15th Century Collection

Representation of the Catholic Church as a Fortress
Representation of the Catholic Church as The Fortress of Faith. The defending forces of the Christian faith

Representation of the Catholic Church as a Fortress
Representation of the Catholic Church as The Fortress of Faith. The defending forces of the Christian faith

Chapter of the Order of the Golden Fleece held by Charles the Bold (1433-1477). Engraving by C. Maradan and Huyot after a 15th-century miniature

Raimbaut de Moreuil defended the cause of
As the clerics were not allowed to fight, Raimbaut de Moreuil defended the cause of the Abbot of Saint-Denis in single combat with Guyon de Losenne

King Charles VII (1403-1461) of France presiding
Charles VII (1403-1461). King of France (1422-1461). Charles VII presiding over the judgment of John II of Alencon (1409-1476) at the Chateau de Vendome in 1458

Peasant dances of the May Feasts. Facsimile of an engraving from a miniature in a 15th-century book of hours

William Caxton, English printer, with his printer's mark
Oval portrait of William Caxton, English printer, c. 1422 - c. 1491. with his printer's mark. English merchant, diplomat, and writer

Pasquino or Pasquin, antique Hellenistic statue of Menelaus
Pasquino or Pasquin, an antique Hellenistic statue of Menelaus supporting the body of Patroclus rediscovered in the Palazzo Braschi, Rome, in the 15th century

Hans Holbein the Elder, German painter, c.1460-1524. Son of Michael Holbein, and father to artist and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger. Johannes Holbein Senior Augustanus

Albrecht Durer the Elder, Hungarian goldsmith, 1427-1502. After a portrait by his son, German painter and printmaker Albrecht Durer

Adam Kraft, German stone sculptor, c.1460-1509
Adam Kraft, German stone sculptor and master builder of the late Gothic period, based in Nuremberg, c.1460-1509. Adam Krafft Norib

Hubert van Eyck, Early Netherlandish painter, c.1385-1426
Hubert van Eyck, Huybrecht van Eyck, c.1385-1426. Early Netherlandish painter and older brother of Jan van Eyck. In fur hat, with paintbrush and palette. Hubertus ab Eyck Fland

Peter Vischer, German sculptor, 1455-1529
Peter Vischer the Elder, German sculptor, 1455-1529. Son of Hermann Vischer, and the most notable member of the Vischer Family of Nuremberg. Peter Vischer Norib

Jan van Eyck, Flemish painter, c.1390-1441
Jan van Eyck, Flemish painter active in Bruges, c.1390-1441

Martin Schongauer, Alsatian engraver and painter, c.1450-1491
Martin Schongauer, also known as Martin Schön or Hübsch Martin, Alsatian engraver and painter, c.1450-1491. Martin Schon a Calenbach

Piero di Cosimo, Italian painter, 1462-1522
Piero di Cosimo, also known as Piero di Lorenzo, Italian painter of the Renaissance, 1462-1522

Giuliano da Sangallo, Italian sculptor and architect, c.1445-151
Giuliano da Sangallo, Italian sculptor, architect and military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance, c.1445-1516. Guliano da S. Gallo

Donato Bramante, Italian architect and painter, 1444-1514
Donato Bramante, born as Donato di Pascuccio d'Antonio and also known as Bramante Lazzari, Italian architect and painter, 1444-1514. Bramante da Urbino

Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter, c.1431-1506
Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter, student of Roman archeology, son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini, c.1431-1506. Andreas Mantegna Mantua

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter and polymath, 1452-1519
Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect, 1452-1519. Lionardo da Vinci Florent

Leon Battista Alberti, Italian humanist author, 1404-1472
Leon Battista Alberti, Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, 1404-1472. Giovann Battista Alberti Florentin

Giorgione, Italian painter of the Venetian school, 1477-1510
Giorgione, Italian painter of the Venetian school during the High Renaissance, 1477-1510. Giorgione da Castel Franco

Perugino, Italian Renaissance painter, c.1446-1523
Perugino, born Pietro Vannucci, Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, c.1446-1523. Petrus da Perusia

Giovanni Bellini, Italian Renaissance painter, c.1430-1516
Giovanni Bellini, Italian Renaissance painter from Venice, c.1430-1516. Giovanni Bellino Venet

Lippo d'Andrea, Florentine painter, 1370-1451. Formerly known as Pseudo-Ambrogio di Baldese. Lippo Florentinus

Fra Angelico, Italian painter, c.1395-1455
Fra Angelico, or Beato Angelico, Dominican friar and Italian painter of the Early Renaissance, c.1395-1455. Giovanni de Fiesoli Dominicanus Monac

Military weapons, France and Germany, 15th century. Scimitar, stirrup, battle axe, battle hammer, dagger, poignard, sabre, buckler, shield, club, etc. Armes diverses, No

Fame triumphs over Death from Petrarch's Triumphs, 1500
Fame triumphs over Death. A winged goddess with crown and golden trumpet brings the captive cadaver of Death on her chariot. In French costume of the late 15th century

