of Gebel Tahuna (Hererat El Kebir or the mountain of the mill), where the palm g... More

[Cosmographical chart], 16th century

[Cosmographical chart], 16th century

No ref. copy. Illus. in: Petrus Apianus, Cosmogra...1524. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cosmography; Pub. Ind.

Sinai. Wady Feiran, el Mahrad, Peran

Sinai. Wady Feiran, el Mahrad, Peran

Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) at the junction with Wadi A'liyat and the vicinity of Tell El Mahrad, where the palm grove becomes sparse at the eastern edge of Feiran Oasis, looking west ... More

In the Sinai, 16th century. Eric Matson public domain photograph collection.

In the Sinai, 16th century. Eric Matson public domain photograph colle...

Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Title from negative sleeve. Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) somewhere in the vicinity of Di... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Bedouin home in Wady Er-Raha

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Bedouin home in Wady E...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from the perimeter of the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula(?), looking northwards and showing a w... More

The fort where native chiefs held off the 16th century Spaniards, Cuzco, Peru

The fort where native chiefs held off the 16th century Spaniards, Cuzc...

Copyright by the American Stereoscopic Co. No. 2080. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Dancing peasant couple] / AD [monogram].

[Dancing peasant couple] / AD [monogram].

Bradley Collection (Library of Congress). Meder, 88 Public domain scan of 16th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Parmigianino - The virgin, child and St. John

Parmigianino - The virgin, child and St. John

Print shows the Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus with his cousin in the background. After Francesco Mazzuoli who was called Il Parmigianino. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints a... More

St. John, Parmigianino. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian.

St. John, Parmigianino. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian.

Print showing Saint John carrying a goblet. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. Attributed to Antonio da ... More

[Seven horses in a wood] / Baldung, 1534.

[Seven horses in a wood] / Baldung, 1534.

Title from shelflist card. Signed and dated on block. Bartsch, 56. LC purchase, 1158.

[The Virgin holding the child seated on a cloud]

[The Virgin holding the child seated on a cloud]

Title from shelflist card. Signed with initials on plate. Bartsch, 2. LeBlanc, 2. Nagler I: 280. Coll. mark of Bradley Collection on verso. Bradley Collection.

[Wendelinus Dietterlin ...], 16th century, engraving, Library of Congress

[Wendelinus Dietterlin ...], 16th century, engraving, Library of Congr...

Title from shelflist card. Numerous pencil notes on verso. Ex. coll.: Enzenbert (Lugt, 845).

The entombment / Raff. da Reggio invent. Andrea Andreano Mant. intagliator.

The entombment / Raff. da Reggio invent. Andrea Andreano Mant. intagli...

Print shows Jesus Christ being supported by Joseph of Arimethia as Mary Magdalene gives comfort to the grieving Virgin Mary. After Raffaellino da Reggio. Dedication: All Mm. et Cccmo. Sigr. Don Giovane Medici 1... More

Theodor de Bry - [The Englishmen's arrival in Virginia]

Theodor de Bry - [The Englishmen's arrival in Virginia]

Map showing the coast of Virginia with many islands just off the mainland, two Native territories, Secotan and Weapemeoc, and the Native community of Roanoak on an island at the mouth of a river. Illus. in: Wun... More

[An old man in his winter clothes] / T.B.

[An old man in his winter clothes] / T.B.

An aged Native man from Pomeiock, full-length portrait, facing front, wearing winter garment; landscape scene with village in the background. Illus. in: Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Geleg... More

[Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Lazio, Italy. Casino parterre]

[Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Lazio, Italy. Casino parterre]

Site History. House Architecture: Giacomo (Jacopo) Barozzi da Vignola, 1568-1600. Landscape: Giacomo (Jacopo) Barozzi da Vignola. Associated Names: Tomaso Ghinucci, fontaniere, and Giovanni Francesco Gambara, 1... More

