Mythical and Allegorical Scenes

Prints featuring mythological themes, including gods and nudes in romantic or conflictual situations, set against lush landscapes, portraying a blend of drama and beauty.

Adam and Eva by fall in Paradijs, Marcantonio Raimondi, After Albrecht Dürer, 1510 - 1515 print paper engraving Temptation and Fall (scenes with both Adam and Eve)

Anatomical drawing of a child's body by Adriaan van den Spiegel (1578-1625). Spiegel was a Flemish anatomist who was born in Brussels and practiced medicine in Padua. He is known as one of the greatest physicians associated with the city.

The Witches 1510 Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) German. The Witches 416796

The Fall of Adam and Eve, Woodcut, Hans Sebald Beham, 1535

Pencil study of a three-figure group by Emerich Alexius Swoboda, recorded in a sketchbook between March 14 and July 14, 1877.

Copper engraving by Wenzel von Olmütz from the late 15th century depicting a miracle at sea, showing figures, boats, and detailed marine composition.

The Penance of Saint John Chrysostom. Dated: c. 1541/1545. Dimensions: sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 5.3 x 7.7 cm (2 1/16 x 3 1/16 in.). Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Sebald Beham.

Brown ink drawing by Albrecht Dürer of Eva with a brushed brown background and a spring detail at the top right, created in 1506.

Workshop of Andrea Mantegna, Virtus Combusta An Allegory of Virtue, c 1495 1500 Virtus Combusta: An Allegory of Virtue

Venus mourns for the death of Adonis, monogrammist GGN (attributed to), after Luca Cambiaso, 1537 - 1585 print Venus and the three graces in the dead body of Adonis. Putti on the right in the background and the wild boar, which killed Adonis during hunting. Italy paper Venus mourning Adonis. Graces (Charites), generally three in number; 'Gratie' (Ripa). (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros). hoofed animals: boar

Two putti, one with grape food, with a plant in pot; Guido Reni's frescoes in the Loggia of the Palazzo Rospigliosi Pallavicini. .

The 1450-1475 copper engraving depicts an ornamental design with two ringing men, highlighting figures, gesture, and detailed composition.

Satyr's Family. Dated: c. 1503/1504. Dimensions: sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 8.4 x 7.9 cm (3 5/16 x 3 1/8 in.). Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JACOPO DE' BARBARI.

Nuremberg, Solis, Virgil, Scenes with Fools and Women, Woman attacked by two Fools, verso - handwritten in brown ink, print, prints, verso - stamped, 1...4, height 86 mm, width 66 mm, German, 1514 - 1562-08-01, print maker, printmaker, 1524 - 1562, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), plate tone

Death of Lucretia, Hieronymus Wierix, After Maerten de Vos, 1563 - Before 1600 print Lucretia is about to get through with a dagger. She is naked next to her bed. In the background you can see how a crowd has gathered around Lucretia's lifeless body. Antwerp paper engraving death of Lucretia: she commits suicide by stabbing herself. Lucretia's body is displayed on the way to the Roman Forum

Hercules struggles with Antaeus.

A drawing by François Boucher showing Mars and Venus, created with pen and brush in brown ink with wash, dated around 1754.

Andrea Mantegna's late 15th-century copper engraving depicts the right part of a frieze showing sea gods in combat, with waves, figures, and dynamic gestures.

Eight putti playing. Artist: After Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483-1520 Rome); Master of the Die (Italian, active Rome, ca. 1530-60). Dimensions: sheet: 7 5/16 x 11 1/4 in. (18.5 x 28.5 cm). Date: 1530-60. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Alexander the Great andRoxanne. Engraver: Giulio di Antonio Bonasone, Italian, ca. 1510-after 1576

Putti with the arms of the Lucas Guild, Abraham Bloemaert, 1574 - 1651, draughtsman: Abraham Bloemaert, 1574 - 1651, paper, pen, brush, h 115 mm × w 183 mm

Adam and Eve, Woodcut by Lucas Cranach, the Elder, 1523

Three Prisoners. Venetian Jacopo de Barbari worked in Germany, where his great rival was the engraver Albrecht Dürer. He used his characteristic technique of long, parallel lines to superb effect to portray the elegant physique of the young men and the gnarled trees. This puzzling, apparently ancient scene is probably intended to portray mans vulnerability, confined by the constraints of physical existence and nature.

