Renaissance spectacle posters & prints

Spectacles Box, 1808 Anonymous

A Festa in the Campo del Campo, Siena, 1597 Vincenzo Rustici

The Last Judgement, c.1525 Jan II Provost

A Roman Spectacle Blas Olleros y Quintana

Saint Jerome reading (Copy), ca 1636 Georges de La Tour

The spectacle pedlar, ca 1624-1625 Anonymous

Triumph of Fame, a birth salver of Lorenzo the Magnificent, c.1449 Giovanni di Ser Giovanni Scheggia

Portrait of a Lady with a Boy, 1530s Paris Bordone

The Doge Setting off on a Voyage from Venice Italian School

Apotheosis of Cosimo I de Medici, 1563-1565 Giorgio Vasari

Coronation of the Virgin, 1513 Ludovico Brea

Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici, c.1545 Agnolo Bronzino

Allegorical Portrait of a Woman (Simonetta Vespucci), 1480-1490 Sandro Botticelli

Portrait of a Venetian Senator, ca. 1525 Vincenzo Di Biagio Catena

A Pedlar selling Spectacles outside a Cottage, c.1650-53 Jan Havicksz. Steen

Capture of Porto Ercole, 1568-1570 Giorgio Vasari

Portrait of Bona Sforza, Queen of Poland, c. 1565 Anonymous

Portrait of Lorenzo II de Medici, Duke of Urbino, ca 1518 Anonymous

Portrait of a Gentleman in his Study, c. 1527 Anonymous

The Concert of Angels, 1534-36 Gaudenzio Ferrari

Spectacle Maker (From Abbildung der gemein-nützlichen Haupt-Stände), 1698 Christoph Weigel the Elder

The Tempest, c.1508 Giorgione

Triumph of Galatea, c. 1512 Raphael

Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, c.1600 Titian

The Presentation Gerard David

Venus of Urbino Titian

The Presentation in the Temple, c.1567 Nosadella

Fine Ground Spectacles for all Sights, Cries of London, (c1688?) Anonymous

Portrait of Bia de Medici, 1542 Agnolo Bronzino

Florentine Onlookers Domenico Ghirlandaio

Triumph of Galatea, c.1511 Raphael (1483-1520)

Portrait of a Woman, mid-16th century Jacopo Zucchi

The Bravo, ca 1515-1520 Anonymous

The Sermon of St. John the Baptist, c.1550 Flemish School

Portrait of Pope Paul III Farnese, 1543 Titian

The 'Studiolo' of Francesco de'Medici detail of decoration depicting a putto holding a globe, 1564-75 Nanni di B. Bigio & Bartolomeo Ammannati (1511-92)