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Art Institute of Chicago

13,151 works

Engraving of Saint James the Great as a bearded pilgrim with a staff, satchel and flask, with a halo, by Sebald Beham.

St. James Major, plate 9 from The Twelve Apostles

Sebald Beham, 1545

Engraving of St. Matthew holding a sword, with a radiating halo, cloak and grass at his feet.

St. Matthew, plate 8 from The Twelve Apostles

Sebald Beham, 1545

Engraving of Saint Jude with a halo, holding a staff, standing barefoot among stone blocks and rocks.

St. Jude, plate 10 from The Twelve Apostles

Sebald Beham, 1545

Engraving of Saint Thomas with a halo, holding a tall staff, standing before a rocky landscape with a small tree.

St. Thomas, plate 7 from The Twelve Apostles

Sebald Beham, 1545

Engraving of Saint Bartholomew with a knife over his shoulder and cloak draped on his arm, standing beside stone blocks.

St. Bartholomew, plate 6 from The Twelve Apostles

Sebald Beham, 1545

Engraving of Saint Peter barefoot in a long cloak holding a large key, with a halo, beside a dated stone block.

St. Peter, plate 1 from The Twelve Apostles

Sebald Beham, 1545

Engraving of Saint Andrew holding an open book, carrying an X-shaped cross, with a halo and a wooden fence behind him.

St. Andrew, plate 2 from The Twelve Apostles

Sebald Beham, 1545

Engraving of Saint Philip, bearded and haloed, holding a staff and book, standing barefoot among rocks.

St. Philip, plate 5 from The Twelve Apostles

Sebald Beham, 1545

Cover design for an album of originals with green foliage, a yellow fence, and large pale lettering on beige tones.

Project for a Cover of a Printed Portfolio

Edouard Jean Vuillard, c. 1899

Lithograph of a bearded man in a hooded coat holding a hat and walking stick, with printed verse text around him.

The Apostle Jean Journet

Gustave Courbet, 1850

Engraving of Christ on the cross with two angels, the Virgin and Saint John below, a skull at the base, and a landscape behin

Christ on the Cross With Two Angels

Monogrammist AG, c. 1481

Print of St. George on horseback lancing a dragon, with a princess watching and a castle on a hill behind.

St. George Killing the Dragon

Master B with Two Crossed Daggers, 15th century

Decorative etched border with sporting vignettes like hunting, boxing, cricket and horse racing around a blank center.

Anecdotes: Border for a Title Page

George Cruikshank, 1827

Pencil and white-highlight sketch of Alhambra towers above arched colonnade, fountain, and houses with a seated figure.

Port of the Alhambra from the Dario

possibly Richard Ford, n.d.

Engraving of a standing woman pointing at a nude statue while a kneeling bearded man in a turban prays, in an arched room.

Solomon's Idolatry

Master M. Z., 1501

Engraving of a seated woman with long hair beside a lion-head fountain, with a castle, lake, and mountains behind her.

The Madonna by the Fountain

Master M. Z., 1501

Engraving of the beheading of John the Baptist, with a severed head on a platter, an executioner, women and angels.

The Beheading of St. John the Baptist

Master M. Z., c. 1500

Engraving of a kneeling saint before executioners, with angels in clouds above, a pond, horsemen and a castle in the landscap

The Martyrdom of St. Catherine

Master M. Z., c. 1500

Red chalk drawing of Psyche offering a vessel to Venus among clouds, with a winged figure at upper right.

Psyche Presenting the Phial of Water to Venus

After Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael, 18th century

Engraving of a woman in a long gown beside an owl, with a castle on a hill, a banner in the clouds, and distant ships.

The Woman with an Owl

After Master M.Z., after 1512

Study: Woman with a Jar

Pierre Victor Galland, 1887

Engraving of a walled garden with courting couples, a lute player, a castle on a hill, and a horseman on a path.

The Garden of Love

Master W. A. H., 1480/90

Pencil sketch of a ruined stone courtyard with trees, arched doorways and figures in 19th-century dress walking near a dog.

Baden-Baden

Christian Grabau, n.d.

Engraving of the Adoration of the Magi with Mary and the Christ Child, kneeling king, and a procession of riders and camels i

The Adoration of the Magi

Israhel van Meckenem, 1490/1500

Engraving of young Christ seated on a throne teaching scholars in robes and caps, with books and a sleeping dog in the foregr

Christ Among the Doctors

Israhel van Meckenem, 1490-1500

Engraving of the Virgin's deathbed with kneeling apostles, a holy water bucket, candle, and a bier carried in the background.

Death of the Virgin

Israhel van Meckenem, c. 1481

Engraving of the Annunciation: Virgin Mary reading at a lectern as kneeling angel Gabriel presents a scroll, with a dove and

The Annunciation

Israhel van Meckenem, n.d.

Japanese woodblock print of a court woman in a patterned kimono on a veranda, with a white cat at her trailing robe.

The Third Princess (Nyosan no miya)

Utagawa Toyokuni, c. 1792

Engraving of the Betrayal: armed soldiers crowd around two embracing men, with a fallen figure in the foreground and a town b

The Betrayal, from The Passion

Israhel van Meckenem, c. 1480

Woodblock print of a white rooster beside a black and yellow umbrella with purple and blue morning glories.

Rooster, umbrella, and morning glories

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1830s