A man and a woman engaged in sexual intercourse leaning on a canopied neoclassical bed. Etching, ca. 1780.

Mercury and Psyche: View with the rear of Psyche, Jan Harmensz. Muller, After Adriaen de Vries, 1595 - 1599 print Mercury wears Psyche to heaven. To a sculpture by sculptor Adriaen de Vries. Psyche seen on the back. On the Pieth stable three lines in Latin over the statue. Amsterdam paper engraving Psyche is carried up to Olympus by Mercury. piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture

The Four Naked Women 1497 Germany. Engraving in black on ivory laid paper . Albrecht Dürer

The Question, the Sphinx. Date/Period: 1875. Pencil on paper. Width: 415 mm. Height: 480 mm. Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Haarlem, Heemskerck, Maarten van, Coornhert, Dirck Volckertsz., Wrestlers, Two wrestlers, recto lower left - written, Two naked wrestlers. The print is part of a series about two wrestlers in combat., print, prints, verso middle right - stamped, H.362, height 250 mm, width 197 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1522 - 1590-10-29, print maker, printmaker, 1552 - 1552, paper, etching, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1498 - 1574

Biblical scene showing Jael beside the body of Sisera with Barak nearby, executed in chalk and pen.

Apollo standing a beside a woman representing an allegory of painting, from 'The Loves of the Gods'. Artist: Giulio Bonasone (Italian, active Rome and Bologna, 1531-after 1576). Dimensions: sheet: 5 1/2 x 4 3/16 in. (14 x 10.7 cm). Series/Portfolio: The Loves of the Gods (Amorosi diletti degli dei). Date: 1531-60. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Venus and Amor on Dolphins, Marco Dente, After Rafaël, 1517 - 1562 print Venus and Amor sit on the back with two dolphins. Amor has an arrow in his hand. Two wind gods upstairs in the clouds. paper engraving Venus and Cupid (Cupid not being mere attribute). swimming mammals: dolphin. gods of the winds

Woman Bathing Her Feet at a Brook. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Netherlands, Leiden, 1606-1669). Holland, 1658. Prints; etchings. Etching and drypoint

An Allegory of Abundance. Cristofano Robetta; Italian, 1462-c.1535. Date: 1510-1520. Dimensions: 252 × 183 mm (image); 256 × 185 mm (plate/sheet). Engraving in black on cream laid paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA. Author: Cristofano Robetta.

Adam en Eva en de Dood, Hans Sebald Beham, After Barthel Beham, 1543 print Adam and Eva are in the form of good and evil in the form of death. The snake winds through the skeleton and bites in the apple that Eva holds. Copy to a print from Barthel Beham paper engraving Temptation and Fall (scenes with both Adam and Eve). Death as skeleton

Juno; The sister and Juno to Jupiter; Goden nissen.The the goddess Juno, seen from behind, with a peacock stands in a niche.

Saint John the Baptist in theWilderness. Woodcutter: Antonio da Trento, Italian, 1508-1550 After: Parmigianino, Italian, 1503-1540

The Revenge of the Sorcerer Virgil Albrecht Altdorfer German. The Revenge of the Sorcerer Virgil 430141

Ornament with leaf vines and a female triton with child, Heinrich Aldegrever, 1512 - 1560 print Plat decoration with leaf vines, on the left a female triton holds a child with fish tail on the arm. Germany paper engraving foliage, tendrils, branches ~ ornament. ornament ~ hybrid beings; human and animal forms mixed

Fontainebleau, Primaticcio, Francesco, Bettou, Alexandre, Gallery of paintings in the ballroom at Fontainebleau, Paintings from the ballroom at the Château de Fontainebleau, Ceres and Venus reaping the corn, Symbolic representation of summer with the harvest, the baking of bread and Ceres and Venus looking on. Decoration of a pendentive. The print is part of an album., print, album leaf, prints, height 215 mm, width 351 mm, French, 1607 - 1693, print maker, printmaker, 1622 - 1693, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Italian, 1504-04-30 - 1570-09-14, after a painting by

Dissection of the abdomen of a pregnant woman, showing the foetus: the nude woman is shown seated on a canopied chair in an outdoor setting, while a man on a balcony gazes upward, to the sky. Woodcut, 1545.

