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Prints depicting renowned scholars and artists, highlighting their contributions and personalities through detailed engravings.

Portrait of Gerardus Mercator, Hendrick Goltzius (Possible), After Frans Hogenberg, 1576 print Gerardus Mercator, shown in half, his body turned to the left; A globe and a measuring instrument in his hands. Around the oval and in a cartouche under the print, inscriptions in Latin. paper engraving
Portrait of Gerardus Mercator, Hendrick Goltzius (Possible), After Frans Hogenberg, 1576 print Gerardus Mercator, shown in half, his body turned to the left; A globe and a measuring instrument in his hands. Around the oval and in a cartouche under the print, inscriptions in Latin. paper engraving
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Giambullari, Pierfranceso.
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Historical drawing from the 19th century, portrait of Pietro Bembo, 1470 - 1547, an Italian humanist scholar and cardinal
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Arbinglli, starch.
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Reuser, Nicholaus Stecher: BOISSARD, RobertStecher: Bry, Theodor DedatiumN: 1597/1599
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Chrysolorhus, Eminyel.
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Leonardo da Vinci (15 April 1452) (2 May 1519), actually Lionardo di ser Piero da Vinci, was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, anatomist, mechanic, engineer and natural philosopher, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original
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Ellinger, Andreas .
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Print made by Johann Jacobus Haid, 1704-1767, S. Paulus, undated. Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper.
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More, John .
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Canisius, Peter.
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Portrait of giovanni battista agucchi. Portrait of giovanni battista agucchi in a rectangular picture frame. He has a paper in his hands. His name and title in a framework.
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Portrait of lycurgus; Lycurgue; Collection des Grands Hommes. Portrait of the Greek statesman Lycurgus, and profil to the right, in an oval.
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'Hans Sachs (1494-1576) German poet and dramatist and composer and shoemaker. The central figure in the opera ''Die Meisteersinger von Nurnberg'', 1886, by Richard Wagner. 18th century engraving.'
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Etching by Augustin Hirschvogel from 1548 depicting Peter Perényi in a formal portrait.
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Pericles (495 aC-429aC), abogado, magistrado, general, político y orador ateniense en los momentos de la edad de oro de la ciudad. Grabado de 1900.
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Prünsterer, his.
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Alphonse Legros, Sir Edward John Poynter Sir Edward John Poynter
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Rijn, Rembrandt van, Netherlands, Portrait of the goldsmith Jan Lutma, verso lower left, sitting in an armchair. Behind his back light enters the room through a window. (third state), print, prints, Rembrandt f 1656, top center, verso bottom center, FH, height 194 mm, width 148 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1606-07-15 - 1669-10-08, print maker, printmaker, 1656 - 1656, third quarter 17th century, paper, etching, etchings, drypoint, dry needle, burin, Work conception, after own design by
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Carosi, Bartolomeo.
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Marco Alvise Pitteri after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Sanctus Bartholomeaus Sanctus Bartholomeaus
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Antwerp, Hendricx, Gilles, Dyck, Anthony van, Vorsterman, Lucas (I), Iconography, Portrait of Wenzel Coebergher, verso lower left - stamped, Portrait of the painter and architect Wenzel Coebergher. After a stay in Italy, where most of his paintings were created, he returned to the Southern Netherlands in 1601 and entered the service of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella., print, prent, prints, height 240 mm, width 183 mm, Southern Netherlands, 1595 - 1675, print maker, printmaker, 1645 - 1646, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Flemish, Dutch, 1599-03-22 - 1641-12-09, after, after painting by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher
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Exit 12, December1833 Titian, According to a self portrait, illustration for the article Biography. Titiano Vecelli by Alexandre Tardieu in: Musee des Famillles, evening reading. T. 1. (Year 1 and 2) Paris, 1833 1834. unknown
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Benavides, Marc-Mantua.
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Gilles Antoine Demarteau after Edme Bouchardon, Head of a Venerable Man Head of a Venerable Man
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An old man, full-length, seated by a window (through which ships off a coast can be seen), dressed in a long cloak, a large book beside him, a pointer in the right hand, measuring instruments in the foreground. Below the depiction a seven-line Latin poem. This print is part of a series of eight prints: a title print and seven numbered portraits of Greek wise men, Thales of Miletus Thales Milesius The seven wise men of Greece (series title), print maker: Jacob de Gheyn (III), (mentioned on object), Decimus Magnus Ausonius, (mentioned on object), publisher: Nicolaes de Clerck, print maker: Netherlands, publisher: Delft, publisher: The Hague, 1616, paper, etching, h 310 mm × w 187 mm
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PortraT van Hans Waldmann, Johannes Meyer (II), 1665 - 1712 print Numbered at the bottom of the oval frame: 22. paper engraving / etching historical persons. mayor, burgomaster. armorial bearing, heraldry
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Attentive viewing man, August Hermann Jakob Degmair, After Hieronymus Lapis, 1733 - 1783 print Delft paper Attention, Concentration. head (human)
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Hiram Powers (1805-73), American Neoclassical Sculptor, Seated Portrait, Three-Quarter Length Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America by Evert A. Duyckinck, Published by Henry J. Johnson, Johnson, Wilson
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Portrait of Hans Sachs
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SOCRATES Greek philosopher
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Leyser, Polycarp .
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Strabo (64/63BC-c21AD) Greek historian, geographer and philosopher. Woodcut from 'Liber chronicarum mundi' (Nuremberg Chronicle) by Harmann Schedel (Nuremberg, 1493).
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Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778-1852). German pedagogue, known as the "father of gymnastics". Copy of a lithograph of Engelbach 1846. Engraving. Colored.
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Socrates 1701/1800
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Johannes Zonaras .
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Socrates, c.470 399 BC, Greek philosopher from Athens, one of the founders of Western philosophy. Socrates. Copperplate engraving by Pieter Bodart (1676-1712) from Henricus Spoors Deorum et Heroum, Virorum et Mulierum Illustrium Imagines Antiquae Illustatae, Gods and Heroes, Men and Women, Illustrated with Antique Images, Petrum, Amsterdam, 1715. First published as Favissæ utriusque antiquitatis tam Romanæ quam Græcæ in 1707. Henricus Spoor was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, poet and writer, fl. 1694-1716.
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Praxiteles .
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Bed, Guillaume.
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Sophocles (circa 496 - 406) Greek tragic playwright
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'Pope Julius II', c1512, (c1912). Artist: Raphael.
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Kulmbach, Hans Süs from.
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fine arts, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn 15.7.1606 - 4.10.1669, painting, ""Portrait of an old man with golden necklace"", 1632, oil on panel, 59,3 cm x 49,3 cm, state museum, Kassel, Germany, Europe, fine arts, baroque, 17th century, age, full beard,
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Leonardo da Vinci .
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Portret van Leonardo da Vinci, Claude Mellan (attributed to), 1608 - 1688 print paper engraving historical persons
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Diogenes of Sinope.
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ARISTOPHANES (445-380 BC). Greek poet and comediograph. Portrait of Aristophanes from the book 'Illustrium imagines' of 1606. Engraving. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library.
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Gasser, Achill Pirmin .
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Chemnitz, Martin unknown artist dating: 1601/1700
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Power, Adam.
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Winkelried, Arnold .
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Adamus vanNoort. Artist: Anthony van Dyck, Flemish, 1599-1641
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Stephan, King of England.