Scene from "The Lost Colony," a historical outdoor drama that marked 80 years of productions in 2017 in Manteo, a community on Roanoke Island in North Carolina's Outer Banks

Scene from "The Lost Colony," a historical outdoor drama that marked 8...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The play describes the late 16th-century attempt to establish a permanent English settlement, founded by Sir Walter Raleigh, in North ... More

The Regent Showcase theater, an art deco former movie house on La Brea Avenue in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California

The Regent Showcase theater, an art deco former movie house on La Brea...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The community, once a dusty mining, railroad, and mill town, was known as Amargosa, after the desert valley that surrounds it. A recreation hall at the no... More

Mural at Amargosa Opera House, a remarkable image from what is largely a ghost town: Death Valley Junction, just outside Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, California

Mural at Amargosa Opera House, a remarkable image from what is largely...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The community, once a dusty mining, railroad, and mill town, was known as Amargosa, after the desert valley that surrounds it. A recreation hall at the no... More

Wilkins House, 1700 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Wilkins House, 1700 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, Distri...

Significance: Originally a private residence, and the Australian Embassy from 1947-73, this semidetached building, subtly designed in the 16th century manner of Italian classicism, is related to the intersectio... More

Trevisan manuscript.  Storia delle navig. [i.e. navigazioni] del Colo. [i.e. Colombo, or Colocut].

Trevisan manuscript. Storia delle navig. [i.e. navigazioni] del Colo....

Ms. Title from spine of early 19th-century binding. In Venetian dialect of Italian. The codex assembles in one copy made ca. 1503 a number of reports dating from 1501 to ca. 1503, notably: (ff. 1a-30a) Angelo T... More

Trevisan manuscript.  Storia delle navig. [i.e. navigazioni] del Colo. [i.e. Colombo, or Colocut].

Trevisan manuscript. Storia delle navig. [i.e. navigazioni] del Colo....

Ms. Title from spine of early 19th-century binding. In Venetian dialect of Italian. The codex assembles in one copy made ca. 1503 a number of reports dating from 1501 to ca. 1503, notably: (ff. 1a-30a) Angelo T... More

Christian Hauge House, 2349 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Christian Hauge House, 2349 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington...

Significance: This detached limestone residence, in the early 16th century French manner, is important for three reasons: its prime location, its commanding scale in relation to the adjacent avenue and its exub... More

[Virgil suspended in a bucket] / L.

[Virgil suspended in a bucket] / L.

Public domain scan - 17th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex] vocum ex optimis quibusq[ue] musicis selectarum

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex] vocum ex optimis quibusq[ue] musicis selectarum

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Canzoni di Florenzio Maschera à 4 voci nouamente ristampate per i professori d'Organo libro primo

Canzoni di Florenzio Maschera à 4 voci nouamente ristampate per i pro...

A score of the composer's Libro primo de Canzoni da sonare, of which the following editions (in separate part-books) have been preserved: Brescia, V. Sabbio, 1584. The present ms. is either a transcript from th... More

[Bacchus figure seated on a wine barrel with people in the background possibly mashing grapes for wine; possibly done as a study for stained glass]

[Bacchus figure seated on a wine barrel with people in the background ...

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Lazio, Italy. Bench at Fountain of the Dolphins]

[Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Lazio, Italy. Bench at Fountain of the Dolphins...

Site History. House Architecture: Giacomo (Jacopo) Barozzi da Vignola, 1568-1600. Landscape: Giacomo (Jacopo) Barozzi da Vignola and Carlo Maderno, 1568-1600. Associated Names: Tomaso Ghinucci, fontaniere and G... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. In the footsteps of father; Bedouin boy with camel

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. In the footsteps of fa...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: In the Fo[otsteps] of his father, Bedouin boy with camel. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from a low elevated... More

In the Sinai, 16th century. American colony in Jerusalem public domain photo.

In the Sinai, 16th century. American colony in Jerusalem public domain...

Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Title from negative sleeve. The landscape and the sequence of the photographs suggest somewhere on Darb El Hagg t... More

Sinai. Oasis in Wady Feiran (Rephidim), and distant view of Jebel Serbal. American Colony, Jerusalem

Sinai. Oasis in Wady Feiran (Rephidim), and distant view of Jebel Serb...

Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) between Dier El Banat ( to the south) and Sheikh Ahmed and Sheikh Shebib Bedouin cemetery (to the north), where a dense palm grove covers that section of F... More

16th century mechanized warfare - Public domain scan / engraving

16th century mechanized warfare - Public domain scan / engraving

Photograph shows reproduction of engraving of mechanized catapult. Received from the U.S. Office of Emergency Management.

[Knight in armor, with lower body of fish; bordered with hunting scenes]

[Knight in armor, with lower body of fish; bordered with hunting scene...

Illus. in: Pedro Ximenez de Prexano, Dat licht der Kerste, Brussels, 1518. Reference copy may be in LOT 4966. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Fish (Symbolism)... More

Pallas, Parmigianino. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian.

Pallas, Parmigianino. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian.

Print showing Pallas, one of the Greek titans, holding a shield. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. Attr... More

A bearded man, wearing a crown, seated at table facing several others with long horns, harp(?), and an elephant

A bearded man, wearing a crown, seated at table facing several others ...

Woodcut by Gomar. Illus. in: H. Staden, Warhaftig Historia und beschreibung einer Landtschafft der Wilden Nacketen Grimmigen Menschfresser Leuthen in der Neuen Welt, part I, Chapter XLVI (Marburg, 1557). This r... More

Philip II letter, 1578 Dec. 2.

Philip II letter, 1578 Dec. 2.

ALS, written in Madrid, to Pedro Moya de Contreras, Archbishop of Mexico. Philip II complains to the Archbishop of Mexico City about his practice of appointing monolingual priests to Indian benefices. Philip ha... More

Navigational charts & designs: Phases of the moon

Navigational charts & designs: Phases of the moon

Illus. in: Martin Cortés, Arte de Navigation, London, 1589, fol. 50. Reference copy may be in SSF - Navigation. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Moon; Sun; Ast... More

[Two views of a 16th century astrolabe]

[Two views of a 16th century astrolabe]

Public domain scan of 17th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Triumph(us) Caesaris (The triumph of Julius Caesar), plate 8]

[Triumph(us) Caesaris (The triumph of Julius Caesar), plate 8]

Plate 8 from series showing people in triumphal procession of Julius Caesar. After the painting by Andrea Mantegna. Bartsch, v. XII, p. 101.11. Gift; Ian Woodner; (DLC/PP-1984:513).

Parmigianino - Temperance / AA [monogram of Andrea Andreani].

Parmigianino - Temperance / AA [monogram of Andrea Andreani].

Allegorical print showing a woman as Temperance, one of the cardinal virtues, seated, facing right, pouring liquid from a chalice, possibly diluting wine with water. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Ren... More

[Villa La Pietra, via Bolognese, 120, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Entrance drive]

[Villa La Pietra, via Bolognese, 120, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Entran...

Site History. House Architecture: First half 16th century, purchased by Arthur Acton 1907. Landcape: Arthur and Hortense Mitchell Acton. Other: Arthur and Hortense Mitchell Acton owned the villa in 1925. Also k... More

[Villa La Pietra, via Bolognese, 120, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Villa stairway]

[Villa La Pietra, via Bolognese, 120, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Villa ...

Site History. House Architecture: First half 16th century, purchased by Arthur Acton 1907. Landcape: Arthur and Hortense Mitchell Acton. Other: Arthur and Hortense Mitchell Acton owned the villa in 1925. Also k... More

The gentlemen from New York / Keppler.

The gentlemen from New York / Keppler.

