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Gillis van Coninxloo

On September 6, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, Flemish, january 24

Gillis van Coninxloo, Flemish painter, January 24, 1544 - January 1607

Portrait of Gillis van Coninxloo by Andries Jacobsz Stock, published by Hendrik Hondius I in 1610

Forest Landscape, 1598 Oil on panel, 16.5 x 24 in // Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Landscape Oil on copper, 9.4 x 7.5 in // Museo del Prado, Madrid

Landscape with Leto and Peasants of Lykia Oil on canvas, 56.5 x 80.3 in // The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Gillis van Coninxloo, Mountain Landscape with River Valley and the Prophet Hosea Watercolour on parchment, 7.7 x 11.3 in Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

Mountain Landscape with River Valley and the Prophet Hosea Watercolour on parchment, 7.7 x 11.3 in // Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

Landscape with Venus and Adonis, 1580s Oil on canvas, 14.8 x 21.1 in // Cleveland Museum of Art

Woodland with Saint Jerome, between 1560 and 1607 Oil on panel, 19.6 x 32.9 in // Museum of Fine Arts Ghent

Wooded Landscape, circa 1600 Oil on panel, 22 x 33.4 in // Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Gillis van Coninxloo with Karel van Mander the Elder, Landscape with the Judgment of Paris, End of the 16th century - early 17th century) Oil on panel, 50 x 72.83 in National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

with Karel van Mander the Elder, Landscape with the Judgment of Paris, End of the 16th century - early 17th century Oil on panel, 50 x 72.83 in // National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Giulio Romano

On August 29, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian

Giulio Romano, Italian artist and architect, about 1492/9–1546

Titian, Portrait of Giulio Romano, between c 1536-1538 Oil on canvas, 39.7 x 33.4 in // Palazzo del Tè, Mantua

Mars Chasing Adonis from Venus's Pavilion, 1526-28 Fresco Sala di Psiche, Palazzo del Tè, Mantua

Venus and Mars Bathing. 1526-28 Fresco Sala di Psiche, Palazzo del Tè, Mantua

Cupid and Psyche, 1526-28 Fresco Sala di Psiche, Palazzo del Tè, Mantua

Old Woman and Vulcan, Tribute to Apollo, 1526-28 Fresco Sala di Psiche, Palazzo del Tè, Mantua

Tribute to Apollo, 1526-28 Fresco Sala di Psiche, Palazzo del Tè, Mantua

Giulio Romano, Allegory of the Virtues of Federico II Gonzaga, 1531-34 Pen and brown ink, black chalk and white highlights, 9.8 x 12.5 in J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Allegory of the Virtues of Federico II Gonzaga, 1531-34 Pen and brown ink, black chalk and white highlights, 9.8 x 12.5 in // J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Nude Child with Open Arms Red chalk on white paper, 10.6 x 8.2 in // Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Virgin and Child, 1520-22 Tempera on wood, 41.3 x 30.3 in // Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

The Circumcision, 1500-25 Oil on wood transferred to canvas, 45.3 x 48 in // Musée du Louvre, Paris

Coronation of the Virgin (Madonna of Monteluce), 1505-25 Oil on wood, 139.4 x 91.3 in // Pinacoteca, Vatican

The Lovers, c. 1525 Oil on panel, transferred to canvas, 64.2 x 132.7 in // The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Margherita Paleologo, 1531 Oil on panel, 45.4 x 35.4 in // Royal Collection, UK

Detail from the Fall of the Giants, 1532-35 Fresco Sala dei Giganti, Palazzo del Tè, Mantua

Walls of the Sala del Giganti, 1532-35 Fresco Palazzo del Tè, Mantua

Andrea Palladio

On August 10, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian, november 30

Andrea Palladio, Italian architect, November 30, 1508-August 19, 1580

Portrait of Andrea Palladio

Chiesa del Redentore/Church of the Redeemer, c 1592 Venice

Villa La Rotonda, 1591 Vicenza, Italy

Villa Godi, 1542 Lugo di Vicenza, Italy

Andrea Palladio, Basilica Palladiana Facade on Piazza dei Signori, begun 1546 Vicenza, Italy

