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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,446 works

Engraving of gods and figures among clouds, with a central seated figure raising his arms, after Sistine frescoes.

Sistine Frescoes, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

René Boyvin, 16th century

Engraving of a papal gathering in the Sistine Chapel with a crowd of clergy beneath the Last Judgement fresco.

A Papal Gathering in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo's Last Judgement on the back wall; the crowd looks on through a…

Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

Engraving of the Trinity: God the Father holds the dead Christ on clouds, with the Holy Spirit dove above and angels around.

The Trinity

Giorgio Ghisi, 1576

Engraving of three seated women reading books beneath a flying winged putto in an arched frame.

Three Muses and a Gesturing Putto

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Engraving of nude Hercules with bow beside kneeling centaur Nessus and nude Deianira, with a city in the distance.

Hercules Killing Nessus, from The Labors of Hercules

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1550

Engraving of a nude hero struggling with centaurs beside a table and drapery, with a Latin inscription below.

Hercules Preventing the Centaurs from the Rape of Hippodameia, from The Labors of Hercules

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1550

Engraved portrait of a man in a wig pointing at a harbor with ships, with a dedicatory inscription below.

William Shirley, Governor of Massachusetts

Peter Pelham, 1747

Woodcut of haloed Saint Ita reading in a forest with a dove above and a heraldic shield at left.

Saint Ita (of Toggenburg), from "The Habsburg Saints"

Leonhard Beck, 1516-18

Engraving of three draped women reading a book beneath a winged putto playing a lyre in an arched niche.

Three Muses and a Putto with a Lyre

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Engraving of three seated muses playing instruments while a winged putto clashes cymbals above them.

Three Muses and a Putto with Cymbals, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for t…

Giorgio Ghisi, 1560s

Engraving of demons and dragons attacking in the sky above a town, forest, and rocky cave with a large tree.

The Temptation of St. Anthony

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1506

Portrait of Albrecht Dürer

Erhard Schön, ca. 1538

Woodcut of three armored bearded men named Joshua, David and Judas Maccabeus within a classical architectural frame.

The Three Jewish Heroes (Die Drei Guten Juden), from Heroes and Heroines

Hans Burgkmair, 1516

Mezzotint portrait of Sir William Pepperrell in a wig and embroidered coat, holding a baton, with a distant town behind him.

Sir William Pepperrell

Peter Pelham, 1747

Engraving of Emperor Maximilian kneeling with saints before the Virgin and Child, under an angel-filled architectural frame.

Maximilian Presented by his Patron Saints to the Almighty

Hans Springinklee, 1519

Hurlacher (recto) and Rappold (verso) Families, from "Bericht und anzeigen aller Herren Geschlecht der loblichen Stat…

Christoph Weiditz, mid-16th century

Woodcut of a winged basilisk beside a shield with a black heraldic sword emblem, framed by foliage and Latin text.

Basilisk Supporting the Arms of the city of Basel

Master DS, 1511

Engraved print of a bearded saint with halo in an arched niche, holding a model church and pilgrim staff, 1518.

Saint Sebald in a Niche

Albrecht Dürer, 1518

Woodcut of a crowded anatomy theatre with a surgeon dissecting a corpse, spectators watching, and skeletons in side niches.

The Reward of Cruelty

John Bell, 1790

Portrait of Michelangelo in profile facing right set within a recess

Enea Vico, 1545

Engraving of crucified Christ on a cross surrounded by mourning angels in clouds, with an INRI placard above.

Christ crucified surrounded by mourning angels

Giorgio Ghisi, 1575-79

Engraved portrait of a seated bishop in ceremonial robes and chain, with stained glass windows behind him, dated 1743.

The Right Reverend Father in God, Dr. Benjamin Hoadly, Lord Bishop of Winchester, Prelate of the Most Noble Order of…

William Hogarth, 1743

Engraved print of a seated man with a palette at an easel sketching a classical figure labeled Comedy 1764.

William Hogarth, Serjeant Painter to His Majesty

William Hogarth, 1764

Engraving of the Descent from the Cross with Christ's body lowered by men on a ladder and mourners below.

The Descent from the Cross, from The Fall and Salvation of Mankind through the Life and Passion of Christ, plate 27

Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, 1548

Engraving of Judith with a raised sword beside the bed where Holofernes lies, curtains and a cup in the foreground.

Judith Slaying Holofernes, from "The Story of Judith and Holofernes"

Maarten van Heemskerck

Engraving of a robed man gesturing toward a seated commander and helmeted soldiers beneath a draped canopy.

Achior Pleading with Holofernes for the Israelites, from "The Story of Judith and Holofernes"

Maarten van Heemskerck

Pen and wash drawing of monks watching workmen topple a seated statue of Apollo from a classical temple beneath a large tree.

Benedict of Nursia Orders the Destruction of the Temple of Apollo at Monte Cassino

Jan Erasmus Quellinus, mid-17th-early 18th century

Brown wash drawing of a standing young washerwoman in a headband, carrying a bundle of cloth against her hip.

A Standing Young Washerwoman

Jacob van Strij, late 18th-early 19th century

Watercolor drawing of a seated man reading a songbook with a woman and small child in a courtyard.

Parents Teaching Their Daughter a Song

Abraham van Strij, early 19th century

Portrait of a Young Man

Wilhelm von Kügelgen, mid-19th century