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'Bellini' carpet, XVI century, Ushak, Turkey (Western Anatolia), Ottoman Empire. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. no 22.100.114)


Date: 16th–17th century
Geography: Turkey
Culture: Islamic
Medium: Wool (warp, weft, and pile); symmetrically knotted pile
Dimensions: Rug: H. 61 3/4 in. (156.8 cm) W. 47 3/8 in. (156.8 x 120.3 cm)
Credit Line: The James F. Ballard Collection, Gift of James F. Ballard, 1922
Accession Number: 22.100.114


 

 

Husband and Wife
1523
Oil on canvas, 98 x 118 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

by Lorenzo Lotto - Italian painter, Venetian school (b. ca. 1480, Venezia, d. 1556, Loreto)