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Works

Marble seated harp player

2800–2700 BCE

"Bahram Gur Sees a Herd of Deer Mesmerized by Dilaram' s Music", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Miskin|Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Fragment of a Leather Hanging(?) with an Erotic Scene

ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Ostracon with sketch of a harpist

Statuette of a harp (lyre) player, male

3rd quarter of the 6th century BCE

"Bahram Gur Entertained by the Daughters of Barzin", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

Badge or Harness Pendant

Angel with Harp

Cristoforo Cortese

Madonna and Child with Angels

Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano

Lute Player and Harpist, from Scenes of Daily Life

Israhel van Meckenem

Manuscript Leaf from a Missal

late 15th century

Virgin and Child in an Apse

Apollo or Orpheus surrounded by Animals

Anonymous, French, 16th century

St Cecilia holding an organ, flanked by St Paul, St John the Evangelist, St Augustine and Mary Magdalen, musical angels above

Marcantonio Raimondi|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

David Playing the Harp Before Saul

Lucas van Leyden

David Playing the Harp Before Saul

Lucas van Leyden

A Silver Statuette of an Angel Playing the Harp, from the "Wittenberg Reliquaries"

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Virgin and Child with Four Angels

A statue of Apollo, naked standing in a niche, holding a lyre in his left hand and leaning on a tree trunk

Marcantonio Raimondi

David, Solomon, Rehoboam, from The Twelve Kings of Israel

Lucas van Leyden|Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen

Woman with a Harp

Venus, from The Seven Planets

Apollo seated at the right with a lyre, pointing to a kneeling man who is about to flay Marsyas tied naked to a tree at left

Master of the Die|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)|Philippe Thomassin

David playing the harp before Saul

David Funck|Christoph Bockstorffer

The Young David Playing the Harp

Michelangelo Anselmi

Portrait of a Family

Girolamo Forni and assistant

second half 16th century

The Six Prophets of the Coming of Christ

Hendrick Goltzius|Denijs Calvaert|Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus

mid-16th–early 17th century

King David Playing the Harp with Angels Dancing and Playing Music

Peter Candid (Pieter de Witte, Pietro Candido)|Johann Sadeler I

ca. 1590–1600

Hercules playing a lyre, a lionskin draped over his shoulder, from "Ex Antiquis Cameorum et Gemmae Delineata/ Liber Secundus/et ab Enea Vico Parmen Incis"

Francesco Angeloni|Battista Franco|Philippe Thomassin|Enea Vico|Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

published ca. 1599–1622

Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 75 (recto)

Cesare Vecellio

Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 76 (recto)

Cesare Vecellio

Five Music-Making Figures

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli

King David with Angels

Morazzone (Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli)

Le Brelan, pièce appelée aussi Les Joueurs de Cartes et L'Enfant Produgue Trompé par une Troupe de Filous (Three of a Kind, also called The Card Players and The Prodigal Son Tricked by a Group of Thieves)

David Strangling the Lion

Claude Mellan|Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Prophets, Patriarchs, Saints, and Music-Making Angels in Glory

Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio)

David Chooses Three Days of Pestilence (II Samuel 24:10-17)

Valentin Lefebvre

Apollo, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

Stefano della Bella|Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin|Henri Le Gras|Louis XIV, King of France|Cardinal Jules Mazarin

David in Prayer (facsimile)

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl

late 17th–early 18th century

18th–19th century

清掐絲琺瑯舊約聖經四人物|Old Testament figures

The Goddess of Music Distributing Her Gifts to the Nations

Hubert François Gravelot

Beaker with musical scene

An Allegory Comparing Music and Poetry

Michel François Dandré-Bardon

Design for a Token: Bâtiments du Roi, 1748

Edme Bouchardon

Judgment of Paris

Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder|James Gwim|Richard Houston|Francis Cotes|York House|John Brooks, Irish, ca. 1710–after 1756 London

Marianne Dorothy Harland (1759–1785), Later Mrs. William Dalrymple

Augustin de Saint-Aubin|François Boucher|Jacques Jean Pasquier|Laurent Cars

Worcester factory|James Giles

Sèvres Manufactory|Charles Nicolas Dodin

last quarter 18th century

Perfect Harmony

Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune

Design for a Title Page

Anonymous, British, 18th century

Asia from a set of The Four Continents

Beauvais|Jean Jacques François Le Barbier|de Menou|Louis XVI, King of France

designed ca. 1786, woven 1790–91

Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg|Samuel Middiman|John Hall|Thomas Gray|Edward Jones