New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome and Firefox. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome Add to Firefox

Unknown Artists

6,941 works

Pen and brown ink drawing of a river landscape with trees along a winding riverbank and distant hills.

River Landscape

Charcoal sketch on grey paper of a seated, leafy-crowned male figure with one arm raised, draped in an animal skin.

Bacchus

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat and white collar, inscribed Anibal Caras Pictor at top.

Annibale Carracci

Pen and wash drawing of a decorative ceiling design with clouds and gods, grape foliage, classical columns and reclining figu

Illusionistic Ceiling with a Grape Arbor, Figures Poised on Galleries, and a Central Scene of Olympian Gods

Unknown artist, c. 1580/1590

Pen and ink drawing with brown wash of allegorical figures around a winged figure standing on a wheel, with labeled scrolls.

A Dialogue on Human Favor (recto) [fol. 15 verso / 16 recto]

Unknown artist, 1512/1514

Pen and ink drawing of kneeling and standing figures gazing upward at serpent-like forms and rays in the sky.

"Turn Your Body as You Worship" [fol. 37 verso]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink drawing of a crowned man extending his hand to a group of men reaching up toward him.

"Do Not Give Your Right Hand to All and Sundry" [fol. 13 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Colored drawing of a courtier between Covetousness, a crowned piper with money bags, and a hooded Dissimulation, with a wolf

A Courtier Standing Between Covetousness and Dissimulation [fol. 14 recto]

Unknown artist, 1512/1514

Pen and ink drawing with red wash of a young man among allegorical figures, a Latin scroll, and a crouching figure labeled Ma

"Do Not Walk outside the Public Highway" [fol. 35 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen drawing of allegorical figures around a knight whose red heart is being grasped with pincers, with labeled banners.

"Do Not Eat Your Heart Out" [fol. 22 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink drawing of a haloed bearded man carrying sticks, a crucifix, a lion, and a seated youth under a tree.

"Help Him Who Takes up His Burden, Not Him Who Lays It down" [fol. 31 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen drawing of allegorical figures: a crowned man with scales, two blindfolded women turning a wheel, and two men holding a h

"Friendship Is Equality; A Friend Is Another Self" [fol. 10 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink drawing of a building facade with labeled allegorical figures, a staircase, and banners reading Cras and Tempus.

"Do Not Sit on the Grain Measure" [fol. 12 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink drawing of a spectacled woman riding a horse beside a veiled woman, with banners reading Credulitas and Mater spe

Credulity Preparing to Nurse the Mother of Hope [fol. 18 verso]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink allegory: Hope reaches toward a banner among sad monks, joyful dancers, fearful figures and soldiers.

Hope, Reaching for Heaven, Stands among Sad and Happy Men, Joys, and Fear [fol. 19 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Ink and wash drawing of a sick man in bed, a miser, a kneeling man, and a red-robed ape beside an apple tree.

An Ape in Purple with a Sick Man, a Good Man, and a Miser [fol. 36 verso]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and watercolor drawing of a robed man in a niche, swallows and flies near a window, and three storks with red legs.

"Do Not Have Swallows under the Same Roof" [fol. 40 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1514

Pen drawing of bearded Pythagoras in a hooded robe beside a flowering bean plant labeled Fabe, on a grassy mound.

"Do Not Eat Beans" [fol. 25 recto]

Unknown artist, 1512/1514

Pen and brown ink drawing of a group of figures surrounding a central man in a pointed-eared hood, early 16th century.

"Do Not Wear a Tight-Fitting Ring" [fol. 23 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen drawing of a feathered-capped figure gesturing beside a nude child holding a long sword over rocky ground.

"Turn aside the Sharp Sword" [fol. 44 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink drawing of a man in pleated garments raising a sword, with two crowns on a hill behind him.

"Do Not Break the Crown" [fol. 43 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink drawing of a man raising a sword while reaching toward a blazing fire on a stone hearth.

"Do Not Poke the Fire with a Sword" [fol. 20 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and ink drawing of a kneeling jester tying a knot in the tail of a dolphin-like sea creature in wavy water.

"You Are Tying a Dolphin by the Tail" [fol. 17 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen drawing of a fool in a donkey-eared hood tipping a basket of flowers into a trough for three pigs.

A Fool Feeding Flowers to Swine [fol. 42 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen drawing of a jester with bells on his cap pouring red liquid from a chamber pot, standing on a hatched mound.

"Do Not Put Food in a Chamber Pot" [fol. 24 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen and watercolor drawing of a man in a red hood feeding meat to a lion in an octagonal pit with other lions.

"Feed Not Things That Have Sharp Claws" [fol. 38 recto]

Unknown artist, 1512/1514

Colored drawing of a man raising a sword toward a face-like sun, with a second figure in a patterned cloak beside a building.

"Speak Not Against the Sun" and "Do Not Make Water Facing the Sun" [fol. 39 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Two-tone woodcut of a seated woman reading a book while a child holds a flaming torch in a shadowy interior.

The Sibyl and a Child Bearing a Torch

Unknown artist, 1520-40

Colored drawing of an allegorical scene with kneeling figures, a seated ruler on a throne, a woman holding a red heart, and a

The Calumny of Apelles [fol. 6 recto]

Unknown artist, 1512/1514

Pen drawing of an archer aiming a bow upward at a night sky with moon, sun and stars, with a church and hills beside him.

"You Are Shooting at Heaven" [fol. 9 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen drawing of a winged figure with a sphere on a column, a woman in a tower niche, and a man pointing, with Latin text.

The Statue of Opportunity, a Passer-by, and Remorse [fol. 8r]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515

Pen drawing of a winged statue with a mirror and globe atop a turreted building, with a man passing by and Latin text.

The Statue of Opportunity and the Passer-by [fol. 8 recto]

Unknown artist, c. 1512/1515