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Piero della Francesca, Italian painterRenaissance Art. Italy. 15th century. Piero della Francesca (c.1420-1492). Italian painter. The Nativity, 1470-75. Tempera on panel. National Gallery. London. England. UK
Chinese ti-tzu, so-na, yueh-ch in, la-pa and Japanese hiji-riki.. Chromolithograph from an illustration by William Gibb from A.J
Mary Qoss MessengerA pigeon carries messages for Mary Queen of Scots, imprisoned at Tutbury, to Babington who is plotting to rescue her and set her back on the throne again
Lady Plays Lute at KnoleAn aristocratic lady plays her lute in a room at Knole, Kent
Angel playing a lute, Melozzo da ForliMelozzo da Forli (1438-1494). Italian painter. Fresco depicting an Angel playing a lute. From the Church of the Twelve Holy Apostles. Pinacoteca Vaticana. Vatican City. Date: circa 1480
Chinese musical instrumentsA selection of Chinese musical instruments, including a bell(1), gong, (2), cymbals(4), a guqin or seven-stringed zither(7), a pipa or four-stringed lute (8), Yueqin or moon-shaped lute(11)
Viol d amour, mandore, Spanish guitar and lute.. Viol d amour (1), mandore (2), Spanish guitar (3) and lute (4). Copperplate engraving by John Lee after a drawing by T
Medieval frolics: wine, women and songAn alfresco medieval social gathering, with mixed bathing and music making. Date: c.1430
Georgian country folk with musical instrumentsGeorgia - Georgian country folk with musical instruments including a boy with a thin drum and a woman holding a stringed instrument, similar to a lute
Secular Games held in RomeThe Secular Games (Ludi Saeculares) are held in Rome to commemorate a 100-year span of Roman history. Despite their name, the Games were a religious celebration involving sacrifices
LADY PLAYS LUTE AT KNOLEAn aristocratic lady plays her lute in a room at Knole, Kent
Lute Music by the Canal, Hendrick SorghA lute player entertains a lady in a Dutch interior, seventeenth century. Date: 1939
Girl playing instrumentA young Japanese woman with ribboned hair playing a stringed musical instrument, perhaps a version of a lute
Chinese woman playing a Ruan (note the Western influence in her choice of footwear!). Date: circa 1910s
Old Chinese ManuscriptFragment from a manuscript of the Uigur dynasty : figures are shown writing and reading, and one is playing a lute-like musical instrument
16th Century Musicians 1A piper performs with players of three types of stringed instruments - a rebec, a lute and a harp
The Song to the Moon - Kay NielsenThe Song to the Moon - The Art of Kay Nielsen. Date: 1913
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia, sitting on his bed throne with scimitar and hookah pipe. Princes to the right, court clerks at left, and other courtiers
Thomas Rowlandson, The Honeymoon - When the old fool has drunk his wine, and gone to rest - I will be thine. circa 1816
France - Circus - Auguste and the White ClownFrance - Circus - Interactions between Auguste (the happy clown) and the White Clown (the sad clown): " Session interrupted". Date: 1905
Historical Musical Instruments, Inventions ExhibitionVarious historical musical instruments displayed at the International Inventions Exhibition, a world fair held in 1885 in South Kensington, London
Violin and stringed musical instrument maker's workshop - Johann Reiter, Mittenwald, Germany, creator of the octave violin. Instruments on display include violins, violas, cellos and lutes
Smart Gent sits beneath a tree and thinks of his loveSmart Gent sits beneath a tree with his lute, dreaming of his sweetheart and composing some lines of romantic poetry and song
The Triumph of Death, by Pieter Bruegel the ElderPieter Bruegel the Elder (circa 1525?1569), Flemish Renaissance painter. The Triumph of Death. Oil on panel. Museo del Prado. Madrid. Spain. Date: 1562
Death extinguishes the candles on an altar of a Nun and her lover.. Handcolored engraving by Chretien de Mechel from Hans Holbein's The Triumph of Death
STUART/ELIZABETH/COPEPRINCESS ELIZABETH Death of the second daughter of Charles I, at Carisbrooke Castle on 8 September 1650 Date: 1635 - 1650
Algeria - African Gnawa Musician playing a traditional sintir, also known as the guembri, gimbri or hejhouj, a three-stringed skin-covered bass plucked lute. Date: circa 1910s
Elderly Moroccan man playing a sintir, also known as the guembri, gimbri or hejhouj, is a three-stringed skin-covered bass plucked lute used by the Gnawa people
When Love was Lost and Life was Vain: Pierrot Forlorn. In the Autumn of Youth: " Fallen Leaves". Date: 1912
Man and woman of Murcia, Spain, 1818. The man wears the traditional folk costume of jacket, sash and wide breeches. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present
Man and woman of the Black Forest, Germany, 1818. She holds a rake and he is sharpening a scythe ready for harvest. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present
Young English gentleman gambling at Newmarket racetrackYoung English gentleman placing a bet at a betting post at Newmarket racetrack. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combes The Dance of Life
Tree carnation varieties, Dianthus caryophyllus: Ariadne 1, Beauty 2, Garibaldi 3, Perfection 4, Queen of Whites 5, Queen of Yellows 6
Dara Shukohs head presented to Aurangzeb, 1659Dara Shukohs severed head is presented to his brother Muhi-ud-Din Muhammad (later Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb), 1659. La testa di Dara-Chekouh presentata a suo fratello. From a miniature
Group of promenaders on the Spianata, Barcelona, 1806View of a group of promenaders on the Spianata, Barcelona, 1806. Strollers include Catalonian women in veils and mantillas, a monk, a soldier in bicorn, children
Two female dancers and two male dancers or TschenkyTwo female Ottoman dancers with castanets, and two male dancers or Tschenky. Tschenky ou danseur publique, danseuse publique. Due Ballerine e Due Ballerini
Initiation ceremony of disciples of ZoroastrianismInitiation ceremonies of gabr or disciples of Zoroastrianism in ancient Persia. A priest pours water in a babys mouth, washes a child and holds another over a pyre. Iniziazione de Guebri
Poster, Pasquali Films, Turin, Attract The World. circa 1912
Sailors listening to a Canta-Storia, Naples, ItalySailors listening to a Canta-Storia, a long narrative song, on the quay at Naples, Italy, with Vesuvius smoking in the background. Date: early 19th century
Country people dancing the Tarantella, Italy, originating from Naples. Date: early 19th century
Country people dancing on return from the vintage, Italy. Date: early 19th century
Roman people dancing a Saltarello, Italy. Date: early 19th century
Mummers in animal masks, 14th centuryMummers in odd animal masks and colourful robes, 14th century, dancing to music played by a man on a lute with animal neck
Classical musical instruments: lyres 1, 2, plectrum 3, cithara 4, lute 5, percussion instruments 6, 7, 8, 15, pan pipes 9, crotales 11, tuba 12, flutes 10, 14, 18, 19, triangle 16, cymbals 17
Norman musical instruments and a siegeNorman instruments: violins 243, 245, a pipe organ 244, harps 246, 249, lyre 247, lute 248, zither 250, hunting horn 251, and siege of a castle by archers and soldiers on a boat 252
Pot with Chinese musicians playing cello and pipa from Nevers, France. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquots General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Pottery, Chez l Auteur
Decorative rectangular plate from Rouen with handles. Painted with six putti in laurel wreaths with cello, lute, lyre, quill, torch on a gold ground, bordered with foliage
The Incomparable Ravel, French rope dancerThe incomparable Ravel, a guitar-playing French tightrope artist from the early 19th century, with two dancers on thick ropes