Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

002. Da Costa Coat-of-Arms, fol. 1v

ca. 1515

Da Costa hours
Illuminated by Simon Bening (1483/84–1561)

Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 1v

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), 1910

The Da Costa arms (gules, six argent rib bones) are suspended from a helmet within an illusionistic architectural niche. Two rib bones form a crest on the top of the helmet. Two putti, standing on columns and holding garlands, flank the arms.
All are within an illusionistic wood frame.