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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

3,907 works

Etching of a haloed saint trampling a two-headed serpentine monster, with an angel and a flying demon above.

Saint Jean Gualbert trampling a monster with two human heads and a serpentine body, from "Frontispiece and four scene…

Stefano Della Bella, 1640

Oval engraving of Salome holding John the Baptist's head as a child with a torch and onlookers watch, body on ground.

Salome receiving the head of John the Baptist, surrounded by three men and a child bearing a torch, the Baptist's bod…

Hendrick Goudt, 1659

Oval engraving of Salome receiving the head of John the Baptist as soldiers and an executioner with a sword look on.

Salome receiving the head of John the Baptist, surrounded by three men and a child bearing a torch, the Baptist's bod…

Hendrick Goudt, ca. 1610

Engraving of Salome receiving the severed head of John the Baptist, with an executioner, a child with a torch, and onlookers.

Salome receiving the head of John the Baptist, surrounded by three men and a child bearing a torch, the Baptist's bod…

Balthazar Moncornet, ca. 1630-68

Engraved frontispiece with angels, cherubs and a church building among clouds, with a Latin banner above.

Frontispiece, from The Building of St. Sulpice by Alexis Piron

Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune, ca. 1744

Engraving of the burning Tower of Babel with angels in clouds above and fleeing, kneeling figures below.

Destruction of the Tower of Babel: at right men and women flee from the burning tower, at left men and women raise th…

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, 1612

Saint Mark, his head turned in profile to the left, with an open book in his right hand and a lion at his feet, plate…

Sebald Beham, 1541

Engraving of Saint Luke with wings and halo, holding two books, with a bull at his feet and a small house behind.

Saint Luke with his head turned in profile to the right, a book in each hand, a bull at his feet, plate 3 from "The F…

Sebald Beham, 1541

Engraving of winged Saint John with a halo, holding an open book beside an eagle and stacked books.

Saint John with his head turned three-quarters to the left, with a book in his right hand and an eagle at his fee, pl…

Sebald Beham, 1541

Saint Matthew with his head turned in profile to the left, a cherub at bottom left, plate 1 from "The Four Evangelists"

Sebald Beham, 1541

Engraved religious print with a central oval of the crowned Virgin and Christ child, surrounded by framed scenes of Christ's

The Fifteen Mysteries and the Virgin of the Rosary (Modern Impression)

Francisco Doménech, 1488

Etching of a seated Virgin with the Christ child and infant Saint John, a book in hand, before a landscape with trees.

Seated Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist

Carlo Maratti, 1647

Grey wash drawing of a kneeling woman gazing up at a vision of the Virgin, infant Christ, and angels with a banner.

The Vision of Joan of Arc

Eduard von Steinle, ca. 1870-86

Brown ink and wash drawing of Christ being nailed to a cross by figures with hammers, with a crowd and city behind.

Christ Nailed on the Cross

Paul Decker the Younger, early 18th century

Engraving of the Holy Family with two angels, a young boy with a lamb, and swagged drapery above.

Holy Family with Two Angels

Jacques Callot, ca. 1614

Engraving of the Virgin's deathbed in a room with mourners, a bishop with candle, a fireplace, and a cat.

The Death of the Virgin

Philips Galle, 1574

Engraved village festival with brawling peasants, a church tower, thatched houses, stalls and a windmill on a distant hill.

The Kermis of Saint George

Johannes van Doetecum I, ca. 1559; printed 1601

Engraving of the risen Christ with a banner above an angel and tomb, with startled soldiers below and women at right.

The Resurrection

Philips Galle, ca. 1562-63

Engraving of Christ kneeling and writing in the dust while a crowd surrounds a standing woman and elders, after Brueghel.

Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery

Pieter Perret, 1579

Engraving of a dense forest beside a river with a distant town, and two figures on a path at lower right.

River View with Christ Tempted by the Devil

Aegidius Sadeler

Engraved rocky landscape with a waterfall, arched cave, dense trees, and small figures beside a stream under sunbeams.

Rocky Landscape with the Stigmatization of St. Francis (reverse copy)

Aegidius Sadeler

Engraving of a rocky wooded landscape with a cave arch, waterfall, sunbeams, and a kneeling figure in the foreground.

Rocky Landscape with St. Francis

Aegidius Sadeler

Engraved landscape with large trees, a winged angel and young man on a path, and a walled town on a hill beneath mountains.

Landscape with Tobias and the Angel and Gypsies

Aegidius Sadeler

Engraved forest landscape with a large oak, marshy water, distant town, and two figures at lower right, one haloed.

Landscape with Christ Tempted by the Devil

Aegidius Sadeler, n.d.

Woodcut of the Annunciation: Mary kneels by a canopied bed as the angel Gabriel offers a scroll beneath a radiant dove.

The Annunciation

Hans Baldung Grien, 1514

Woodcut of Christ on the cross with kneeling woman, standing saints, a skeleton, skull and bones beneath a sky with sun and m

Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and Saints Longinus, Mary Magdalen and John

Hans Baldung Grien, 1505

Woodcut of Christ with a crown of thorns being lowered from the cross by a man on a ladder, with a kneeling mourner and skull

Descent from the Cross

Hans Baldung Grien, 1505

Woodcut of Ecce Homo, Christ crowned with thorns, surrounded by angels and putti in a dense ornamental border of vines.

Ecce Homo with Ornamental Border showing the Triumph of Bacchus

Hans Baldung Grien, 1511

Woodcut of seated nude Christ supported by a small angel, with crown of thorns and torture instruments on the floor.

Christ with the Instruments of Torture Supported by a Little Angel

Hans Baldung Grien, 1517

Woodcut of a nude Christ seated by a column with a crown of thorns, whip, and an angel supporting him.

Christ with the Instruments of Torture

Hans Baldung Grien, 1517