Museum Exhibition
Catalogue of Works
Layered Narratives: The Northern Renaissance Gallery
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
30 documented works

Hans Daucher
Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V
ca. 1522
Honestone (Jurassic limestone), traces of gilding
Overall (confirmed): 11 1/8 × 18 7/16 × 1 3/4 in. (28.3 × 46.8 × 4.4 cm)
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Joachim Deschler
Nuremberg church-warden Hieronymus Paumgartner (1497–1565)
1553
Bronze
Diameter (Confirmed): 2 5/8 in. × 7/16 in. (66.8 × 10.6 mm)
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Pieter Claesz
Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill
1628
Oil on wood
9 1/2 x 14 1/8 in. (24.1 x 35.9 cm)
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Esias zur Linden
Ship (Nef)
ca. 1609–20
Partly gilded silver
wt. confirmed: 19 1/2 × 3 1/8 × 8 1/2 in., 26.453oz. (49.5 × 7.9 × 21.6 cm, 750g)
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Crowning with Thorns
1520–30
Silver, lampworked glass, enamel, gold
Overall (confirmed): 2 7/16 × 1 3/4 in. (6.2 × 4.4 cm)
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Albrecht Dürer
The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine
ca. 1498
Black ink on carved pearwood
15 1/2 × 11 1/8 × 1 in. (39.4 × 28.3 × 2.6 cm)
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Wenzel Jamnitzer
Mortar
ca. 1550
Bronze
diameter at rim, wt. confirmed: 4 15/16 × 6 1/2 in., 51.142oz. (12.5 × 16.5 cm, 1450g)
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Jan Rombouts
Healing of the Paralyzed Man at Capernaum (one of a set of 12 scenes from The Life of Christ)
ca. 1525–30
Stained glass
Overall: 26 × 19 3/8 in. (66 × 49.2 cm); Framed (confirmed): 22 7/8 × 17 3/4 × 3/8 in. (58.1 × 45.1 × 0.9 cm)
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Master of the Furies
Saint Sebastian
17th century
Ivory; kingwood socle
Overall: 17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm) (without wooden socle)
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Cup with cover
ca. 1560–70
Rock crystal, partly gilded silver mounts
H. with cover 9-1/2 in. (24.1 cm); Diam. 3-1/8 in. (7.9 cm)
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The Triumph of Poverty (one of a series)
last quarter 16th century
Bronze
H. 2 5/8 x W. 5 in. (6.7 x 12.7 cm.)
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Hubert Gerhard
Pietà
after 1595
Bronze
Overall (confirmed): 11 5/8 × 6 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (29.5 × 16.5 × 19.1 cm)
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Otto Meier
Chalice
1608, with later restorations
Gold, enamel, gemstones
Overall: 9 × 6 in. (22.9 × 15.2 cm)
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Bottoms-up cup or stirrup cup (Sturzbecher)
ca. 1550–70
Salt-glazed stoneware
Height: 15 1/16 in. (38.3 cm)
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Georg Schreiber
Chess and backgammon game board
17th century
Amber, ivory, brass, gold foil, ebony
Overall (closed, confirmed): 12 1/2 × 12 1/2 × 3 in. (31.8 × 31.8 × 7.6 cm); Overall (open, confirmed): 24 3/8 × 12 1/2 × 1 1/2 in. (61.9 × 31.8 × 3.8 cm)
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Giovanni Battista Lodi da Cremona
Aglauros’s Vision of the Bridal Chamber of Herse, from the Story of Mercury and Herse
designed ca. 1540, woven ca. 1570
Wool, silk and precious metal-wrapped threads (20-22 warps per inch, 8-9 warps per cm.)
weight confirmed, includes tube: 14 ft. 4 in. × 17 ft. 9 in., 173 lb. (436.9 × 541 cm, 78.5 kg)
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Small pomander with six sections
first half 17th century
Silver, parcel-gilt
Height: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
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Justice
late 16th centuy
Gold, partly enameled, set with diamonds and emeralds; pearls
Overall: 4 5/16 × 3 in. (11 × 7.6 cm)
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Pendant in the form of a swan
16th century
Gold, partly enameled; pearls
Overall (with chain): 2 1/2 × 1 3/8 × 13/16 in. (6.4 × 3.5 × 2.1 cm)
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Wenzel Jamnitzer
Casket
late 16th–early 17th century
Gilded yellow metal, silver
Overall: 9 × 9 3/4 × 8 1/4 in. (22.9 × 24.8 × 21 cm)
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Bather
late 16th–early 17th century
Bronze
Wt. on base, confirmed: 11 3/4 in., 7.7 lb. (29.8 cm, 3.5 kg)
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André Omereler
Padlock and key
1531
Steel, partially gilded brass
Overall (.10a): 7 × 5 7/16 × 2 9/16 in. (17.8 × 13.8 × 6.5 cm); Length (assembled .10d, e): 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)
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Leonhard Kern
Girl
ca. 1635, base possibly late 1830s
Pearwood (Pyrus communis); pedestal: blackened wood
Height without pedestal, confirmed: 7 1/2 in. (19 cm) Height with pedestal, confirmed: 10 15/16 × 3 1/2 × 4 in. (27.8 × 8.9 × 10.2 cm)
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Astronomical table clock
second quarter 17th century
Case: gilded brass and gilded copper; Dials: gilded brass and silver; Movement: brass, gilded brass, and steel
Overall: 25 × 10 × 10 in. (63.5 × 25.4 × 25.4 cm)
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