Basilica Palladiana (Vicenza) - facade on Piazza dei signori

Palazzo Chiericati, begun 1550 Vicenza

Palazzo del Capitanio in Vicenza, 1565

Villa Cornaro at Piombino Dese, begun 1553

Villa Barbaro in Maser, from 1554 until 1560 Province of Treviso, Italy

Villa Foscari, also called La Malcontenta, mid 1550s Vicenza, Italy

Villa Badoer in Fratta Polesine, 1556-1563 Province of Rovigo, Italy,

Villa Valmarana, 1560s Bolzano Vicentino, Italy

Villa Saraceno, 1540s Agugliaro, Italy

Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, begun 1561 Venice

Giampietrino

On August 8, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian

Giampietrino, Italian painter, active 1495–1549

Death of Cleopatra, from 1500 Edit this at Wikidata Oil and wood, 28.7 x 22.4 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Lucrezia Romana, c. 1500-1540 Oil on wood panel Chazen Museum of Art , Madison, Wisconsin

Mary Magdalene in Prayer

Ecce Homo Oil on panel, 24.4 x 19.7 in // Private collection

Leda With Her Children, between 1520s and late 1530s Oil on panel, 50.3 x 41.5 in Hessen Kassel Heritage, Germany

Repentant Mary Magdalene Oil on panel, 19.3 x 15.4 in // The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Michael, 1530s Oil on panel, 24 x 29.1 in // Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest

Madonna with Child, 1520s Oil on canvas, 22.8 x 19.3 in // The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Diana the Huntress, after 1526 Oil on panel, 44.8 x 23.2 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Christ Carrying the Cross Oil on panel, 23.2 x 29.1 in // Museo Diocesano Milano

Salome, between circa 1510 and circa 1530 Oil on poplar wood, 27 x 22.5 in // National Gallery, London

Giorgio Vasari

On July 30, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian, july 30

Giorgio Vasari, Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer, July 30, 1511 – June 27, 1574

Portrait of Giorgio Vasari, from 1571 until 1574 Oil and wood, 39.5 x 31.4 in // Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Six Tuscan Poets, 1544 Oil on panel, 52.2 × 51.6 in // Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Garden of Gethsemane, c. 1570? Oil on panel, 56.49 x 50 in // National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Pietà, circa 1550 Oil on panel, 68.5 x 51.1 in // Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai, France

The Bird Catchers Oil on canvas, 83.5 x 40.2 in // Private collection

Temptations of St Jerome, 1541 Oil on panel, 66.5 x 48.4 in // Palazzo Pitti, Florence

St Luke Painting the Virgin, after 1565 Fresco Santissima Annunziata, Florence

Justice, 1542 Oil on panel, 31.1 x 74 in) Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Allegory of Justice and Truth, 1543 Oil on panel, 11.5 ft x 99.2 in // Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

Studies of a Male Nude, a Drapery, and a Hand

Sacrifice of Isaac, 1545-1546 Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

The Uffizi Loggia, Florence, 1560

Michel Sittow

On July 27, 2025 - 15th Century, 16th Century, Estonian

Michel Sittow, Estonian painter, c. 1469 - 1525

Portrait of a Man, 1510 Oil on panel, 14 x 10 in Mauritshuis, The Hague

Portrait of Diego de Guevara, circa 1515-1518 Oil on oak wood, 13.2 x 9.3 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Mary Tudor or Catherine of Aragon, circa 1514 Oil on panel, 11.2 x 8.2 in // Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

A Young Man in a Red Cap, circa 1512 Oil on oak panel, 6.4 x 5.1 in // Detroit Institute of Arts

Portrait of the Danish King Christian II, 1514 / 1515 Oil on panel, 12.2 x 8.6 in // Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

The Portrait of a Man with the Pearl, between c 1515 and c 1517 Oil on panel, 8.6 x 7 in Royal Palace of Madrid

Saint James the Great and the Virgin and Child, c. 1520 Eesti Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn.

Saint Adrian and Saint Anthony, 1520 Eesti Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, Estonia

Virgin and Child, c. 1515 Oil on panel, 12.6 x 9.8 in // Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Catholic,late 15th century / early 16th century Oil on panel, 11.4 x 8.7 in // Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Michel Sittow, A Woman, traditionally identified as Isabela la Católica of Castile, between 1492 and 1497 Oil on panel, 13 1/8 × 9 1/4 in Yale University Art Gallery

A Woman, traditionally identified as Isabela la Católica of Castile, between 1492 and 1497 Oil on panel, 13 1/8 × 9 1/4 in // Yale University Art Gallery

Jan Sanders van Hemessen

On July 21, 2025 - 16th Century, Flemish

Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Flemish painter, c. 1500 – c. 1566

Vanitas, between circa 1535 and circa 1540 Oil on wood, 35.4 x 28.7 in // Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, France

The Prodigal Son in the Brothel, 1536 Oil on oak wood, 55.1 x 77.9 in // Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Mary Magdalene, in the Background Christ With Martha, 1550 Oil on panel, 40.2 x 29 in // Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant, circa 1556 Oil on panel, 32.1 x 61.1 in // University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor

