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Ludovico Carracci

On April 21, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, Italian

Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter, 21 April 1555 – 13 November 1619

St. Sebastian Thrown into the Cloaca Maxima, 1612 Oil on canvas, 65.74 in x 91.73 in // Getty Center, Los Angeles

Transfiguration ,1595 Oil on canvas, 172 in × 105 in // Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Italy

Bargellini Madonna, 1588 Oil on canvas, 111 x 74 in // Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Italy

Portrait of a Man, 17th Century Oil on canvas Condé Museum, Chantilly, France

Lavinia Fontana

On April 20, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, august 24, Italian

Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter, August 24, 1552–August 11, 1614

Self-Portrait in the Studio, 1579 Oil on canvas Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Lavinia Fontana, Antonietta Gonzales, circa 1595 Oil on canvas, 22.4 in x 18.1 in Musée des Beaux-Arts de Blois, France

Antonietta Gonzales, circa 1595 Oil on canvas, 22.4 in x 18.1 in // Musée des Beaux-Arts de Blois, France Antonietta Gonzales, circa 1595 Oil on canvas, 22.4 in x 18.1 in Musée des Beaux-Arts de Blois, France

Christ appears to Mary Magdalen, 1581 Oil on canvas, 31.4 in x 25.5 in Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Portrait of Bianca degli Utili Maselli and Her Children, before 1614 Oil on canvas. 39 x 52.6 in // Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Portrait of Costanza Alidosi, circa 1595 Oil on canvas, 61.9 in x 47.3 in // National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC

Self-portrait at the Virginal with a Servant, 1577 Oil on canvas, 10.62 × 9.44 in Accademia di San Luca, Rome

Lorenzo Lotto

On April 6, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian

Lorenzo Lotto, Italian painter, 1480-1556

Lorenzo Lotto, Presumed self-portrait, c 1540

Portrait of a young man, c 1526 Oil on paper, 18.5 in x 14.5 in // Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Portrait of a Woman, c.1506 Oil on wood, 14.2 x 11 in // Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, France

Portrait of a Gentleman with a Lion Paw, c. 1524–1525 Oil on canvas, 37.6 in × 27.4 in // Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Mystic Marriage of St Catherine of Alexandria with Niccoló Bonghi, 1523 Oil on panel, 74 in × 53 in // Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

Portrait of a Man with a Felt Hat, 1541 Oil on paper, 22.8 x 18.5 in // National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Madonna with St. Roch and St. Sebastian, 1522 Oil on wood, 32.2 in × 42.7 in // National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Lorenzo Lotto, Mystic marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint Catherine of Siena, 1524 Oil on wood, 45.3 x 38.6 in National Gallery of Ancient Art (GNAA), Rome

Mystic marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint Catherine of Siena, 1524 Oil on wood, 45.3 x 38.6 in // National Gallery of Ancient Art (GNAA), Rome

St. Lucia in Prayer, 1532 Oil on wood, 12.6 x 9.8 in // Jesi Municipal Art Gallery, Italy

Madonna of the Rosary, 1539 Oil on canvas, 12.5 ft x 103.9 in // Chiesa di San Domenico, Cingoli, Marche, Italy

St Christopher, 1531 Oil on canvas, 63.7 in x 22.4 in // Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Portrait of Giovanni Agostino della Torre and his son Niccolò, 1515 Oil on canvas, 33.5 x 26.9 in // National Gallery, London

Portrait of Andrea Odoni, 1527 Oil on canvas, 41 in × 45.9 in // Royal Collection, Buckingham Palace, London

Architect, c.1535 Oil on canvas, 41x 32 in // Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

The Woman Taken in Adultery, 1520s Oil on canvas, 48.8 in x 61.4 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Christ Carrying the Cross, 1526 Oil on canvas, 25.9 x 23.6 in // Louvre, Paris

Fra Bartolomeo

On March 28, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian, march 28

Fra Bartolomeo, Italian painter, 28 March 1472 – 31 October 1517

Presumed portrait of Fra Bartolomeo

Vision of St Bernard with Sts Benedict and John the Evangelist, 1504 Oil on panel, 83.8 x 86.6 in / Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Portrait of Girolamo Savonarola, circa 1497-1498 Oil on panel, 18.5 × 12.2 in / Museum of San Marco, Florence

