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Historical Figures and Allegories

A collection of detailed engravings featuring historical and allegorical figures, showcasing a range of themes like greed, chivalry, and biblical narratives.

Tournament by Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528) / Private Collection / c. 1516 / Germany / Woodcut / Genre / 25,4x26,5
Tournament by Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528) / Private Collection / c. 1516 / Germany / Woodcut / Genre / 25,4x26,5
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Cod. 11093, fol. 20r: Book on Swordsmanship and Wrestling Full page: fencing scene; pen and brush drawing, Southwestern Germany, mid-15th c.
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Igo Galema; Igo Galema Potestatvm v; Friese Heerslers.
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MONSTRUO DE LAS SIETE CABEZAS - CONFESIONARIO MAYOR EN LA LENGUA MEXICANA Y CASTELLANA - 1578. Location: INSTITUTO DE COOPERACION IBEROAMERICANA. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Francesco di Domenico dit, Il Padovano (around 1500-1571). "Florentin card game. Number twenty-seven in a series of 35 pieces". Black and white wood engraving. 1547. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 123051-29 Card to play, wood engraving, card game, Florentine game, Italian game, 16th 16th XVI 16th 16th 16 Center, engraving
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A potter is running towards a large jug which a blast of wind from a cherub in the clouds has shattered; illustration of a fable by J. Ogilby. Etching.
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Apollo kills the Python; Ovidii Metam. LIB. I Python AB Apolline Interficitur XII; Scenes from the first book of Ovidius' Metamorphosen; Metamorphoseos Liber Primus (...). Apollo is at the Python, which he killed with an arrow. Under the show a four-line explanation in Latin.
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The Great Triumphal Chariot of the Emperor Maximilian I Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528). The Great Triumphal Chariot of the Emperor Maximilian I, 1522, begun 1518. Woodcut from eight blocks on eight sheets of laid paper, 16 x 95 in. (40.5 x 241.3 cm). Albrecht Dürer revolutionized the techniques of woodcut and engraving, and was the first artist to achieve fame through his work as a printmaker. In 1512 the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, who recognized how useful the new medium of printmaking would be for spreading his fame and burnishing his image, commissioned Dürer to create in his honor a gigantic, multipart woodcut inspired by imperial processions of antiquity. The emperor died before the ambitious work was completed, but the entrepreneurial Dürer published the last eight-block section of the procession as a tribute to him. Maximilian is depicted as a latter-day Roman emperor, riding in an elaborate chariot whose four wheels express in Latin his renown (gloria), dignity (dign
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Attack on the Geldduivel, Anonymous, 1578 - 1581 print print maker: Francepublisher: Paris paper letterpress printing devil(s) and demons. firearms: cannon. archer's weapons: crossbow. firearms. king. money-chest, treasure-chest, money-box. money. hierarchy of jurisdiction ~ Roman Catholic church
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Combat against an Equestrian Opponent with Lance. Date/Period: Ca. 1410. Folio. Tempera colors, gold leaf, silver leaf, and ink on parchment. Height: 279 mm (10.98 in); Width: 206 mm (8.11 in). Author: Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco.
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Taglia Cantoni en Fracasso. Taglia Cantoni. Fracasso. (title on object). Artist: Jacques Callot. Draughtsman: Gerard ter Borch (II). Dating: 1633 - 1635. Place: Zwolle. Measurements: h 74 mm × w 95 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Autumn and winter depicted by Groteske heads; Autunno / Inverno. Autumn Personification (Autunno) is made up of a wine tube, grapes, melons, pomegranates and other fruits and a mushroom; Winter (Inverno) from a braided mat, tree stumps, stamen, roots and willows. See also the pendant with spring and summer.
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Woodcut by Hans Schäufelin, 1517, depicting the symbol of the triple heart, illustrating devotion, love, and Christian symbolism in early 16th-century art.
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Scaramuccia - Fricasso, plate 11 from Balli di Sfessania Made 1617-1627 France. Etching and engraving on paper . Jacques Callot
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FELIPE HUAMAN POMA DE AYALA. CRONISTA INDIGENA DEL VIRREINATO DEL PERU.1534-1615 . ILUSTRACION DE SU OBRA , " NUEVA CRONICA Y BUEN GOBIERNO ". BIBLIOTECA DEL INSTITUTO DE COOPERACION IBEROAMERICANA. MADRID. ADAN Y EVA , PERSONAJE BIBLICO.
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Cap. Esgangarato and Cap. Cocodrillo. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: after Jacques Callot.
