Religious Martyrdom and Narratives

Woodcuts and prints illustrating scenes of martyrdom, religious figures, and significant events from the late 15th and early 16th centuries, highlighting expressive storytelling.

Netherlands, Master of the Virgo inter Virgines, Master of the Delbecq-Schreiber Passion, Master of Delft, Christ and the Samaritan Woman, Printed from three blocks. Christ and the Samaritan Woman at a Well. Architectural ornamentation to the left and right of the representation., print, engraving, book illustration, prints, engravings, height 108 mm, width 146 mm, Northern Netherlands, unknown, 1480 - 1500, fourth quarter 15th century, first quarter 16th century, paper, papier, woodcut, Southern Netherlands

David Plays the Harp for Saul by Lucas van Leyden, 1494-1533

Youth Games, the young Maximilian with his players, depicted in the facsimile of the woodcut by Hans Burgkmair, Germany. Maximilian I 1459, 1519, was ...

Arthmetics and musica; Artes Liberales / The Seven Free Arts. Persons of arthmetics and music

Students at the party, 1610, woodcut, england

The 1906 caption reads: "Bullet Casting in the Middle Ages. The wood cut is from the 'White King Maximilian' by Hans Burgkmair." Der Weisskunig, which was never completed, is a prose work written in German by Maximilian's secretary, Marx Treitzsauerwein, although sections were dictated to him by Maximilian I (1486-1519) himself. Hans Burgkmair the Elder (1473-1531) was a German painter and woodcut printmaker

Woodcut by Meister IS depicting Saint Florian extinguishing a fire, showing figure, fire, bucket, and surrounding architecture in composition.

AGUAFUERTE-ESCENA DE LA COMEDIA DEL ARTE 1583. Author: GIOVANNI AMBROGIO BRAMBILLA-(1560-1591).

Woodcut illustration from a 15th century edition of 'Das Narrenschiff' (The Ship of Fools), by Sebastian Brant (Brandt) (1457 - 10 May 1521), a German humanist and satirist.

'Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish poet, novelis and essayist. Frontispiece by Walter Crane (1845-1915) for 1905 edition of Stevenson's ''Travels with a Donkey in the Cervennes'' (first edition 1878.'

Woodcut and type print by Lucas Cranach the Elder depicting the Pope confronting the Kaiser, showing detailed figures and symbolic elements of authority.

Medieval engraving titled 'Mercury'. Mercury was considered to be a male planet, and those born under Mercury were eloquent and inventive with a love of science. Dated 16th Century

trade merchants gem merchant woodcut coloured from ""Hortus Sanitatis"" Mainz Germany 1491,

A pharmaceutical lesson showing the master, pointing to shelves of apothecary jars, instructing the apprentice at a table with an open book. Woodcut from MEDICINARIUS. DAS BUCH DER GESUNTHEIT (Book of Health), by Hieronymus Brunschwig, ca. 1505.

Case law regarding regents, anonymous, anonymous, 1518 print paper court session (court of justice). regent, substitute ruler; viceroy

Allaert Claesz (Netherlandish, active 1520-1555), Death with a Couple, 1562, engraving on laid paper

Goldsmith's workshop in 16th century France, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

Digitally restored, The dissimilar love couple, satirical woodcut on the chimera of the old woman, 1570, old woman woo around the love of the youth, publication from the year 1882, Digitally improved:, The dissimilar love couple, satirical woodcut on the chimera of the old woman, old woman woo around the love of the youth, publication from the year 1882

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Last Supper; unknown, Azarski, Zygmunt (1885-1943); 1921 (print); 1801-1815 (matrix) (1801-00-00-1921-00-00);Purchase (provenance), Łazarski, Football Footballers of the Old District 1921, Illustration, Łazarski, Zygmunt (Ca 1885-1943) - collection

The Argonauts finding the Golden Fleece, 1556. Artist: Unknown

MENA , JUAN DE. ESCRITOR SPÀÑOL . 1411 - 1456. EL AUTOR JUNTO AL REY DON JUAN .. ILUSTRACOION DEL FRONTISPICIO DE SU OBRA " LAS TRESCIENTAS " , 1509. BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL . MADRID.

Cultural state at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th century, banquet, company at the table eating, after a woodcut by Hans Burgmeier in th...