Illustration shows Thomas C. Platt and Chauncey M. Depew wearing 16th century theatrical costumes in a scene from Shakespeare's play Henry IV. Caption: Falstaff Depew (to Prince Hal Platt) I would to God thou... More

Zeichnet vierte österreichische Kriegsanleihe / A. Karpellus.

Zeichnet vierte österreichische Kriegsanleihe / A. Karpellus.

Poster shows a 16th century soldier holding up a flag with the Austro-Hungarian double-headed Imperial eagle on it. Text: Subscribe to the 4th Austrian War Loan. Forms part of: Rehse-Archiv für Zeitgeschichte u... More

Wilkins House, 1700 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Wilkins House, 1700 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, Distri...

Significance: Originally a private residence, and the Australian Embassy from 1947-73, this semidetached building, subtly designed in the 16th century manner of Italian classicism, is related to the intersectio... More

Il  trionfo di Dori, descritto da diversi, et posto in musica, à sei voci, da altretanti autori

Il trionfo di Dori, descritto da diversi, et posto in musica, à sei ...

Secular part songs, unaccompanied. Title from canto. Parts for canto, alto, tenore, quinto, sesto, and basso. Each part contains the dedication (verso of title page), signed by the publisher and inscribed to Le... More

[Portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea, western Europe, and the northwest coast of Africa].

[Portolan atlas of the Mediterranean Sea, western Europe, and the nort...

Public domain image of an artwork, medieval, renaissance, 14th, 15th, 16th-century art, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Modo di fare il pane - Public domain dedication image

Modo di fare il pane - Public domain dedication image

Illustration showing women preparing grain, shaping bread, and cooking in pot under covered shelter. Illus. in: La historia del mondo nuovo di M. Girolamo Benzoni Milanese / Girolamo Benzoni. [Venetia : F. Ramp... More

As the old Spanish throne topples, up goes the Cuban flag of independence / Grant E. Hamilton ; Sackett & Wilhelms Litho. & Ptg. Co., New York.

As the old Spanish throne topples, up goes the Cuban flag of independe...

Cartoon showing the Spanish throne tumbling, under the weight of "Depleted treasury," "Mortgage," etc., from atop a pile of blocks--"Corrupt aristocracy," "Antagonism to civilization," "16th century methods"--a... More

Madrigali di Verdelot a sei insieme altri madrigali de diversi eccellentissimi autori

Madrigali di Verdelot a sei insieme altri madrigali de diversi eccelle...

Title from canto part. The collation of canto, alto, tenore, basso, quinto and sesto is the same: T.p. 30 p. and 1 unumbered p. of index, which, however, has been omitted in the basso. The signatures run consec... More

Neue kurtzweilige teutsche Lieder mit fünff Stimmen, welche gantz lieblich zu singen, und auff allerley Instrumenten zugebrauchen

Neue kurtzweilige teutsche Lieder mit fünff Stimmen, welche gantz lie...

componirt durch Jacobum Regnart röm. key. maiestat. &c. musicum und vice Capellnmeister. (statement of responsibility) For discantus, altus, tenor, vagans, and bassus. Title from bassus part. Part for tenor co... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex] vocum ex optimis quibusq[ue] musicis selectarum

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex] vocum ex optimis quibusq[ue] musicis selectarum

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex] vocum ex optimis quibusq[ue] musicis selectarum

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex] vocum ex optimis quibusq[ue] musicis selectarum

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex] vocum ex optimis quibusq[ue] musicis selectarum

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Bedouin camp

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Bedouin camp

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from the perimeter of the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula(?), looking southwards and showing a w... More

[Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Lazio, Italy. Fountain of the Dolphins]

[Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Lazio, Italy. Fountain of the Dolphins]

Site History. House Architecture: Giacomo (Jacopo) Barozzi da Vignola, 1568-1600. Landscape: Giacomo (Jacopo) Barozzi da Vignola and Carlo Maderno, 1568-1600. Also: Tomaso Ghinucci, fontaniere. Associated Name:... More

Ferdinand Magellan, 1581, 16th century, engraving, Library of Congress

Ferdinand Magellan, 1581, 16th century, engraving, Library of Congress

Portrait, bust, facing left. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

The Virgin, Child, and a bishop / AC [monogram of Alessandro Casolani]; Andrea Mantuano intagliatore in Siena 1591.

