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
The young prince is crowned and the wicked handmaiden is executed, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Suraju
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Eleventh Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
Banavari 2
Hotei
Yamada Dōan I (Juntei)
Portrait of a Woman
Andrea del Sarto
Children at Play
Xia Kui
The tale of the three men trapped in a cave by a rolling boulder, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-second Night
Bihzad
The young prince recounts his experiences to his father, the king, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Suraju
The monk returns the magic parrot to its rightful owner, the merchant, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Night
Lalu
The king of the Ocean, having assumed human form, arrives at the court of the Raja, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eleventh Night
Ghulam 'Ali
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Twelfth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
Tara 1
The astrologer predicts a calamity for the newly born prince in his thirteenth year, but one which he would be able to overcome, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Banavari 1
The deceitful wife returns to her terrace after caressing her lover, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Shravana
The wife of the son of the vizier brings the magic wooden parrot to her lover, the monk, who exchanges it for the replica, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Night
Lalu
Calligraphy
Sur Das
Page from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020)
Mir Musavvir
Isfandiyar slays Arjasp, the king of Turan, from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020)
Haidar Kashmiri
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Sixth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
Dasavanta
The deceitful wife assaults her erring husband, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Tara 1
The parrot brings a fruit from the Tree of Life to the king of Syria, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Ninth Night
Lalu
Mount Hua
Tang Yin
Portrait of a Young Man
Dosso Dossi
Returning to the Village in a Rainstorm
Xie Shichen
A feast for Babur hosted by his half-brother Jahangir Mirza in Ghazni in May 1505, from a Babur-nama (Memoirs of Babur)
Basavana
Calligraphic exercises and verses of Hafiz (Persian, about 1325–1389) (verso)
Mahmud ibn Ishaq al-Shahabi
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Thirteenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
Tara 1
A woman asks her lover to leave her house, brandishing his sword and feigning rage in order to deceive her husband who has just arrived, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Gujarati
The handmaiden again appeals for justice and the prince is led to the place of execution for the third time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Gujarati
The handmaiden appeals for justice and the prince is taken to the execution site for the fourth time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Tara 2
The prince sent back to the place of execution for the sixth time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Suraju
The king plucks fruit from the Tree of Life with his own hands and feeds it to a lady, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Ninth Night
Suraju
The vizier’s son receives the magic wooden parrot from the wife of the merchant, who is drunk, and has a replica made by a carpenter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Night
Lalu
The magic parrot of the merchant talks to the vizier’s son, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Night
Lalu
Crossing at Sano
Tawaraya Sōtatsu
Holy Family with a Shepherd
Battista Dossi
Sir Thomas More
Hans Holbein the Younger
Portrait of an Old Man
Giulio Campi
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
Sravana
The old procuress conveys the young man’s message of love to Mansur’s wife, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot: Seventeenth Night
Sravana
Landscape with a lotus pool, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot), Eighth Night
Gujarati
The prince, once reprieved, is returned to the palace of execution a second time on the plea of the king’s handmaiden, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Gujarati
The old man eats of the fruit of the Tree of Life, but drops dead, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Ninth Night
Lalu
The Baptism of Christ
Lucas Cranach
Seasonal Landscapes: Winter
Kano Hideyori
Seasonal Landscapes: Autumn
Kano Hideyori
Flowers of Four Seasons, with Poems
Wang Guxiang
Wild Geese
Kano Sanraku
Illuminated folio (verso) from a Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa'di (c. 1213–1291)
Sultan 'Ali al-Mashadi
Birds and Flowers in a Landscape of the Four Seasons
Sesshū Tōyō
Portrait of a Prelate
Girolamo da Carpi
Phoenixes and Paulownia
Tosa Mitsuyoshi
Peacocks and Bamboo
Tosa Mitsuyoshi
Seasonal Landscapes
Kano Hideyori
Paintings after Ancient Masters: Autumn Landscape
Chen Hongshou
Paintings after Ancient Masters: A Bird and Peach-Blossom Branch
Chen Hongshou
Ceres and Bacchus
Bartholomaeus Spranger
Madonna and Child in a Niche
Antonio del Ceraiolo
Portrait of Charles I (1600–1649)
Anthony van Dyck
Paintings after Ancient Masters:Travelers in an Autumn Landscape
Chen Hongshou
Paintings after Ancient Masters: A Lady
Chen Hongshou
Paintings after Ancient Masters: An Ancient Tree
Chen Hongshou