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Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
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Schongauer, Martin; Virgin and Child
Martin Schongauer
German engraver
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Still Life with Jug and African Bowl
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German artist
Baldung, Hans: Three Kings Altarpiece
Hans Baldung
German artist
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
“Battle of Alexander at Issus,” detail of an oil painting on panel by Albrecht Altdorfer, 1529; in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Albrecht Altdorfer
German artist
Matthäus Merian
Swiss artist [1593-1650]
“Parents of the Artist,” oil on canvas by Otto Dix, 1921; in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switzerland
Otto Dix
German artist
Adam Friedrich Oeser
painter, sculptor, and engraver
Theodor de Bry
Flemish-German engraver
Hans Leonhard Schäuffelein
German painter
Hans Sebald Beham
German engraver
Chodowiecki, Daniel: The Artist's Study
Daniel Chodowiecki
German artist
Master E.S.
German engraver
Jakob Christof Le Blon
painter and engraver
William Blake
William Blake
British writer and 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
The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
William Hogarth
English artist
van Dyck, Anthony
Anthony van Dyck
Flemish painter
J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner
English painter