Tag: "ancient"

Woodcut illustration of Niobe, Amphion and their dead sons

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Woodcut of Our Lady of Sorrows. Used by Valentin Schumann of Leipzig.

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Woodcut publisher's device of Durand Gerlier of Paris with his address in a rebus

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Stamps from the Jesuit college in Naples and from the Reale Biblioteca Borbonica (Biblioteca nazionale (Naples, Italy))

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Antony Constans

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Woodcut illustration of Verginia's trial before Appius Claudius and her death at the hand of her father Verginius

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Woodcut illustration of Amalthea (the Cumaean sibyl), Tarquinius Superbus and the Sibylline books

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Armorial bookplate of the Pfau family (Winterthur, Switzerland)

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Woodcut arms of Martin Truchsess von Wetzhausen (hand-colored) used by Georg Osterberger of Königsberg [i.e. Kaliningrad]

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Woodcut of St. Paul at his writing table; used by Hans Lufft of Wittenberg

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Stamp of the Servite Order in Bologna, Italy, from the Convento di S. Maria dei Servi di Bologna (Conventus Fratrum Servorum Bononia)

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Device of Strasbourg printer Mathias Apiarius, ca. 1500-1554

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Woodcut illustration of Artemisia II of Caria drinking the ashes of her husband Mausolus

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Woodcut illustration of Circe and Odysseus with men transformed into animals

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Woodcut illustration of the suicide of Seneca and the attempted suicide of his wife Pompeia Paulina

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Device of printer Tolommeo Janicolo (Zappella 1184)

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Woodcut of Saint Jerome

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Woodcut illustration of the wives of the Minyans enabling their husbands' escape from prison

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Woodcut illustration of the Erythraean sibyl and Christ

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Armorial bookplate of British Major-General John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (1705-1782)

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Woodcut illustration of Agrippina Minor, Nero and Claudius

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Woodcut title illustration depicting Jesus Christ blessing the children while his disciples look on within an architectural border; used by Georg Wachter of Nuremberg

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Woodcut of a unicorn

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Woodcut used by Valentin Schumann

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