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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

201 works

Wash drawing of two robed saints in clouds, with a cherub holding a papal tiara below and a crozier at right.

Two Saints (Pope and Bishop?)

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated, draped bearded male nude with one arm raised, on a pale sheet.

Study for Christ in The Entombment

Bartolomeo Neroni, 16th century

Circular engraving of Saint Peter's Basilica with a large central dome, flanking towers and a mountain base.

Saint Peter's Basilica

Agostino Veneziano, 1517

Colored drawing of a pulpit design with a robed preacher, winged angel, cherub on clouds and crimson drapery.

Design for a Pulpit

Augustin Pajou, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Annunciation: an angel with a lily faces the kneeling Virgin Mary beside a draped curtain.

Annunciation

Filippo Bellini, 1560-1600

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Entombment, with Christ's body held by mourners in an arched architectural setting.

Entombment

Maso da San Friano, 16th century

Circular pen and ink drawing of Christ being crowned with thorns by soldiers, with architecture and putti in background.

The Crowning with Thorns

Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1520-30

Circular pen and blue wash drawing of a robed man among armored soldiers and columns, with a kneeling figure in the foregroun

St. George and the Sorcerer of Dacian

Lambert van Noort, 1555

Hand-colored page by William Blake showing a reclining woman and a winged angel beneath a tree, with the poem The Angel below

Songs of Experience: The Angel

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds with Virgin, Christ child, angels and classical architecture.

The Adoration of the Shepherds (recto); Sketches (verso)

Maarten van Heemskerck, ca. 1532-37

Engraving of Christ crowned with thorns by soldiers, inside a circular border of scrollwork and putti, dated 1509.

Christ Crowned with Thorns, from the Circular Passion

Lucas van Leyden, 1509

Grey wash drawing after Giotto showing St. Francis on a bier, mourning monks, a procession and angels above.

Death of St. Francis, after Giotto, upper Church San Francesco, Assisi

William Young Ottley, 1795-1836

Etching of the Annunciation: a kneeling winged angel offers a lily to a haloed Virgin seated beside a fruit basket and table.

The Annunciation

Jacques Bellange

Circular pen drawing of Christ at the cross's foot, mourned by Mary and John, with a ladder and soldiers behind.

Christ at the Foot of the Cross, Mourned by Mary and John

Nicolaas Hogenberg, early 16th century

Engraving of an angel and a young boy walking through a dark wooded landscape with a distant tower and cloudy sky.

Tobias and the Angel (large plate)

Hendrick Goudt, 1613

Brown ink and wash drawing of the baptism of Christ with angels on clouds above and a kneeling figure pouring water.

The Baptism of Christ (recto); The Baptism of Christ (verso)

Gabriel Weyer, late 16th-early 17th century

Painted illuminated initial with interlaced ornament and a haloed saint holding an inscribed banner beside a dragon.

Illuminated Initial and Saint

Freeman Gage Delamotte, 1830-62

Pencil drawing of a stone church with a crenellated square tower and pinnacles, showing a proposed restoration of Holy Trinit

Proposed Restoration of the Church of the Holy Trinity and St. Mary, Old Clee, Lincolnshire

James Fowler, 1876-77

Engraving of Christ as judge on a cloud, surrounded by saints and crowds of nude figures in the Last Judgment.

Christ as Judge Surrounded by Saints (upper central section of the Last Judgment)

Niccolò della Casa, 1548

Circular engraving of Christ praying on a rock while sleeping disciples lie nearby, with soldiers approaching in the distant

Christ on the Mount of Olives, from the Circular Passion

Lucas van Leyden, 1509

Circular engraving of Christ kneeling in prayer while disciples sleep nearby and soldiers approach through a wooded landscape

Christ in Gethsemane (copy)

Claes Janszoon Visscher II, 17th century

Engraving of two robed saints in a wooded landscape with a pig, a bird, a castle, and boats in the distance.

Saint John and Anthony in a Landscape

Master IQV, ca. 1544-45

Circular engraving of soldiers seizing Christ in a landscape, with torches, a castle on a hill, and ornate foliate border.

The Betrayal of Christ, (Christ Taken Captive), from the Circular Passion

Lucas van Leyden, 1509

Engraving of Christ crowning the kneeling Virgin Mary on a throne, with an angel watching from the left and rays of light beh

The Coronation of the Virgin

Martin Schongauer, 1470-1491

Engraving of two saints in a landscape: a young man with a lamb beside a tree, and a bearded elder with a staff and pig.

Saint John and Saint Anthony

Master IQV, ca. 1542-45

Circular engraving of Christ seated and mocked by a crowd of men, framed by ornate foliage and putti.

The Mocking of Christ, from the Circular Passion

Lucas van Leyden, 1509

Engraving of the crowned Virgin praying beside a blessing, crowned Christ holding an orb, with three angels above.

The Enthronement of the Virgin

Martin Schongauer, 1470-91

Circular engraving of a haloed seated figure with a lamb in rocky landscape, framed by winged symbols and scrollwork.

St. John the Baptist in the Desert

Master ES, 15th century

Circular engraving of a bound, nude man presented before a crowd by a turbaned official, framed by ornate scrolls and cherubs

Ecce Homo, from the Circular Passion

Lucas van Leyden, 1509

Engraving of Christ kneeling in prayer on a rocky hill as sleeping disciples lie nearby and an angel appears above.

Christ on the Mount of Olives (reverse copy in roundel)

Martin Schongauer, late 15th-16th century