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Religious and Apostolic Themes

Drawings and studies of saints, religious figures, and biblical scenes, created by notable artists in the Italian Renaissance tradition.

Drawing, Church Triumphant over Falsehood; Paolo de Mattheis (Italian, 1662 - 1728); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and wash, black chalk on paper; 27 x 19.2 cm (10 5/8 x 7 9/16 in.)
Drawing, Church Triumphant over Falsehood; Paolo de Mattheis (Italian, 1662 - 1728); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and wash, black chalk on paper; 27 x 19.2 cm (10 5/8 x 7 9/16 in.)
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A 1754 draft by Felix Anton Scheffler depicting a solid trinity of angels for a ceiling in the castle chapel at Jemnitsch, executed in black feather with white highlights and reddish network on blue-gray paper.
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The fall of the giants. The giants that have raised against the gods are buried under stones. Above the furious Jupiter with lightning bolts on clouds.
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Pyramus en Thisbe.
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The resurrection of Christ, Nicolaas Hogenberg (attributed to), c. 1510 - Before 1539 drawing prepared paper. ink pen / brush
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Drawing by Frans Francken the Younger showing a woman, possibly Susanna, in motion or charge, executed with brown pen, gray-brown lavated, with graphite or black chalk traces, showing figures, drapery folds, and composition.
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Cupid Presenting Psyche to the Gods ca. 1540-45 Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola) Italian Subtle changes in tone- from pale wash to dark ink to white gouache- suggest the flicker of light across a low-relief sculpture or, given the oval shape, perhaps a cameo. In fact, the drawing relates to a ceiling panel in a room depicting the story of Psyche, the beautiful mortal adored by the god of love. Here, Cupid (shown as a winged boy) presents his beloved to the supreme deity, Jupiter, during an assembly of the gods. Cupid's father, Mercury, messenger to the gods, can be identified by his winged cap and caduceus (or staff). The Dalmatian-born Schiavone, who spent much of his career in Venice, took the monumental composition from a painting by Raphael and the elongated style of the figures from Mannerist examples; the weblike representation of light and air, however, is entirely his own and relates to his inventive work as an etcher. The composition of this large pictorial drawing derives fr
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The toilet of Psyche or Venus. Colour stipple engraving by W.W. Ryland, 1767, after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
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Brown and gray ink drawing by Gerard de Lairesse depicting a Bacchantin figure, possibly Venus or Pomona, holding grapes in a garden setting.
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The Madonna and Child in Glory Appearing to a Kneeling Young Man. Ciro Ferri; Italian, 1634-1689. Date: 1655-1659. Dimensions: 138 x 103 mm. Black chalk and brush and brown wash, incised with graphite, heightened with white gouache, on ivory laid paper, prepared with brown wash (recto); graphite or black chalk on ivory laid paper (verso). Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: Ciro Ferri.
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Last Judgement, 19th century, After Peter von Cornelius, German, 1783-1867, 33 x 22-1/4 in. (83.8 x 56.5 cm), Engraving on chine appliqué, Germany, 19th century
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A man removes an arrow from the chest of a woman (Cephalus and Procris), Anonymous, 1600 - 1699 drawing Naples paper. chalk brush mourning of Procris. mourning of Procris
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Italy, Raphael, Cortona, Pietro da, Rome, Peruzzi, Baldassare, Mulinari, Stefano, Ceiling paintings of the Loggia di Galatea in the Villa Farnesina in Rome, Venus Anadyomene, verso - stamped, Venus stands on a shell while wringing water from her hair ('Venus Anadyomene'). Around her are six birds, and to her left is the sign of Capricorn (Capricornus) of the zodiac. In the lower margin a two-line verse in Italian., print, prent, prints, height 330 mm, width 233 mm, Italian, 1741 - 1790, print maker, printmaker, 1751 - 1790, paper, papier, etching, etchings, aquatint, color printing, 1481 - 1563-01-07, after a painting by, 1596 - 1669-05-16, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, 1483-04-07 - 1520-04-07
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Studies for a Holy Family. Date/Period: 1505. Drawing. Pen and brown ink on paper Pen and brown ink on paper. Height: 280 mm (11.02 in); Width: 200 mm (7.87 in). Author: Michelangelo.
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Psyche Presenting the Phial of Water to Venus 1700-1799 Italy. Red chalk, with traces of graphite, on cream laid paper . Raphael
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Angel met Drie PUTTTI IN WOLLES, GILLES DATAGERA, AFTER Franw BUGHER, 1732 - 1776 print Paris paper etching Angels. Cupids: 'Amores', 'Amoretti', 'Putti'
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Personification of France surrounded by Greek and Roman gods, Nicolas Charles de Silvestre, after François Le Maine, c. 1720 print Paris paper etching personifications of countries, nations, states, districts, etc.. Roman deities, and foreign deities included in the classical Pantheon. gods ~ classical mythology. representations ~ gods, demi-gods, heroes, etc. (Greek religion)
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Landscape with Man Sleeping beneath Tree (recto); Landscape with a Horseman (verso). Annibale Carracci; Italian, 1560-1609. Date: 1595. Dimensions: 304 x 225 mm. Pen and brown ink (recto) and pen and brown, purple, red, and green inks (verso) on cream laid paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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A red chalk drawing on brown paper by an anonymous artist showing Saint Karl Borromäus distributing clothes under the arms, with damage at the left edge and right lower corner.
