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Pieter Aertsen

On September 18, 2025 - 16th Century, Dutch, nbd

Pieter Aertsen, Dutch painter, 1508 – June 2, 1575

Hendrik Hondius I, Portrait of Pieter Aertsen 1610

Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms/The Butcher’s Stall, 1551 Oil on panel, 45.5 x 66.4 in // North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

The Cook, 1559 Oil on panel, 67.3 x 33.4 in // Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa

Seller of Game, 1561 Oil on panel, 53.9 x 37.4 in // Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

The Egg-Dance, 1552 Oil on panel, 33 x 67.7 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Market Scene, first half of 16th century Oil on oak wood, 50 x 33.4 in // Wallraf–Richartz Museum, Cologne

Christ in the House of Mary and Martha, 1553 Oil on panel, 49.6 x 78.7 in // Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Peasants by the Hearth, 1560 Oil on panel, 56 x 77.9 in // Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

Market Scene, 1569 Oil on panel, 32.87 x 66.73 in // Hallwyl Museum, Stockholm

Egg Seller With a Groping Man, between 1563 and 1584 Oil on panel, 63.3 x 31.1 in // Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

Deeds of Christian Charity, 1575 Oil on panel, 44 x 56.4 in National Museum in Warsaw

The Parable of the Royal Wedding, between c 1570 and c 1575 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 41.5 x 54.8 in // Private collection

Last Supper, before 1575 Oil on canvas Private collection

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Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen

On September 18, 2025 - 16th Century, Flemish, nbd

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Pordenone

On September 17, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian, nbd

Pordenone, Italian painter, c. 1484 – January 14, 1539

Golgotha, 1520 Fresco, 29.5 x 39.4 ft // Cremona Cathedral

Golgotha (detail), 1520 Fresco Cremona Cathedral

Pilate Judges Christ, 1520 Fresco Cremona Cathedral

Carrying the Cross, 1520 Fresco Cremona Cathedral

Pordenone, Christ Nailed to the Cross 1520 Fresco Cathedral, Cremona

Christ Nailed to the Cross, 1520 Fresco Cremona Cathedral

Lamentation, 1522 Fresco Cremona Cathedral

St Martin and St Christopher, 1528-29 Oil on panels, 8.2 x 4.6 ft // San Rocco, Venice

St Luke, 1535-37 Oil on panel, 29.5 x 29.5 in Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest

The Martyrdom of St Peter, 1526-28 Drawing Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Holy Trinity, circa 1530-1535 Ink and wash on paper, 15.2 x 11.4 in // National Museum in Warsaw

Singing and Dancing Putti Uffizi, Florence

Adoration of the Magi, 1520 Fresco Treviso Cathedral, Italy

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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, nbd

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

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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, nbd

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

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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

Giorgio Vasari, Studies of a Male Nude, a Drapery, and a Hand, c 1555 - 65 Red chalk, laid onto a piece of card, 14 3/16 × 9 9/16 in Getty Museum, Pacific Palisades, California

Studies of a Male Nude, a Drapery, and a Hand, c 1555 - 65 Red chalk, laid onto a piece of card, 14 3/16 × 9 9/16 in // Getty Museum, Pacific Palisades, California

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

The Uffizi Loggia, Florence, 1560

Allegory of Patience, 1542 Oil on canvas, 30 x 66.5 in // Galleria dell'Academia, Venice

Allegory of Patience, 1552 Oil on canvas, 77.9 x 42.8 in // The Klesch Collection, London

Suicide of Judas, 1542 Oil on canvas Casa Vasari Museum, Arezzo

Michel Sittow

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

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

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Jan Sanders van Hemessen

On July 21, 2025 - 16th Century, Flemish, nbd

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

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