Immoral Company in a Brothel, circa 1545-1550 Oil on panel, 32.6 x 43.7 in // Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany

The Calling of Saint Matthew, circa 1548 Oil on panel, 44.8 x 53.9 in // Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Jan Sanders van Hemessen, The Surgeon, between 1550 and 1555 Oil on panel, 39.3 x 55.5 in) Edit this at Wikidata Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Surgeon, between 1550 and 1555 Oil on panel, 39.3 x 55.5 in // Museo del Prado, Madrid

Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Portrait of a Bearded Man, Aged 34, Before an Extensive Landscape, 16th century Oil on panel, 36.1 x 28.7 in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Portrait of a Bearded Man, Aged 34, Before an Extensive Landscape, 16th century Oil on panel, 36.1 x 28.7 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Tarquin and Lucretia, 16th century Oil on panel, 28.6 x 36.2 in // Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, France

Judith with the Head of Holophernes, circa 1540 Oil on panel, 39 x 30.3 in // Art Institute of Chicago

Woman Weighing Gold, between 1520 and 1530 Oil on oak wood, 17.3 x 12.2 in // Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

The Bagpiper and His Merry Wife Oil on panel, 18 x 23 5⁄8 in // Private collection

Hendrick Goltzius

On July 15, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, Dutch

Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch artist, February 1558 - January 1, 1617

Hendrik Goltzius, Self-Portrait, c. 1593-1594 Black and colored chalk, pen and gray ink, watercolors, heightened with white, 16.9 x 12.7 in Albertina, Vienna

Self-Portrait, c. 1593-1594 Black and colored chalk, pen and gray ink, watercolors, heightened with white, 16.9 x 12.7 in // Albertina, Vienna

Goltzius's Right Hand, 1588 Pen and brown ink, 9 x 12 5/8 in // Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Divine Mother of God, and of All Things, 1589 Pen and black ink on laid paper

Lot and his Daughters, 1616 Oil on canvas, 55.1 x 80.3 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

The Fall of Man, 1616 Oil on canvas, 41.1 x 54.4 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Hendrik Goltzius, Portrait of the Harlem Shell Collector, Jan Govertsz. van der Aer, 1603 Oil on canvas, 42.3 x 32.5 in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Portrait of the Harlem Shell Collector, Jan Govertsz. van der Aer, 1603 Oil on canvas, 42.3 x 32.5 in // Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Hercules Killing Cacus, 1588 Woodcut Honolulu Museum of Art

Farnese Hercules, 1592 Copper engraving, 16.4 x 11.8 in // Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany

An Allegorical Representation of Work and Diligence, 1582 Ghent University Library

Jan Mostaert

On July 15, 2025 - 15th Century, 16th Century, Dutch

Jan Mostaert, Dutch painter, c. 1475 – 1552/1553

Episode from the Conquest of America, circa 1535 Oil on panel, 33.8 in x 59.8 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

River Landscape with St Christopher between 1500 and 1599 Oil on oak, 42.5 x 55.9 in // Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

The Banishment of Hagar and Ishmael (Genesis 21:18-21), circa 1520 Oil on panel, 37 x 51.5 in // Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Portrait of an African Man (Christophle le More?), between circa 1525 and circa 1530 Oil on oak panel, 12.1 x 8.3 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Portrait of a Man Putting On a Glove, circa 1520 Oil on panel, 16.1 x 12.6 in // Czartoryski Museum, Kraków, Poland

Portrait of Abel van Coulster, between 1500 and 1525 Oil on panel, 35.2 x 22 in // Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

The Adoration of the Magi, between 1520 and 1525 Oil on panel, 20 x 14.3 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Dosso Dossi

On July 14, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian

Dosso Dossi, Italian painter, c. 1489–1542

Dosso Dossi, Self-Portrait

Jupiter, Mercury and Virtue, 1524 Oil on canvas, 43.8 x 59 in // Wawel Castle, Kraków, Poland

Portrait of Duke Alfonso I d'Este, between c 1534 and c 1536 Oil on canvas, 44.6 x 57.8 in // Galleria Estense, Modena, Italy

Circe and Her Lovers in a Landscape, c 1514-1516 Oil on canvas, 39.3 x 53.5 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Apollo and Daphne, 1524 Oil on canvas, 13 yd x 46.4 in // Galleria Borghese, Rome

The Three Ages of Humans Oil on canvas, 30 1/2 x 44 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Saint Lucretia, c. 1520 Oil on panel, 20 3/8 x 16 in // National Gallery, Washington DC

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