Pietà, 1516 Oil on wood, 62.2 x 78.3 in Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Raphael Sanzio

On March 28, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian, march 28

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino), Italian painter and architect, March 28 or April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520

Presumed self-portrait of Raphael

The Deposition, 1507 Oil on panel, 68.7 x 70.2 in / Galleria Borghese, Rome

Raphael, The Miraculous Draft of Fishes, Part of Raphael Cartoons, c.1515 - c.1516 Bodycolour over charcoal on many sheets of paper, mounted on canvas, 10.46 ft x 13.09 ft Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The Miraculous Draft of Fishes, Part of Raphael Cartoons, c.1515 - c.1516 Bodycolour over charcoal on many sheets of paper, mounted on canvas, 10.46 ft x 13.09 ft / Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Young Man Carrying an Old Man on His Back, circa 1514 Sanguine on paper Albertina, Vienna

The Madonna of Loreto, c. 1511 Oil on panel, 47 in × 35 in // Musée Condé, Chantilly, France

Orleans Madonna, 1506 Oil on panel, 12.2 x 9 in // Condé Museum, Chantilly, France

Three Graces, circa 1504 Oil on panel, 6.6 x 6.6 in // Condé Museum, Chantilly, France

Vision of a Knight, circa 1504 Oil on poplar wood, 6.7 × 6.8 in // National Gallery, London

Jean Clouet

On March 26, 2025 - 16th Century, French

Jean Clouet, Netherlandish painter, c. 1485 – 1540/1

Portrait of Jean Clouet

Portrait of Marguerite of Navarre, circa 1527 Oil on panel, 23.5 in x 20.2 in, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Jean Clouet, Princess Charlotte c. 1517

Jean de La Barre, Comte d’Étampes, Seigneur de Bérets, 1520s Chalk on paper, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

Jean Clouet, Portrait of Jacques Ricard, circa 1515

Henry II of France as a Child, 1520s Oil on panel, 11.8 in x 9 in, Condé Museum, Chantilly, France

Portrait of François I as St John the Baptist, 1518 Oil on panel, 37.7 in x 31.1 in, Louvre Museum, Paris

Jean Clouet, Eleanor of Austria, 1530

Portrait of Charlotte of France, circa 1522 Oil on cradled panel, 7 in x 5.2 in, Minneapolis Institute of Art

Jean Clouet, Carrying the Cross, from the Hours of Etienne Chevalier c.1452 - c.1460 Illumination on parchment, 6.4 x 4.7 in Musée Condé, Chantilly, France

Carrying the Cross, from the Hours of Etienne Chevalier c.1452 - c.1460 Illumination on parchment, 6.4 x 4.7 in // Musée Condé, Chantilly, France

El Greco

On March 26, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, Greek, Spanish

El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos), Greek painter, October 1, 1541 – April 7, 1614

Self-Portrait, 1595-1600 Oil on canvas, 21 x 18 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

St. Peter in Penitence, c.1585 Oil on canvas. 43 x 35 in Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, UK

The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, c.1610 Oil on canvas, 42.5 x 32.3 in // Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

The Penitent Mary Magdalene, between c 1576 and c 1577 Oil on canvas, 61.6 in x 47.6 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

The Adoration of the Name of Jesus, between 1577 and 1580 Oil on canvas, 55.1 in x 43.3 in // Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain

Saint Louis, King of France, and a Page, between 1585 and 1590 Oil on canvas, 47.2 x 37.7 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

The Disrobing of Christ, circa 1600 Oil on canvas, 50.7 x 62.9 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara, circa 1600 Oil on canvas, 67.2 x 42.5 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple, before 1570 Oil on panel, 25 3/4 x 32 3/4 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

El Greco, The Holy Trinity, Part of Altarpiece of the Church of the Monastery of Santo Domingo El Antiguo, between circa 1577 and circa 1579 Oil on canvas, 118.1 x 70.4 in Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Holy Trinity, Part of Altarpiece of the Church of the Monastery of Santo Domingo El Antiguo, between circa 1577 and circa 1579 Oil on canvas, 118.1 x 70.4 in // Museo del Prado, Madrid