The Virgin, Child, and a bishop / AC [monogram of Alessandro Casolani]...

Print shows Madonna and Child with bishop kneeling beside them. After Alessandro Casolani. Dedication: Al Sig. Mutis Peui Nobile senese. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photo... More

Flight to Ma'an el-Hadj, Petra, Wadi Rum and Akaba. Gulf of Akaba. Western shore known as Jarvis Bay. Showing winter house of Jarvis Pasha, governor of Sinai

Flight to Ma'an el-Hadj, Petra, Wadi Rum and Akaba. Gulf of Akaba. Wes...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Aerial photograph taken over the outlet of Wadi Taba (alluvial plain) into the Gulf of Aqaba, looking northwest and showing the west coast of ... More

To Sinai by car. El Mahrad. An oasis which is "A gem of the desert"

To Sinai by car. El Mahrad. An oasis which is "A gem of the desert"

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) somewhere in the vicinity of Dier El Banat and Sheikh Ahmed a... More

[St. Veronica receiving Eucharist from Christ]

[St. Veronica receiving Eucharist from Christ]

Illus. in: Isidoro Isolani, Inexplicabilis mysterii gesta Beatae Veronicae, Medolani, 1518. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI WORKS; Bible, NT; RBD: BI; Shelf.

Ugo da Carpi - St. Peter preaching the gospel

Ugo da Carpi - St. Peter preaching the gospel

Print shows the apostle Peter, at left, with arm extended, preaching to a group. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979,... More

Diana hunting the stag, Parmigianino. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian.

Diana hunting the stag, Parmigianino. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola...

Allegorical print showing the Roman goddess Diana with hunting dogs; on the left, two dogs have caught the stag. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washing... More

Typus Cosmographicus Universalis. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Typus Cosmographicus Universalis. Book illustration from Library of Co...

World map with ornate border design natives hunting and cannibailzing; elephant; serpent; sea monster. Illus. in: "Mappondo de Johann Huttich" from the 1532 Basel edition of Novus Orbis Regionum. No reference c... More

Charity, 16th century - Engraving, Public domain image

Charity, 16th century - Engraving, Public domain image

Allegorical print showing a woman as Charity, seated beneath a tree, facing front, comforting and nursing three infants.

Hope, Parmigianino. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian.

Hope, Parmigianino. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian.

Allegorical print showing a woman as Hope, one of the theological virtues, with one knee on a bench and both hands raised in prayer toward the sky. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Print... More

Parmigianino - The adoration of the Magi / F.[...].

Parmigianino - The adoration of the Magi / F.[...].

Allegorical print showing the nativity scene with the Magi presenting their offerings to the infant Jesus. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : ... More

Titiani Vercellii pictoris celeberrimi ac famosissimi vera effigies

Titiani Vercellii pictoris celeberrimi ac famosissimi vera effigies

Titian, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection (Library of Congress). Bartsch, 154 (2nd state). LeBlanc, 244. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the Uni... More

[Triumph(us) Caesaris (The triumph of Julius Caesar), plate 6]

[Triumph(us) Caesaris (The triumph of Julius Caesar), plate 6]

Plate 6 from series showing people in triumphal procession of Julius Caesar. After the painting by Andrea Mantegna. Bartsch, v. XII, p. 101.11. Gift; Ian Woodner; (DLC/PP-1984:513).

[Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Lazio, Italy. Staircase by the Fountain of the Lights]

[Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Lazio, Italy. Staircase by the Fountain of the ...

