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

"Friendship Is Equality; A Friend Is Another Self" [fol. 10 recto]

French early 16th Century

"Do Not Sit on the Grain Measure" [fol. 12 recto]

French early 16th Century

Credulity Preparing to Nurse the Mother of Hope [fol. 18 verso]

French early 16th Century

Hope, Reaching for Heaven, Stands among Sad and Happy Men, Joys, and Fear [fol. 19 recto]

French early 16th Century

An Ape in Purple with a Sick Man, a Good Man, and a Miser [fol. 36 verso]

French early 16th Century

"Do Not Have Swallows under the Same Roof" [fol. 40 recto]

French early 16th Century

"Do Not Eat Beans" [fol. 25 recto]

French early 16th Century

"Do Not Wear a Tight-Fitting Ring" [fol. 23 recto]

French early 16th Century

"Turn aside the Sharp Sword" [fol. 44 recto]

French early 16th Century

"Do Not Break the Crown" [fol. 43 recto]

French early 16th Century

"Do Not Poke the Fire with a Sword" [fol. 20 recto]

French early 16th Century

"You Are Tying a Dolphin by the Tail" [fol. 17 recto]

French early 16th Century

A Fool Feeding Flowers to Swine [fol. 42 recto]

French early 16th Century

"Do Not Put Food in a Chamber Pot" [fol. 24 recto]

French early 16th Century

"Feed Not Things That Have Sharp Claws" [fol. 38 recto]

French early 16th Century

"Speak Not Against the Sun" and "Do Not Make Water Facing the Sun" [fol. 39 recto]

French early 16th Century

The Calumny of Apelles [fol. 6 recto]

French early 16th Century

"You Are Shooting at Heaven" [fol. 9 recto]

French early 16th Century

The Statue of Opportunity, a Passer-by, and Remorse [fol. 8r]

French early 16th Century

The Statue of Opportunity and the Passer-by [fol. 8 recto]

French early 16th Century

Allegory of the Life of a Scholar in a Rich Household [fol. 3 verso / 4 recto]

French 16th Century

"Obliterate the Trace of the Pot in the Ashes" [fol. 32 verso / 33 recto]

French early 16th Century

"Do Not Turn Back When You Arrive at the End" [fol. 26 verso / 27 recto]

French early 16th Century

Personification of Friendship (Amicitia) [fol. 2 recto]

French early 16th Century

"Do Not Make Water on Clippings from Nails or Hair" [fol. 30 recto]

French early 16th Century

The Coronation of the Virgin with Angel Musicians and All Saints

Master J.N.

The Way of Salvation

Georg Pecham

Saint Jerome

Alessandro Vittoria

Saint Mark with Two Bishops and Putti

Jacopo Palma il Giovane

A Foxglove in Bloom

Hendrick Goltzius

An Architectural Wall Design in Honor of Henry IV, the Gallic Hercules

Antonio Tempesta

Apollo, Diana, and Time with the Cyclic Vicissitudes of Human Life

Maarten de Vos

Grotesque Decorations for Wall Panels

Giovanni da Udine

The Villa Imperiale

Titian

The Hunts of Maximilian: The Stag Hunt (August)

Bernard van Orley

The Fall of Phaeton

Joseph Heintz the Elder

Allegorical Figure with a Cat and a Pig

Jacopo di Giovanni di Francesco

Saint Ursula

Bernardo Strozzi

Tantalus

Hans Holbein the Younger

Diana and Endymion

Frans Floris I

Hercules Relieving Atlas of the Globe

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Two Kings and a Woman Leaving an Elaborate Palace

Jan Gossaert

A Boy Gazing Upward in Adoration

Bartolomeo Cesi

An Elderly Man with a Flowing Beard

Spanish 17th Century

Studies of a Left Arm, a Young Woman, a Madonna and Child, a Face in Profile, and Nude Figures

Bartolomeo Passarotti

Studies of a Sculpture of a Male Nude, Vertebrae, and Gesturing Figures

Bartolomeo Passarotti

Palatial Mantelpiece with Mercury and Hope [recto]

Austrian 16th Century

A Standing Apostle Holding a Book

Hans Süss von Kulmbach

The Death of Virginia

Christoph Bockstorfer

Palatial Mantelpiece with a Scene of Ancient Sacrifice [recto]

Austrian 16th Century

Wall Monument with an Armillary Sphere [verso]

German 16th Century

An Angel in Flight

Jacopo da Empoli

View of the Janiculum Hill Seen from the Tiber (recto)

Antonie van den Wyngaerde

A Compartmented Ceiling with Allegories and Myths

Alessandro Maganza

Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus Freezes

Johann Matthias Kager

The Three Marys

Johann Willinges

The Toilet of Venus

Joseph Heintz the Elder

Janus

Hans Steidlin

Christ Nailed to the Cross

Albrecht Altdorfer

Elegantly Dressed Soldier Preparing to Fire His Caliver

Jacques de Gheyn II