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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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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, nbd

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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Domenichino

On July 9, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, Italian, october 21

Domenichino, Italian painter, October 21, 1581 - April 15, 1641

Saint Agnes, circa 1620 Oil on canvas, 83.7 x 60 in // Royal Collection, Windsor Castle

Apparition of the Virgin and Child and San Gennaro at the Miraculous Oil Lamp, 1637–38 Oil on canvas Cathedral of Naples

The Way to Calvary, about 1610 Oil on copper, 21.14 x 26.61 in // Getty Center, Los Angeles

Virgin and Unicorn, c 1602 Fresco Palazzo Farnese, Rome

Diana and her Nymphs, between 1616 and 1617 Oil on canvas, 88.5 x 10.4 ft // Galleria Borghese, Rome

Saint Cecilia Playing the Viol, between 1623 and 1633 Oil on canvas, 62.9 x 47.2 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, 1626 Oil on canvas, 48 x 67 3/4 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Rinaldo and Armida, 1610s Oil on canvas, 47.6 x 66.1 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Two Studies of a Foot, 1591 - 1641 Red and white chalk on paper, 7.6 x 10.7 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Domenichino, Head of a Bearded Man, 1620–30 Black chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on blue-gray paper partly faded light brown, 13-3/8 x 9-9/16 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Head of a Bearded Man, 1620–30 Black chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on blue-gray paper partly faded light brown, 13-3/8 x 9-9/16 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Venus, between c 1603 and c 1641 Oil on canvas, 47.9 x 66.4 in // York Art Gallery, UK

Cumaean Sibyl, c 1622 Oil on canvas, 48.4 x 37 in // Capitoline Museums, Rome

Jan van Scorel

On July 5, 2025 - 16th Century, august 1, Dutch

Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter, August 1, 1495 – December 6, 1562

Portrait of Jan van Scorel by Antonis Mor, 1560

The Dying Cleopatra, between 1520 and 1524 Oil on panel, 14.2 x 24.1 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan van Scorel, Portrait of a man, possibly of Cornelis Aerentsz van der Dussen, between 1535 and 1540 Oil on panel, 14.1 x 10.8 in Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam

Portrait of a man, possibly of Cornelis Aerentsz van der Dussen, between 1535 and 1540 Oil on panel, 14.1 x 10.8 in // Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam

Mary Magdalene, circa 1530 Oil on oak wood, 26.1 x 29.9 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Portrait of a Haarlem Citizen, 1529 Oil on panel, 19 in x 13.5 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

12 Members of the Haarlem Brotherhood of Jerusalem Pilgrims, 1528-29 Oil on panel, 45.3 x 108.7 in // Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem

Madonna of the Daffodils with the Christ Child and Donors, c. 1535 Oil on panel, 22 x 30 in // Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

The Flood, c. 1530 Oil on panel, 43 x 70 in // Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Baptism of Christ, c. 1530 Oil on panel,47.6 x 61.8 in // Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem

Portrait of a Venetian Man, c. 1520 Oil on wood, 16.9 x 13.2 in // Landesmuseum, Oldenburg

Portrait of a Man, c. 1520 Oil on panel, 18.5 x 16.1 in // Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Portrait of a Man, 1525-30 Oil on panel, 26 x 17.3 in // Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Albrecht Altdorfer

On June 25, 2025 - 15th Century, 16th Century, German, nbd

Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, c. 1480 – February 12, 1538

An Allegory of Pride, 1506 Engraving on laid paper, 3 7/8 x 2 15/16 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1510 Oil on panel, 22.4 x 15 in // Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Saint Jerome in a Courtyard, c 1512 - 1515 Engraving National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Large Fir, 1512 - 22 Etching with watercolour, 8.9 x 6.7 in // Art Collections of the Veste Coburg, Germany

Christ on the Cross with Mary and St John, c 1512 Oil on linden wood, 45.6 x 39.9 in // Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel, Germany

Landscape with Path, c. 1518 Parchment and wood, 16.5 x 15.7 in // National Gallery, London

The Resurrection of Christ, 1518 Oil on panel, 27.7 x 14.5 in // Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Hercules Bearing the Column of Gades, c 1520 - 1525 Engraving National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Bathing Woman, c 1520 - 1530 Engraving National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Lovers Led by Seagods in Triumph, c 1520 - 1525 Engraving National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Christ taking Leave of his Mother, 1520 Oil on lime, 55.5 x 43.7 in // National Gallery, London

