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Renaissance Woodcuts

Woodcut prints illustrating themes from the Renaissance, featuring dramatic encounters and allegories, capturing life, death, and music in detailed scenes.

'THE GOOD EFFECTS OF CARBONIC GAS !!!' - neighbours complain of the smoke or of being asphyxiated, pedestrians whinge about the smell and one coughs himself to death... Date: 1807
'THE GOOD EFFECTS OF CARBONIC GAS !!!' - neighbours complain of the smoke or of being asphyxiated, pedestrians whinge about the smell and one coughs himself to death... Date: 1807
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Line drawing from the Lisle Psalter titled 'The three living and the three dead'. Dated 14th Century
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Baker. Leaf 45 Recto from a sketchbook with 91 sheets.
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The joys of Bacchus, Zeres and Venus, copper engraving by Johann Sadeler, 1750
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Mander, Karel van, Den Haag, Hondius, Hendrick (I), Libet qui caret, Two putti with a fool's cap, The Hague, verso - stamped, Two putti each hold one side of a large fool's cap. In the other hand they hold a marot or fool's staff. Under the fool's cap in a cartouche the text: Libet qui caret. Behind them a semicircular wall. Under the representation a line in Dutch., print, prints, height 202 mm, width 270 mm, North Netherlands, 1573-06-09 - 1650-10-25, print maker, printmaker, 1597 - 1597, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception
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religion biblical scenes Adam and Eve Eve and the snake woodcut ""Speculum humanae salvationis"" Augsburg 1470,
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Trades Practiced in Bologna. Agostino Parisini (Italy, 17th century, active Bologna 1625-1639)Francisco Curti (Italy, circa 1603-1670). Italy, circa 1640. Prints; etchings. Etching
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Children's games in 16th century. Artist: Unknown
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People on street by Anonymous, woodcut, 1550, Russia, Moscow, Russian State Library
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The Eastern Stairs of Apadana palace. Persepolis ceremonial capital of Achaemenid Empire. Fars Province. Iran. Old steel engraved antique print. Published in L'Univers La Perse, in 1841. History of the ancient Persian empire
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Copper engraving by Sebald Beham, 1545, depicting Hercules lifting the columns of Gades, showing muscular form and architectural elements.
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Pigs spinning, 1673; De Groote Doodte under the Westphaelsche Wijven / and how that the Verckens have to spin / to win for the men. Animal allegar in which pigs have to spin because due to the shortage of women (through the war of Bernard von Galen, the bishop of Munster) in Westphalia. With texts in banderoles in the block in Dutch.
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Louis II (825-875), also known as Louis of Italy and Louis the Younger, was the eldest son of Emperor Lothair I, who he co-ruled with until 855, after which he inherited the imperial throne and ruled alone. Louis II was also King of Italy, and governed the kingdom before his ascension to emperor. When his father died and his lands were divided amongst his sons, Louis was angry that he obtained no territory outside of Italy. Allying himself with his uncle, Louis the German, he fought against his own brother Lothair, King of Lotharingia, as well as his other uncle, King Charles the Bald, in 857. He reconciled with his brother in 858, and received the Kingdom of Provence in 863 after the death of his brother Charles. Louis had to deal with turbulence and chaos in Italy, as well as with Saracens ravaging its southern provinces, procuring the aid of Byzantine emperor Basil. Louis was betrayed and imprisoned by one of his own nobles, Adelchis, Prince of Benevento, in 871, but was freed a mon
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Bread making. Engraving after a miniature in a calendar published in a 16th century book of hours. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. París, 1878.
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Woodcut by an anonymous artist around 1500 depicting the child Jesus riding a donkey, including figures, animal, and environment.
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Old woman with two skeletons at the table, Anonymous, After Adriaen Brouwer, 1622 - 1688 print An old woman sits at a table in a simple interior with a burning fireplace. Her left hand is a few coins. At the head of the table is a skeleton, death, with an hourglass in his hand as a vanitas symbol. His hand also rests on a few coins. Opposite him is a second skeleton. He shifts a few coins. print maker: Low Countriesafter design by: Southern Netherlands paper engraving scenes symbolizing 'Vanitas'. old woman. (human) skeleton. money. hourglass
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MARTêNEZ COMPAîN Y BUJANDA, Baltasar Jaime (1735-1797). Trujillo del Perœ en el siglo XVIII. 1782 - 1785. Vol 2. Plate 128. 'Yndiecitos jugando a los choloques' (Indian people playing 'choloques', a ball game). Watercolour. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Palacio Real Library.
