16th century public domain art

Artworks created between 1501 and 1600, drawn from every collection indexed here. Free to download, with colour palettes and print sizes measured from each file.

Works in 16th century public domain art

Discours de la Religion des Anciens Romains... Discours sur la Castramentation et Discipline Militaire des Anciens Romains...

Guglielmo Du Choul

The Celestial Globe-Southern Hemisphere

Albrecht Dürer

Satire on the Papacy

Melchior Lorck

Rape of Persephone with Pluto on horseback at right

Giuseppe Scolari

Venus Whipping Cupid with Roses

Giovanni Luigi Valesio

Jupiter tumbling from a horse-drawn carriage at right, Ganymede riding Jupiter's eagle upper center, below Venus and to her right, the three Graces

Master of the Die

Queen Elizabeth I

Crispijn de Passe the Elder

Leda and the Swan

Cornelis Bos

The First Day (Dies I): The Separation of Darkness and Light, plate 1 from The Creation of the World, a series of seven plates

Hendrick Goltzius

The Fourth Day (Dies IV): The Creation of Day and Night, from The Creation of the World, a series of seven plates

Hendrick Goltzius

Kitchen Scene with Kitchen Maid Preparing Fish, Christ at Emmaus in the Background, from Kitchen and Market Scenes with Biblical Scenes in the Background

Jacob Matham

Horatio Coclès Saving Himself by Swimming

Diana Scultori

The Arms of Ferdinand I, King of Hungary and Bohemia

Albrecht Dürer

The Man of Sorrows

Albrecht Dürer

Saint Sebastian Tied to a Tree

Albrecht Dürer

Christ on the Cross

Albrecht Dürer

Saint Peter and Saint John at the Gate of the Temple, from "The Passion"

Albrecht Dürer

The Crucifixion (Round)

Albrecht Dürer

Abduction of Proserpine

Albrecht Dürer

The Ass at School

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Landscape with a milkmaid at right and a boy at left

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)

Hercules with the apples of the Hesperides

Claudio Duchetti

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Amphion and Zethus Tying Dirce to a Wild Bull [The Farnese Bull]

Diana Scultori

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Attilius Regulus in a Barrel

Diana Scultori

Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I

Hans Weiditz the Younger

God Sending the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin

Johann Sadeler I

Birth of Saint John the Baptist

Giulio Romano

Marcus Atilius Regulus in a barrel while two men are hammering in the nails, various figures throughout

Diana Scultori

Christ and the woman taken in adultery

Antonio Caranzano

Binding and Text-Block for the Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)

Farid al-Din `Attar

Young Woman in Netherlandish Dress

Albrecht Dürer

The Three Women at the Tomb [recto]

German 16th Century

The High Priest before Pilate [verso]

German 16th Century

Old Man Standing under Tree

Sebald Beham

At the Dram Well

French 17th Century

Pentecost [recto]

German 16th Century

Noli Me Tangere [verso]

German 16th Century

Daniel in the Lions' Den [recto]

German 16th Century

Christ and the Woman of Samaria [verso]

German 16th Century

Portrait of a Man

Albrecht Dürer

Masquerade

German 16th Century

Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane

German 16th Century

Christ and the Adulteress [recto]

German 16th Century

Abraham Entertaining the Angels [verso]

German 16th Century

Martyr with an Angel

Jacob Matham

The Adoration of the Kings [recto]

German 16th Century

The Birth of Christ [verso]

German 16th Century

Christ Disputing with the Doctors [recto]

German 16th Century

Christ Healing the Lame [verso]

German 16th Century

River View

Pieter Stevens

Figure of a Man [recto]

Ventura Salimbeni

Saint Benedict

Hans Süss von Kulmbach

The Baptism of Christ

Netherlandish 16th Century

Descent from the Cross

Anonymous Artist

Madonna and Child with Rosary and Saint

Abraham van Diepenbeeck

The Brazen Serpent

Anonymous Artist

Ceres Changing Ascalaphus into a Bird of Evil Omen

Paolo Farinati

Flagellation of Christ

Luca Cambiaso

God Enthroned Surrounded by Saints

Giovanni Battista Trotti

Coronation of the Emperor

Anonymous Artist