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Title

The Goddess of the Night

Artist

Hendrick Goltzius

Physical Description

Paper trimed to print frame. Previously print had been folded in half and damaged; repair visible on verso. Paper size: h 34 1/2cm x w 26 1/2cm.

Artist Life Dates

1558 - 1617

Accession Number

2008/2.399

Medium and Support

chiaroscuro woodcut on brown laid paper

relevance

rank 20.11260

Primary Keywords

chiaroscuro woodcuts

goddesses

night

woodcuts

Title

Bust of the Virgin

Artist

Bartolomeo Coriolano

Physical Description

This small print depicts a bust-length portrait of a woman within an oval frame. She turns slightly to her left and gazes downward. A bright halo encircles her head.

Artist Life Dates

(ca. 1599 - ca. 1676)

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

17th century

Accession Number

2007/2.141

Medium and Support

chiaroscuro woodcut on laid paper

relevance

rank 18.05649

Primary Keywords

bust-length

chiaroscuro woodcuts

halos

portraits

Title

Sibyl Seated with Tablet

Artist

Bartolomeo Coriolano

Physical Description

A woman wearing long robes sits holding a pen in her right hand and props up a blank tablet in her lap. A putto helps support the table from behind and points toward the seated figure. A pot of ink with another pen appears next to his foot.

Artist Life Dates

(ca. 1599 - ca. 1676)

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

17th century

Accession Number

2009/2.23

Medium and Support

chiaroscuro woodcut on laid paper

relevance

rank 18.05649

Primary Keywords

chiaroscuro woodcuts

pens

prophets

putti

tablets

Title

Descent from the Cross

Artist

Ugo da Carpi

Physical Description

This print depicts the body of a man being lowered from a cross. Two men lean over the top of the cross to remove the nails from the dead man's hands and pass his body down to two other men standing on ladders. Three women and a man lay on the ground in mourning at the foot of the cross.

Artist Life Dates

ca. 1440 - after 1525

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1440-1535

Accession Number

1960/1.176

Medium and Support

chiaroscuro woodcut on laid paper

relevance

rank 17.86431

Primary Keywords

chiaroscuro woodcuts

crosses (objects)

crucifixions

deaths

ladders

Title

The Alliance of Peace and Abundance

Artist

Bartolomeo Coriolano

Physical Description

Two women in long robes stand arm in arm in a landscape. One figure holds an olive branch in her right hand, and her companion cradles a cornucopia against her hip.

Artist Life Dates

(ca. 1599 - ca. 1676)

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1642

Accession Number

1970/1.178

Medium and Support

chiaroscuro woodcut on laid paper

relevance

rank 17.86431

Primary Keywords

allegory

chiaroscuro woodcuts

olive (wood)

peace

women

Title

Madonna and Child with a Bishop

Artist

Andrea Andreani

Physical Description

A woman sits on the left holding a nude infant in her lap. An aureole of light radiates around her head as she looks downward toward the child, who returns her gaze. A bearded bishop wearing a miter and holding a crosier kneels before them on the right.

Artist Life Dates

1558/59-1629

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1591

Accession Number

2007/2.146

Medium and Support

chiaroscuro woodcut on laid paper

relevance

rank 17.67618

Primary Keywords

bishops (prelates)

chiaroscuro woodcuts

crosiers

infants

miters

mothers

Title

St. Luke and St. Mark with a Portrait of the Virgin and Child

Artist

Ludolphe Buesinck

Physical Description

Two seated men, depicted in three-quarter length, with flowing beards and long robes look out from this print. A painting of a seated woman holding a child on her lap sits on an easel between them. A closed book is placed before the man on the left, and a second book sits open next to the figure on the right. This man holds a mahlstick, used by painters to steady their hand as they work, in his right hand. A palette and brushes are placed on a ledge in front of him.

Artist Life Dates

c.1590-after 1643

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

17th century

Accession Number

2007/2.144

Medium and Support

chiaroscuro woodcut on laid paper

relevance

rank 17.67618

Primary Keywords

books

chiaroscuro woodcuts

easels

painters (artists)

palettes

saint

Title

Oceanus (from a Series of 6 Mythological Figures)

Artist

Hendrick Goltzius

Physical Description

A powerfully muscled nude man sits astride a fearsome sea creature. He grasps an oar in his left hand and the beast's reins in his right, while a cloth billows out behind him. A variety of humanoid creatures frolic in the seascape in the background.

Artist Life Dates

1558 - 1617

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1589-1590

Accession Number

1960/2.36

Medium and Support

chiaroscuro woodcut on laid paper

relevance

rank 17.49197

Primary Keywords

chiaroscuro woodcuts

gods

mermaids

monsters

oars

oceans

relief printing

Title

Sibyl with a Child Holding a Torch

Artist

Ugo da Carpi

Physical Description

A woman sits in an interior holding a book in her right arm, which is propped upon a ledge. She reads by the light of a torch held by a child standing next to her. Print trimmed to image frame. Image was previously folded at center (multiple folds). Paper size: lh 27 3/5cm & rh 27 4/5cm x tw 22 3/5cm bw 22 3/10cm.

Artist Life Dates

ca. 1440 - after 1525

Century

16th century

Accession Number

2008/2.420

Medium and Support

chiaroscuro woodcut on beige laid paper

relevance

rank 16.79199

Primary Keywords

books

chiaroscuro woodcuts

children (people by age group)

prophets

reading

torches and torch holders

women