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

Art Institute of Chicago

24,198 works

Engraving of Saint Jerome seated in an arch, writing with a quill, with a lion beside him and open books above.

St Jerome, from The Fathers of the Church

Jacob Matham, 1600

Engraving of the Virgin seated on a crescent moon holding the Christ Child, with stars, clouds and cherubs around her.

The Virgin and the Child on the Crescent

Jacob Matham, 1607

Engraving of a muscular nude Apollo with a sun halo striding on clouds, with a distant mountain landscape below.

Apollo in the Clouds

Jacob Matham, c. 1600

Engraving of Venus, Bacchus and Ceres with nude figures, grapes, wheat, a barrel and a winged child beneath a tree.

Venus, Bacchus and Ceres

Jacob Matham, c. 1600

Engraving of Pallas Athena and Mercury, seated figures with helmet, shield and caduceus against a cloudy sky.

Pallas Athena and Mercury

Jacob Matham, c. 1600

Engraving of allegorical female figures with scales, sword, mirror and serpent, with a Latin inscription below.

The Seven Virtues

Jacob Matham, c. 1600

Engraving of three female figures, the Fates, spinning thread beneath a tree in a landscape with a distant building.

The Fates

Jacob Matham, c. 1600

Engraving of three nude female figures holding laurel wreaths above their heads, standing on clouds beneath a dramatic sky.

The Three Graces

Jacob Matham, c. 1600

Engraving of an embracing couple in a landscape while a skeleton grabs the man's cloak from the lower left.

Lovers Surprised by Death

Nicolaus Braeu, c. 1600-20

Engraved circular title page with two nude men holding ropes around a celestial sphere, a winged figure above, and Latin vers

Title Page, plate 1, from Creation of the World

Jan Harmensz. Muller, 1590

Engraving of a circular scene with a flying nude male, a winged figure above holding a staff, and a standing nude female figu

The First Day, plate 2, from Creation of the World

Jan Harmensz. Muller, 1590

Engraving of a winged figure with a staff above a bearded man pouring water from an urn, with a seated nude woman on clouds.

The Second Day, plate 3, from Creation of the World

Jan Harmensz. Muller, 1590

Circular engraving of a winged figure above a seated flowered man and a reclining nude woman among clouds.

The Third Day, plate 4, from Creation of the World

Jan Harmensz. Muller, 1590

Engraving of mythological nude figures in a circle, with a striding male figure, clouds and radiating sun rays.

The Fourth Day, plate 5, from Creation of the World

Jan Harmensz. Muller, 1590

Circular engraving of a reclining sea figure with crabs and fish in the foreground and birds flying over a rocky coast.

The Fifth Day, plate 6, from Creation of the World

Jan Harmensz. Muller, 1590

Engraving of God in clouds with a nude woman, a reclining nude man, a tree, and animals in a circular landscape.

The Sixth Day, plate 7, from Creation of the World

Jan Harmensz. Muller, 1590

Engraving with dense hatched sky and angel wings around a religious scene, by Jan Harmensz Muller, c. 1590.

Holy Family and Two Music-Making Angels

Jan Harmensz. Muller, c. 1590

Engraving of Cleopatra on a curtained bed, holding a coiled asp to her chest, with a crown beside her.

Cleopatra

Jan Harmensz. Muller, c. 1590-95

Engraving of the Holy Family resting on the flight to Egypt, Mary nursing the Christ child beneath a tree, Joseph with a staf

The Rest on the Flight to Egypt

Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink, 1593

Engraving of Juno seated on a cloud with a peacock, and Mercury in a winged helmet holding a caduceus, within a circular fram

Juno, from The Three Goddesses

Egbert van Panderen, c. 1600

Etching of nude Venus standing on clouds with Cupid drawing a bow, a cherub on a cloud, and two doves in flight.

Venus, from Three Goddesses

Egbert van Panderen, c. 1600-10

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in armor holding a lance, with a helmet, coat of arms and ships at sea behind him.

Phillip II, King of Spain

Christoffel van Sichem, c. 1600

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a lace collar, flanked by two allegorical female figures on pedestals.

Maurice, Landgrave of Hessen

Crispijn van de Passe I, 1616

Engraved double portrait of Emperor Matthias and Empress Anna with allegorical figures, cherubs and an eagle, 1613.

Emperor Matthias and Empress Anna

Peter Isselburg, 1613

Engraved portrait of a woman in ruff and regalia holding an orb and scepter, with a crown beside a window.

Anna, Wife of Emperor Matthias

Aegidius Sadeler, 1616

Engraved portrait of Emperor Matthias seated with a scepter, orb and crown beside him, under a canopy.

Emperor Matthias

Aegidius Sadeler, 1616

Engraved oval portrait of Emperor Rudolph II in armor and laurel wreath, flanked by allegorical figures and an eagle.

The Emperor Rudolph II

Aegidius Sadeler, 1603

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in an oval frame, flanked by allegorical women, with a skull and trumpet below.

Pieter Brueghel II

Aegidius Sadeler II Flemish, c. 1570-1629), 1606

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a ruff collar, flanked by two putti and a Latin inscription cartouche below.

Bartolomeus Spranger

Jan Harmensz. Muller, c. 1611, after a model from 1597

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a ruff collar, framed by allegorical figures, a trumpet-blowing putto and a Latin

Abraham Bloemaert

Jacob Matham, 1610