Painting to Dress Match-up

Thomas Pollock Anshutz (American, 1851–1912) • A Rose • 1907

'The Annunciation; details' by Mikhail Nesterov

15th-century rosary, simply incredible. Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination. Met Museum.

“Nature forging a baby”

Forget conception or little homunculi, just make your babies in a forge.

[Guillame de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose. From Bruges c.1490-1500.]

The Worship of the Sacrament Altar, 17th Century.

Michelangelo, The Torment of Saint Anthony detail, 1487

Hours of Louis de Laval - BnF, Latin 920, fol. 180r - France - c.1480

This 2,300 years old mosaic reads, "Be cheerful, live/enjoy your life". Collection: Antakya Archaeology Museum, Turkey. Photographer: Dosseman via Wikimedia Commons.⁣

Juan de Borgoña Mary Magdalene, St. Peter of Verona, St. Catherine of Siena and blessed Margaret of Hungary

c. 1515

Juan Carreño de Miranda Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

1655-65

1884 Jules-Élie Delaunay - Madame Marie Toulmouche

(Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes)

Margaret Stuart, Lady Mennes, Great-Great Granddaughter of Mary Boleyn, attributed to Cornelius Janssens van Ceulen, ca 1620

John Singer Sargent - Portrait de Madame Allouard-Jouan (1880-84)

Since ancient times, cats have interfered with their masters' work. A cat on top of a manuscript.

Cumdach of the Stowe Missal (Ireland, 1025-1052) Wood, brass, silver gilt, glass cabochons;

The Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters has in its collection a curious early 20th-century reproduction of the 11th-century Cumdach of the Stowe Missal. A cumdach, or book shrine, is an Irish form of reliquary case made for books associated with important religious figures. Only five early examples of cumdachs exist.

Held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art