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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,048 works

Engraving of Jupiter hurling lightning at falling giants below a cloud bank filled with gods and cherubs.

Fall of the Giants, Jupiter in the clouds overhead striking the Giants with lightning

Girolamo Fagiuoli, ca. 1539-49

Engraving of figures in a classical landscape with columns, putti, a lion and a statue of Apollo and Minerva within an ornate

Annibale Carracci Introduces Painting to Apollo and Minerva

Pietro Aquila, 1674

Engraving of Venus and Mars embracing in a bedchamber while Vulcan hammers at his forge in the foreground.

Venus and Mars Embracing as Vulcan Works at His Forge

Enea Vico, 1543

Grey-green woodcut of two nude men wrestling beside classical columns and a tree.

Hercules and Antaeus

Ugo da Carpi, ca. 1517-18

Engraving of a nude man wrestling a horned bull on rocks, with three women holding fruit-filled cornucopias at right.

Hercules defeating the river god Acheolus in the form of a bull, with three women to his left holding cornucopias, fr…

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, ca. 1526-27

Engraving of a bacchanal with nude revelers, a heavy Silenus, satyrs and a flute player beneath grapevines.

Bacchanal with Silenus

Andrea Mantegna, before 1475

Woodcut print of a trident-bearing god in a chariot pulled by horses across a rocky landscape under stormy clouds.

Rape of Persephone with Pluto on horseback at right

Giuseppe Scolari, 1590-1607

Brown-toned print of a seated nude man seen from behind beside a large tree, with a reclining figure in the lower left.

Man seated viewed from behind (Narcissus)

Antonio da Trento, ca. 1527-30

Engraving of Trojans pulling a wooden horse through a city gate, with soldiers, horsemen and men carrying sacks in the foregr

The Trojans pulling the wooden horse into the city

Giulio Bonasone, 1545

Woodcut of Venus in a chariot drawn by doves above cupid, with musicians and couples in a garden below.

The Dominion of Venus, from 'The Seven Planets'

Girolamo Grandi, 1533

Etching of Venus with a winged figure holding a child, a dove, a chariot and putti in clouds, within an oval frame.

Venus entrusting Cupid to Time

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1758-80

Etching of a bearded figure with a trident driving a chariot, carrying a struggling woman, with cherubs and clouds around.

Rape of Persephone

Gaetano Gandolfi, ca. 1755-90

Engraving of figures carrying a wounded nude man past a stone wall, with robed onlookers and a piper nearby.

The Wounded Paris Carried from the Field of Battle

Engraving of warriors fighting and figures fleeing a burning city, with a seated figure and smoke rising from ruins on the ri

The Fall of Troy and Escape of Aeneas

Giorgio Ghisi, mid-1540's

Ink and wash sketch of a standing woman in a long gown with a faint second figure at left, study for a bride painting.

Studies for "The Bride at Her Toilet on the Day of Her Wedding"

David Wilkie, ca. 1838

Pencil and ink sketches of Turkish figures, including veiled women, a turbaned seated man, and standing figures in tall headw

Studies of two groups of Turkish figures

David Wilkie, before 1841

Grey wash frontispiece with a classical frame reading TASSO, showing an embracing couple and sheep in a wooded pastoral scene

Fronticepiece for Tasso's Poems

Richard Westall, late 18th-mid-19th century

Hand-colored woodcut of Christ's body being lowered from the cross, with mourners in robes and a crown of thorns on the groun

Deposition, from "The Small Woodcut Passion"

Albrecht Dürer, 1509-10

Hand-colored woodcut of the risen Christ with a halo and red cloak, standing over a tomb with startled soldiers around him.

Resurrection, from "The Small Woodcut Passion"

Albrecht Dürer, 1509-10

Sepia drawing of visitors in period dress strolling among classical ruins with carved masks, columns, and a large tree.

Visitors Inspecting Classical Ruins

Louis Jean Desprez, n.d.

Oval watercolor of a woman in a red bodice smoking beside a man at a table with glasses, with a crowded room behind them.

Un Mari Pour Rire

Paul-Emile-Anthony Morlon, n.d.

Watercolor of a kneeling man holding hands with a woman in a pink gown in a cluttered artist's studio.

Un Mari qu'on Aime

Paul-Emile-Anthony Morlon, n.d.

Pen and watercolor drawing of a gothic scene with a skull on a table, a kneeling woman, and ghostly figures reaching out in m

Scene from "My Aunt Margaret's Mirror" (Keepsake Story by Sir Walter Scott)

John William Wright, ca. 1828

Etching of Dido on a funeral pyre with a sword and crown, surrounded by clouds and trumpeting putti in an octagonal frame.

Dido on the Funeral Pyre

Giuseppe Diamantini, 1650-1700

Engraving of mythological figures: a nude piper, a standing lyre player, and a crowned seated figure beside a woman, under a

The Competition of Apollo and Marsyas and the Judgment of Midas

Giulio Sanuto, 1562

Engraving of Saint Lawrence on a fiery gridiron, held by soldiers, with an angel above offering a palm branch.

Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

Lucas Vorsterman, 1621

Watercolor costume design of a Franciscan monk in a grey hooded robe and rope belt, pointing to the left.

Brother Richard, a Franciscan Monk; costume design for Jeanne d'Arc by the Paris Opera Company, 1897

Charles Bianchini, 1897

Costume design of a medieval duke in purple velvet robe, jeweled crown and chainmail sleeves, with handwritten caption.

Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy; costume design for Jeanne d'Arc by the Paris Opera

Charles Bianchini, 1897

Engraved gallery interior with statues, workers unrolling a tapestry, courtiers and dogs, with a caption and coat of arms bel

Colbert Visiting the Gobelins

Sébastien Leclerc I, ca. 1665

Engraved frontispiece with two seated hunters, dogs, horses and hanging game, with dedicatory text in italic script.

Frontispiece with Hunters, Dogs and Horses, from "Hunting Scenes VI"

Antonio Tempesta, 1609