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Renaissance Engravings and Prints

Intricate engravings depicting mythological and religious themes, featuring figures in elaborate costumes, evoking historical and artistic significance of the Renaissance.

Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, 1489-1494 - 1533), Saint Christopher at the Border of a River, c. 1505-1506, engraving
Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, 1489-1494 - 1533), Saint Christopher at the Border of a River, c. 1505-1506, engraving
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Joan of Arc, 1902. Artist: Patten Wilson
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The Lamentation of the Virgin, from The Fall and Redemption of Man Made 1510-1518 Germany. Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper . Albrecht Altdorfer
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Sebald Beham (German, 1500 - 1550), Three Soldiers and a Dog, engraving
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Triton with two tails; Histoire Metallique de la République de Hollande. From series vignettes with sea uts and allegories, as a illustration used in the book Histoire Metallique de la République de Hollande of P. Bizot.
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Sebald Beham's 1539 copper engraving 'The Moderate' depicting an allegorical figure representing moderation, executed in detailed engraving style.
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Design for a grave monument for an abbot or bishop. Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: 1700 - 1800. Measurements: h 189 mm × w 154 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Hercules Strangling the Nemean Lion. Artist: After Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483-1520 Rome); Niccolò Vicentino (Italian, active ca. 1510-ca. 1550). Dimensions: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 7 11/16 in. (25.1 × 19.5 cm). Date: 1540-50. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Germany, Monogrammist PC (engraver), Letter I in a frame with a representation of Adam and Eve surrounded by animals in paradise, verso lower right - stamped, print, prints, verso middle - stamped, height 64 mm, width 172 mm, German, print maker, printmaker, 1800 - 1899, paper, papier, houtcut
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Beham, Barthel, Standard bearer on horseback with footman, verso bottom - stamped, print, prints, height 60 mm, width 42 mm, 1502 - 1540, print maker, 1521 - 1521, first quarter 16th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), printmaker
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Master of the E Series Tarocchi, Musicha (Music), c 1465 Musicha (Music)
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Flying Genius. Beham, Barthel (1502-1540), graphic artist
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Lorenz Stör, Fantasy of Perspectival Forms Set among Ruins, 1567 Fantasy of Perspectival Forms Set among Ruins
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Copper engraving by Sebald Beham showing the allegorical figure of Happiness, created in 1541, emphasizing figure, gesture, and symbolic elements.
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Benedetto Montagna (Italian, c. 1480 - 1555 or 1558), Satyr's Family, c. 1512-1520, engraving
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Saint George Standing ca. 1502 Albrecht Dürer German. Saint George Standing 391133
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Reverse Copy of the Top of Dagger Sheath with David Holding the Head of Goliath after 1529 after Heinrich Aldegrever German. Reverse Copy of the Top of Dagger Sheath with David Holding the Head of Goliath 428868
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The Old Woman, from The Dance of Death ca. 1526, published 1538 Designed by Hans Holbein the Younger German. The Old Woman, from The Dance of Death. Designed by Hans Holbein the Younger (German, Augsburg 1497/98-1543 London). ca. 1526, published 1538. Woodcut. Prints
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Parabel of De Zaaier, Georg Pencz, 1534 - 1535 print A man sows seed in his field and a part of the seed is eaten by birds. paper engraving the sower ~ parable of Christ (Matthew 13:3-9; Mark 4:3-9; Luke 8:5-8)
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Nuremberg, Solis, Virgil, Saint James the Less in a scroll frame, verso - handwritten in brown ink, Numbered top right: 9., print, prints, verso - stamped, 87, height 72 mm, width 53 mm, German, 1514 - 1562-08-01, print maker, printmaker, 1568 - 1568, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process)
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Wittenberg, Cranach, Lucas (I), Statue of Saint Margaret and dragon, verso lower left - stamped, Statue of Saint Margaret standing with palm branch and dragon on base richly decorated with ornaments. On the verso of this book illustration are printed some small images of reliquaries., print, engraving, book illustration, prints, engravings, height 128 mm, width 91 mm, German, 1472 - 1553-10-16, print maker, printmaker, 1509 - 1549, first quarter 16th century, second quarter 16th century, paper, woodcut
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Saint Barbara. Hans Baldung Grien; German, c. 1480-1545. Date: 1500-1507. Dimensions: 236 × 161 mm (image/sheet, block mark not visible). Woodcut in black on cream laid paper. Origin: Germany. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Saint Rupertus. Dated: 1516/1518. Medium: woodcut. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Leonhard Beck.
