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Saint James the Greater
Master F.P. (Italian, c. 1530-1550) or after Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, called Il Parmigianino (Italian, 1503-1540)

Holy Family Crowned by an Angel
Master F. P. (Italian, c. 1530-1550) possibly after Parmigianino (Italian, 1503-1540)

Armor for the Field and Tourney
South German or Austrian (Probably Innsbruck)

The Alcoholic
Gilbert & George Gilbert Proesch; British, born 1943; George Passmore; British, born 1942

Portions of a Field Armor
Jacob Halder (English, 1558–1608) Royal Workshops of Greenwich, England

Candida and Her Mother, Celia, II
Dawoud Bey American, born 1953

Portions of a Field Armor
Austrian; Innsbruck

Fluted Field Armor
German, Nuremberg

Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne
F.A. (German?, active 18th century) after I.Z. (German?, active 18th century) published by Giuseppe Allegrini, Florence, 1761

Hussar's Armor
Polish

Pikeman Armor for an Officer
English, Greenwich

Display Cabinet
Louis-Désire-Eugène Gaillard French, 1862-1933

After Franz Marc: 1-6
Sherrie Levine American, born 1947

Elements of an Armor for the Joust in the Italian Fashion
South German; Augsburg

Joseph Sold by his Brothers
Master of the Die (Italian, active c. 1530-1560) after Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520)

Oneika I
Dawoud Bey American, born 1953

Infantry Armor
German, possibly Cologne

Infantry Armor
Northern German, Brunswick

Bishop at Mass in a Historiated Initial "P" from a Choirbook
French or possibly southern Netherlandish follower of Master Honoré (French, flourished 1288-1300)

Centerpiece and Stand with Pair of Sugar Casters
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory (1710–present) Model by Johann Joachim Kändler (born Saxony [now Germany], 1706–1775) Meissen, Electorate of Saxony (now Germany)