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A surgeon extracting "pierres de tête". Oil painting after H. Weydmans.
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Woodblock print depicting drowning as a form of punishment during 15th Century Switzerland. Dated 15th Century
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Aztec woman weaving at the loom by Fra Bernardino de Sahagun from The Code of Florence ""Historia general de las cosas de Nueva Espana"" in Spanish and Nahuatl, facsimile
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The rake, French copper engraving, 17th century
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Lady of Carnation. German card game from the end of the 15th century. The Arts of the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance by Paul Lacroix, 1874
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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Italian poet. Woodcut portrait published 1521, thought to be from miniature by Guilio Clovis
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Paper manufacturer. Drawing and engraving by Jost Amman, 16th century. '"Les Arts au Moyen Age et a l'Epoque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1877.
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Pilgrims feasting on boar's head. From Caxton's edition of Chaucer's Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, 1483.
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trade merchant ships harbour trade on the storage yards of the Levant after miniature of the manuscript ""Voyages de Marc Pol"" wood engraving 19th century,
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A woodcut engraving depicting a supper party. Dated 17th century
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From Artinaros Naval Architecture 16th century, Spanish literature. Ship of the sixteenth century
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Medieval men smoking a pipe and drinking in front of the parlour fire. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by J. E. Rogers from Francis Cowley Burnand's "Present Pastimes of Merrie England, Cassell, London, 1873.
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Hanging to Music. medieval justice.
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The bigorne is a sexist creature which eats men who do as their wives tell them; though no longer politically correct, it may not be extinct Date: 16th century
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Illustration showing Time shown holding a clock and also spectacles. From a late fifteenth or early sixteenth century woodcut
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The country kitchen, 1570, by Bartolomeo Scappi (1500-1577), illustration from L'arte et prudenza d'un maestro Cuoco (The Art and Craft of a Master Cook).
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At Oudewater, 1575; Grouwelyckheyt to Oudewater; The Spaensche Tiranye Gheschiet in Nederlant. Horrors committed by the Spaniards on the residents of Oudewater, 8 August 1575. Under the show a verse of 16 lines in 2 columns, below stuck a description in 5 lines, in Dutch. Numbered: 13.
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Elevated and richly ornamented Anglo Saxon seat. 9th century. Black and White Illustration from the "Old England" published by James Sangster in 1860.
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Man stoking a fire, late 16th century Rhenish school
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March; Parable of the sower; Months of the year.A Man Scattered Seed on His Field and a Portion of the Seed is Eaten by Birds.
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Man warms himself to a burning house; Improb, Est Si Quis Aliena Incomoda Ridet; Emblemata Saecularia, 1596. A man warms himself to the fire of a burning house. Towards one of the 'round proverbs' by Bruegel:' Him is it and lots of whose house is burning, when he warms up at the coal, "with which Bruegel has wanted to put home and undulated jaw.
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Cautiverio de Jaume Mas Ferrer.Grabado Siglo XVII, Museo de Historia de Barcelona. Museum: Museo de Historia, Barcelona.
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NUEVA CRONICA Y BUEN GOBIERNO - 1613/1615 - MANUSCRITO INDIO - PICHICA CAMACHICO. Author: FELIPE GUAMAN POMA DE AYALA (1535-1617). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN. PICHICA CAMACHICOC.
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Old Sarcophagi of Cairo known as the Lover's Fountain, Egypt 19th Century. Engraving.
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Romanised fashions alongside traditional hairstyles for a Germanic tribe circa 4th century AD
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Netherlands, Bray, Dirck de, Months of the year, August, verso - stamped, A putto hides among the crops and seems to be looking at a half-naked woman and a man. In the top margin a line of Dutch text., print, prints, height 24 mm, width 38 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1645 - 1694-05-09, print maker, printmaker, 1635 - 1694, paper, papier, houtsnede, letterpress printing, boekdruk
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Artes y oficios de Barcelona. Vendedores ambulantes voceros. Baladrers. Vendedor de altramuces.
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MARTIRIO-PINTURA SOBRE PAPEL DE ARROZ. Location: PALACIO REAL-PINTURAS. Aranjuez. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Artes y Oficios de Barcelona desde la Edad Media. Grabado al Boj del siglo XVIII. Fideero obteniendo fideos a partir de una masa de pasta.
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Der Tod kommt zum Totengräber, Todten-Tantz after Beck, Nöller a. other painters by Georg Max. Theodor Goetz, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original
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Artes y oficios de Barcelona. Vendedores ambulantes voceros. Baladrers. Vendedores de loza de Valencia.