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MYTHOLOGICAL ANIMALS

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Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 33-02-02/65. Woodcut. Base of the right hand middle column. Cranes with shells, vine leaves with pea pods bursting, sirens (symbolic of the vice of lust, which the Emperor resisted, when he gave the prize of honour), a wreath of lilies of the valley. Above is plainly visible the beginning of another block, cut by a different hand.
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Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 3...

Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 33-02-02/65. Woodcut. Griffin striking fire with iron and flint belonging to the insignia of the order of the Golden Fleece.
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Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 3...

Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 33-02-02/65. Woodcut. Uppermost section of the right-hand corner column. Griffin with the motto "Halt Mass", the device of Maximilian.
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Triumphal Arch ('Ehrenpforte') for Emperor Maximilian I. Dated 1515. Detail of 3...

Daedalus and Icarus. Illustration to The Mirror of the True Rhetoric (Marcus Tullius Cicero and others: Spiegel der waren Rhetoric). Printed by Friedrich Riederer, Freiburg im Breisgau, 11 December 1493. Woodcut, 146 x 187mm. (fol. LXIr.)
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Daedalus and Icarus. Illustration to The Mirror of the True Rhetoric (Marcus Tul...

The Coat of Arms of Florian Waldauf (Waldauff) von Waldenstein. Illustration to Saint Birgitta of Sweden: Revelationes (Birgitta Suecica, Reuelationes sancte Birgitte). Published by Florian Waldauf (von Waldenstein), printed by Anton Koberger, Nuremberg, 21 September 1500. Woodcut, 231 x 144mm. (fol. A2v.)
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The Coat of Arms of Florian Waldauf (Waldauff) von Waldenstein. Illustration to...

Saint Birgitta and the Virgin interceding for the Damned. Illustration to Saint Birgitta of Sweden: Revelationes (Birgitta Suecica, Reuelationes sancte Birgitte). Published by Florian Waldauf (von Waldenstein), printed by Anton Koberger, Nuremberg, 21 September 1500. Woodcut.
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Saint Birgitta and the Virgin interceding for the Damned. Illustration to Saint...

Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing the cityscape of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615),Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 2 - The Sumiyoshi festival procession. Sumiyioshi deities are carried in mikoshis, portable shrines, to the port of Sakai and back. Members of the sword nobility. Toyotomi Hideyoshi had restricted the bearing of arms to the samurai class. Two participants in the procession form a dragon.
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Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing t...

Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing the cityscape of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615),Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 2 - The Sumiyoshi festival procession. Sumiyoshi deities are carried in mikoshis, portable shrines, to the port of Sakai and back. Members of the sword nobility; two participamts in the procession form a dragon.
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Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing t...

Milon of Crotone,aging athlete,devoured by the lion. Aging Milon tried to tear apart a tree,but was caught in the stem.A lion devoured the helpless old man. Marble,H:270 cm 1670-1682
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Milon of Crotone,aging athlete,devoured by the lion. Aging Milon tried to te...

Fame riding Pegasus, 1699-1702 Commissioned by King Louis XIV for Marly. Carrara Marble,H:326 cm x 291 cm MR 1824
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Fame riding Pegasus, 1699-1702 Commissioned by K...

Mercury riding Pegasus, 1699-1702. Commissioned by Louis XIV for Marly. Carrara Marble,H:326 cm x 291 cm MR 1822
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Mercury riding Pegasus, 1699-1702. Commissioned by L...

Les Trois Graces - the three Graces., Salon 1831. Marble, 172 x 102 x 45 cm
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Les Trois Graces - the three Graces., Salon 1831. Marble, 1...