Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Italy "The Resurrection of the Virgin" A fresco in the Palazzo Pubblico at Siena (a town in Northern Italy, south of Florence) by Taddeco di Bartolo (1363-1422. )

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Italy "The Madonna Enthroned" by Giorgione - Giorgio Barbarelli - (1477-1510) The painter studied under Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini c. 1490 and is considered to be one of the initiators of the high renaissa

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Spain "The Coronation of the Virgin" by VelOzquez (1599 - 1660) Born in Seville, Spain, in the same year that Shakespeare built the Globe Theatre in London, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y VelOzquez is one of the great

Paintings & Engravings- Engraving - Holland Painting in the Netherlands in the 17th. Century. "Self-Portrait" by Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667) Metsu began his career as painter of religious scenes but changed to depictions of commercial life in the marke

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Spain "The Coronation of the Virgin" by VelOzquez (1599 - 1660) Born in Seville, Spain, in the same year that Shakespeare built the Globe Theatre in London, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y VelOzquez is one of the great

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Holland "Lot and his Daughters" by Gerard Honthorst (1592-1656) The painter was strongly influenced by the works of Caravaggio which he studied while spending time in Italy around 1610. He was born in the year Juan

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Italy Group from the Crucifixion in the Capella S. Felice at Padua. By Jacopo Avanzi and Altichiero da Zevio, who painted in Verona and in Padua in the last third of the 14th Century.

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Italy "Madonna with St. John and the Magdalen" by Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) Mantegna is generally accepted to be the first fully Renaissance artist of Northern Italy. Born near Vicenza in the then Republic of V

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Belgium "The Entombment" by Quentin Massys (1465-1530) This Flemish artist is considered to be the first important painter of the Antwerp school. His work is noted for detailed expressions on individual faces of wh

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Holland "The Expulsion of Hagar" by Adriaan van der Werff (1659-1722) A scene from the old testament - Hagar was purchased in Egypt as a maid to his wife Sarah, who could not conceive a child. Sarah gave Hagar to

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Italy "Christ Mourned" by Pietro Perugino (1446-1524) (1450-1523) an Italian Renaissance painter and mentor to Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520) Perugino took his name from the town of Perugia where he was born.

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Holland "Jewish Burial-Ground" by Jacob Ruysdael (1629-1682) The artist is sometimes considered to be the finest Dutch landscape painter. He was born in the year the colony of Massachusetts was founded and died in

Religious paintings