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Woodcut title illustration (the risen Christ with crown of thorns and marks in hands and feet pointing to a fruit tree with three banners inscribed 'Werck' [Deeds], 'Lieb' [Love], and 'Glaub' [Faith])...

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Device of printer Gracioso Perchacino, fl. 1553-1601

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Illustrations of four Landgraves of the Holy Roman Empire (from left: Landgraf von Thuringia, Landgraf von Hesse, Landgraf von Leuchtenburg, and Landgraf von Elsass) and their insignia, used by Peter...

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Anaphora of Mary (Mass book), Virgin and Her Beloved Child flanked by the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, Walters Manuscript W.829, fol. 1v

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Dining Table

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Woodcut illustration of a Protestant preacher used by Heinrich Stayner of Augsburg

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Woodcut illustration of the sacrifice of Polyxena by Neoptolemus at the tomb of Achilles

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Woodcut printer's device of Johann Knobloch of Strasbourg

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Device of printer Johann Faber (d. 1542)

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Woodcut illustration (possibly representing the devil as a bird-catcher?) used by Heinrich Stayner of Augsburg

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Illustration of the Holy Roman Emperor with the insignia of the Habsburgs and of four dukedoms (from left: Schwaben [or Swabia], Pfalzgrafschaft bei Rhein [or Palatinate], Braunschweig, Lorraine [or L...

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Woodcut illustration used by Georg Merkel of Nuremberg.

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Woodcut illustration of Sappho

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Austin Lamont (1905-1969); Hugh Tempest Sheringham

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Antique Mexican painting of deer, flowers, bird, de Pascua, Hotel Belmar, Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico

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Woodcut illustration of a verse retelling of the parable of Dives and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31) by Jacob Locher. Used by Silvan Otmar of Augsburg.

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Book label of Dawson's Book Shop in Los Angeles, California.

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Album of Persian calligraphy, Incipit page with illuminated headpiece, Walters Manuscript W.673, fol.1b

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tete 2

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Woodcut ('Sauritt des Papsts') after Lucas Cranach the Elder, used by Christian Rödinger the Elder of Magdeburg, of the pope riding a sow, holding steaming excrement

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Colorful Abstract

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Woodcut illustration of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), cardinal, theologian and envoy of Pope Eugene IV, holding a girdle book. Used by Georg Rhaw of Wittenberg

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Woodcut illustration of Venus and Cupid, with Vulcan chaining Venus and Mars while Dis looks on in the background

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Woodcut (hand-colored by a reader) featuring emblems of various Swiss cantons (among them, Basel, Berne, Uri, Zug and Glarus) around central Habsburg arms. Used by Pamphilus Gengenbach of Basel.

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