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Giovanni Bellini, or Andrea Mantegna, Jupiter and Ganymede Above an Extensive Landscape, 1490s Jupiter and Ganymede Above an Extensive Landscape
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Drive muses. Draughtsman: Polidoro da Caravaggio (possibly). Dating: 1510 - 1543. Measurements: h 210 mm × w 173 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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A black chalk and feather drawing by Sébastien Le Clerc showing a draft vignette with reddish and gray laved shading, bordered with black line, created around 1684.
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Mathematics, Commerce, Geography and Shipbuilding, Jacob de Wit, 1742, Four allegorical female figures on one sheet: Mathematics, Commerce, Geography and Shipbuilding. Design for a painting., draughtsman: Jacob de Wit, 1742, paper, pen, brush, h 284 mm × w 213 mm
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Various Caprices: The Woman in Handcuffs, 1735-50. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696-1770). Etching;
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Rest on the Flight into Egypt. Artist: Anonymous, Italian, Roman-Bolognese, 17th century. Dimensions: 9-1/16 x 10-7/8 in. (23 x 27.7 cm). Date: 17th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Copper engraving by Monogrammist BM depicting the biblical scene of the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, created in the late 15th century, showing figures, landscape, and detailed engraving technique.
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Ceiling with Allegorical Figures and the Arms of Pope Sixtus V (Guerra's outer drawing); Saint Joseph and the Christ Child (Viani's central drawing). Dated: outer drawing c. 1587; central drawing after 1690; attachments c. 1700-1725. Dimensions: center section (octagon): 23.3 x 16.2 cm (9 3/16 x 6 3/8 in.) Overall (ceiling design): 51.1 x 41.8 cm (20 1/8 x 16 7/16 in.) mount: 53.3 x 44 cm (21 x 17 5/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on heavy laid paper (outer drawing); graphite on heavy laid paper (central drawing); gold leaf borders and paper cut-outs adhered to oculi (Talman additions). Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Giovanni Guerra and Domenico Maria Viani.
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A feather drawing by Biagio Pupini showing two women with four children, with a head of another figure and an old man in profile, executed on primed white surface.
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Dancing beggars, Woutherus Mol, After Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne, 1795 - 1857 drawing paper. chalk dancing. farmers
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Studies for Judith and Holofernes, David and Goliath, The Finding of Moses, and Others recto. Dated: c. 1582. Dimensions: overall: 29.8 × 19.6 cm (11 3/4 × 7 11/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Véronèse.
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Battle of the Gods and Giants from Mount Olympus and Mount Othrys. Dimensions: overall: 10.2 x 13.5 cm (4 x 5 5/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Jan Luyken.
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Study sheet with various figures, draughtsman: Pieter Jansz., 1630 - 1672, paper, pen, brush, h 200 mm × w 211 mm
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Black chalk drawing by Louis de Boullogne the Elder showing Mercury with nymphs from Nysa, with grid marks and white chalk highlights.
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Winged Putti with Open Music Books 1629-1700 Lorenzo Pasinelli Italian. Winged Putti with Open Music Books 340453
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Drawing, Two putti; Jean-Robert Ango (French, active in Rome 1759 -1770, d. 1773); France; red chalk on paper
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In a landscape in front of an arch sits Christ. To his right stands the Samaritan woman with water jars at the Jacob's well, Christ and the Samaritan woman., draughtsman: anonymous, , 1675 - 1700, paper, pen, brush, h 189 mm × w 196 mm
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Saint Paul Preaching in Athens. Dated: 1734. Dimensions: sheet: 41.3 x 27.7 cm (16 1/4 x 10 7/8 in.). Medium: pen and black ink with gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on light orange prepared paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Giovanni Paolo Panini.
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Two Kneeling Male Saints 1580-1599 Italy. Graphite on ivory laid paper, squared in graphite, laid down on blue laid paper . Unknown Cremonese
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Rock formation with a blindfolded figure of cupid at top, two soldiers bound at the bottom, and a man with a horse to the right. Artist: Anonymous, German, 16th century. Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 12 11/16 × 17 1/8 in. (32.2 × 43.5 cm). Date: 16th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Circe Giving a Drink to Ulysses's Companions 1540-45 Antonio Fantuzzi Italian. Circe Giving a Drink to Ulysses's Companions 336727
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Hubert François Gravelot, Regne, dit il, triomphe et sois en tout mon fils Regne, dit-il, triomphe et sois en tout mon fils
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Galatea on her Chariot drawn by Dolphins 1652-1725 Attributed to Giovanni Battista Foggini Italian. Galatea on her Chariot drawn by Dolphins. Attributed to Giovanni Battista Foggini (Italian, Florence 1652-1725 Florence). 1652-1725. Pen and brown ink, over preliminary drawing made in black chalk
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Heliodorus Hunting Temple Eug�ne Delacroix (1798-1863). "Heliodorus driven from the temple", sketch for a decor of the Saint-Sulpice church (front). Pencil, feather, brunette ink and gouache rehaught. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, small palace.