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Franca Trippa - Fritellino, from Balli di Sfessania. Jacques Callot; French, 1592-1635. Date: 1617-1627. Dimensions: 70 × 92 mm. Etching and engraving on paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Cicho Sgarra - Collo Francisco, plate 6 from Balli di Sfessania Made 1617-1627 France. Etching and engraving on paper . Jacques Callot
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Guatsetto - Mestolino, from Balli di Sfessania. Jacques Callot; French, 1592-1635. Date: 1617-1627. Dimensions: 70 × 92 mm. Etching and engraving on paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Nukahiwer with various tattoos, hand-colored copper engraving from Friedrich Justin Bertuch picture book for children, 1813, Weimar, Germany, Europe
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Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). "The great triumphant chariot of the Emperor Maximilien I, .bartsch 139; 3rd board". Wood engraving, 1512-1523. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 3rd board, emperor, large chariot, wood engraving, holy Germanic empire, triumphant
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Sebald Beham, Hercules Carrying the Columns of Gaza, 1545 Hercules Carrying the Columns of Gaza
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Benois, Alexander Nikolayevich (1870-1960) Private Collection 1957 15,8x22 Watercolour on paper ,Mythology, Allegory and Literature,Poster and Graphic design
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Two street artists such as Scaramucia and Fricasso, Jacques Callot, 1621 - 1622 print Two artists with feathered headwear on and with pulled swords in their hand standing with their backs to each other. Their names are listed among the figures. This print is part of a series of 23 prints (24 incl. Title print) with two street artists in the foreground dressed as figures from the Italian Commedia dell'arte, and in the background spectators who in the outdoors a (dance) performance of street artists Gadeslaan. Nancy paper etching Types in 'Commedia dell'Arte'
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Capitan Babeo - Cucuba, plate 16 from Balli di Sfessania Made 1617-1627 France. Etching and engraving on paper . Jacques Callot
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Razullo - Cucurucu, plate 19 from Balli di Sfessania Made 1617-1627 France. Etching and engraving on paper . Jacques Callot
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El Gobierno De La Republica, Codice Florentino, by Bernardino de Sahagun, facsimile, USA, Illinois, Chicago, Newberry Library
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Von dem Meerteüfel ca. 1563
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Tsar Alexis Michailovic (1629-1676) Romanov dynasty by unknown artist XVIIIth century. Museum: HISTORICAL MUSEUM, MOSCU, RUSSIA.
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Grabado de artes y oficios del siglo XIX. Cazador.
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Death of Hercules from The Labors of Hercules (copy) after Sebald Beham German. Death of Hercules from The Labors of Hercules (copy). after Sebald Beham (German, Nuremberg 1500-1550 Frankfurt). Engraving. Prints
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Smaralo Cornuto and Ratsa di Boio. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: after Jacques Callot.
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Cap. Spessa Monti and Bagattino. Dated: c. 1622. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JACQUES CALLOT.
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Print, Hercules with the Pillars of Hercules; Designed by Hans Sebald Beham (German, 1500-1550); engraving on off-white laid paper
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Twee straatartiesten als Capitano Bonbardon en Capitano Grillo; Balli di Sfessania; Dansen van Sfessania.Two artists, one of them with a feathered headpiece, dancing side by side. The figures are noted their names. This print is part of a series of 23 prints (24 incl. Title Print) with two street artists in the foreground every time figures from the Italian Commedia Dell'Arte, and in the background spectators who are in the open air a (dance) representation of street artists Gadeslaan.
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Franca Trippa and Fritellino. Dated: c. 1622. Medium: etching. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JACQUES CALLOT.
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This illustration shows the Roman god of agriculture Saturn with his scythe in his chariot pulled by two winged serpents. It dates to 1695, an engraving by Lasinio, patterned after a roundel in the ceiling painting (based on drawings by Raphael) of the Sala Borgia in the Vatican that is based on drawings in 1516 by the Italian artist Raphael.
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Albrecht Durer (21 May 1471 - 6 April 1528) was a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since. Durer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, have secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance. This is reinforced by his theoretical treatises, which involve principles of mathematics, perspective and ideal proportions.
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The wolf and the goat; That now that Wholff wanted a doctory Wesen / ende wants wheys and sheep / Ghenesen / Sulck Wonder has no one heard or gheles. View in a room with tiled floor. A goat goes to a doctor, the wolf. The wolf is on a seat on the left and holds a glass of urine into its leg. Under the image a 24-arrangy fresh in four columns.