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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

206 works

Circular engraving of Mary Magdalen carried upward on clouds by winged angels, with radiating light rays.

Mary Magdalen carried to Heaven

Jean Mignon, ca. 1535-55

Engraving of Christ carrying the cross past soldiers, with a castle on a hill and a foliage-decorated circular border.

Christ Carrying the Cross, from the Circular Passion

Lucas van Leyden, 1509

Engraving of two winged angels flying diagonally, each holding a flaming torch against radiating light lines.

Two Angels or Winged Genii Carrying Torches

Battista Franco Veneziano

Pen and grey wash drawing of the Annunciation: the Virgin Mary at a lectern receives a lily from a winged angel amid clouds a

The Annunciation

Gabriel Hornstain, 1639

Circular engraving of the Crucifixion with mourners, soldiers and putti in an ornate scrolled border.

The Crucifixion, from the Circular Passion

Lucas van Leyden, 1509

Engraving of a kneeling woman pleading before a crowned seated ruler as a swordsman and crowd look on in a columned hall.

Female figure (Saint Catherine?) kneeling on the ground at center pleading to a male figure (Maximus?) who wears a cr…

Domenico Campagnola, 1517

Pen and brown wash drawing of two women embracing on steps, with onlookers, a donkey, and architecture in the background.

The Visitation

Bernardino Poccetti, ca. 1599-1610

Engraving of the Virgin and Child with Joseph, Saint Anne and two male saints in an arched columned interior.

The Holy Kindred, (Virgin and Child with Joseph, Anne and Two Male Saints) (copy)

Lucas van Leyden, n.d.

Engraving of a dove descending in light above twelve robed apostles gesturing toward it before an archway.

The Holy Spirit as a bird descending with spread wings at top center; the twelve Apostles standing below gesturing to…

Domenico Campagnola, 1518

Engraving of the risen Christ with a banner staff, flanked by Saint Andrew holding a cross and a kneeling armored soldier.

The Risen Christ between Saints Andrew and Longinus

Andrea Mantegna, ca. 1475

Pen and ink sketch of the Virgin and Child with a bearded cleric holding grapes, with hatched drapery.

Virgin and Child with a Cleric

Hans Burgkmair, ca. 1503-05

Etching of the Virgin holding the Christ Child, with a halo, two birds, a tree and a distant landscape.

Virgin and Christ Child

Stefano Della Bella, 1641

Pen and ink drawing on blue paper of a bearded reclining male figure in drapery within an oval frame.

Saint Augustus

Georg Anton Urlaub, 1713-59

Pen and watercolor drawing of a robed figure raising a young woman on a bed while an elderly man and a woman look on.

The Raising of the Daughter of Jairus

Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann, 1873

Octagonal etching of the Virgin Mary embracing the haloed Christ Child, with drapery and a curtain in the background.

Virgin and Christ Child, an octagonal composition

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1649

Engraving of the Archangel Gabriel on a cloud, pointing upward and holding a lily branch, in a curved corner panel.

The Archangel Gabriel

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1762

Pen and wash drawing of monks carrying a cross in procession below a standing Christ figure among clouds.

Members of a Monastic Order Carrying the Cross for Christ to Heaven

Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari, n.d.

Etching of the Virgin nursing the Christ Child in a circular frame, with draped cloth and a distant landscape at right.

Virgin Nursing the Christ Child

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Baptism of Christ with a nude figure in a river, angels in clouds, and onlookers.

Baptism of Christ

Hans Rottenhammer, late 16th-17th century

Pen and ink drawing of the Virgin and Christ child with Saint Anne, Saint John, and sketched studies around them.

The Holy Family with Saint Anne and Saint John in a classical landscape; verso: The Holy Family with Saint Anne and S…

Karl Agricola, late 18th-19th century

Circular etching of the Virgin and Christ child riding a donkey past a tree, with cherub heads floating in the sky.

Flight into Egypt, a round composition

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1662

Woodcut of a seated bearded man writing beside an eagle, while a crowned woman with a child appears in rays of light above.

The Virgin Appearing to Saint John, frontispiece to "The Apocalypse"

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

Round engraving of the Crucifixion with Christ on the cross, mourning women, a skull, and rays of light around the figure.

The Crucifixion (Round) (copy)

Johannes Riepenhausen, n.d.

Etched frontispiece showing the Holy House of Loreto with the Virgin and Child on its roof, angels in clouds, and allegorical

Frontispiece for Le Véritable Plan et Pourtrait de la Maison de la Ste. Vierge

Stefano Della Bella, 1649

Woodcut of the Holy Family with bearded saints under trees and two angels playing lute and bagpipe, dated 1511.

The Holy Family with Saints and Two Musical Angels

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

Circular engraving of the Crucifixion with Christ, haloed mourners, a kneeling woman and a skull at the cross base.

The Crucifixion (Round) (copy)

Carl Kappes, 1847

Circular engraving of the Crucifixion with Christ on the cross, mourning figures, a kneeling woman, a skull, and a soldier.

The Crucifixion (Round) (copy)

Johannes Wierix, n.d.

Circular engraving of the Virgin and Child in a landscape, crowned by two angels above.

The Virgin and Child Crowned by Two Angels above a Landscape

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1504

Etching of a bound, crowned man surrounded by helmeted soldiers with spears and banners beneath a draped curtain.

Christ Before Pilate: The Large Plate (copy in reverse of center)

Rembrandt van Rijn, n.d.

Engraving of the Holy Family resting in a landscape with angels above, a young John the Baptist, rabbits and a distant villag

The rest of the Holy Family on their flight to Egypt

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76