Tintoretto

On March 26, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian

Jacopo Robusti, best known as Tintoretto, Venetian painter, 1518-1594

Catalogue Raisonné

Self-Portrait by Tintoretto, c. 1587-1588, via Louvre, Paris

The Massacre of the Innocents, between 1582 and 1587 Oil on canvas, 13.8 ft x 17.9 ft Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice

The Flight into Egypt, 1582 - 1587 Oil on canvas, 13 ft 10 9/64 in x 19 feet 11/32 inch // Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice

Madonna dell'Orto (Venice) - Choir - St. Peter’s Vision of the Cross by Tintoretto

The Visitation, circa 1588 Oil on canvas, 62.2 in x 93.3 in // Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice

The Raising of Lazarus, between 1579 and 1581 Oil on canvas, 17.7 ft x 11.6 ft // Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice

Saint George and the Dragon, circa 1555 Oil on canvas, 62.3 in x 39.5 in // National Gallery, London

Tarquin and Lucretia, 1578–1580 Oil on canvas, 68 7/8 × 59 5/8 in // Art Institute of Chicago

The Abduction of the Body of St. Mark by Christians Oil on canvas, 42.7 x 49.2 in // Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Susannah Bathing, 1550 Oil on canvas, 65.7 x 93.7 in // Louvre Museum

Creation of the Animals, from 1550 until 1553 Oil on canvas, 59.4 x 101.5 in // Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Tintoretto, Adam and Eve Rebuked by God, c 1550-1555 Oil on canvas, 90 x 110 cm Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Adam and Eve Rebuked by God, c 1550-1555 Oil on canvas, 35.4 x 43.3 in Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Leda and the Swan, between circa 1551 and circa 1555 Oil on canvas, 58 x 58 in Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Christ and the Adulteress, around 1546 - 1547 Oil on canvas, 111.6 x 64.8 in Museo Diocesano, Milan

Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet, from 1548 until 1549 Oil on canvas, 82.6 x 17.4 ft // Museo del Prado, Madrid

Esther before Ahasuerus, 1547 Oil on canvas, 81.7 x 108.4 in // Royal Collection, UK

Descent from the Cross, 1547 Oil on canvas, 35.8 x 48 in // Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Miracle of the Slave, 1548 Oil on canvas, 13.6 x 17.7 ft // Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Venus and Mars Surprised by Vulcan, c 1555 Oil on canvas, 53.1 x 78 in // Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Presentation of Mary, between 1552 and 1553 Oil on canvas, 15.7 ft x 14 ft // Madonna dell'Orto, Venice

St. Louis of Toulouse, St. George and the Princess, circa 1552 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 57.4 in // Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Jacopo Pontormo

On March 25, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian, may 24

Jacopo Pontormo, Italian artist, May 24, 1494 – January 2, 1557

Portrait of Francesco da Castiglione, 1520 Oil on wood, 20 x 15 in Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Study of a Male Figure for the 'Deposition' Altarpiece in the Capella Capponi, Santa Felicita, Florence, 1525-27 Charcoal on paper

Female Nude, 1535-1543 Black chalk, 8 x 13 // Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Saint Jerome Penitent, 1527-1528 Oil on panel, 41.3 in x 31.4 in // Landesmuseum Hannover, Germany

Saint Sebastian, 1515 Oil on panel, 25.5 in x 18.8 in // Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, France

The Birth of John the Baptist, 1526 Oil on panel, 21.2 in x 21.2 in // Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Madonna and Child, 1532 Oil on canvas, Museum of John Paul II Collection, Warsaw, Poland

Saint Luke, 1526 Oil on panel, 27.5 in // Santa Felicità, Florence

Saint John the Evangelist, 1525 Oil on panel, 27.5 in // Santa Felicità, Florence

Portrait of Maria Salviati de' Medici and Giulia de' Medici, ca. 1539 Oil on panel, 34 5/8 x 28 1/16 in // Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Study of a Man Wearing a Hat, 1519-21 Red chalk with incised lines for transfer, 6.1 x 7.8 in // Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Studies of a Youth Pouring from a Jug, 1523-24 Red chalk, 12.4 x 7.6 in // Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Joseph Being Sold to Potiphar, 1515 - 1518 Oil on wood, 22.8 in x 19.6 in // National Gallery, London

Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John, c.1527 Oil on wood, 20.5 x 15.7 in

Study for Deluge, circa 1546 Red chalk on paper, 16.49 in x 8.50 in // Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Visitation of Carmignano, 1528 Oil on board, 79.5 in x 61.4 in // Church of San Michele Arcangelo in Carmignano, Italy

The Deposition, from 1526 until 1528 Oil on canvas, 10.2 ft x 75.5 in // Chiesa Santa Felicità, Florence

Jacopo Pontormo, Portrait of a Halberdier (Francesco Guardi?), 1528 - 1530 Oil (or oil and tempera) on panel transferred to canvas, 36.25 x 28.38 in Getty Center, Los Angeles

Portrait of a Halberdier (Francesco Guardi?), 1528 - 1530 Oil (or oil and tempera) on panel transferred to canvas, 36.25 x 28.38 in // Getty Center, Los Angeles

Portrait of an Engraver of Semi-Precious Stones, 1517-1518 Oil on panel, 27.1 x 19.6 in Louvre Museum, Paris

Monsignor della Casa, probably 1541/1544 Oil on panel, 40 3/16 x 31 1/16 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Vertumnus and Pomona (detail) Fresco, 15.1 ft x 10.8 yd // Villa Medici, Poggio a Caiano, Italy

Youth with a Recorder, 1541-43 Red chalk, 10.7 x 7.7 in // Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Christ the Judge with the Creation of Eve, c. 1550 Black chalk on paper, 12.8 x 7.1 in // Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Portrait of a Lady in Red, 1530s Oil on wood, 35.4 x 28 in // Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt

Lady with a Basket of Spindles, c. 1516 Oil on wood, 29.9 x 21.3 // Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Supper at Emmaus, 1525 Oil on canvas, 90.6 x 68.1 in // Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Portrait of Two Friends, c. 1522 Oil on panel, 35.6 x 26.8 in // Collezione Vittorio Cini, Venice

Hans Baldung

On March 23, 2025 - 16th Century, German

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien), German artist, 1484/85-1545

Self-portrait, circa 1502 Pen and brush on blue-green primed paper, 8.6 x 6.2 in // Kunstmuseum Basel

Self-portrait, 1516 Oil Freiburg Minster, Germany

Portrait of a Lady, circa 1530 Oil on panel, 27.2 in x 20.6 in Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Portrait of a Man, 1514 Oil on lime, 23.3 in x 19.2 in National Gallery, London

Venus and Amor, between 1524 and 1525 Oil on linden wood, 81.88 x 33.07 in // Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Mercury Oil on panel, 76.3 x 25.1 in // Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Eve, 1525 Oil on panel, 81.88 x 32.87 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Adam, 1525 Oil on panel, 82.08 x 32.87 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

The knight, the Girl and Death, between circa 1498 and circa 1508 Oil on lime panel, 13.9 x 11.6 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Two Witches, 1523 Oil on limewood, 25.7 x 18.1 in // Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Hans Baldung, New Year's Greeting with Three Witches, 1514 Black quill pen drawing, partly washed in gray, heightened in white, on brown primed paper, 12.2 x 8.3 in Albertina Museum, Vienna

New Year's Greeting with Three Witches, 1514 Black quill pen drawing, partly washed in gray, heightened in white, on brown primed paper, 12.2 x 8.3 in // Albertina Museum, Vienna

Lamentation of Christ, between 1516 and 1517 Oil on wood, 55.6 x 37.7 in // Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, circa 1511 Oil, gold and white metal on spruce wood, 35.2 × 30.2 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Mater Dolorosa (detail), circa 1516 Oil on wood, 60.2 in x 18.1 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

The Trinity and Mystic Pietà, 1512 Oil on oak panel, 44.2 x 35 in // National Gallery, London

The Crucifixion of Christ, 1512 Oil on linden wood, 59.4 x 40.9 in // Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Phyllis and Aristotle, 1513 Woodcut, 13 x 9 in

Portrait of Martin Luther, 1521 Woodcut

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