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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)
The inscription 'Homo nunquam' held by
the husband is reference to the matrimonial fidelity.
Saschiz (German: Keisd) Bellini rug fragment, Transylvania, Mureş County,
Romania
Re-entrant Islamic prayer rug, Anatolia, late 15th to early 16th century.
