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Modern European History

Images from the Met

Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452-1519, Amboise)
A Bear Walking, ca. 1482-85, Silverpoint on light buff prepared paper, 4 1/16 x 5 1/4 in. (10.3 x 13.3 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

 

Botticelli (Italian, Florence 1444/45–1510 Florence)
The Annunciation, ca. 1485-92, Tempera and gold on wood, 7 1/2 x 12 3/8 in. (19.1 x 31.4 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

The Unicorn is Found (from the Unicorn Tapestries), 1495–1505, Wool warp with wool, silk, silver, and gilt wefts
Overall: 145 x 149in. (368.3 x 378.5cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1937