Adam and Eve. Draughtsman: Jacob Folkema. Dating: 1723. Measurements: h 143 mm × w 89 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

William P Babcock, Nude with Cherubim, 1860s 1870s Nude with Cherubim

Temptation of Adam, James Barry, 1741-1806, Irish, 1776, Etching, Sheet: 28 3/4 x 16 1/8in. (73 x 41cm)

Susanna Surprised by the Elders, from The Story of Susanna. Artist: Heinrich Aldegrever (German, Paderborn ca. 1502-1555/1561 Soest). Dimensions: Sheet: 4 7/16 × 3 3/16 in. (11.3 × 8.1 cm). Date: 1555-80.Susanna, seated in the foreground at left, washes her feet in a fountain. In the background at center, the elders in front of a tree, with the city visible behind them. Based on Daniel 13:1-16. Plate 1 from a series of four engravings. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Victory reclining amid trophies. .

Hearing - Auditus, from the cycle: The Five Senses. Pencz, Georg (ca 1500-1550), graphic artist

"Woodcut by Melchior Lorch from 1565 titled 'The Nature,' depicting natural elements including flora, fauna, and landscape details. The print focuses on composition and natural representation."

Adam, Eve and the Angel Raphael (Illustration from "Paradise Lost") William Blake (1757-1827 British) Illustration

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Venus and Eros 1561 Anonymous, Italian, 16th century Italian This print comes from the museums copy of the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (The Mirror of Roman Magnificence) The Speculum found its origin in the publishing endeavors of Antonio Salamanca and Antonio Lafreri. During their Roman publishing careers, the two foreign publishers - who worked together between 1553 and 1563 - initiated the production of prints recording art works, architecture and city views related to Antique and Modern Rome. The prints could be bought individually by tourists and collectors, but were also purchased in larger groups which were often bound together in an album. In 1573, Lafreri commissioned a title page for this purpose, which is where the title ‘Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae first appears. Lafreri envisioned an ideal arrangement of the prints in 7 different categories, but during his lifetime, never appears to have offered one standard, bound set of prints.

Pyramid of six men, 1541 - 1545 print Six naked men together form a human pyramid. paper etching some other movements

Master IB (German, active c. 1523-1530), Iusticia (Justice), engraving

Italy, Dente, Marco, Antique reliefs, Vulcan, Venus and three putti, verso - stamped, Vulcan hitting an anvil with a hammer. Behind him is a putto. On the right is Venus with two putti., print, prints, height 110 mm, width 176 mm, Italian, 1486 - 1527, print maker, 1498 - 1532, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process)

Plat decoration: Cartouche with a mascaron, 1510 - 1544 print Cartouche, held by two putti. Shaded background. Germany (possibly) paper engraving

Giovanni Battista Benaschi depicted Christ in front view with Thomas touching his side wound, flanked by two apostles, using black and white oil on dark brown paper, with the top left corner damaged.

Fortuna, anonymous, Jost Amman, 1580 print paper Luck, Fortune, Lot; 'Fato', 'Fortuna', 'Aurea fortune', 'Good luck', 'peaceful luck overo Clemente', 'fate' (Ripa)

Pharaoh Cleopatra VII born 69 B.C., died 12 August 30 B.C., ruled Egypt as the last queen of the Macedonian-Greek dynasty of the Ptolemies from 51 B.C. to 30 B.C., Cleopatra's death by the bite of the serpent, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the period.

A winged man grabbing a young naked woman by the hand while another sits reading a book surrounded by owls and bats. Etching by J.M. Martínez Espinosa after F. Goya.

Laocöngroep. Laocoön and his sons are attacked by two hoses.

The Effects ofWine. Artist: Monogrammist HFE, Italian, active first half of 16th century

The creation of Eve and the Fall of man, anonymous, c. 1560 - c. 1570 Window, rectangular, with stained show in Sepia and two colors yellow from the creation of Eva and the fall. Gouda glass.. silver stain. lead (metal) Window, rectangular, with stained show in Sepia and two colors yellow from the creation of Eva and the fall. Gouda glass.. silver stain. lead (metal)

Ceres from Jost Ammans "coat of coat of arms and stem book together and relocated by Sigmund Feyerabend. 1589". Page 61 made of Jost Ammans "coat of arms and trunk book together and relocated by Sigmund Feyerabend. 1589".

