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“Madonna and Child,” engraving by Andrea Mantegna
Engraving by the Master of the Playing Cards showing a poet in fur-trimmed clothing standing on grass, holding and reading a large sheet of paper.
San rock engraving
Figure 6: “The Ploughman” behind a two-wheeled plow drawn by horses. Wood engraving from the “Dance of Death” by Hans Holbein, the Younger, c. 1540. In the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Engraving of William Wordsworth with arms crossed, wearing a dark jacket and cravat, looking slightly to his left against a shadowed background.
Hear about the four states of the Martin Droeshout engraved portrait of William Shakespeare, first published with the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare's plays
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William Blake
William Blake
English engraver, artist, and poet
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
Andrea Mantegna: Arrival of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga
Andrea Mantegna
Italian artist
The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
William Hogarth
English artist
van Dyck, Anthony
Anthony van Dyck
Flemish painter
J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner
English painter
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall
Belorussian-born French artist
Francisco Goya: Self-portrait
Francisco Goya
Spanish artist
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Georges Rouault
French artist
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Antonio del Pollaiuolo
Italian artist
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Jacques Androuet du Cerceau
French architect
Schongauer, Martin; Virgin and Child
Martin Schongauer
German engraver
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Lucas van Leyden
Dutch artist
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Still Life with Jug and African Bowl
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German artist
The Morbetto, engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi, c. 1515–16; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 19.69 × 24.92 cm.
Marcantonio Raimondi
Italian engraver
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Jacques Villon
French painter
Baldung, Hans: Three Kings Altarpiece
Hans Baldung
German artist
Hendrik Goltzius: Hercules Killing Cacus
Hendrik Goltzius
Dutch painter and printmaker
Memory, etching on wove paper by Max Klinger, 1894; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 27.62 × 15.24 cm.
Max Klinger
German artist
Josef Albers, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1948.
Josef Albers
German-born American painter