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Engraving of Saint John the Baptist with halo and scroll, holding a cup, standing before a landscape with a walled city and p

Saint John the Baptist

Girolamo Mocetto, 1500-1506

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of a kneeling bearded saint gazing up at angels among clouds.

The Vision of Saint William of Aquitaine

Giovanni Angelo Canini, late 1650s

Engraving of the Madonna nursing the Christ Child seated against a large tree trunk in a bare landscape.

The Madonna nursing the Christ Child at the foot of a tree

Jacopo de' Barbari, ca. 1501-3

Pencil sketch of a Holy Family group with two flying angels above, drawn on pale paper.

Holy Family with Two Flying Angels

Baldassare Franceschini, ca. 1640

Pen and ink sketch of the Virgin crowned in clouds above rows of angels playing instruments and holding banners.

Coronation of the Virgin with the Heavenly Hosts

Baldassare Franceschini, 17th century

Brown ink sketch of the Adoration of the Shepherds with the Virgin and infant Christ, kneeling figures, and a column.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Pietro da Cortona, 17th century

Ink and wash drawing of Christ kneeling in Gethsemane, an angel above him, a cross and fence in a stormy landscape.

Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane

Gaspare Diziani, 18th century

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

Engraving of the Virgin rising in clouds with cherubs, above twelve apostles gesturing upward.

The Virgin at top center in clouds with clasped hands and right foot raised, surrounded by cherubin; below, the twelv…

Domenico Campagnola, 1517

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

Woodcut landscape with Saint Jerome at left, a lion and bear fighting at center, and a mule with two figures in the distance.

Landscape with Saint Jerome at left looking towards lion and bear fighting at center; two figures with mule in the ba…

Domenico Campagnola, ca. 1530-35

Woodcut of the Virgin and infant under trees with Joseph, Saint Jerome, Saint John, a lion, and a town in the distance.

Mary seated beneath trees with baby, flanked by Joseph at left and St. Jerome at right; St. John the Baptist seated i…

Domenico Campagnola, 1517

Pen and grey wash drawing of a crowned saint with a halo holding a church model, wearing a fur-trimmed cloak and armor.

Saint Henry (Emperor Henry II)

Joseph von Führich, 1800-1876

Engraving of Saint Jerome seated under a rocky arch with a lion, buildings and a distant landscape beyond.

Saint Jerome seated beneath a rocky arch

Benedetto Montagna, ca. 1505-20

Engraving of the Adoration of the Magi showing a kneeling elder offering gifts to the Virgin and Child, with attendants nearb

The Adoration of the Magi

Jacopo de' Barbari, ca. 1500

Engraving of a crowned woman in flowing robes holding a sword and a palm frond, standing on a curved ledge.

Saint Catherine

Jacopo de' Barbari, ca. 1501-3

Engraving of the Virgin and Child with Saint Elizabeth and John the Baptist seated in a wooded landscape, Saint Joseph at lef

The Virgin and Child with Saint Elizabeth and John the Baptist in a landscape, St Joseph at the left

Jacopo de' Barbari, ca. 1503

Engraving of a winged guardian angel touching the head of a sleeping bearded old man slumped over a book.

The Guardian Angel

Jacopo de' Barbari, ca. 1500-3

Red chalk and ink drawing of clergy and onlookers at a ceremony, with a procession and classical buildings in the background.

The Consecration of the Site of a Church in Rome by a Pope ("The Miracle of Saint Mary of the Snows"?)

Giovanni Lanfranco, n.d.

Pen and red chalk drawing of Christ and a woman at a stone well, with trees and an urn in a landscape setting.

Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well

Giuseppe Passeri, n.d.

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of Christ gesturing to a kneeling centurion while soldiers with spears stand nearby.

Christ and the Centurion (recto); Figure Waving to Departing Ship (verso)

Giuseppe Passeri, 1665-1714

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

Brown wash drawing of Christ standing and gesturing to a kneeling Mary Magdalen beneath a tree in a landscape.

Christ Appearing to Saint Mary Magdalen ("Noli Me Tangere")

Jacopo Bassano, ca. 1560

Pen and brown wash drawing of a bound, seated bearded man mocked by an armored soldier and a man drinking from a goblet.

Mocking of Christ

Johann Heintz, late 16th-early 17th century

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

Woodcut of Saint John before an enthroned God and crowned elders in clouds, with a castle and river landscape below.

Saint John before God and the Elders, from The Apocalypse

Albrecht Dürer, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of a religious scene with two women, an infant, a winged angel and a cherub inside a tall arched panel.

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, ca. 1761

Engraving of the Virgin and Christ child in a cave surrounded by cherubs, with two bearded men in the foreground.

The Adoration of the Magi

Andrea Mantegna, ca. 1475-80

Engraving of a bound, haloed figure tied to a column being whipped by two men, with armored soldiers watching on a tiled floo

The Flagellation, with the Pavement

Gian Marco Cavalli, Before 1480

Etching of Christ with disciples facing crowned figures, with a man felling a tree beside fire, a wolf, and fruit trees.

Christ Denouncing False Prophets and Pharisees: Illustration to Matthew 7: 15-21

Daniel Hopfer, 1530s