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18,357 works

Open book showing a photographic plate of the Gothic Church of the Holy Name in Manchester beside a page of descriptive text.

Gezicht op de Church of the Holy Name of Jesus in Manchester

Alfred Brothers, 1868

White line print of the Virgin and Child on black, with Latin inscription and a small cross in the upper corner.

Virgin and Child

Eric Gill, 1938

Pen and wash drawing of the Virgin gazing at a sleeping infant in a cradle while a winged angel plays a lute.

Virgin and Child Adored by a Lute-Playing Angel

Jean-Jacques Feuchère, 1820-52

Engraving of soldiers placing a cloth on a bearded figure in a colonnade while turbaned men watch from steps.

Jesus Wrapped in the Robe of Fools, plate 12 from The Passion of Christ

Claudine Bouzonnet Stella, 1650/60

Brown wash drawing of an interior with a woman in a curtained bed, attendants, and seated figures in a doorway.

The Birth of Saint John the Baptist

Andrea del Sarto, 16th century

Brown chiaroscuro woodcut of a young man gazing upward beside a tree, with a lamb and birds in the landscape.

Saint John the Baptist

Attributed to Hendrick Goltzius, 1595/1600

Engraving of Christ with a crown of thorns before a seated judge washing his hands, with soldiers and dogs nearby.

The Passion: Christ Before Pilate

Martin Schongauer, c. 1480

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Virgin ascending on clouds above robed apostles gazing up beside a sarcophagus.

Assumption of Mary

Ercole Procaccini The Younger

Pen and brown wash drawing of winged angels playing instruments, including a pipe organ, within an arched lunette with clouds

Angel making music

Federico Zuccari

Pen and wash drawing of a standing nude man in an ornate architectural niche with pilasters, statues and an oval cartouche.

Study of a Figure in a Niche (Saint Ambrose; recto); Architectural Studies: Four Alternative Designs for Fictive Nich…

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1564-65

Brown ink and wash drawing of three draped women beside a seated winged angel near a sepulchre.

The Holy Women at the Sepulchre

Sisto Badalocchio, 1585-1620 (?)

Engraving of standing Jesus Christ with halo, surrounded by cloud border, Greek and Latin inscriptions, and two putti at the

Jesus Christ. Plate 12. From: Christ and the Apostles

Lambert Suavius, 1548

Engraving of Christ being seized and bound by armed soldiers with torches, a spear, and a fallen figure in the foreground.

The Passion: Christ Taken Captive

Martin Schongauer, c. 1480

Pen and brown wash drawing of the Holy Family with angels, showing a woman, an older bearded man, and a child in flowing robe

Return of the Holy Family from Egypt (recto); Studies for the Return from Egypt (verso)

Giovanni Baglione, 1599-1600

Brown ink and wash drawing of women at a well with men pushing forward, classical ruins and a temple in the background.

Moses verteidigt die Töchter des Jethro am Brunnen

Nicolas Poussin, 1645

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of a reclining man attended by grieving women and mourners under an arch.

The Emperor Constantine Copronymous Burned by an Invisible Fire (recto); Studies of Sibyls and Angles (verso)

Giovanni Baglione, ca. 1599-1610

Pen and wash drawing of two women greeting each other before classical colonnades, with onlookers and a seated figure in the

The Visitation of the Virgin to Saint Elizabeth

Giovanni Balducci, 1560-1631

Pen and brown ink drawing of a seated woman holding a child, with draped figures and hatched shading.

The Holy Family (?)

Baccio Bandinelli, 1488-1560

Red chalk drawing on a gridded sheet of a seated nude woman with two putti, one kneeling holding a bowl, by Poppi.

Study for a Virgin and Child with Two Angels (recto); Two Studies of Hands (verso)

Poppi, 1544-97

Pen and grey wash drawing of shepherds kneeling before a wooden shelter beside a column, with a sheep and angels above.

Adoration of the shepherds

Johann Heinrich Schönfeld, 1680

Engraving of Saint John seated under a tree on Patmos with an eagle, holding a quill and gazing upward.

Johannes de Evangelist op Patmos

Étienne Picart, 1642

Oil study of a woman's head in an ochre headscarf, eyes lowered and smiling faintly, painted in soft warm tones.

Head of an Old Woman Looking to Lower Right (Saint Elizabeth)

Federico Barocci, 1584-86

Pen and wash drawing of a bound, shirtless man before a crowd and a bearded man in a turban, with a city behind.

Christ Presented to the People

Georg Vischer, early 17th century

Etching of the seated Virgin of Sorrows with cherubs holding a cross, crown of thorns and Passion instruments.

Madonna of Sorrows with Symbols of the Passion

Elisabetta Sirani, 1657

Gray wash drawing of a nude Christ with thorns beside a column, a turbaned figure behind him, and a city tower in the backgro

Christ Presented to the People

Caspar Fraisinger, 1560-99

Black chalk drawing of the Virgin seated holding the Christ Child, both with haloes, in soft tonal shading.

The Virgin and Child

Fra' Bartolomeo, ca. 1515-17

Engraving of Christ raising a young man from a bier as mourners gather under an arched portico with a domed city beyond.

Christ Raising the Son of the Widow of Nain

Jacob Matham, 1593/94

Black chalk drawing of the Holy Family with the infant Saint John the Baptist, Virgin Mary, and a standing bearded figure.

The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist

Fra' Bartolomeo, ca. 1515-17

The Annunciation (recto); Faint View of Buildings (verso)

Fra' Bartolomeo, 1472-1517

Pen and ink drawing of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, kneeling figures, a crowd, and horses.

The Adoration of the Magi

Fra' Bartolomeo, ca. 1500

Engraving of the Last Supper with Christ and apostles at a table, a glowing halo, a candle, and a city view behind.

The Last Supper, plate 1 from The Passion of Christ

Hendrick Goltzius, 1598

Black and white woodcut of Christ on the cross with kneeling woman, robed figures, skull, bones and a skeletal figure.

Christ on the Cross with Mary, John, the Magdalen, and Stephen

Hans Baldung Grien, 1505/07