Tag: "illustration

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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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 (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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Title page of a book from the library of Maria Benigna Francisca Piccolomini (1635-1701)

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

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Woodcut illustration of Chiomara, wife of Orgiagon of Galatia

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Woodcut illustration of Hercules (dressed as both a man and a woman) and Iole

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Woodcut of the Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven with the Christ Child, with artist's(?) monogram at foot of image. Used by Wolfgang Stoeckel.

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

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Woodcut illustration of Niobe, Amphion and their dead sons

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Device of Sebastianus Gryphius, 1493-1556

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Woodcut illustration of Pope Joan

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

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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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Woodcut, depicting a scholar wearing spectacles and holding a fly-swatter, attributed to Heinrich Vogtherr

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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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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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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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Layers

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