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Melancholia. Even after more than five centuries not all of the questions raised by this enigmatic print have been satisfactorily answered. What is certain is that melancholy (the humour associated with black gall), the temperament linked to creative genius as found in artists and scholars, is depicted here. The realisation that everything man creates is imperfect fills Melancholia with a deep, fathomless grief.
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Hercules Killing Diomedes. Artist: Étienne Delaune (French, Orléans 1518/19-1583 Strasbourg). Dimensions: sheet: 2 9/16 x 3 3/16 in. (6.5 x 8.1 cm)plate: 2 5/16 x 2 15/16 in. (5.8 x 7.5 cm). Date: 16th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Het element water, Zacharias Dolendo (attributed to), after Jacques de Gheyn (II), 1595 - 1597 print Presentation of the water element in the form of a fisherman with a large fish under the arm on a beach. In the background a number of (fishermen) boats on the water. Under the performance the Latin name of the element ('Aqua'). This print is part of a series of the four elements, each depicted by a figure engaged in an action and sitting/standing in an environment associated with the element in question. Each performance has the caption of the Latin name of the element in question. print maker: Netherlandspublisher: Leiden paper engraving water (one of the four elements). fisherman. commercial fishery
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Copper engraving by Barthel Beham from 1520 depicting a genius riding through the air on a ball.
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"Copper engraving by Dirk Jakobsz. Vellert from 1522 showing a man holding a coat of arms, emphasizing heraldic symbol, detailed attire, and portrait composition."
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Grammar. 1500 - 1550. Beham, Hans Sebald, 1500-1550. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection
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St. John the Baptist, after 15th century, Unknown, Italian, 2 5/8 × 1 1/4 in. (6.67 × 3.18 cm) (image)2 13/16 × 1 1/2 in. (7.14 × 3.81 cm) (sheet), Engraving in niello manner, 15th century
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Antwerp, Cock, Hieronymus, Floris, Frans (I), Cort, Cornelis, Gods of Agriculture, Triptolemus, verso - stamped, helper of Ceres, the goddess of agriculture, walks with a sieve and a flail to a barn. A dragon stands next to him., print, prints, height 288 mm, width 222 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1533 - 1578, print maker, printmaker, 1565 - 1565, third quarter 16th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, Southern Netherlands, 1520 - 1570-10-01, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, 1518 - 1570-03-10, publisher
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Allegorical female figure with crown of a ship and a Triton on the rough sea, sea personified, 'Mare' (Ripa) (variant), monsters of the sea, whirlwind, cyclone, hurricane, typhoon, tornado at sea, shipwreck, Jan Luyken (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1687, paper, etching, h 194 mm × w 148 mm
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Sebald Beham, Hercules Killing the Nemean Lion, 1548 Hercules Killing the Nemean Lion
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Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). Saint Georges on foot (Bartsch 53). 1502. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, Petit Palais. 77214-15 Chretian art, religious art, bible, Christianity, biblical character, holy character, biblical rear, Christian religion, renaissance, biblical scene, religious scene, life Christ, 16th XVI 16th 16th 16th 16 century, engraving
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King Arthur, Charlemagne and Godfrey of Boulogne. Dated: 1492. Dimensions: overall: 34.8 x 26.2 cm (13 11/16 x 10 5/16 in.). Medium: pen and black ink over traces of black chalk on on laid paper ruled in leadpoint. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Primary Master of the Strassburg Chronicle.
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Maria Kneeling over Corpse of Christ. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Hans Baldung Grien.
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Leuven, Stalburch, Jan van, Simson, verso lower right - stamped in violet, Simson sits with a book in his hand and is lauded by a putto. Next to him is a broken pillar and the lion. At the bottom in the margin a text in Latin., print, prints, verso - stamped, N, height 213 mm, width 173 mm, South Netherlands, print maker, printmaker, 1556 - 1556, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process)
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The winged pig in the world, Cornelis Anthonisz., 1541 - 1545 print Allegory in the corrupt world: winged pig standing on government apple. Second pig ETEND from Trog. paper pen pig. globe. Corruptibility, Venality, Corruption
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Saint Sebastiaan in a nis.sebastiaan tied to pole and pierced with arrows, in niche.
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An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon together With somewhat Concerning Severall Remarkable passages of my life that hath hapned sic since my Deliverance out of Captivity' is a book written by the English trader and sailor Robert Knox in 1681. It describes his experiences some years earlier on the South Asian island now best known as Sri Lanka and provides one of the most important contemporary accounts of 17th century Ceylonese life. Knox spent 19 years on Ceylon after being taken prisoner by King Rajasimha II.
