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1,208 works

Four Studies of Recumbent Female Nudes (Galatea)

Carlo Maratti, ca. 1713

Engraving of two nude men in a landscape, one holding a convex mirror and a snake-entwined head, the other leaning on a tree.

A young naked man standing at left leaning on the trunk, another seen from behind, holding two snakes in his right ha…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-27

Engraving of a robed priest and attendant at a flaming altar as a nude man restrains a horned ram between two trees.

The Sacrifice of a Ram, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marco Dente, 16th century

Brown ink drawing of a central cuirass and helmet flanked by two ornate classical vases with relief figures.

Trophy with Two Vases and a Cuirass

Polidoro da Caravaggio

Engraving of a seated nude man at left being struck by a standing youth holding a fox tail, with a sapling behind them.

The seated naked man at left being beaten with a fox's tail

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-27

Engraving of a nude man in a flowing cloak reaching toward a reclining naiad with a winged cupid beside a tree.

Naked Man Pursuing a Naiad, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Pen and ink sheet with studies of muscular nude figures and several bearded male heads in different profiles.

Studies of Nudes and Human Heads (recto and on the verso)

Agostino Carracci, 1557-1602

Engraving of a nude man holding an axe and staff facing a draped woman who turns away, on a grassy landscape.

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

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-27

Engraving of the Laocoon sculpture group, with a bearded man and two sons struggling against entwining serpents.

Laocoon, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marco Dente, 16th century

Pencil and ink sheet with eight ornamental designs: a greyhound, heraldic crests, scrollwork borders and putti.

Eight Miscellaneous Designs for the de la Rochejaquelein Family

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Engraving of a Roman triumphal procession with armored soldiers, a nude statue on a pedestal, and classical buildings.

The triumph of a Roman Emperor

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1530-50

Engraving of three nude women embracing before palm fronds in an arched niche, with fountains on pedestals at each side.

The Three Graces, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marco Dente, ca. 1515-27

Pen and brown wash drawing of a seated bearded warrior in armor with a draped woman offering a laurel wreath.

Seated Warrior Between Two Figures

Giambattista Zelotti, 1546-78

Engraving of a nude young man with a lantern and a ram walking through a landscape with distant buildings.

A naked young man walking left, carrying a lantern and looking backwards over his shoulder at a ram

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-27

Pencil drawing of a nude male figure with raised bound arm, looking upward beside a tree trunk and drapery.

Nude Figure

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, 1720

Pen and brown wash drawing of a tiered ornamental stand with reclining nudes, garlands, and a winged putto on top.

Design for an Inkstand

Ottavio Strada, ca. 1540-60

Engraving of a nude woman pouring water onto a plant beside a tree, with a covered vessel raised in her other hand.

A woman watering a plant, a pot in her raised right hand

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1507-8

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate lidded vase with scrolling handles and foliate decoration on a pedestal base.

Design for a Vase with a Cross-section of its Neck (recto); Design for a Vase with studies of a Muscular Nude Male Fi…

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Brown ink drawing of an octagonal ceiling design with a central chariot scene and oval medallions of nude figures.

Design for an Octagonal Ceiling (or Dish?)

Ottavio Strada, 1510-63

Engraving of nude figures with two trumpets, a globe, a bearded old man and a young man beside classical columns.

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

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-27

Hand-coloured drawing titled Loi Lunaire, 1856, with a Napoleon medallion, a tripod brazier and a crescent moon in an ornate

Lunar Law

Charles Meryon, 1856

Drawing of a winged cloud-seated allegorical woman with an eagle above, and a seated turreted woman over a distant town.

Allegory of Air and Earth

Bartholomäus Reiter, 1618

Engraving of two nude men embracing, both pointing right, beside a broken tree stump on rocky ground.

Two naked men, the sons of Noah, standing in profile facing right, both pointing

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-34

Pen and wash drawing of an ornamental wall design with a caryatid figure, putti, fruit garlands and a grotesque mask around a

Design for a Wall Decoration

Rosso Fiorentino, 16th century

Title page of Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience with gold lettering, colored washes, and two entwined nude figures

Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul: Combined Title-page

William Blake, [1789-94] printed ca. 1825

Engraving of a muscular nude man seen from behind, climbing over a rock ledge beside trees.

Naked man viewed from behind climbing a river bank, after Michelangelo

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1509

Pen and watercolor drawing of two embracing nude women on a bed under a pink canopy, with a reclining nude man beside them.

Nude Couple Embracing

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827

Hand-colored page with poem Introduction, showing a reclining nude figure on a cloud beneath a sun, against a starry night sk

Songs of Experience: Introduction

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Engraving of a nude man seen from behind, climbing over a rocky ledge beside trees and grass.

Naked man viewed from behind climbing a river bank, after Michelangelo

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1500-34

Pen and watercolor drawing of nude Venus with a billowing cloth, Anchises seated beside her, and a cupid above.

Venus, Anchises and Cupid

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1827