Renaissance damask with lions
Silk; damask
1567-1599 AD 

Apron
16th-17th century Italy
Linen 

Saint Christopher and the Infant Christ
Domenico Ghirlandaio, c. 1448
Fresco

[I think this is one of the most fun frescoes I have looked at. It’s just…fun!] 

Shoes (Chopines)
1550-1650 Italy
Silk, metal

“The chopine was a tall clog worn in primarily in Venice to elevate the lady above both the dirt and the hoi polloi of the street. While relatively few shoes survive from the period of the 15th to 17th century, chopines are inordinately represented in museum collections as they were saved most probably due to their outlandish peculiarity. This exemplar illustrates all the classical characteristics of this specialized form: red or green velvet covering, lobed platform sole trimmed in gold lace with hobnails, gold braid edging, shirred ribbon trim on the vamp, and beard-like tassel below the open toe.” 

Girl with Cherries
Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis, ca. 1491-95
Oil on wood 

Marriage of Alexander and Roxana
Sodoma, 1517
Fresco 

“In his Marriage of Alexander and Roxana, the relaxed bride sits on the edge of a gorgeous bed with posts of gilded Corinthian columns, while three putti disrobe her. Another tugs Alexander in her direction, serving maids depart, and on the right the almost nude god of marriage, accompanied by a torchbearer, presides over the occasion. Luxurious in its surfaces and overripe in its coloring, this frankly voluptuous fresco is the opposite of the moralized mythologies of Botticelli.”

Saint Matthew and the Angel
Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo c. 1534
Oil on canvas

“The little scene at right may depict Saint Matthew receiving hospitality from the eunuch of the queen of Ethiopia. Suggestions for identifying the scene at left include the martyrdom of Saint Matthew, his healing of the citizens of Nadaber, the tower as a reference to a passage in “The Golden Legend,” and Saint Matthew bringing the son of the king of Ethiopia back to life.

X-radiography has revealed the figure of a woman, painted over by the artist, on the right side of the canvas.”