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The Egg in Art

Images of artworks referenced in the discussion between Kim Hill and Mary Kisler, Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki about the depiction of eggs in the works of Hieronymous-Bosch, Leonardo da Vinci, and other artists. From the Saturday Morning programme of 26 March 2016.

1. Piero Montefeltro, Altarpiece 1472-74, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

2. Leonardo da Vinci,Study for the Head of Leda, Royal Collection, Windsor

3. After Leonardo, Leda and the Swan (circa 1515) Wilton House, Salisbury

4. Bacchiaca, Leda and the Swan, early 1500s, Metropolitan Museum, New York

5. Jacob Bryant's Orphic Egg, 1774

6. Hieronymous-Bosch, the three panels of The Garden of Earthly Delights

6a. Hieronymus-Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights [detail of Hell]

7. Hieronymus-Bosch, Concert of the Egg, Lille Palais des Beaux Arts

8. Pieter Aertsen, The Egg Dance, 1552, Rijksmuseum

9. Fabergé Egg, Fabergé Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia, purchased 2004

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