16th Century
369 items
1500-1599
369 items
1500-1599

Diana and Actaeon ca. 1518

The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things (Detail of Pride) 1516

Stories of Saint Zenobius (The Ninth Miracle and the Death of the Saint) ca. 1500

Venerable Idleness, Queen of Cockaigne; a fat woman seated on a movable toilet chair being waited on and fed by seven women 1565

Trivulzio Tapestry - July ca. 1503 – 1508

Dell’historia Naturale 1599

The Astrologer 1509

The Medici Villa of L’Ambrogiana ca. 1599

Heilige Antonius vor der Stadt 1519

The Annunciation ca. 1501 – 1535

The Nativity ca. 1504

Madonna and Child with Eight Saints ca. 1514 – 1515

The Golden Age 1534

Allegory of San Giovanni Valdarno 1563 – 1565

Map of the Island of Utopia from Utopia by Thomas More 1518

Eyn schön nützlich büchlin und underweisung der kunst des Messens,… ca. 1531

Gregory XI Returns to Rome from Avignon 1572 – 1573

Apparition of the Sybil to Caesar Augustus ca. 1550

Stage calculations for Le Bacchides 1531

Extract from the Second book on architecture by Sébastien Serlio translated by Jean Martin 1547

Perspective set with city of Rome ca. 1550

Madonna of the Earthquake 1505

Augustus and the Sibyl (detail) ca. 1575 – 1580

The Building of a Palace 1515 – 1520

The Annunciation ca. 1583 – 1584

Mystic Nativity 1501

De architectura libri decem quinto libro - I dieci libri dell’architettura di Vitruvio ca. 1567

The Annunciation San Gallo ca. 1513 – 1514

Madonna and Child with Saints Ambrose and Michael the Archangel ca. 1505 – 1520

Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, Drawing of the ‘proscenium’ ca. 1585

Saint Peter Blessing and Donor ca. 1505

Sala di Costantino, Vision of the Cross 1520 – 1524

Christ Disputing with the Doctors in the Temple 1501

Arc de triomphe with stage in background 1500 – 1599

City Scene ca. 1535

The Fire in the Borgo 1514

Luther & Hus administer communion ca. 1500

Tower of Babel 1595

The Annunciation to Mary ca. 1545
The Funeral of Love ca. 1580

The Annunciation 1535 – 1540

Painted chest panel ca. 1500

Crucifixion with Jewish Cemetery 1501 – 1502

Madonna Enthroned with Child and Saints ca. 1504

Annunciation 1506 – 1508

Stories from the Life of Saint Barbara, detail 1523 – 1524

Stories of Saint Zenobius (Three Miracles) ca. 1500

Bathsheba at the Bath ca. 1520 – 1525

Understatement of the Measurement 1525

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden 1530

Annunciation to Mary ca. 1520

The Last Judgement ca. 1525 – 1530

The Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1500 – 1505

Annunciation of the Virgin ca. 1559

Stories from the Life of Saint Barbara 1523 – 1524

Preaching and Acts of the Antichrist 1500 – 1504

Annunciation ca. 1523 – 1588

Saint Dominic Reviving Napoleone Orsini 1528 – 1538

The Birth of the Virgin 1509 – 1511

The stage set of Valenciennes 1547

Portrait of the Museum by Ferrante Imperato, Dell’Historia Naturale, Naples 1599

Saint Jerome and the Lion 1502

Stories from the Life of Saint Barbara, detail 1523 – 1524

Reconciliation of Aemilius Lepidus with Flavius Flaccus (Episode of Civic Virtues) 1529 – 1535

Triptych of the Adoration of the Magi ca. 1510

The Feast in the House of Levi ca. 1573

Lamentation over the Dead Christ 1502

The Life of Saint Benedict, scene 3 1505 – 1508

Annunciation 1506

The Life of Saint Benedict, scene 4 1505 – 1508

The Lord’s Supper ca. 1510

Dionysius the Areopagite Converting the Pagan Philosophers ca. 1570

View of an imaginary street with the Four Winds (after Hans Vredeman de Vries) ca. 1557 – 1560

