Topic: 16th century

Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni tÿpus.

[St. Eustace] / AD [monogram].

Nemesis (the great fortune)

Allegorical figure of winged goddess of divine retrobution.

[Hroswitha (10th Century nun, poet, and chronicler) presenting her wor...

[Deposition from the Cross]

16th century mechanized warfare

Photograph shows reproduction of engraving of mechanized catapult.

The Virgin and Child on a grassy bench

Typus arithmeticae

The form of arithmetic, possibly muse of arithmetic, shown as woman standing between Boethius writing Arabic numerals and Pythagorus doing reckoning with counters.

Typus gramatic

Grammar represented as a woman with alphabet board and a key showing a youth the entrance to university building filled with students.

Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn at Cardinal Wolsey's - from the original pa...

Print shows King Henry VIII seated with Anne Boleyn in the left foreground and Cardinal Wolsey with other members of the court at a gathering in the background.

[Incunabula illustrations, 1505]

p. xciv - verso, v. 1.

[Incunabula illustrations, 1505]

3 illus. on verso of title page, v. 1.

[Incunabula illustrations, 1505]

Diptych of Adam & Eve with snake and priest celebrating Mass separated by Jesus on Cross.

[Incunabula illustrations, 1505]

Jesus and two theives on crosses.

Indians; Ships of Discovery

Papie sanctuarium.[Papie, Impressum pro Jacob de Burgofr¯acho, 1505][4...

St. Christopher

Las CCC ... con su glosa, i Las cinqu¯eta c¯o su glosa, i otras obras....

Epiphanic medicorvm.[Norimbergae, 1506]

[The visitation]

Print after Albrecht Dürer's woodcut Visitation, no. 8 in his Life of the Virgin series, shows the Virgin and St. Elizabeth, both pregnant, greeting each other as Zacharias stands in a doorway. Dürer's pet dog ... more

The Betrayal of Christ

From his Passion set.

[St. George on horseback] / AD [monogram].

[Susanna and the elders]

[Scene from the life of Catherine of Siena]

Das ist der Teutsch Kalender mit den Figuren. [Augspurg, Getruckt von ...

St. Luke writing the Gospel

Miniature painting from Book of Hours, ca. 1510.

The presentation of the Child Jesus

Miniature painting from Book of Hours.

[Illus. of Knights in armor fighting]

[Resurrection] / AD [monogram].

[St. Peter and a female saint (Religion?) in a sailboat]

Ecce Homo

Jesus before his crucifixion. His [Durer's] Passion Set.

Itinerarivm prouinciarum omni~u Antonini Augusti, cum Fragmento eiusde...

[An illustration of the Ptolemaic concept of the universe showing the ...

[Knight in armor, with lower body of fish]

[The knight, Death, and the Devil] / AD [monogram].

Illus. of man slicing bread (making communion wafers?) and of a hawk, ...

The bagpiper

Cut within plate mark.

[St. Jerome in his study] / AD [monogram].

[Dancing peasant couple] / AD [monogram].

The death of Ananias / Raphael Urbinas, perugo da carpo.

Print shows Ananias lying on the ground in front of the disciples and other observers. The disciple Peter condemns him for telling a lie.

Venus and cupids / perugo da carpo.

Print shows Venus standing among a group of cupids.

St. Peter preaching the gospel

Print shows the apostle Peter, at left, with arm extended, preaching to a group.

Ceiling with three angels / IV.R.,IVE.

Print shows three angels in flight just below a ceiling, surrounded by columns.

[The desperate man]

The justices of peas.

De Terre motu

Buildings moving and spire toppling in an earthquake.

The resurrection

Print shows Jesus, dressed in a shroud, stepping out of his tomb as it rests in a cave. On the right, the women weap, and on the left, the guards tumble over each other in fright.

[St. Christopher with infant Christ]

[Decorated initial with bearded man pointing up to the sun, moon, and ...

St. Martin dividing his cloak

Full page with illus. of man painting madonna and another making engra...

[Shepherd with bagpipes gazing at heavens, with sheepdogs, sheep and w...

The Annunciation

Die distellacien e¯u virtuyten der water¯e.Liber de distillandi, de si...

[Incunabula illus. of woman (St. Bridget) in prayer]

[Illus. poem showing mountain landslide threatening 3 horsemen]

[Process of distilling water]

[Knight in armor, with lower body of fish; bordered with hunting scene...

[Actors portraying Jupiter and Alcmena in a stage setting]

[Deposition from the Cross]

[St. Veronica receiving Eucharist from Christ]

[Several scenes from the New Testament]

The Virgin in an oval

Print shows the Virgin Mary seated with a child in her lap.

[The elaborate device of Franz Birckmann, a Cologne bookseller, showin...

[Halberdier on horseback]

The virgin, child and St. John

Print shows the Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus with his cousin in the background.

[Printing press of Joducus Badius with three workers in shop]

The rest on the flight into Egypt

Print shows Joseph, Mary, and the baby Jesus taking nourishment from a tree, assisted by several angels, on their journey to Egypt.

The sacrifice of Abraham

Print shows Abraham raising a sword against his son, Isaac.

[Madonna with the pear]

The sacrifice

Print shows the Roman knight Mutius Scaevola putting his hand into a flame while a group of Etruscans stands by.

[Architectural elements, floor plan, and elevation from handbook on cl...

[Bird's-eye view of a large scale water supply system showing tunnels ...

[St. Christopher, facing right] / AD [monogram].

Saint Christopher walking across river with child on his back, hermit in background.

[Milan Cathedral, plan, elevation, and architectural elements from han...

[Two illustrations showing a unicorn and several apes]

[Cosmographical chart]

[Portrait of Lucas van Leyden] / L [monogram].

[Charles, Duke of Vendosmoys, seated at desk, writing]

[Design by Albrecht Dürer for 16th century fortification]

[Four views of heads with proportions delineated in perspective grids,...

[Death-bed scene]

Pallas

Print showing Pallas, one of the Greek titans, holding a shield.

St. John

Print showing Saint John carrying a goblet.

Fortitude

Allegorical print showing a seated woman holding onto a column.

[Interior of a metallurgist's workshop with furnace and implements of ...

[Self-portrait, aged 28]

The philosopher

Allegorical print showing a man sitting in a chair, thinking.

The philosopher Diogenes and the allegory of astronomy

Allegorical print showing a seated man thinking and another figure looking at a globe.

[Man seated, seen from behind]

Print shows a man, possibly Narcissus, seated on a rock in a glade, turned away from a woman, possibly Echo.

[Opening page of Aphorismi, with decorated initial V]

Diana hunting the stag

Allegorical print showing the Roman goddess Diana with hunting dogs; on the left, two dogs have caught the stag.

[Telescoping siege machine]

Print shows a telescoping tower raised from beneath by a screw mechanism manipulated by two men, used during siege warfare to gain an advantage of height by those perpetrating the siege.

Typus Cosmographicus Universalis

World map with ornate border design natives hunting and cannibailzing; elephant; serpent; sea monster.

[Underwater breathing apparatus]

Print shows a device with a long tube for breathing, worn over the head, to allow a soldier to walk underwater; also shows the device being used in the background.

[Air mattress made from animal skins]

Print shows two soldiers resting on an air mattress made by sewing together and inflating animal skins.

[Seven horses in a wood] / Baldung, 1534.

The Fall of Babylon

[Jan van Leyden]

Medice, cura te ipsum. Tu congnoy's bien la maladie ...

2 people and skeleton (symbol of death) in laboratory.