Albrecht Altdorfer, Landscape with Spruce, c 1522 Pen, brown India ink, watercolor and gouache as well as fine-line white heightening, 7.9 x 5.3 in Kupferstichkabinett Berlin

Landscape with Spruce, c 1522 Pen, brown India ink, watercolor and gouache as well as fine-line white heightening, 7.9 x 5.3 in // Kupferstichkabinett Berlin

Danube Landscape with Castle Wörth, c 1522 Oil on parchment on panel, , 12 x 8.7 in // Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Portrait of a Woman, c. 1522 Oil on panel, 23.2 x 17.7 in // Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Crouching Venus, c 1525 - 1530 Engraving National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian Oil on panel, 50.5 x 37.1 in // St. Florian Monastery, Austria

"Schöne Maria" Oil on Wood Stiftskirche St. Johann, Regensburg

View of Wörth an der Donau with Castle Copper engraving print Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden

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Lucas van Leyden

On June 24, 2025 - 16th Century, Dutch, nbd

Lucas van Leyden, Dutch painter, 1494– August 8, 1533

Lucas van Leyden, Self-portrait, 1525–26

Self portrait, 1525 - 1526

A Man aged 38, circa 1521 Oil on panel, 18.7 x 15.9 in // National Gallery, London

Resting Pilgrims, c 1508 Engraving, 6 × 4.7 in // Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

The Milkmaid, 1510 Engraving, 4 1/2 x 6 1/8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Mohammed and the Murdered Monk, 1508 Engraving Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Triptych with the Last Judgement, outer wings: Saints Peter and Paul, 1526 or 1527 Oil on panel, 106.1 x 11 ft // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Lucas van Leyden, The Healing of the Blind Man of Jericho, 1531 Oil on canvas, transferred from panel, 45.5 x 85.5 in State Hermitage Gallery, St. Petersburg

The Healing of the Blind Man of Jericho, 1531 Oil on canvas, transferred from panel, 45.5 x 85.5 in // State Hermitage Gallery, St. Petersburg

Preaching in the Church, 1530 Oil on wood, 52.3 x 38.2 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Card Players, 1508-10 Oil on panel, 22 x 27.6 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington

St Jerome Penitent, 1515-16 Oil on oak, 10.6 x 12.2 in // Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Abraham and Isaac on Their Way to the Place of Sacrifice, c. 1517 Woodcut, 11.2 x 8.3 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Crucifixion, 1517 Engraving, 11.1 x 16.3 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Dance of Mary Magdalen, 1519 Engraving, 11.6 x 15.9 in // Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

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Bronzino

On June 24, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian, november 17

Bronzino, Italian painter, November 17, 1503 – November 23, 1572

Portrait of Bronzino by Alessandro Allori, c. 1567–71

Eleanora of Toledo with her son Giovanni de’ Medici, 1544 Oil on canvas, 45 in × 38 in // Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi, Oil on board, 40 x 33 in // Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Portrait of a Young Man with a Book, 1530s Oil on board, 37 5/8 x 29 1/2 in // Metropolitan Museum, New York

Portrait of Stefano Colonna, 1546 Tempera on wood, 49.2 x 37.4 in // Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome

Portrait of Ugolino Martelli, 1540 Oil on panel, 40.1 x 33.4 in // Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Garcia de' Medici, circa 1550 Oil on panel, 18.8 x 14.9 in // Museo del Prado, Madrid

Portrait of Andrea Doria as Neptune, between 1550 and 1555 Oil on canvas, 45.2 x 20.8 in // Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici as Orpheus, c. 1537-39 Oil on panel, 36.90 x 30.10 in // Philadelphia Museum of Art

Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time, 1540–1545 Oil on panel, 57.4 x 45.6 in // National Gallery, London

Bronzino, Venus, Cupid and Jealousy, between 1548 and 1550 Oil on poplar wood, 75.5 x 55.9 in Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Venus, Cupid and Jealousy, between 1548 and 1550 Oil on poplar wood, 75.5 x 55.9 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest 192.00 cm x 142.00 cm

Deposition of Christ, from 1540 until 1545 Oil on panel, 105.5 x 68.1 in // Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, France

The Holy Family, between circa 1540 and circa 1550 Tempera on panel, 46 x 38.9 in // Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Holy Family with St. Anne and the Infant St. John, 1545 - 1546 Oil on wood, 49.92 x 39.96 in // Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Panciatichi Holy Family, circa 1540 Oil on panel, 46x 36 in // Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Pietà, circa 1530 Oil on panel, 41.3 x 39.3 in // Uffizi Gallery, Florence

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