Theseus and the Minotaur ca. 1500 – 1525

The Annunciation to Mary ca. 1501 – 1515

Joseph Presents His Father and Brothers to Pharaoh 1515

Christ Crowned with Thorns (Ecce Homo), and the Mourning Virgin (Mater Dolorosa), detail 1530 – 1540

Triumph of Saint George 1502

The Annunciation of the Recanati ca. 1527 – 1529

Adoration of the Magi and Presentation in the Temple ca. 1516 – 1517

Stories of Saint Zenobius (Three Miracles) ca. 1500

Herod’s Banquet ca. 1457

Palace Architecture with Bathers ca. 1596

The Annunciation ca. 1520

The Washing of the Feet 1548 – 1549

Annunciation ca. 1500

The Visitation 1538

Lucas Cranach the Younger
Hunt in Honour of Charles V at Torgau Castle 1545

Dat tweede Boeck (Van der Perspectiven)-Spread of Folio XXVI verso and Folio XXVII 1542

The Fall and Expulsion from Paradise ca. 1510

Trivulzio Tapestry - November ca. 1503 – 1508

Triptych with the Adoration of the Magi and Old Testament Scenes 1516 – 1519

An Architectural Capriccio ca. 1570 – 1571

Saint Jerome in His Study ca. 1513 – 1515

The Calling of the Sons of Zebedee 1510

The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre ca. 1572 – 1584

The Vocation of Saint Matthew 1599

The Seven Works of Mercy (detail) 1504

Architectural Caprice with Figures 1568

Vulcano ed Eolo maestri dell’umanità 1505

Paolo Mola
Urban view ca. 1505

Annunciation ca. 1585

The Last Judgement 1534 – 1541

L’architecture ou Art de bien bastir 1547

The Annunciation 1502 – 1503

Islamic representation of Adam and Eve Miniature from the manuscript “Zubdat al Tawarikh” 1583

Vitruvio Pollione De architectura Libri decem 1521

Preparatory sketches for the perspective scenes of Andrea Palladio’s Olympic theater, Vicenza 1584

Saint Augustine in His Study 1502

Sermon of Saint Stephen 1514

Matteaus Plateaurius
Liber de Simplici medicina ca. 1520 – 1530

Landscape with St Jerome 1547

Trivulzio Tapestry - Mars ca. 1503 – 1508

Annunciation ca. 1525

Birth and Marriage of the Virgin ca. 1514 – 1515

The history, customs and geography of the land of Cuccagna 1564

The Washing of the Feet 1548 – 1549

The Seven Works of Mercy (detail) 1504

Trivulzio Tapestry - December ca. 1503 – 1508

Satiric Scene 2025

Bridal chest with ideal perspective architecture ca. 1513

Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist 1515

Stories from the Life of Saint Barbara, detail 1523 – 1524

The Baptism of the Selenites 1507

The Preaching of Saint Paul ca. 1515

Annunciation (tarsia panel from choir door of Basilica di San Pietro) ca. 1536

The Last Judgement, detail 1525 – 1530

Netherlandish Proverbs 1559

Annunciation 1578

Crucifixion ca. 1503 – 1511

Massacres of the Triumvirate ca. 1566

St-Jerome in the Desert ca. 1520

Architecture 1500 – 1599

The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple 1511 – 1512

Allegory of Melancholy ca. 1500

Augustus and the Sibyl ca. 1575 – 1580

Design for a wall painting ca. 1500 – 1510

St. Stephen’s Disputation with the Elders of the Sanhedrin 1514

Saint Philip the Apostle Invoking the Monster of the Temple of Mars at Hierapolis 1486 – 1502

Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist ca. 1590 – 1595

Horse joust in Piazza Santa Croce ca. 1561 – 1562

Adoration of the Child 1523

America Tertia Pars, pl. 71 1592

Trivulzio Tapestry - January ca. 1503 – 1508

Paradise 1530

The School of Athens 1509 – 1511

Dat tweede Boeck (Van der Perspectiven), Second Book, Folio XXVI 1542

The Life of Saint Benedict, scene 5 1505 – 1508

Theseus and the Minotaur, detail ca. 1500 – 1525

The Wedding Banquet of Cupid and Psyche 1532 – 1535

Preparatory sketches for the perspective scenes of Andrea Palladio’s Olympic theater, Vicenza 1584

Annunciation ca. 1520

Annunciation ca. 1500

The Life of Saint Benedict, scene 6 1505 – 1508

Architectura von Vestungen (Illustration from the treatise Wunderbarlich Hauss Architectura von Vestungen) 1589

Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist Italian ca. 1506 – 1507

Tarquinius Priscus Founds the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill 1521

Preparatory sketches for the perspective scenes of Andrea Palladio’s Olympic theater, Vicenza ca. 1584

The Visitation 1502 – 1508

Theater of the Ancients of Sabbioneta ca. 1584

Annunciation 1550

Virgin and Child with Four Angels ca. 1510 – 1515

View of Venice ca. 1500

Marcantonio Raimondi
The Queen of Sheba before Solomon ca. 1520 – 1525

The Life of Saint Benedict, scene 8 1505 – 1508

The Annunciation of Maria ca. 1550

Healing of Pietro de Ludovici ca. 1501

The Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple 1534

The Life of Saint Benedict, scene 1 1505 – 1508

Annunciation to Mary 1503

The Life of Saint Benedict, scene 9 1505 – 1508

The Visitation ca. 1520

Capture of Joseph 1515

The Annunciation (tabernacle) ca. 1500

Marriage of the Virgin 1504

Triptych with the Adoration of the Magi and Old Testament Scenes, detail 1516 – 1519

Perspective from books on architecture by Sébastien Serlio translated by Jean Martin 1547

Painted facade of the city hall Stark von Roeckendorf ca. 1530

The Raising of Lazarus, detail 1517 – 1519

Antonio Scacceri
The Annunciation 1506 – 1512

Sala di Costantino, Vision of the Cross, detail 1520 – 1524

Palace Architecture with Promenaders ca. 1596

Adoration of the Magi 1525

The Fountain of Youth 1546

City view ca. 1520

Aeneas Silvius at Ancona 1505 – 1507

Stories from the Life of Saint Barbara, detail 1523 – 1524

Urban view 1520

Lamentation over the Dead Christ 1520 – 1525

The Daughter of Emperor Gordian Delivered by Saint Tryphon 1507

Scene in a Wine Cellar 1537

Stories from the Life of Saint Barbara, detail 1523 – 1524

Annunciation Tucci 1500 – 1506

Saint Georges and the Dragon 1516

Roman perspective with monuments and ruins ca. 1520

Saint Georges and the Dragon, preparatory drawing 1502

Il ricevimento degli ambasciatori giapponesi nel Teatro Olimpico ca. 1596

Studio del teatro romano descritto da Vitruvio ca. 1570

The Prophet’s Ascension (Mi‘raj) 1539 – 1543

Perspective from books on architecture by Sébastien Serlio translated by Jean Martin 1547

The Annunciation ca. 1453

The Crowning with Thorns and Ecce Homo 1519

Madonna and Child, Saints and Donor ca. 1510

The Siege of Florence 1558

Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve (‘The Ambassadors’) 1533

The Seven Works of Mercy (detail) 1504

Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple ca. 1526

The Nativity ca. 1500

The Annunciation ca. 1500

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1511

View of the City, perspective 1500 – 1599

The Presentation of the Ring to the Doge of Venice ca. 1534

Allegory of San Giovanni Valdarno, detail 1563 – 1565

The Return of Cicero to Rome ca. 1525

Annunciation (left wing of the Colibrant Triptych) 1516

Saint Mark Healing Anianus ca. 1507

De architectura libri decem - I dieci libri dell’architettura di Vitruvio ca. 1567