Site History. House Architecture: Giacomo (Jacopo) Barozzi da Vignola, 1568-1600. Landscape: Giacomo (Jacopo) Barozzi da Vignola and Carlo Maderno, 1568-1600. Also: Tomaso Ghinucci, fontaniere. Associated Name:... More

Scene from "The Lost Colony," a historical outdoor drama that marked 80 years of productions in 2017 in Manteo, a community on Roanoke Island in North Carolina's Outer Banks

Scene from "The Lost Colony," a historical outdoor drama that marked 8...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The play describes the late 16th-century attempt to establish a permanent English settlement, founded by Sir Walter Raleigh, in North ... More

Scene from "The Lost Colony," a historical outdoor drama that marked 80 years of productions in 2017 in Manteo, a community on Roanoke Island in North Carolina's Outer Banks

Scene from "The Lost Colony," a historical outdoor drama that marked 8...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The play describes the late 16th-century attempt to establish a permanent English settlement, founded by Sir Walter Raleigh, in North ... More

Moronobu Hishikawa - [Two scenes related to the Soga family]

Moronobu Hishikawa - [Two scenes related to the Soga family]

Print shows in scene on the left, three warriors with bow and arrows hunting deer, one warrior has fallen off his horse; in scene on the right, a warrior is riding backwards on a wild boar with retainers chasin... More

Wilkins House, 1700 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Wilkins House, 1700 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, Distri...

Significance: Originally a private residence, and the Australian Embassy from 1947-73, this semidetached building, subtly designed in the 16th century manner of Italian classicism, is related to the intersectio... More

Wilkins House, 1700 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Wilkins House, 1700 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, Distri...

Significance: Originally a private residence, and the Australian Embassy from 1947-73, this semidetached building, subtly designed in the 16th century manner of Italian classicism, is related to the intersectio... More

Il  trionfo di Dori, descritto da diversi, et posto in musica, à sei voci, da altretanti autori

Il trionfo di Dori, descritto da diversi, et posto in musica, à sei ...

Secular part songs, unaccompanied. Title from canto. Parts for canto, alto, tenore, quinto, sesto, and basso. Each part contains the dedication (verso of title page), signed by the publisher and inscribed to Le... More

Il  trionfo di Dori, descritto da diversi, et posto in musica, à sei voci, da altretanti autori

Il trionfo di Dori, descritto da diversi, et posto in musica, à sei ...

Secular part songs, unaccompanied. Title from canto. Parts for canto, alto, tenore, quinto, sesto, and basso. Each part contains the dedication (verso of title page), signed by the publisher and inscribed to Le... More

[St. Michael fighting the dragon] / AD.

[St. Michael fighting the dragon] / AD.

From Apocalypse series. Exhibited: "Heavenly Craft" at the Grolier Club, New York City, the Library of Congress, and other venues, 2004-2005. St. Michael Conquering the Dragon is a popular subject in Christia... More

Trevisan manuscript.  Storia delle navig. [i.e. navigazioni] del Colo. [i.e. Colombo, or Colocut].

Trevisan manuscript. Storia delle navig. [i.e. navigazioni] del Colo....

Ms. Title from spine of early 19th-century binding. In Venetian dialect of Italian. The codex assembles in one copy made ca. 1503 a number of reports dating from 1501 to ca. 1503, notably: (ff. 1a-30a) Angelo T... More

[Scenes related to the Soga family - two warriors praying in front of a shrine while retainers hold their horses]

[Scenes related to the Soga family - two warriors praying in front of ...

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Eiri soga monogatari : Illustrated tale of the Soga Clan. Format: one sheet of an Sum... More

Das  Armbrustschiessen zu München 1599 (The Crossbow Archers in Munich 1599)

Das Armbrustschiessen zu München 1599 (The Crossbow Archers in Munich...

German (artist nationality) painter and engraver on copper and wood (artist role) Recto: top center: (title, in old German) Abriss dess Schüessplats auf dem Plachfelt neben dem fl. Lusthauss. ; l. r.: (oval sta... More

Christian Hauge House, 2349 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Christian Hauge House, 2349 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington...