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Thimble maker. Reproduction of a 16th-century engraving by Jost Amman. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

Musicing duo in a garden, Anonymous, Hans Weiditz (II), 1514 - 1532 print Print is part of an album. paper letterpress printing harp. lute, and special forms of lute, e.g.: theorbo. more than one musician with instrument - CC - 'concert champíªtre'

Saint Mark from Latin Bible, plate 28 from Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century Published 1541-1544 Germany. Woodcut in black with letterpress on verso on tan laid paper . Lucas Cranach, II

Boekaanbieding, anonymous, after Hans Weiditz (II), after 1532 - c. 1650 print In an interior full of books, a kneeling man offers a prince a book. A boy or putto books on the right behind the frost on fire. Left behind the kneeling man is a desk with books. With text in German and Latin below and above the image and left and right decoration of flowers. paper etching bookshelves. lectern ~ reading. ruler, sovereign

Siege of Jerusalem by Crusaders, 1099 Published ca. 1486. woodcut.

Specklin, Veit Rudolf, Holbein, Hans (II), Abraham and the three angels, Abraham welcomes the three angels to his house. In contrast to the pictorial tradition, they are not recognizable here by their wings. In the margin above the image is the text: Genesis XVIII., print, book illustration, prints, height 60 mm, width 85 mm, German, 1498 - 1543-11-29, print maker, printmaker, 1538 - 1538, second quarter 16th century, paper, woodcut, French - 1550, block cutter

Ich May Mein Sachgen Schlecht und straight ....; Pugillus facetarium iconographicarum ... Strasbourg 1608. In a loggia, two gentlemen are working: the left is at a table on which knives and other tools. He looks at whether the arrow he has made is right. Opposite him is a scholar to hit an anvil sickles. In the middle a dog (or fox). View of a market square. At the top two lines Latin: Tota ... Benignitem. At the bottom of four rules German: Ich may Mein Sachen .... Ich Darum. (Not numbered). Print from: Pugillis Facetarium .... Strasburg.

The Physician. Drawing and engraving by Jost Amman in the 16th century. Sciences & Lettres au Moyen Age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance. Paris, 1877.

metals, gold, washing gold in a creek, woodcut, ""De re metallica libri XII"" by Georgius Agricola, Basel, 1556,

Basement of tile pilaster, six tiles, purple on white, company of three partly drinking and smoking men in interior, with scales on the wall, chimney pilaster tile pellet image fragment ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Basement of tile pilaster. Two broad three high tile tableaux

Frisian with children at a source. Frisian with eight naked children at a well. Both left and right try to throw two children a third in the well. Behind the well are two children with a drum and a flute.

Goldsmith's workshop in 16th century France, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

Torture, Victims tied to four stakes and over sharp spikes are beaten by the torturers, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Saint Gudula. Dated: 1516/1518. Medium: woodcut. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Leonhard Beck.

Two men make arrows and sickles in a loggia, Jacob van der Heyden, 1608 print With above text in Latin and below in German. paper engraving / etching Morality. 'album amicorum', 'Stammbuch'. archer's weapons: arrow. agricultural implements: sickle. dog. loggia, verandah, porch. city-view in general; 'veduta'

Pamphlet of the german teacher Wilhelm Boss, regarding 3 scriveners from the city of Schwaebisch Hall, 1582, woodcut, Germany, Europe

Salome brings the head of Johannes the Baptist to Herodias, Master of Delft (Attributed to), 1503 print Salomé offers head of John the Baptist on a scale of Herodias and man sat at the table. Outside is the body of John. Beul with sword is next to it. Low Countries paper the head of John the Baptist brought to or lying on the banqueting table. Salome gives the head of John the Baptist to her mother. the beheading of John the Baptist

Ecclesia Antichristi. Medium: woodcut. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Sebald Beham.

From Theuerdank: Theuerdank has too large sails cut off in a storm on the malicious advice of Unfalo, 1517, Historical, digitally restored reproductio...

The Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant, 1494, late medieval moral satire. Preventing rightdoing, the righteous man flees and is pelted with stones by the fools, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

The Angels of the Euphrates Killing Mankind; and The Angel Preventing Saint John from Recording the Words of the Seven Thunders from an Apocalypse blockbook, 2nd edition 1440-1450 Anonymous, Netherlandish, 15th century Netherlandish. The Angels of the Euphrates Killing Mankind; and The Angel Preventing Saint John from Recording the Words of the Seven Thunders from an Apocalypse blockbook, 2nd edition. Anonymous, Netherlandish, 15th century. 1440-1450. Woodcut printed in brown ink. Prints

Saint Sebastian. Dated: c. 1490. Medium: woodcut, hand-colored in green, red lake, olive, and yellow. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: German 15th Century.

Festa della Sensa (eighth part), Jost Amman, 1679 print Procession of the Doge on Ascension Day over San Marcoplein in Venice. The procession leads to the Bucintoro, the Galei of the Doge. Once a year the doge 'married' during the Festa della Sensa in a ceremonial way with the Adriatic Sea by throwing a ring in the water from this Galei. print maker: Neurenbergpublisher: Frankfurt am Main paper procession ~ Christian religion. gondola. banner, standard (as symbol of the state, etc.). lion (possibly with book) ~ symbol of St. Mark. city-view in general; 'veduta' Clock tower. Dogepaleis. Basiliek Van San Marco. San Marcoplein. Venice

Wszyscy Święci w MNK unknown

The Entry into Jerusalem. Dated: c. 1480. Medium: metalcut, hand-colored in red lake, yellow, and green. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: German 15th Century.

