Lamps in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

• Glass hanging lamp, 4th century
• Lamp with a horse's head, made in Byzantium or Syria in the late 4th century
• Brass hanging lamp with griffin-head handle, Byzantium, 5th-6th century
• Lamp on a stand, Byzantium, 6th century
• Byzantine Polycandelon of the 6th-8th centuries
• Oil lamp (glass), 8th-9th century
• Steatite hanging lamp found at Jarlshof, c. 9th-11th century

Sandy Ware Lamps Large hanging lamp, found in London, c. 971-1050 Standing lamp, found in London, c. 971-1100 Standing lamp, found in London, c. 971-1100

• Glazed terracotta oil lamp of an Arab-Norman type, found in Salerno, 11th century
• Oil lamp from the Serçe Limani shipwreck, 1020s
• Early medieval sand and shell-tempered ware lamps, found in London, c. 1001-1150: hanging lamp and pedestal lamp
• Copper-alloy hanging lamp found in London, 12th century
• Norman stone lamp, carved in Beer stone from South Devon, found in a 12th century rubbish pit in Exeter
• South Hertfordshire-type greyware spike or cresset lamps, found in London, c. 1170-1350: MoL 68.11/9 and MoL A27986
• Steatite lamp found at Jarlshof, late 12th - early 13th century
• Bronze oil lamp in the shape of a partridge, Khorasan, 12th-13th century
• Bronze bird-shaped lamp, Rhine, 12th-14th century
• Steatite hanging lamp found in Shetland, 13th century
• Ceramic lamp, 13th century
• Ceramic lamp found in a cesspit behind a house in London, 13th century
• Pendant glass oil lamps suspended on chains in The Life of St. Denis, c. 1250; also BNF NAF 1098, fol. 55v
• Lamp stand, 14th century Egypt or Syria (V&A 912-1884)
• Pendant lamp above Bruder Eberhard von Sax, the Manesse Codex (Heidelberg Universitäts-Bibliothek Cod. Pal. germ. 848, fol. 48v), c. 1305-1340
• Nativity, Lives of the Saints (BNF Fr. 185, fol. 3), second quarter of the 14th century
• Pendant glass oil lamp over Naomi mourning her sons, Speculum Humanae Salvationis (ÖNB s.n. 2612, fol. 29r), c. 1330-1340
• Parable of the lost coin (fol. 29v) and parable of the wise virgins and foolish virgins (fol. 34v), Speculum humanae salvationis (BNF Arsenal 593), second half of the 14th century
• Oil lamp, 14th-15th century

Lampas is a glasen vessel, þynne and brotil and smeþe and clere, open & rounde aboue, narow and streyte byneþe, and euelong, and serueþ to norische fuyre & light and haþ þe name of lambo, to likke, for it semeþ it likke þe oyle, and so euerich þat 3iueþ aboue forþ light may be y-cleped lampas. Trevisa's translation of De proprietatibus rerum, British Library Add. 27944

• Cepperello's prayers (fol. 11), Martellino at the tomb of St. Arrigo (fol. 34), Agidulf cuts the culprit's hair (fol. 94v), Puccio di Rineri deceived by Felice (fol. 101), Abilech and Rustico pray (fol. 126v), Lisabetta's dream (fol. 148), Girolamo Sighieri scorned by Salvestra (fol. 155v), Isabetta and her lover (fol. 263v), Pinuccio tricks the landlord (fol. 269v), Gianni di Barolo tricks Pietro (fol. 275) The Decameron (BNF Italien 63), 1427
• A lamp hanging from a peg on a wall from St. Martin sharing his cloak, c. 1435-1445
• Lamp with a handle, 15th century
• Hanging bronze lamp with an inscription, 15th century
• Detail of a pendant lamp from the Retable of Boulbon, c. 1457
• St. Lucy, painted in Venice c. 1460
• The vision of St. Martha (BNF Fr. 50, fol. 344v) and St. Laumer tormented by the devil (BNF Fr. 51, fol. 437v), Speculum historiale, 1463
• Amigo saves Cifar (fol. 47v) and Grima at prayer (fol. 68), The Knight Cifar (BNF Espagnol 36), fourth quarter of the 15th century
• Detail from The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1485-1495
• Brass lamp with a fantastical creature, 15th-16th century (V&A 578-1872)
• Hanging lamp (cesendello) in enameled and gilt glass with a scene from the Annunciation, Venice, late 15th-early 16th century
• Detail from St. Florian and St. Vitus, c. 1490-1500
• Ceramic oil lamp, made in Petit-Rechain c. 1491-1500
• Detail from Rescue of the child drowned in a bathtub, 1513

Designs by Andrea Briosco (aka Andrea Riccio), d. 1532 Lamp shaped like a bizarre shoe, 15th century Lamp, beginning of the 16th century Bronze lamp in the form of a female grotesque, c. 1500-1520 (V&A 4701-1859) Lamp in the form of a crouching man (side, back), 16th century Lamp in the shape of an acrobat (back), 16th century Base for a lamp, c. 1530-1540

• St. Vitus, c. 1505-1515
• Detail from a portrait of a man by Lorenzo Lotto, c. 1506-1510
• A polycandelion-like chandelier in a scene from the life of St. Wolfgang, c. 1515-1520
• St. Matthew and the Angel by Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, c. 1534
• Bronze lamp in the form of a grotesque monster, 16th century (V&A 4409-1857)
• Lamp in the form of a grotesque with a man's head, 16th century

Designs by Severo da Ravenna, d. 1543 Triangular lamp with a bound satyr, late 15th - early 16th century Bronze lamp with a laughing head, early 16th century (V&A 574-1865) Bronze lamp support with a mermaid on a talon (front, back), c. 1500-1525 Bronze lamp with a talon and a man's head, c. 1500-1550 (V&A 4284-1857) Bronze double lamp, c. 1500-1550 (V&A 4410:1, 2-1857)

• Stoneware double-lamp made in Raeren, 16th century
• Stoneware double-lamp made in Raeren, c. 1550-1570
• Stoneware double-lamp made in Raeren, c. 1560-1580
• Hanging copper lamp made in the 16th century
• Hanging copper lamp made in the 16th century
• Hanging iron lamp made in the 16th century
• Penelope at the loom, late 16th century
• The Last Supper by Otto van Veen, 1592
• Lamp with a reaching figure, designed by Barthélémy Prieur, c. 1600