16th Century
247 items
1500-1599
247 items
1500-1599

The Land of Milk and Honey 1567

Crucifixion ca. 1500

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

Trivulzio Tapestry - Mars ca. 1503 – 1508

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

Trivulzio Tapestry - November ca. 1503 – 1508

The Return of Cicero to Rome ca. 1525

Lamentation over the Dead Christ 1520 – 1525

Urban Scene 1500 – 1599

The Birth of the Virgin 1509 – 1511

Herod’s Banquet ca. 1457

The Birth of the Virgin ca. 1550

Madonna and Child with Eight Saints ca. 1514 – 1515

Scene designs for Le Bacchides 1531

Perspective View with Classical Buildings 1503 – 1505

The Annunciation to Mary ca. 1501 – 1515

The Story of Papirius ca. 1520 – 1525

Della Scena Tragica e Satirica 1560

Crucifixion with Jewish Cemetery, detail 1501 – 1502

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

The Annunciation ca. 1501 – 1535

Giovanbattista Cini
Theatrical perspective ca. 1570 – 1571

Arc de triomphe with stage in background 1500 – 1599

Scena Comica ca. 1550

Madonna and Child, Saints and Donor ca. 1510

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

Allegory of backbiting or envy ca. 1500

The Annunciation to Mary ca. 1545

Scene in a Wine Cellar 1537

Annunciation of San Rocco 1539

Trivulzio Tapestry - February ca. 1503 – 1508

The Annunciation San Gallo ca. 1513 – 1514

The Funeral of Love, detail ca. 1580

Luther & Hus administer communion ca. 1500
The Funeral of Love ca. 1580

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

Architecture 1500 – 1599

The Vocation of Saint Matthew 1599

Minerva banishes vices from the garden of virtue 1499 – 1502

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

Roman perspective with monuments and ruins ca. 1520

Painted chest panel ca. 1500

Trivulzio Tapestry - September ca. 1503 – 1508

Annunciation ca. 1523 – 1588

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

Madonna Enthroned with Child and Saints ca. 1504

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

Annunciation 1505

The storming of the fortress near Porta Camollia in Siena 1570

Virgin and Child with Four Angels ca. 1510 – 1515

Matteaus Plateaurius
Liber de Simplici medicina ca. 1520 – 1530

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

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

Architectural perspective ca. 1537

Annunciation 1506

The Feast in the House of Levi ca. 1573

Massacres of the Triumvirate 1566

Annunciation 1506 – 1508

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

Trivulzio Tapestry - May ca. 1503 – 1508

The Wedding at Cana (Veronese) 1562 – 1563

Crucifixion with Jewish Cemetery 1501 – 1502

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

America Tertia Pars, pl. 71 1592

Annunciation Ventura 1522 – 1524

The Nativity ca. 1500

The Annunciation of Maria ca. 1550

The Seven Works of Mercy (detail) 1504

Satirical Allegory, Mercury purged punished 1530

Annunciation 1522

Annunciation ca. 1525

The Annunciation ca. 1520

Preaching of Saint Mark in Alexandria 1504 – 1507

Triumph of Saint George 1502

View of Rome ca. 1538

The Annunciation 1502 – 1503

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

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

City view ca. 1520

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

L’architecture ou Art de bien bastir 1547

Massacres of the Triumvirate ca. 1566

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

The Annunciation ca. 1520

Annunciation to Mary 1503

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

Allegory of San Giovanni Valdarno 1563 – 1565
Life of the Young Tobias ca. 1540

Perseus and Andromeda 1570 – 1572

Altarpiece of the Annunciation 1559

Adam and Eve in Paradise (detail) ca. 1530

Annunciation of the Virgin ca. 1559

The Annunciation ca. 1500

Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple ca. 1526

Gregory XI Returns to Rome from Avignon 1572 – 1573

Design for a wall painting ca. 1500 – 1510

The Annunciation ca. 1583 – 1584

Annunciation 1578

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

Il ricevimento degli ambasciatori giapponesi nel Teatro Olimpico ca. 1596

Vulcano ed Eolo maestri dell’umanità 1505

Saint Jerome in His Study ca. 1513 – 1515

Annunciation 1504

Adoration of the Child 1523

Perspective View with Classical Buildings 1503 – 1505

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

Annunciation ca. 1509

Annunciation of the Baglioni Chapel ca. 1500 – 1501

The Annunciation of the Recanati ca. 1527 – 1529

An Architectural Capriccio with Ruins and an Obelisk ca. 1545

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

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

Marriage of the Virgin 1504

Trivulzio Tapestry - October ca. 1503 – 1508

The Seven Works of Mercy (detail) 1504

The Calvinist sack of Lyon in 1562 ca. 1565

Comedic stage set 1515

The Rape of Dinah ca. 1535

Architectural Caprice with Figures 1568

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

Fourth day of the Passion de Valenciennes 1577

Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist 1515

Annunciation ca. 1556

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

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

View of the City, perspective 1500 – 1599

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

Triptych of the Adoration of the Magi ca. 1510

Vitruvio Pollione De architectura Libri decem 1521

The Death of Eurydice ca. 1522 – 1571

Massacres of the Triumvirate , detail 1566

Crucifixion ca. 1503 – 1511

City view 1520

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

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

The stage set of Valenciennes 1547

Saint Jerome in his Study 1514

Annunciation ca. 1520 – 1525

Annunciation ca. 1520

Annunciation ca. 1540

Saint Augustine in His Study 1502

Allegory of Melancholy ca. 1500

Della Scena Comica 1560

Annunciation ca. 1585

The Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1500 – 1505

Trivulzio Tapestry - July ca. 1503 – 1508

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

Perspective View with Classical Buildings ca. 1503 – 1505

The storm 1502

Annunciation ca. 1500

Annunciation to Mary ca. 1520

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

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

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

The Nativity ca. 1504

Studio del teatro romano descritto da Vitruvio ca. 1570

Annunciation ca. 1505 – 1510

Annunciation 1550

The Annunciation (tabernacle) ca. 1500

The Annunciation ca. 1453

Madonna of The Cat ca. 1520

Tower of Babel 1595

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

Lamentations on the Dead Christ 1515 – 1516

Annunciation ca. 1504

Life of the Virgin ca. 1503

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

The Lord’s Supper ca. 1510

Annunciation Frei Carlos 1523

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

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

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

Annunciation Fernandez 1508

Saint Jerome in the Desert 1521

Stage calculations for Le Bacchides 1531

Annunciation 1505

Understatement of the Measurement 1525

Perspective set with city of Rome ca. 1550

Birth and Marriage of the Virgin ca. 1514 – 1515

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

Comic Scene 1568

Joseph Presents His Father and Brothers to Pharaoh 1515

Birth of the Virgin-1504-1508 1504 – 1508

Madonna of the Earthquake 1505

Tragic Scene ca. 1560

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

Diana and Actaeon ca. 1518

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

Mystic Nativity 1501

Annunciation Tucci 1500 – 1506

The Fountain of Youth (Left part) ca. 1536

Augustus and the Sibyl ca. 1575 – 1580

The Reception of the Venetian Ambassadors in Damascus 1511

Capture of Joseph 1515

The Annunciation 1535 – 1540

Annunciation 1528

Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid 1670

Annunciation ca. 1500

Annunciation ca. 1500

The Milkmaid 1657

Theater of the Ancients of Sabbioneta ca. 1584

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

Naumachia in the Courtyard of Palazzo Pitti ca. 1592

Allegory of San Giovanni Valdarno, detail 1563 – 1565

Vision of Saint Augustine 1502

Tragic Scene ca. 1568

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

Florentine perspective ca. 1520

Annunciation (left wing of the Colibrant Triptych) 1516

Healing of Pietro de Ludovici ca. 1501

Trivulzio Tapestry - December ca. 1503 – 1508

The Triumph of Winter ca. 1568

Bridal chest with ideal perspective architecture ca. 1513

An Architectural Capriccio ca. 1570 – 1571

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

Saint Peter Blessing and Donor ca. 1505

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1511

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

Antonio Scacceri
The Annunciation 1506 – 1512

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

St John the Evangelist Resuscitating Drusiana 1486 – 1502

The Funeral of Love, detail ca. 1580

The Issenheim Altarpiece ca. 1510 – 1515

Landscape with Ancient Ruins 1536

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

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

The Arrest and Execution of Sir Thomas More ca. 1591

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

City Scene ca. 1535

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

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

Trivulzio Tapestry - June ca. 1503 – 1508

The Fountain of Youth 1546

The Annunciation 1515 – 1517

Satiric Scene 2025

The Visitation 1538

The Birth of the Virgin ca. 1520

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

Heilige Antonius vor der Stadt 1519

Saint Dominic Reviving Napoleone Orsini 1528 – 1538

Dionysius the Areopagite Converting the Pagan Philosophers ca. 1570

Dell’historia Naturale 1599

Landscape with St Jerome 1547

Trivulzio Tapestry - January ca. 1503 – 1508

The Annunciation 1505

Announcing Angel, Virgin Annunciate, St Peter 1500

Paolo Mola
Urban view ca. 1505