[William Howard Taft, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, in a mason's garb] - A faun standing in a niche holding aloft a bunch of grapes with his right hand and fruit with his left hand, a dog lower right

The king explains to his queen the meaning of her dreams, forecasting that she will bear the child Mahavira. The couple is engaged in intimate conversation, both seated on richly decorated thrones with a finely... more

Text with map filling blank spaces, small drawings of cities, including skyline of Cairo in lower right corner.

Trisala on Her Couch (left) / The Goddess Sri, One of the Fourteen Lucky Dreams (right); Page from a Dispersed Kalpa Sutra (Jain Book of Rituals)

Queen Trisala is shown on her couch pondering her fourteen auspicious dreams. She is to be the mother of Mahavira, the founder of the Jain religion.

Note of ownership in upper right corner.

Page of text with small initial, chapter number, and correction in right and lower margin.

Miniature of chamber with Sappho seated at right, plucking the strings of a harp. A psalter and a zither lie on a table top before her at left. A few books, bound and clasped, are stored under a table and on a ledge. Initial, rubric, and border design.

Opening of French text of the Fifteen Joys of the Virgin; precisely designated border in C-shape triggered by 3-line initial, and on the right in a band corresponding to the height of the text block.

Christ's stigmata: the right foot

Christ's stigmata: the right hand

End of the geneology of the English kings, in the far right column.

Miniature of Christ, rubric, small initial, note of owner A.A. Smets in upper right corner.

Miniature of John the Evangelist on Patmos, with the eagle holding the saint's pen case; line fillers on last two text lines to justify the right margin of text.

The printer, Anthoine Vérard, kneeling center, presents his book to the king of France, Charles VIII (1492). Behind Vérard, Josephus (died circa 93 CE), holding a scroll with his name on it to identify him as the author, looks on approvingly. Behind Josephus, a scene of mayhem typical of The Jewish War plays itself out. In the foreground, a mounted King Charles enters Paris, and, center right, Charles's servants hold his horse while he receives the book from Vérard.

4 BCE: Archelaus goes to the Temple and addresses the people. He thanks them for the respect they showed at his father Herod's funeral, but says that he will not exercise authority until his right to succession is confirmed by the emperor of Rome.

[Saint Pantaleon, d. 305, full, standing, facing slightly right]

St. Bartholomew, standing in frontal view with head facing to right and holding martyr's palm with both arms, from the series 'Christ and the Twelve Apostles'

Master F. P. (Italian, active 16th century)

Man seen from the Back, holding a Skull in his right Hand

Giulio Bonasone (Italian, active Rome and Bologna, 1531–after 1576)

Man seen from the Front, holding a Rope in his right Hand

Giulio Bonasone (Italian, active Rome and Bologna, 1531–after 1576)

[Portrait of a youth, half length, facing slightly right]

St. John the Evangelist, striding in three-quarter view toward the left and holding a chalice with snakes in his right hand, an eagle stands behind his right leg

Master F. P. (Italian, active 16th century)

Man seen from the Front, holding the Skin of his right Arm and Leg in his right Hand

Giulio Bonasone (Italian, active Rome and Bologna, 1531–after 1576)

The Return to Court of the Four Graybeards of Mount Shang (left); Su Shi’s Visit to the Wind and Water Cave (right

The subject of the right screen is the future Emperor Hui (reigned 194–188 B.C.) of the Han dynasty. Although the crown prince, his rightful ascendance to the throne was threatened by his father’s desire to ins... more

Venus at left holding a golden apple in her right hand and an arrow in her left, Vulcan at his forge beating a piece of iron on an anvil

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

Satyr carrying a nymph, whose right arm is wrapped around the satyr's neck, with a planar background

After Giulio Romano (Italian, Rome 1499?–1546 Mantua)

Apollo standing at the left, his hand resting on the shoulder of Hyacinthus, Cupid in the lower right

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

Apollo standing at the left, his hand resting on the shoulder of Hyacinthus, Cupid in the lower right

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

Apollo standing at the left, his hand resting on the shoulder of Hyacinthus, Cupid in the lower right

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

David standing, sword in lowered right hand, sack in the left, the head of Goliath on the ground beneath him

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

David standing, sword in lowered right hand, sack in the left, the head of Goliath on the ground beneath him

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

Mars seated at the left, his left hand on Venus's shoulder, cupid beside her at the right

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

Mars seated at the left, his left hand on Venus's shoulder, cupid beside her at the right

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

Orpheus standing at left playing the violin, Eurydice at right covering herself

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

Young shepherd seated in a landscape looking toward an old man in the lower right, buildings in the background and a tree and mountain at left

Giulio Campagnola (Italian, Padua ca. 1482–ca. 1515/18 Venice)

Dido holding a dagger in her right hand, left arm outstreched

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

A naked man at left showing an axe to a woman at right

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

A young naked man standing at left leaning on the trunk, another seen from behind, holding two snakes in his right hand and a convex mirror in his raised left hand

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

A Bacchanal, Silenus supported by two bacchants in the centre, at right a female satyr reclining on a bed and another pulling the horns on a statue of Priapus, various other figures fill the composition

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

Prudence as a young woman, sitting on a lion and holding the neck of a dragon with her left hand, holding a mirror in her right hand

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

A man with two trumpets in the centre flanked by other figures including an old and a young man at right