The companions of Laura from Petrarch's Triumphs, 1500
The companions of Laura. Three chaste women and a boy in French costumes of the late 15th century. Les compagnes de Laure, France, XVe siecle (fin)

Laura bringing Cupid to the Temple of Chastity
Laura bringing a disarmed Cupid on a chariot to the Temple of Chastity. Laura holds a shield, a palm of victory and triumphal column. Laure conduit l'amour au Temple de Chastete

Grand dignitaries from the court of King Charles VIII, France, 15th century. Lords in plumed hats, fur-lined coats, with daggers and falcon. Grands dignitaires de la cour de Charles VIII

Wooden door from Luneburg town hall, 15th century
Carved and painted wooden door from Luneburg town hall, 15th century. Two hommes sauvages, bearded men in green animal skins, hold a heraldic shield. Inside a stone painted archway

A judge led by a page to the tournament lists, 1460
A judge on caparisoned horse led by a page to the tournament lists, end of the 15th century. Juge-Diseur conduit par un page au lieu du tournoi. France, fin du XVe siecle

Wooden door from Luneburg town hall, 15th century
Carved and painted wooden door from Luneburg town hall, 15th century. With figure of the sun, the moon with a man's face Lunae burgum, and heraldic shields

Oak wardrobe from Luneburg town hall, 15th century
Carved and painted oak wardrobe from Luneburg town hall, 15th century. With figure of the sun, the moon with a man's face Lunae burgum, and heraldic shields

Oak wardrobe from Luneburg town hall, 15th century
Carved and painted oak wardrobe from Luneburg town hall, 15th century. With figure of the sun, the moon with a man's face Lunae burgum, and figures holding heraldic shields

Isaac and his son Esau in 15th century French costume. Esau dressed as a hunter, in doublet, hose and boots with bow, quiver and sword. Isaac et Esau. XVe siecle

The apparation of the angel to the shepherds
The apparation of the angel to shepherds dancing in a field. In the costume of Flemish rustics, 15th century. L'apparation de l'ange aux bergers. XVe siecle

Saint Barbara, virgin martyr, 3rd century
Saint Barbara, virgin martyr, patron saint of explosives, 3rd century. In crown and velvet gown, reading a Bible near a town with a round tower with three windows. In 15th century French costume

Saint Fiacre of Breuil with spade and bag of seeds. Catholic priest, abbot, hermit and gardener, c. 600-670. Taken from a 15th century Book of Hours, livre d'heures, MS Tl 255, Tom

Portrait of a standard bearer, Germany, 15th century. In the flamboyant costume of a landsknechts, with plumed hat, slashed doublet, codpiece, hose, beribboned boots

Noble women and their maids, France, 15th century. Ladies in tall hennin with long veils, gowns with long trains, walk along a hall decorated with helms and heraldic banners

Swiss male costumes from La Danse des Morts, 15th century
Swiss male costumes, 15th century. Nobleman, abbot, herald, cardinal, canon and bishop. Homme noble, l'abbe, le heraut-d'armes, le cardinal, le chanoine, l'eveque. Suisse, XVe siecle

Swiss costumes from La Danse des Morts, 15th century
Swiss costumes, 15th century. Count, countess, jurisconsult, bourgeois, bourgeois woman with cradle and son, Jewish man. Switzerland, 15th century

French costumes from La Danse Macabre, 15th century
French costumes, 15th century. Gaoler, minstrel, fool, bourgeois, beggar, pilgrim and shepherd. Geolier, menestrel, fou, bourgeois, mendiant, pelerin, berger. XVe siecle

French costumes, end of the 15th century. Usurer in chaperon 1, young man with rose 2, young woman 3 and old woman in hennin hat 4. The men with large purses or almoniers on their belts

French costumes, end of the 15th century. Bourgeois woman 1, female merchant 2, merchants 3, 4 and bourgeois men 5, 6. The men with large purses or almoniers on their belt

French costumes, end of the 15th century
French costumes, end of 15th century. Disabled beggar with crutches 1, female fool with marotte 2, witch with broom 3 and sergeants at arms with rods and swords 4, 5

French costumes, end of the 15th century
French costumes, end of 15th century. Equerries in doublets and boots with falcons 1, 2, widow in black 3, marquise in crown 4 with maid 5, baron with sceptre 6, and knight with sword 7

Gerard de Nevers finds Euriant's ring, Flanders, 15th century. Gentlemen wearing plumed caps, doublet, hose and spurs

Philosophy presenting the seven liberal arts to Boethius in his bedroom. Figures of Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Music, Geometry, Arithmetic, and Astronomy. France, end of the 15th century

French costumes of the 14th and 15th century

Pietro de Crescenzi lecturing on agriculture, 15th century. The audience of gardeners, loggers, harvesters, hold adzes, scythes, sickles. La Lecon d'Agriculture. France, XVe siecle

Three Flemish costumes, 15th century. Woman in hennin with veil and wimple, woman in bonnet and cracows, and man in chaperon and velvet coat with dagger