Pharmacist, 16th cent. Engraved by Amman, GERMANY.

The Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant, 1494, late medieval moral satire. Of right conduct towards one's neighbour. The Fool has thrown down a man who has done him no harm and strikes at him, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

A cooper and his assistants are working in the workshop. Woodcut.

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). "Saint Antoine visiting Saint Paul in the desert. Bartsch 107". Wood engraving, around 1503-1504. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. Catholic, Christian, hermit, wood engraving, meeting, saint

The soulsing anjouse monarchy (plate B), 1711; Twede Part of the Soul Thoughtful Anjouse Monarchy or the Philipynse Slafgezinde Muil Eselle Motted Ter Wissen After Parys / Second Partie De L'Agonisant Monarchy D'Anjou (...); Plates about 1711 / 't Lusthof from MoMus. The soulful anjouse monarchy (plate B), 1711. Second plate in a group of 4 allegories on the failure of the Duke of Anjou as King Philip V of Spain. The donkey (Spain) is fattened at a table. With inscriptions and verses in Dutch and French. Part of the plates over 1711, a group of 5 unprecedented cartriders on the French in the year 1711 of the Spanish Succession War. Part of the printing work under the collective title 't Lust Court of Momus with the bundled series of cartooning during the 1901-1713 of the Spanish Succession War.

'Landscape', 1498, (1936). Artist: Albrecht Dürer

Fragment of orphrey. Culture: Italian. Dimensions: L. 8 x W. 7 1/4 inches (20.3 x 18.4 cm). Date: 15th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. From the book Biblia Medieval Romanceada published 1925.

Droom van Farao.Pharaoh is sleeping in his bed. In addition to the sleeping room, the dreams of the pharaoh are shown in a landscape, the lean cows that eat the fat and the thin areas that eat the thick (Genesis XLI).

MAXIMILIANO I. EMPERADOR GERMANICO .1459 - 1519. " MAXIMILIANO I ENTRE SUS MUSICOS ". GRABADO EN MADERA DE JUAN BUR MAIER. MUSICA.

The Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant, 1494, late medieval moral satire. From the service of two masters, a fool is he who wants to do two things at once, he is like the hunter who wants to catch two hares with a hound, and therefore comes away empty-handed., Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Coppersmith. Facsimile after a drawing and engraving by Jost Amman in the 16th century. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

LA MUSIQUE DES CHATS A French showman invites you to hear his singing cats, who also, it seems, play the violin , plucking the catgut Date: 1702

The coat of arms, Wenceslaus Hollar, After Hans Holbein (II), c. 1680 print A man and a woman stand on a pedestal on either side of the weapon of death. paper etching dance of Death; Death together with one or more human beings. coat of arms (symbol of sovereignty)

Woodcut of a travelling pedlar displaying his wares to the lady of the castle. She is depicted carrying a small dog whilst admiring the merchandise. Dated 14th Century

The dance of death: death and the merchant or the usurer (). Etching attributed to J.-A. Chovin after the Basel dance of death.

The Melancholic, From the German Calendar, 1480, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, original date unknown

Middle ages initial capital letter C. The Arts of the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance by Paul Lacroix, 1874

The tapestry of Michelfeld. Fraud is seated on the throne, at his feet bound in a cradle is Piety, Justice, Truth, and Reason have but on the rack, woodcut by Albrecht Durer, historical, digital improved reproduction of an old woodcut..

The Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant, 1494, late medieval moral satire. Disregard for eternal bliss, on the scales lies heaven on the left, on the right a castle that weighs heavier to the fool in this world, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Engraving of Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain (1549-1580) wife of King Philip II of Spain. Dated 16th Century

Der Schatzbehalter, 1491. Attributed to Michael Wolgemut (German, 1434-1519). Woodcut;

ASTRONOMERS - 16th CENTURY. Author: PEDRO APIANO (1495-1552). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Two drowning methods, Antonio Tempesta, 1565 - 1630 print Numbered in the middle: 153. print maker: Italyafter own design by: Italypublisher: RomeVaticaanstad paper etching torture. violent death ~ maltreatment, torture

Harlekijn at Lodewijk Willem van Baden -Baden, 1705, 1705 - 1706 print Harlekijn (Koning Louis XIV) With Triangel and Bochel, Lodewijk Willem, Markgraaf van Baden-Baden, who is weighing, run over to run over to the French side. With verses in Dutch and French in the album. Part of a series of 7 cartoons on the French and allies from the year 1705. print maker: Northern Netherlandspublisher: Amsterdam paper etching political caricatures and satires. types in 'commedia dell'arte': Harlequin. weighing gold or money

The Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant, 1494, late medieval moral satire. Of marrying for money, the young man who marries an old woman finds only joylessness and displeasure, historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Bear near stone wall, Marcus de Bye, Nicolaes Visscher (I), 1664.