The Story of Papirius ca. 1520 – 1525
Life of the Young Tobias ca. 1540

Annunciation 1522

Naumachia in the Courtyard of Palazzo Pitti ca. 1592

Stage Design for The Passion and Resurrection of the Savior at Valenciennes 1547

Altarpiece of the Annunciation 1559

Massacres of the Triumvirate 1566

Tragic Scene ca. 1560

The Birth of the Virgin ca. 1520

The Tower of Babel ca. 1520 – 1560

Architectural perspective ca. 1537

Annunciation 1528

Crucifixion with Jewish Cemetery, detail 1501 – 1502

The Funeral of Love, detail ca. 1580

Crucifixion ca. 1500

Theseus and the Minotaur, detail 1500 – 1525

The Milkmaid 1657

Funeral of Saint Jerome 1502

Miracle of the True Cross at the Bridge of San Lorenzo 1500

The Raising of Lazarus 1517 – 1519

The Annunciation 1515 – 1517

City view 1520

Preparatory sketches for the perspective scenes of Andrea Palladio’s Olympic theater, Vicenza ca. 1584

The Arrest and Execution of Sir Thomas More ca. 1591

The storm 1502

The Golden Age 1530

The rout of the Pisans at Torre San Vincenzo 1568 – 1571

Saint Jerome in the Desert 1521

Perspective View with Classical Buildings ca. 1503 – 1505

Annunciation Frei Carlos 1523

Ascent of the Blessed ca. 1505 – 1515

Stories from the Life of Saint Barbara, detail 1523 – 1524

Trivulzio Tapestry - February ca. 1503 – 1508

Annunciation Fernandez 1508

Hans Vredman de Vries
Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae, Alchemist’s Laboratory 1595

Beginning, origin and tradition of tournaments in the German nation ca. 1532

Tragic Scene ca. 1568

Comic Scene 1568

Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini and Saint Catherine of Siena 1505 – 1507

The Annunciation; and The Presentation in the Temple ca. 1500

Annunciazione di San Giacomo Apostolo dei Domenicani, Forlì 1511 – 1512

Annunciation 1505

Massacres of the Triumvirate , detail 1566

Scena Comica ca. 1550

Annunciation 1504

Foundation of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore 1517 – 1519

Allegory of backbiting or envy ca. 1500

The Annunciation 1505

Lamentations on the Dead Christ 1515 – 1516

Annunciation and Meeting of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne at the Golden Gate 1514 – 1515

Preaching of Saint Mark in Alexandria 1504 – 1507

The Land of Milk and Honey 1567

Pope Paul III Directs the Continuation of the Basilica of Saint Peter 1546

The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things (Detail of Sloth) 1516

Trivulzio Tapestry - October ca. 1503 – 1508

The Fountain of Youth (Left part) ca. 1536

Virgin and Child with Four Angels, detail ca. 1510 – 1515

Landscape with Ancient Ruins 1536

Satirical Allegory, Mercury purged punished 1530

Annunciation 1505

Preparatory sketches for the perspective scenes of Andrea Palladio’s Olympic theater, Vicenza ca. 1584

Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple ca. 1502 – 1504

The Funeral of Love, detail ca. 1580

Announcing Angel, Virgin Annunciate, St Peter 1500

Giovanbattista Cini
Theatrical perspective ca. 1570 – 1571

The storming of the fortress near Porta Camollia in Siena 1570

Urban Scene 1500 – 1599

The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things (Detail of Gluttony) 1516

The Dream of Raphael 1508

Annunciation ca. 1509

The Issenheim Altarpiece ca. 1510 – 1515

Pietà (known as Pietà Donà dalle Rose) ca. 1505

The Reception of the Venetian Ambassadors in Damascus 1511

Law and Grace ca. 1529

Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, Drawing of the ‘proscenium’, cross section of the auditorium ca. 1585