Young couple with a lap dog, 15th century
Young couple seated with a lap dog, 15th century. Both wear cracows or poulaines. From a livre d'heures (Book of Hours), MS 1173, Bibliotheque Imperiale

Peasants dancing around a tree, Netherlands, 15th century
Shepherds and villagers dancing around a tree, Netherlands, 15th century. A bagpiper plays music, and a man baits a bear. From a livre d'heures (book of hours), MS 1173, Bibliotheque Imperiale

Cuer d'Amour arrives at the land of Compagnie, 15th century
The knight Cuer d'Amour arrives at the land of Compagnie, 15th century. He wears a winged helmet adorned with flowers, red tunic and plate armour. He dines with ferry women in hennin hats

Scenes from the life of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, 4th century virgin and martyr. Depicted in Flemish costume of the 15th century. La Vie de Sainte Catherine de Sienne [sic]

Roger Bontemps locking his heart in a box
The fool Roger Bontemps locking his heart in a forgotten box. Rogier Bon Temps, France, 15th century

Ferry women bring Cuer d'Amour to shore, 15th century
Two ferry women bring Cuer d'Amour to shore, 15th century. Other women in hennin hats row boats and fish. Les Dames Marinieres. France, XVe siecle

Saint Peter in the costume of a 15th century pope. In triregnum crown holding a bible, cardinal in scarlet habit and zucchetto holding a papal cross with two crossbars [sic]

French bourgeois paying income taxes, 15th century. Magistrates collect cash from a bourgeois man and record payment in a register. Paiment de Rentes, France, XVe siecle

Three nuns visit an abbot, France, 15th century. The nuns in veils and habits, the abbot standing in a gothic gabled porch. Abbe recevant des religieuses. France, XVe siecle

Interior of a bar or cabaret, Belgium, 15th century. Barmaid behind the counter, drinkers on benches, a waiter pouring beer from a barrel

Benedictine monks celebrating mass, 12th and 13th century
Benedictine monks celebrating mass during the era of the Cult of the Virgin Mary, 12th and 13th century. Grisaille from Gautier de Coinci's Miracles de Nostre-Dame, France, 15th century

Renaud de Montauban meets the knight Gerard de Roussillon
Renaud de Montauban and his family in a cavalcade meeting the knight Gerard de Roussillon. Gerard talks to a Black servant on the road in front of a fortress. France, 15th century

Maulgis with the Belle Oriande in a garden, 15th century
Maulgis, a devoted servant of Charlemagne, with the Belle Oriande in a garden with fountain, 15th century. The beauty in horned hat or escoffion. Maulgis et la Belle Oriande, France, XVe siecle

John of France, Duke of Berry. 1340-1416
Illuminated initial J depicting John of France, Duke of Berry. 1340-1416. Seated on a throne in a long mantle with ermine collar. Johannes in calligraphy. Le Duc de Berri. 15th century

A lady of high rank in her state habit, 14th century. She wears a crown over a gold net headdress and an armorial robe embroidered with birds and snakes

Military habits of the 15th century

Religious habits of the 15th century. Monks in cassocks and nun in veil, wimple and habit holding rosaries, Bibles and staffs

Military habits of the 15th century

Male costume of the 15th century. Knight in feather cap, mantle, boots and spurs, man in tunic, hose and cracows, and man in mantle with frilled split sleeves. Knight (left) from f

Noble costumes of the 15th century
Personages of rank of the 15th century

Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England, and noblewomen
Margaret of Anjou, Queen of Henry VI of England, in ermine mantle with crown and sceptre, and noblewomen courtiers in butterfly hennin or escoffion headwear and wide-sleeved robes, 15th century

King Henry VI of England presenting a sword to John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, on his appointment to Constable of France

Costumes of state officers of the 15th century. They wear headdresses with drapery, rich velvet mantles and robes with slit sleeves

Costumes of state officers of the 15th century. They wear velvet capes with slit sleeves, doublets, hose and cracows

Persons of high-rank of the 15th century
Persons of high rank of the 15th century. Dancing noble in paltock with dagged sleeves, and nobleman in fur-lined embroidered sleeveless mantle from Jean Froissart's Chroniques, Royal 18 E ii

Costumes of workers of the 15th century: Carpenters with pincers and axe, stone mason with right angle, and gardener with shovel. Labourers and artificers of the 15th century

Costumes of skilled workers of the 15th century
A builder or stone mason with right angle, and a hunter in hood, tunic and boots holding a birding net. Labourers and artificers of the 15th century

Cardinal George Innes, in white robes and scarlet cloak and cap, circa 1412. Scottish cleric and author of a history of his own order, the Trinitarians or Red Friars, De Funatione suae Ordinis

Portrait of King James II, of Scotland, 1430-1460. Dressed in doublet and hose, a wide-brimmed hat, jeweled chain on his chest, crakows or poulaines on his feet

Renaissance art: miniature paintings on manuscript, late 15th century. Animals, foliage, monsters and heads by the Italian miniaturist Girolamo da Cremona from the Gradual of the Cathedral of Sienna

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