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

A personification of Philosophy sitting on clouds with her feet resting on a globe, two putti at right holding a tablet

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

An old skinny man at left talking with a fat man at right

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

The Triumph of Christ: the last sheet on the right showing Adam and Eve who lead the procession

Anonymous

A young man sitting at right resting his head in his hand, a snake with a womans head before him, a young woman holding a pan pipes standing in the centre and a young man leaving at left

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

Christ standing at left addressing the Woman of Samaria at right who is standing by a well, lagoon in the background

Composition attributed to Titian in Washington 1973 (p.395) and in The Illustrated Bartsch Commentary Volumes (TIB.Commentary.2518.002.S1); attributions to Titian, Giorgione, and Sebastiano del Piombo are menti... more

Dido holding a dagger in her right hand, left arm outstreched

Anonymous

A naked man at left showing an axe to a woman at right

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

An old man reclining on the ground at right; at left a naked younger man standing pointing toward the sun with and leaning on an anchor

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

A satyr carrying a nymph on his back and another raising his right hand to slap her

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

The triumph of a Roman Emperor; a young naked hero stands at centre on a pile of armour; a woman at right holds aloft a laurel wreath

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

The Judgment of Paris; he is sitting at left with Venus, Juno and Pallas Athena, a winged victory above; in the upper section the Sun in his chariot preceeded by Castor and Pollux on horseback; at lower right two river gods and a naiad above whom Jupiter, an eagle, Ganymede, Diana and another Goddess

A masterpiece of Renaissance printmaking, the Judgment of Paris represents a highpoint in the collaboration between the painter Raphael and the great Italian engraver Raimondi. This scene is one of a group of e... more

A woman kneeling at centre reaching up with her right hand to place a ring on the finger of a naked man holding a curved stick that is also held by another man at left

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

A satyr and a ram attacking each other, the satyr weilding a club with his right hand, a shield resting against a small column at center, buildings in the background

Marco Dente (Italian, Ravenna, active by 1515–died 1527 Rome)

Bacchus standing in a niche holding grapes in his raised right hand, fruit in his left hand, a dog lower right

Marco Dente (Italian, Ravenna, active by 1515–died 1527 Rome)

Saint Joseph at left and a bishop at right standing before the altar of the Virgin and Christ Child

Marco Dente (Italian, Ravenna, active by 1515–died 1527 Rome)

A group of men at right pushing philosophers toward a fire with burning books at the left

Attributed to Marco Dente (Italian, Ravenna, active by 1515–died 1527 Rome)

Venus and Cupid riding two sea monsters, Cupid raises an arrow in his right hand, two heads representing wind in the clouds above

Marco Dente (Italian, Ravenna, active by 1515–died 1527 Rome)

The Virgin in profile facing right reading to the infant Christ

Attributed to Marco Dente (Italian, Ravenna, active by 1515–died 1527 Rome)

A satyr and a ram attacking each other, the satyr weilding a club with his right hand, a shield resting against a small column at center, buildings in the background

Marco Dente (Italian, Ravenna, active by 1515–died 1527 Rome)

Jupiter and Semele embracing, an eagle beneath them, a tree at right with a blank tablet hanging from a branch, a winged putto holding a thunderbolt at left

Marco Dente (Italian, Ravenna, active by 1515–died 1527 Rome)

Galatea escaping Polyphemus; he is seated on a rock holding a staff and pipes and looking towards Galatea at right riding a shell pulled by two dolphins, Cupid flying above

See 59.570.296 for a copy of this print by an anonymous artist. Marco Dente (Italian, Ravenna, active by 1515–died 1527 Rome)

Justice personified by a young woman holding a sword in her raised right hand, scales in her left, from 'The Virtues'

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

Prudence personified by a woman standing in a niche, holding a shawl in her right hand, a snake coiled around her, left from 'The Virtues'

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

Noah's Sacrifice; Noah at right with his hands clapsed in prayer before a fire upon an altar, two men sacrificing a ram on the ground and another bringing a second ram, two men leading two cows and a camel behind the fire

Marco Dente (Italian, Ravenna, active by 1515–died 1527 Rome)

A plague scene at right, a man at left holding a torch illuminating part of the scene, ill people at the right

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

Hope personified as a woman standing in a niche facing right, holding a container of unleavened bread in both hands, from 'The Virtues'

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

Venus and Cupid riding two sea monsters, Cupid raises an arrow in his right hand, two heads representing wind in the clouds above

Verso is not visible as print is laid to another sheet of paper. Marco Dente (Italian, Ravenna, active by 1515–died 1527 Rome)

A group of figures at right witnessing a shipwreck

Marco Dente (Italian, Ravenna, active by 1515–died 1527 Rome)

A plague scene at right, a man at left holding a torch illuminating part of the scene at left, ill people at the right

Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))

Woman returning from a hunt carrying a boar in her right hand and a stick on her left shoulder to which a hare and two ducks are tied

Marco Dente (Italian, Ravenna, active by 1515–died 1527 Rome)

Venus removing a thorn from her left foot while seated on a cloth next to trees, a hare lower right

This print depicts one of the compositions Raphael designed for the stufetta (bathroom) of Cardinal Bibbiena in the Vatican. The small room was richly ornamented all’antica, with grotesques and scenes represent... more