EditorialA detail of “Saint Paul Directing the Burning of the Heathen Books,” a tapestry designed by the Flemish artist Pieter Coecke van Aelst in the 1530s at the Metropolitan Museum in New York on Oct. 3, 2022. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
EditorialFall of the Giants, ca. 1530s?40s, Engraving, sheet: 13 3/8 x 22 3/8 in. (34 x 56.8 cm) trimmed to platemark, Prints, Attributed to Girolamo Fagiuoli (Italian, active Bologna, by 1539, died 1574 Bologna), After Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) (Ita...
EditorialA Sculpture of Moses. Dated: 1530s?. Dimensions: overall: 29.4 x 13.6 cm (11 9/16 x 5 3/8 in.). Medium: pen and black ink with gray wash over traces of black chalk on laid paper, pricked for transfer.
EditorialA Warrior, with a Garlanded Mask below. Dated: c. 1530s. Dimensions: overall: 7.6 x 3.1 cm (3 x 1 3/16 in.) gross weight: 14 gr. Medium: lead.
EditorialThe Adoration of the Shepherds. Dated: 1530s. Dimensions: overall: 84.5 x 119.7 cm (33 1/4 x 47 1/8 in.) framed: 110.8 x 146.5 x 7.6 cm (43 5/8 x 57 11/16 x 3 in.). Medium: oil on panel.
EditorialDesign for the Base of the Monument to Andrea Doria, Baccio Bandinelli, Italian, 1488-1560, Pen and brown ink, black chalk on off-white laid paper, Decoration of statuary base for Genoese naval hero and imperial admiral Andrea Doria, whose successes ar...
EditorialThe Adoration of the Shepherds. Dated: 1530s. Dimensions: overall: 84.5 x 119.7 cm (33 1/4 x 47 1/8 in.) framed: 110.8 x 146.5 x 7.6 cm (43 5/8 x 57 11/16 x 3 in.). Medium: oil on panel.
EditorialThe Hermit Saints Paul and Anthony Receiving Bread from a Dove. Dated: 1530s. Dimensions: overall: 39.2 ? 25.9 cm (15 7/16 ? 10 3/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink over traces of leadpoint.
EditorialThe Flood. Dated: 1530s. Dimensions: overall (octagon): 27.8 x 54 cm (10 15/16 x 21 1/4 in.). Medium: pen and black ink with gray wash, heightened with white, over charcoal on brown prepared paper.
EditorialSaint Jerome Reading in a Landscape. Dated: 1520s/1530s. Dimensions: overall (approximate): 30.8 x 21.7 cm (12 1/8 x 8 9/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink on brown laid paper.
EditorialAfter Polidoro da Caravaggio, Frieze with Three Horsemen, After Polidoro da Caravaggio (Italian, Caravaggio ca. 1499ca. 1543 Messina), 1530s, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash., 6 7/8 x 10 11/16 in. (17.4 x 27.1 cm), Drawings.
EditorialThe Baptism of Christ, 1530s. Lucas Cranach (German, 1472-1553). Oil on wood; framed: 24.4 x 29.2 x 5.1 cm (9 5/8 x 11 1/2 x 2 in.); unframed: 15 x 20.5 cm (5 7/8 x 8 1/16 in.).
EditorialA Putto Seated on a Frame, ca. 1538?40, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over traces of leadpoint or black chalk., sheet: 4 3/4 x 2 9/16 in. (12 x 6.5 cm), Drawings, Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli (Italian, Viadana ca. ...
EditorialThe Birth of Bacchus; Giulio Romano (Giulio Pippi) and Workshop, Italian (Roman), before 1499 - 1546; about 1530s; Oil on panel; Unframed [left and right]: H: 126.4 cm (49 3/4 in.), Unframed [middle]: H: 126.5 x W: 79.7cm (49 13/16 x 31 3/8 in.), Unfra...
EditorialThe Virgin and Child with Saint Elizabeth and the Young Saint John the Baptist; Benedetto Cervi, Italian, active about 1520 - 1540; Italy, Europe; 1520s - 1530s; Marble; Object: H: 29.2 x W: 27.9 x D: 7.5 cm (11 1/2 x 11 x 2 15/16 in.).
EditorialIn the 1530s, debate raged about the efficacy of prayers for the dead and the very existence of purgatory. Around 1537 the reformist Bishop of Worcester, Hugh Latimer (c. 1485-1555), prepared for the King a paper in opposition to purgatory. Henry VIII...
EditorialTarquin and Lucretia. School of Fontainebleau; French, flourished 1530s-1610. Date: 1525-1599. Dimensions: 297 ? 238 mm. Black chalk on tan laid paper. Origin: France.
EditorialTarquin and Lucretia. School of Fontainebleau; French, flourished 1530s-1610. Date: 1525-1599. Dimensions: 297 ? 238 mm. Black chalk on tan laid paper. Origin: France.
EditorialCeiling Decoration with Grotesques, 1530s, Perino del Vaga, or circle of, Italian, 1501-1547, Italy, Pen and brown ink, with traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper, edge mounted to ivory laid paper, 264 x 272 mm (max.).
EditorialMadonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint George (Holy Conversation). Date/Period: Early 1530s. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 90 cm (35.4 in); Width: 120 cm (47.2 in).
EditorialOld Pine Tree, late 1530s. Wen Zhengming (Chinese, 1470-1559). Handscroll, ink on paper; overall: 29.8 cm (11 3/4 in.); painting only: 27.3 x 138.8 cm (10 3/4 x 54 5/8 in.).
EditorialThe Baptism of Christ, 1530s. Lucas Cranach (German, 1472-1553). Oil on wood; framed: 24.4 x 29.2 x 5.1 cm (9 5/8 x 11 1/2 x 2 in.); unframed: 15 x 20.5 cm (5 7/8 x 8 1/16 in.).
EditorialTarquin and Lucretia. School of Fontainebleau; French, flourished 1530s-1610. Date: 1525-1599. Dimensions: 297 ? 238 mm. Black chalk on tan laid paper. Origin: France.
EditorialTarquin and Lucretia. School of Fontainebleau; French, flourished 1530s-1610. Date: 1525-1599. Dimensions: 297 ? 238 mm. Black chalk on tan laid paper. Origin: France.