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Two Lansquenets. Artist: Circle of Erhard Altdorfer (German, 1480/85-1561/62 Schwerin). Dimensions: 5 1/2 x 3 11/16 in. (14 x 9.3 cm). Date: 1513.Pictures of splendidly dressed soldiers in poses designed to show off their costumes and weaponry became extremely popular in Europe at the end of the fifteenth century. By the early sixteenth century, these military depictions were all the rage in southern Germany and Switzerland. Lansquenets were among the Swiss and German military hired by Emperor Maximilian I at the close of the sixteenth century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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The Conversion of St. Paul 15th century Anonymous, German, 15th century German. The Conversion of St. Paul 382484 Artist: Anonymous, German, 15th century, The Conversion of St. Paul, 15th century, sheet: 5/8 x 1/2 in. (1.6 x 1.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Felix M. Warburg and his family, 1941 (41.1.225)
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Two warriors with a winged genius (Dutuit 571) Peregrino da Cesena. Two warriors with a winged genius (Dutuit 571). Printed nielle. 15th century. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, small palace.
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Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, 1472 - 1553), A Saxon Prince on Horseback, 1506, woodcut
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Saint Jerome. Engraving by F. de La Mare after L. de La Hyre.
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Woodcut by Thomas Anshelm showing a second depiction of John, produced in 1504, illustrating the religious figure in a devotional context.
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tile manufacturer: Valckenhoff (Valkenhoff), Abraham Pietersz., Blue tile picture with Julius Caesar on horseback, tile picture ceramic earthenware glaze tin glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Thirteen high six wide. Blue pull blue saving technique in swallowing C Julius Caesar 1640 Rotterdam City triangle Oppert Lange Torenstraat Oppert Westzijde 129 the building continued until the later Lange Torenstraat Property was demolished in 1927.
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Tobias in Engel.
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Planetary figure of Mars. From 'Sphaera mundi', Strasburg, 1539.
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Ganymede. Giulio Campagnola; Italian, c. 1482-1515/18. Date: 1500-1503. Dimensions: 168 x 125 mm (bottom); 122 mm (top). Engraving on ivory laid paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: Giulio Campagnola.
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Bolswert, Boëtius Adamsz., Nederlanden, Het Mirakel van Amsterdam (copy), 1345, Pelican and the Brazen Serpent, 12, Allegorical emblem with the pelican pecking its breast to capture its young to feed with her own blood together with the brazen serpent around the cross. Print no. 12 from the series of 16 representations of The Miracle of Amsterdam, after the events of March 15, 1345. Copies after the series of Bolswert. Below the representation in the plate engraved a six-line verse in Latin, below that a six-line verse in letterpress in Dutch., print, prent, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 117 mm, width 81 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1639 - 1699, second quarter 17th century, tweede kwart 17e eeuw, third quarter 17th century, derde kwart 17e eeuw, fourth quarter 17th century, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, Zuid-Nederlands, 1580 - 1633-03-25
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A woman with shears holding a sheep; representing June. Engraving.
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Bookplate of Scheurl and Tucher. Medium: woodcut. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Lucas Cranach the Elder.
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The man carries a club, a saber and a shield. His head and shield are decorated with feathers. In the lower margin three lines of Dutch and two lines of French text, Deli from the retinue of the Ottoman pasha Waerzegger, genoemdt Delly, het welk betent een stouten Gek, zynde bij het gevolg van den Paccha (title on object), print maker: Antoni van Leest, (mentioned on object), Pieter van der Borcht (I), publisher: Willem Silvius, Antwerp, 1576, paper, letterpress printing, h 163 mm × w 96 mm
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After Albrecht Dürer, The Prodigal Son, engraving on paper.
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Small Jester. Beham, Sebald (1500-1550), graphic artist
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The Prodigal Son. Dated: c. 1496. Dimensions: sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 24.8 x 10 cm (9 3/4 x 3 15/16 in.). Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: ALBRECHT DURER.
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Horizontal Panel with a Bearded Amascaron in a Medallion at Center Surrounded by Tendrils. Artist: Sebald Beham (German, Nuremberg 1500-1550 Frankfurt). Dimensions: Sheet: 2 x 3 1/8 in. (5.2 x 7.9 cm). Date: 1543.Panel with the mask of a large, open-mouthed, and bearded face at center, surrounded by a wreath and tendrils. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: Sebald Beham.
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A 16th-century copper engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi depicts a man playing a guitar, showing posture, gesture, and compositional details within the scene.
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Falconer and companion. Falconer with falcon on left hand and feather in court, is grabbed by a somewhat older man with stick in right hand. They have three hunting dogs.
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Entrapment ca. 1545-50 Engraved by Enea Vico Italian. Entrapment 370569