Significance: This detached limestone residence, in the early 16th century French manner, is important for three reasons: its prime location, its commanding scale in relation to the adjacent avenue and its exub... More

Christian Hauge House, 2349 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Christian Hauge House, 2349 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington...

Significance: This detached limestone residence, in the early 16th century French manner, is important for three reasons: its prime location, its commanding scale in relation to the adjacent avenue and its exub... More

[Scenes related to the Soga family - three warriors, one with two swords and two with bow and arrows; retainers holding the reins of horses in the foreground]

[Scenes related to the Soga family - three warriors, one with two swor...

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Eiri soga monogatari : Illustrated tale of the Soga Clan. Format: one sheet of an Sum... More

James C. Hooe House, 2230 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

James C. Hooe House, 2230 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, ...

Significance: This row house, in the 16th-century Belgian manner,is noteworthy for its limestone and terra-cotta exterior ornament. Survey number: HABS DC-263 Building/structure dates: 1907 Initial Construction

Il  primo libro delle fiamme vaghi et dilettevoli madrigali dell'eccellente mvsico Cipriano Rore à qvattro et à cinque voci

Il primo libro delle fiamme vaghi et dilettevoli madrigali dell'eccel...

Title from canto part. Twenty-five madrigals for canto, alto, tenore, basso, and quinto. Index by the first line of last page of canto and quinto part. The parts for canto, tenore, alto, basso, and quinto in one volume.

Hymni totivs anni iuxta ritum Sanctæ Romanæ Ecclesiæ cvm qvattvor vocibvs /

Hymni totivs anni iuxta ritum Sanctæ Romanæ Ecclesiæ cvm qvattvor voci...

For cantus, altus, tenor, and bassus. Title from cantvs part. White mensural notation. LC copy bouond in 1 v. Latin words. (language)

Neue kurtzweilige teutsche Lieder mit fünff Stimmen, welche gantz lieblich zu singen, und auff allerley Instrumenten zugebrauchen

Neue kurtzweilige teutsche Lieder mit fünff Stimmen, welche gantz lie...

componirt durch Jacobum Regnart röm. key. maiestat. &c. musicum und vice Capellnmeister. (statement of responsibility) For discantus, altus, tenor, vagans, and bassus. Title from bassus part. Part for tenor co... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex] vocum ex optimis quibusq[ue] musicis selectarum

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex] vocum ex optimis quibusq[ue] musicis selectarum

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex] vocum ex optimis quibusq[ue] musicis selectarum

Liber primvs Cantionvm sacrarvm, vvlgo moteta vocant, quinque [et sex]...

For superius, tenor, contratenor, bassus, and quinta et sexta pars. Title from svperivs part. Liber 1, 2nd ed. (1555); liber 2, 2nd ed. (1555) except contratenor and bassus parts, 1st ed. (1554); liber 3-6, 1st... More

Il secondo libro de madrigali à cinque voci

Il secondo libro de madrigali à cinque voci

di Andrea Rota Maestro di Cappella di Santo Petronio. (statement of responsibility) Title from canto part. The canto, tenore, alto, basso and quinto parts in one volume.

Natural Fools, from the Triumphal Procession of Emperor Maximilian of Austria

Natural Fools, from the Triumphal Procession of Emperor Maximilian of ...

German (artist nationality) painter and woodcut designer (artist role) Recto: (initials, on belt of third figure from left): H B ; verso: (in pencil) u. l.: Clark Aug 1936 / $21.00; l. l.: C575/695 (inscription... More

[Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Lazio, Italy. First terrace]

[Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Lazio, Italy. First terrace]

Site History. House Architecture: Giacomo (Jacopo) Barozzi da Vignola, 1568-1600. Landscape: Giacomo (Jacopo) Barozzi da Vignola and Carlo Maderno, 1568-1600. Also:Tomaso Ghinucci, fontaniere. Associated Name: ... More

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