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Row of muses, Polidoro da Caravaggio (possibly), 1510 - 1543, draughtsman: Polidoro da Caravaggio, (possibly), 1510 - 1543, prepared paper, pen, brush, h 210 mm × w 173 mm
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The Sacrifice of Isaac, c. 1755, tip of the brush with gray ink over red chalk, gray wash, strengthened with pen and gray and brown ink, heightened with white gouache, sheet: 39.6 × 28.6 cm (15 9/16 × 11 1/4 in.), Gaspare Diziani (artist) Venetian, 1689 - 1767
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David Teniers the Younger depicts Mars in a garland window, drawn with graphite pencil and brown and gray brushwork, emphasizing figure and setting.
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Camillo Procaccini (Attributed to) / 'Entombment of Christ'. First quarter of the Último cuarto del siglo XVI - XVII century. White lead, Red chalk on tinted paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.
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Design for a ceiling painting with Diana and Endymion, Jacob de Wit, 1726, draughtsman: Jacob de Wit, (mentioned on object), 1726, paper, pen, brush, h 200 mm × w 200 mm
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Anonymous / 'The Immaculate Conception'. First third of the XVIII century. Grey-brown wash, Pencil, Pencil ground on yellow laid paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.
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Tête à Tête (La baigneuse surprise). Dimensions: sheet: 45.8 x 31 cm (18 1/16 x 12 3/16 in.). Medium: crayon-manner engraving in red-brown. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: the Elder after François Boucher Gilles Demarteau.
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Murder in Woerden on P. van Veen, 1813, Willem van Senus, After Jan Willem Pieneman, 1813 - 1814 print Petronella van Veen, wife of Hendrik Tibbe, in her living room in front of husband and children murdered by French soldiers. Part of a group of illustrations in circumference of the atrocities committed by the French troops during the overwhelming and looting of Woerden on 24 and 25 November 1813. Netherlands paper etching murder. war and crime. plundering ~ soldiers Woerden
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The Baptism of Christ. Martin Schongauer; German, c. 1450-1491. Date: 1475-1495. Dimensions: 156 × 158 mm (plate/sheet). Engraving in black on ivory laid paper. Origin: Germany. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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David with the Head of Goliath. Dated: c. 1655. Dimensions: sheet: 34.8 x 24.8 cm (13 11/16 x 9 3/4 in.). Medium: monotype in brown oil pigment on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione.
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The Repose of Mars and Venus.
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Feather and wash drawing of Harpocrates, the god of silence, on brownish primed paper with white highlights, mounted onto a square support, anonymous, tondo format.
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'Infant Moses Trampling the Pharaoh`s Crown'. Italy, 1720s. Dimensions: 21x30,2 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Giovanni Battista Pittoni ( ). Sebastiano Ricci ( ).
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Allegory of Louis XV as Patron of the Arts with Paintings and Sculpture from the Salon of 1769. Artist: Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French, Paris 1724-1780 Paris). Dimensions: Sheet: 8 3/8 × 5 5/8 in. (21.3 × 14.3 cm). Date: ca. 1769.Saint-Aubin made copious sketches of works shown at the Salon, and this drawing features a compilation of several paintings and sculptures on view at the exhibition of 1769. All the sculptures depicted here have been identified and confirmed as having been on display, though the proportions of many objects have been manipulated. Rather than a painstaking recreation of the works on view, this drawing represents Saint-Aubin's rumination on artistic production: allegorical figures of the arts descend upon clouds to honor King Louis XV as a great patron, presenting his portrait to the viewer. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Assembly of Gods andHercules. Artist: Unknown
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Mercury destroys Venus's belt. Draughtsman: Jacob de Wit. Dating: c. 1705 - c. 1754. Measurements: h 196 mm × w 307 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Modello for a Ceiling: Diana and the Dead Endymion, the Judgment of Paris, and the Death of Adonis. Dimensions: overall: 32 x 31.5 cm (12 5/8 x 12 3/8 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: NICOLAS POUSSIN.
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Study for "The Bear Hunt" (for the Alcázar, Madrid), c. 1639. Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640). Oil on wood; framed: 70.5 x 40.6 x 7.6 cm (27 3/4 x 16 x 3 in.); unframed: 26 x 53.7 cm (10 1/4 x 21 1/8 in.).