A Mask on an Escutcheon Supported by Two Genii 1544 Sebald Beham German At center, mask on an escutcheon, supported by two genii at right and left. The figures of both putti face outwards, while their heads are directed out.. A Mask on an Escutcheon Supported by Two Genii 417023

Justice; IUSTICIA; Seven virtues. Personification of virtue justice: naked woman sitting with sword in right hand and scales in left, foot leaning on globe. Putto keeps laurel wreath above her head.

Italy, Carracci, Agostino, Ludovico, Ciamberlano, Luca, The drawing book, Sketchbook, Two boys, one with a bunch of grapes, verso - stamped, Two boys standing next to each other. One holds a bunch of grapes in his hands. Numbered lower left: 24., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 162 mm, width 120 mm, Italian, 1570, print maker, printmaker, 1580 - 1641, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1555 - 1619-11-13, Work conception, 1557 - 1602-03-22

Venus on aSeashell. Artist: Marco Dente Da Ravenna, Italian, 1493-1527

Joy about the peace of Amiens. Draughtsman: Dirk Langendijk. Draughtsman: Christoffel Meijer. Dating: 1758 - 1805 and/or 1786 - 1813. Measurements: h 195 mm × w 160 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Dance of Cupids Made 1517-1520 Italy. Engraving printed in black on paper . Marcantonio Raimondi

Colored woodcut by an anonymous artist from the second half of the 15th century depicting Adam and Eve, showing figures, gestures, and medieval religious iconography.

Drawing, Apollo and Hycianth, after Domenichino; Designed by Felice Giani (Italian, 1758-1823); Italy; pen and ink, brush and brown wash on paper; 21.8 x 15.4 cm (8 9/16 x 6 1/16 in.)

Sleeping Child Resting on a Skull. Beham, Barthel (1502-1540), graphic artist

Venus and De Roos, Marco Dente, After Rafaël, 1517 - 1562 print Venus sits on a rock in a landscape. She takes a thorn of a rose bush from her foot. In the foreground on the right a rabbit. paper engraving Venus wounded by the thorns of a rose-bush; the roses change from white to red (possibly combined with the story of Adonis)

Dianna, her Nymphs, and Callisto. Artist: Anonymous, Italian, 19th century. Dimensions: 9-3/8 x 14-1/2 in. Date: 1800-1900. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Lot and his daughters. Draughtsman: Gerard ter Borch (I) (signed by artist). Dating: 1622. Place: Zwolle. Measurements: h 137 mm × w 195 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Against Green. Dated: 1918. Dimensions: plate: 19.84 × 30.16 cm (7 13/16 × 11 7/8 in.). Medium: color softground etching and aquatint on blue laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Arthur B. Davies.

Antwerp, Galle, Philips, Collaert, Jan (II), Famous suicides from Antiquity, Death of Cleopatra, verso middle - stamped, Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, ends her life by letting herself be bitten by a poisonous snake. She stands naked next to the bed. In her hands two snakes. She decides to commit suicide because she does not want to be captured by the Romans. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a series on famous suicides from Antiquity., print, prints, height 165 mm, width 105 mm, Southern Netherlands (before 1775), 1566 - 1628-05-26, print maker, printmaker, 1576 - 1628, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, Southern Netherlands, 1537 - 1612-03-29, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

The three graces, nude, with floral garlands and flowers in their hands. The central figure may represent Thalia. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.

Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Three Kneeling Women (Drei Frauen knied), 1913 Three Kneeling Women (Drei Frauen knied)

Umbria Terni Terni Palazzo Carrara4. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Post-medieval: Architecture (17th century); Frescoes (17th century); coffered wooden ceiling Antiquities: Roman sarcophagi, cinerary urn, gravestones, lions, and an inscribed plaque from Terni's amphitheater. (All located on the ground floor of the Palazzo Carrara). Object Notes: Unable to locate any negatives for these prints. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Two naked youngsters, standing next to each other, draughtsman: Wolfgang Huber, (possibly), Filippino Lippi, (possibly), 1513, prepared paper, pen, brush, h 214 mm × w 144 mm

The Briar Rose Series, The Rose Bower,, The Sleeping Beauty (III),1900 After: Sir Edward Burne-Jones (d.1898) Publisher: Berlin Photographic Company, Sleeping, Fine Art, 19th Century, Print, Women, Flower, Rose, Black and White, Photographic print, Photogravure, Female, Furniture, Bed

Daphnis and Chloë lead a goat as a Pan, Aristide Maillol, 1937 print paper animal sacrifice ~ Greek religion. Daphnis (in Greek mythology a shepherd who invented pastoral poetry. Chloe

Six images of men with different attributes; Paradigmata Graphics variorum artificum. Six antique images of naked men. Upstairs in the middle orpheus with his dog Cerberus, under the left the God Dionysus. The other images probably represent Saters.

Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, Jerusalem, Plate 100, 1804 to 1820. Relief etching printed in orange with pen and black ink, watercolor, and gold on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper.

Young man and death, master of the Amsterdam cabinet, 1485 - 1490 print An elegantly dressed young man with toot shoes. Next to him death in the form of a skinny man, a path and a snake at his feet. Germany paper drypoint (Personifications of) 'Vanitas', The Vanity of Human Life; Humana fragility, fleeting of sizes & of world glory, meditation of death, vain work, vain pleasure, vain glory, vanita (Ripa). Death as old man. Tailless Amphibians: Toad

A painted allegorical scene by Jacob Jordaens showing an angel, Hercules, Fortitudo, and other figures interacting with grapes, executed in watercolor and red chalk with cover colors.

Sketch of three naked women. Draughtsman: Leo Gestel. Dating: 1891 - 1941. Measurements: h 465 mm × w 362 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Allegory on the martial peak, Anonymous, 1520 - 1549 drawing The fame comes to a warrior at a palm tree under which a naked woman is sitting. Ferrara (city) paper. ink pen

Piobbico (Italia, Marche - provincia di Pesaro-Urbino), Castello Brancaleoni, appartamento nobile, Camera Greca, la camera del conte Antonio II, ciclo di affreschi con episodi della mitologia greca e decorazioni a stucco della bottega di Federico Brandani

The First Book of Urizen, Plate 13, 'Thus the Eternal Prophet was divided . . . ' (Bentley 15), Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1794, Color-printed relief etching in green with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm) and Plate: 5 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches (14.6 x 10.8 cm), beard, earth, globe, literary theme, men, night, text

(3) / The judgment of Pris

Unknown, Charles Haslewood Shannon (Quarrington, Lincolnshire, England, 1863 - 1937)

Two Mermaids, George Augustus Sala, 1828-1895, British, undated, Pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 1 3/4 × 2 1/8 inches (4.4 × 5.4 cm), mermaids, mythological creatures, religious and mythological subject

Italy, Rome, Tempera and oil on panel painting of Saint Jerome

Sleeping Naked Woman Like De Nacht (Nux), Hans Sebald Beham, 1548 print Sleeping naked woman on a bed as personification of the night (nux). On the headboard of the bed is the Latin inscription Nox et Amor, Vinvmqve, nihil Mo Derabile Svadent from Ovidius Amores. paper engraving Personification of the Night, 'Nox'; 'Night', 'Carro della Notte', 'Serenit of the night' (Ripa)

Water, Cornelis Schut (I), 1618 - 1655 print A child gets a fish from his rod. paper etching water (one of the four elements). angling

Woodblock engraving depicting a tribe member whose feet pointed backwards, and who were once believed to inhabit certain regions of Ethiopia. Dated 15th century

Mans and a women's head, Jost Amman, 1585 drawing prepared paper. ink pen head (human). head (human) - AA - female human figure

'Allegory of Fertiliti'. Belgium, 1888. Dimensions: 18,5x14,8 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Leon Frederik.

Water Artist Unknown (Italian) Palazzo Della Ragione, Padua

Moderno, Mars and Victory, late 15th early 16th century Mars and Victory

The Women's Bath, by Albrecht Durer, 1496-1501, German wood engraving. Six women and two small children in a bath and sauna. (BSLOC_2016_1_15)

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