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“Madonna and Child,” engraving by Andrea Mantegna
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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.
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William Blake
British writer and artist
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
Arrival of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga, fresco by Andrea Mantegna, completed 1474; in the Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy.
Andrea Mantegna
Italian artist
J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner
English painter
The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
William Hogarth
English artist
Francisco Goya: Self-portrait
Francisco Goya
Spanish artist
van Dyck, Anthony
Anthony van Dyck
Flemish painter
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall
Belorussian-born French artist
Georges Rouault
French artist
Schongauer, Martin; Virgin and Child
Martin Schongauer
German engraver
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Still Life with Jug and African Bowl
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German artist
Lucas van Leyden
Dutch artist
Baldung, Hans: Three Kings Altarpiece
Hans Baldung
German artist
Hendrik Goltzius: Hercules Killing Cacus
Hendrik Goltzius
Dutch painter and printmaker
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
Josef Albers, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1948.
Josef Albers
American painter
Northwood, John: replica of the Portland Vase
John Northwood
British glassmaker
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
Jacques Villon
French painter
Audubon, James John: Blue Jay
Robert Havell, Jr.
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