Die Instrvment gantz lvstig Kling vorab wen man darein tvt singen. Dated: c. 1580. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: German 16th Century.

Venice, Sadeler, Johann (I), Miracles of Saint Hyacinth of Poland, Miraculous healing of a man suffering from dropsy by Saint Hyacinth of Poland, verso bottom center - stamped, A man suffering from dropsy is healed by a heavenly vision of Saint Hyacinth of Poland. The print is part of an eighteen-part series that forms a frame around an image of Saint Hyacinth of Poland., print, prints, height 44 mm, width 36 mm, Work conception, Southern Netherlands, 1550 - 1600-08, after print by, 1595 - 1600, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), print maker, printmaker, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Witch shooting a man in the foot with an enchanted arrow made from a hazel wand., From De Laniis et phitonicis mulieribus by Ulrich Molitor, 1489, Woodcut

Historic print, copper engraving of 1669, frontispiece of the first edition, Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, 1622 - 1676, a German writer, from Bildatlas zur Geschichte der Deutschen Nationalliteratur, an illustrated atlas by Gustav Koennecke, 1887

medicine physicians Jewish physican and scholar woodcut ""Margarita philosophica"" by Gregor Reisch Strassburg 1508,

Depicts an elderly man dying in fire, created as a colored woodcut by Peter Berger in 1488, showing human figures and dramatic narrative.

Eve and the Serpent, From the Speculum humanae salvationis, 1470, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, original date unknown

15th century wheelbarrow for transporting the wounded. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1890

The pond fisherman. Engraving after a woodcut in Sebastian Münster's "Cosmographia universalis", published in Basel in 1552. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

French early 16th century, "Do Not Turn Back When You Arrive at the End" fol. 26 verso - 27 recto, 1512-1514, pen and brown ink with watercolor on two joined sheets of laid paper

Eunuchus, from The Comedie of Terence, 19th century reprint n.d. Albrecht Dürer German. Eunuchus, from The Comedie of Terence, 19th century reprint 387791

Revolving wooden wind vanes fitted to the top of mine ventilation shafts. When they revolved they acted as extractor fans sucking stale air from the mine. From 'De re metallica', by Agricola, pseudonym of Georg Bauer (Basle, 1556). Woodcut.

How the brothers Polo set out from Constantinople with their nephew Marco, for China. From a miniature painting in the fourteenth century.

The pond fisherman. Engraving after a woodcut in Sebastian Monster's "Cosmographia universalis", published in Basel in 1552. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

Francesco Colonna. "Speech by Poliphile's dream, 1499 - Folio VIII Polophile representative which contemplates ancient ruins in a dream". Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 26983-5 Contemplate, speech, man, ruins, dream, ancient

A bed furnished with a canopy and curtains, late 14th century, (1870). Artist: Unknown

Witch summoning up a monster. This was supposed to have happened in front of Marcomir, King of the Franks. Woodcut from Sebastian Munster 'Cosmographia universalis', Basle, 1544.

Bayeux Tapestr, an embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres long and 50 centimetre tall, that depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England, the bishop blesses the food, detail, Illustration 1880 / Teppich von Bayeux, Wandteppich von Bayeux oder Bildteppich der Königin Mathilda, in der zweiten Hälfte des 11. Jahrhunderts entstandene Stickarbeit, der Bischof segnet das Essen, Detail, Illustration aus 1880, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

A woodcut engraving depicting a 'literate' ass. Dated 16th century

Woodcut by Johann Zainer depicting Lavinia, Queen, with Ascanius and Silvius, colored in 1473. The print shows figures from classical Roman mythology in a narrative composition.

Fountain in Paris France. Illustration from the 17th century architecture book 'Architectura Curiosa Nova' 1664, by Georgium Bocklern

Engraving depicting a winged Mercury. Mercury, patron god of financial gain, commerce, eloquence (and thus poetry), messages/communication (including divination), travellers, boundaries, luck, trickery and thieves; he is also the guide of souls to the underworld. Dated 17th century

Engraving depicting the Roman God Vulcan, God of Fire. Dated 18th century

The Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant, 1494, late medieval moral satire. Of the way to eternal bliss, he who does not recognise God in his temporal life pulls a heavy cart after his death, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Latin literature. Theatre performance in France (16th century) imitating classical times. Colored engraving.

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