Skip to main content

Maiolica bust of an old woman

Image attached to C.1-1955

An image of Maiolica. Bust of an old woman. Production Place: Italy, Emilia-Romagna, Faenza (probably). Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior; underside unglazed. Painted in dark blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, and black. height, whole, 20.9 cm, width, whole, 24.0 cm, circa 1490-1510. Renaissance.

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

About this image

Maiolica. Bust of an old woman. Production Place: Italy, Emilia-Romagna, Faenza (probably). Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior; underside unglazed. Painted in dark blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, and black. height, whole, 20.9 cm, width, whole, 24.0 cm, circa 1490-1510. Renaissance.

Image data

  • Accession Number: C.1-1955
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/22.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Andrew Norman
  • Image height: 768 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 508.70kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 22/1
  • Captured: 2013:02:26 15:36:16

Key words

15th Century 16th Century aged bust caps costume earthenware elderly faces facial expressions female Fitz_AA grimace grimacing Italian maiolica old old age old woman Renaissance teeth toothless woman

Colours in this image

rgb(87,86,87), rgb(215,208,194), rgb(156,146,137), rgb(128,188,178), rgb(107,138,133), rgb(15,38,67), rgb(220,170,71), rgb(118,162,186), rgb(88,115,138), rgb(53,33,31), rgb(193,92,28)

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Maiolica bust of an old woman" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-200278 Accessed: 2024-11-05 19:51:50

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-200278 |title=Maiolica bust of an old woman |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-05 19:51:50|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/images/media-200276

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/C_1_1955_1_201303_adn21_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Bust of an Old Woman"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Maiolica bust of an old woman</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>
    

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...