Scene designs for Le Bacchides 1531

The Calvinist sack of Lyon in 1562 ca. 1565

Annunciation of the Baglioni Chapel ca. 1500 – 1501

The Seven Works of Mercy (detail) 1504

Madonna of The Cat ca. 1520

Perspective View with Classical Buildings 1503 – 1505

The Japanese delegates visit to Vicenza, frieze in the Antiodeum Hall of the Olympic Theatre ca. 1585

Vision of Saint Augustine 1502

Annunciation Ventura 1522 – 1524

The Close of the Silver Age (The Fruits of Jealousy) ca. 1970

Presentation and Marriage of the Virgin at the Temple 1525

Noah’s Ark on Mount Ararat 1570

An Architectural Capriccio with Ruins and an Obelisk ca. 1545

Table of the Seven Deadly Sins 1505 – 1510

Trivulzio Tapestry - May ca. 1503 – 1508

The Death of Eurydice ca. 1522 – 1571

Annunciation ca. 1520 – 1525

Adam and Eve in Paradise (detail) ca. 1530

Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini Sets Out for the Council of Basel 1505 – 1507

Saint Georges and the Dragon 1502

Stories of Saint Zenobius (Early Life and the First Miracle ca. 1500

View of Rome ca. 1538

The Rape of Dinah ca. 1535

Stories of Saint Zenobius (Early Life and First Miracle) ca. 1500

Della Scena Tragica e Satirica 1560

Annunciation of San Rocco 1539

Annunciation ca. 1504

Adam and Eve 1525

The Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens ca. 1599

Sermon of Saint Stephen, detail 1514

Triumph of Religion ca. 1585

Fourth day of the Passion de Valenciennes 1577

The Seven Works of Mercy (detail) 1504

Palace with Distinguished Visitors ca. 1596

Trivulzio Tapestry - June ca. 1503 – 1508

Aeneas Silvius Crowned Poet Laureate by Emperor Frederick III 1505 – 1507

The Virgin of the Annunciation / The Angel of the Annunciation (recto) ca. 1515 – 1520

Birth of the Virgin 1504 – 1508

St John the Evangelist Resuscitating Drusiana 1486 – 1502

Aeneas Silvius at the Council of Mantua 1505 – 1507

Annunciation ca. 1500

Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian 1505

The Seven Works of Mercy (detail) 1504

The Triumph of Winter ca. 1568

Procession of the Doge’s Bucentaur on Ascension Day ca. 1565

Perspective from books on architecture by Sébastien Serlio translated by Jean Martin 1547

Della Scena Comica 1560

Trivulzio Tapestry - September ca. 1503 – 1508

Stories from the Life of Saint Barbara, detail 1523 – 1524

The Seven Works of Mercy 1504

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 1555 – 01.01.1558

Minerva banishes vices from the garden of virtue 1499 – 1502

Saint Jerome in his Study 1514

The Birth of the Virgin ca. 1550

The Life of Saint Benedict, scene 2 1505 – 1508

Sala di Costantino 1520 – 1524

The Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple, detail 1534

Architectural Views in the Studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro 1476

Annunciation ca. 1556

Joseph with Jacob in Egypt 1517 – 1518

Stories from the Life of Saint Barbara, detail 1523 – 1524

The Life of Saint Benedict, scene 7 1505 – 1508

Hunting near Hartenfels Castle (Torgau in Saxony) 1540

Folio from a Falnama (Book of omens) Expulsion of Adam and Eve ca. 1550

Annunciation ca. 1505 – 1510

Perseus and Andromeda 1570 – 1572

The Annunciation ca. 1520

Annunciation ca. 1540

Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid 1670

Life of the Virgin ca. 1503

The Marriage of Alexander the Great and Roxana ca. 1517

Florentine perspective ca. 1520

Children’s Games 1560

The Wedding at Cana (Veronese) 1562 – 1563

Comedic stage set 1515

The Suicide of Lucretia ca. 1528

Perspective View with Classical Buildings 1503 – 1505