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Full-length portrait of a queen in a jewelled crown, holding a sceptre and orb, in an embroidered gold and brown gown.

Margareta Leijonhuvud, Queen of Sweden (1516-1551)

Johan Baptista van Uther, 1550

Small oil painting of a rural road scene with a woman and child on a donkey and resting travelers beside a picnic.

Landscape with the Holy Family

Gillis Mostaert, 1573

Painting of the Virgin nursing the nude Christ child beneath grapevines, with a rocky landscape and village behind.

Madonna of Humility

Jan Sanders van Hemessen, 1544

Two women prepare poultry in a kitchen with an owl, candlestick, and platter of birds, painted in 1562 by Pieter Aertsen.

Two Women Cooking

Pieter Aertsen, 1562

Figures gather at a table with coins and an open ledger in a wood-paneled room, depicted in an early sixteenth-century painti

The Rent Receiver's Office

Jan Matsys, 1514

Painting of nude sea gods feasting on seafood around a ship, with a lobster on a shell, sea horses and a crowded sea.

The Feast of the Seagods

Frans Floris, 1561

Painting of a woman in a green headscarf reading a gold-edged book beside a white jar and pink cloth.

The Magdalen Reading

Ambrosius Benson, 1505

Reclining nude woman with pearls on a terrace, with a fountain, peacock, and harbor city view behind her.

Venus Cythereia

Jan Matsys, 1561

Kitchen scene with women preparing meat and game birds beside classical columns, a seated man and a hanging turkey.

Kitchen Scene with Christ in the House of Martha and Mary

Joachim Beuckelaer, 1565

Banquet scene with haloed Christ at table, servants pouring wine from stone jars, guests in period dress on a checkered floor

The Wedding in Cana

Ambrosius Benson, 1540

Painting of an elderly man embraced by a young woman and an older woman, with a parrot, gold coins and fruit on a table.

The Ill-matched Pair

Jan Matsys, 1566

Full-length Renaissance portrait of a bearded man in gilded red doublet and black cloak beside a crown and sword.

Erik XIV, 1533-1577, king of Sweden

Steven van der Meulen, 1561

Painting of Christ with a crown of thorns before a seated Pilate with a basin, flanked by armored soldiers in a dim interior.

Christ before Pilate

Andrea Schiavone, 1550

Painting of Christ crowned with thorns, surrounded by soldiers in a vaulted hall lit by a hanging lamp.

The Scourging of Christ

Aert Mijtens, 1598

Painting of an allegory with Cupid, revelers with grape leaves, an armored woman, doves and nude children in a landscape.

Allegory of the Temptations of Youth

Otto van Veen, 1595

Portrait of a red-bearded man in gilded black armour holding a baton, with a Latin royal title inscribed above.

Erik XIV (1533-1577)

Domenicus Verwilt, 1550

Grayscale drawing of an autumn harvest landscape with villagers picking fruit, a cart with barrels, and a distant castle.

Autumn

Frans Boels, 1594

Arcimboldo-style portrait of a lawyer whose face is made of fish and birds, wearing a fur-collared robe beside stacked papers

The Lawyer, possibly Ulrich Zasius, 1461-1536, humanist, jurist

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1566

Oil portrait of an elderly bearded man in a dark cap and gold chain, with gold Latin inscription above.

Portrait of Titian

Orlando Flacco, 1560

Painting of skulls and bones on a marsh floor with herons, cranes, a frog and insects among grasses.

Memento mori

Roelant Savery, 1600

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a black beret and embroidered shirt, with a landscape and tower behind him.

Portrait of a Man Wearing a Black Beret

Dosso Dossi, 1530

Painting of a busy 16th-century market square with food vendors, a meat stall, horses, and a crowd before grand arcaded build

Market Scene with Ecce Homo

Joachim Beuckelaer, 1565

Half-length portrait of a young woman in lace collar and blue bodice against a dark background, by Bronzino.

Isabella de Medici (1542-1576)

Painting of seated Christ wearing a crown of thorns and halo, bare-chested, against a stone wall with fig tree and ivy.

Christ crowned with Thorns

Giovanni Bellini, 1507

Crowded market scene with vegetable and poultry vendors in the foreground and classical columns and an obelisk behind.

Market Scene: Ecce Homo, the Flagellation and the Carrying of the Cross

Joachim Beuckelaer, 1561

Vulcan forging metal at an anvil beside a nude Venus and a child, with a furnace of workers in the background.

Venus and Vulcan

Cornelis van Haarlem, 1590

Round miniature portrait of a woman with auburn hair and a large lace ruff against blue, set in an ivory frame.

Elizabeth I (1533-1603),Queen of England, c. 1586-87

Nicholas Hilliard, 1586

Market stall with fish, salmon steaks and a cleaver, with market women and a street procession through an arch in the backgro

Fish Market with Ecce Homo

Joachim Beuckelaer, 1570

Oil portrait of a seated woman in black gown, white ruff collar and lace cap, with coral bracelets, against a dark background

Portrait of a Lady

Cornelis de Vos, 1600

Oval miniature portrait of a young man in black with a white lace collar against a blue background, in a gold frame.

Okänd man

Nicholas Hilliard, 1596

Painting of the Madonna holding the Christ child, with a landscape of hills and a fortified town at left.

Madonna and Child

Marco Basaiti, 1504

Landscape with sailing ships in a bay, a forested hill, a horse cart on a road, and two winged figures falling from the sky.

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

Joos de Momper the Younger, 1579

Portrait of a woman in black dress with grey lace collar and pearl necklaces, hand resting on red table, dark background.

Katarina, 1584-1638, prinsessa av Sverige, pfalzgrevinna av Zweibrücken

Jacob Heinrich Elbfas, 1600