Early Music

Lutes and viols of the Renaissance.

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Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael · ca. 1504

The Musicians

Caravaggio · 1597

Melencolia I

Albrecht Dürer · 1514

The Coronation of the Virgin

Annibale Carracci · after 1595

Virgin and Child with Four Angels

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

The Sudarium Displayed by an Angel

Albrecht Dürer · 1516

明佚名蘇蕙璇璣圖卷 · Lady Su Hui and Her Verse Puzzle

Qiu Ying · 16th century

Design for the Tomb of Pope Julius II della Rovere

Michelangelo · 1505–6

The mystic marriage of Saint Catherine who sits at center with the Christ child, angels with instruments at the left

Agostino Carracci · Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1585

Virgin and Child Attended by Angels

Filippino Lippi · 1457/58–1504

Orpheus and Eurydice

Marcantonio Raimondi · Francesco Francia · ca. 1500–1506

Architectural Study

Michelangelo · n.d.

Portion of the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with the Libyan Sibyl, Prophet Daniel, Jesse, David, and Solomon, from Sibyls and Prophets from the Sistine Chapel Vaults

Michelangelo Buonarroti · Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia) · 1577 (republished in 1628)

Trumpeting Angels from The Last Judgment, after Michelangelo

Michelangelo Buonarroti · Nicolas Beatrizet · 1530–66

The Great Triumphal Car of Emperor Maximilian

Albrecht Dürer · 1523

St. Jerome in a Cave

Albrecht Dürer · 1512

Seated Figures of Saint Ursula and Saint Cecilia

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · 1598–1680

New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of Copper Engraving, plate 19

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus · Jan Collaert I · Philips Galle · ca. 1600

Title Page and Dedication for the "Compendiosa totius Anatomiae delineatio"

Andreas Vesalius · Thomas Geminus · 1545

Putto Bending a Bow

Giorgione · 1477/78–1510

Seated Man, Precariously Balanced, Playing Bagpipes

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · 16th century

The Fall of the Magician

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · Pieter van der Heyden · Hieronymus Cock · 1565

The Alchemist

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · Philips Galle · Hieronymus Cock · after 1558

Footed Vessel with Handle (verso)

Annibale Carracci · 1595–97

Dance of Death: The Trumpeters of Death

Hans Holbein the Younger · c. 1526

Dance of Death: The Emperor

Hans Holbein the Younger · c. 1526

Studies of Flying Putti (recto); Composition Studies (verso)

Guido Reni · 1575–1642

Concert champêtre

Girolamo Romanino · ca. 1520–30

The Infant Christ as Redeemer

Lucas Cranach the Elder · c. 1515

Altar mit der Schönen Maria von Regensburg

Albrecht Altdorfer · 1520

A Tabernacle Containing a Papal Escutcheon Supported by Angels

Giulio Romano · ca. 1538–40

The Sacrifice of Pelias to Neptune

Agostino Carracci · 1584

A Study of Bound Male Figures being Manhandled, and Various Putti, One Holding a Palm Frond

Agostino Carracci · c. 1590

Study of Four Saints

Antonio da Correggio · 1525–34

Minerva and the Muses

Andrea Schiavone · n.d.

A Draped Female Figure (possibly an Amazon) and Architectural Studies (verso)

Antonio da Correggio · c. 1525

Nine Studies of the Moses in Santa Maria della Steccata, Parma (recto); Nine Studies for the Eve in Santa Maria della Steccata, Parma (verso)

Parmigianino · 1503–40

The Nativity with the Dream of Joseph

Parmigianino · c. 1527/30?

The Twelve Kings of Israel: David, Solomon, Rehoboam

Lucas van Leyden · 1515–1517

David Playing the Harp before Saul

Lucas van Leyden · c. 1508

The Musicians

Lucas van Leyden · 1524

Saint Catherine

Hans Baldung Grien · 1505/07, printed c. 1580

Birds and Flowers

Sesshū Tōyō · mid-1400s–early 1500s

Orpheus Charming the Animals

Marcantonio Raimondi · c. 1505

Faun and Child

Marcantonio Raimondi · c. 1509

Left side of a double-page album folio: Outside a Royal Encampment (recto) and Calligraphy, Persian Verses (verso)

Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād · c. 1485

The procession of Silenus who is carried on an ass preceeded by a bacchant playing the cymbals and other figures

Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi) · Giulio Romano · Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1531

Portrait of Josephus Justus Scaliger

Hendrik Goltzius · 1592

Mercury and Argus

Hendrik Goltzius · c. 1585

Jacques de la Faille

Hendrik Goltzius · 1580