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

Left Half of the Design for an Altar

Anonymous, Spanish, 17th century

Left Half of a Design for Garden Architecture

Anonymous, Spanish, 17th century

Design for a Chapel with Flight into Egypt as Altarpiece

Anonymous, Spanish, 17th century

A Fountain in a Grotto

Giovanni Guerra

Three sections (recto); uppermost with a Term and garlands; middle section geometric band; bottom section grotesques and strapwork; (verso) Term with a marine creature and putto

Andrés de Melgar

Female Term, seated figure, and fantastical creature (recto); Satyr and study of a woman and child (verso)

Andrés de Melgar

Design for an Altar with the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception in the Center

Anonymous, Spanish, 17th century

The Seed Received among the Thorns, from the Parable of the Sower

Gerard P. van Groningen

Standing Officer Holding a Boar's Spear

Hendrick Goltzius

Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel (recto); Figure Studies for the Sistine Ceiling (verso)

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Farmhouse on the Slope of a Hill

Fra Bartolommeo

Aeneas Saving Anchises at the Fall of Troy

Federico Barocci

Saint Jerome in a Landscape

Domenico Campagnola

Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist

Albrecht Altdorfer

Arm of Eve

Albrecht Dürer

Studies of a Seated Female, Child's Head, and Three Studies of a Baby

Raphael

Various Sketches of the Madonna and Child (recto); Architectural Studies (verso) [partially visible on recto]

Paolo Veronese

Sketches of Virgin and Child

Giulio Campi

Two Bohemian Peasants in Half-Length

Roelant Savery

Sir Anthony Mildmay, Knight of Apethorpe, Northamptonshire

Nicholas Hilliard

View of a Castle (recto); Eight-Sided Cup (verso)

Wolfgang Huber

Dead Blue Roller

Hans Hoffmann

Various Sketches of the Madonna and Child (recto)

Paolo Veronese

Studies of Hands (recto); Sketch of a Child's Head (verso)

Carletto Caliari

Flowering Bush above an Eroded Bank

Federico Barocci

View of a Castle (recto)

Wolfgang Huber

Balaam and the Ass

Hans Bol

Cupid Drawing His Bow

Federico Barocci

Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel (recto)

Michelangelo Buonarroti

The Risen Christ Adored by Saints and Angels

Giorgio Vasari

Apollo and the Muses Awakened by the Call of Fame

Jacopo Palma il Giovane

Landscape with a Moated Village

Master of the Small Landscapes

Figure Studies for the Sistine Ceiling (verso)

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Hercules Resting (recto); Footed Vessel with Handle (verso)

Annibale Carracci

Sleeping Youth (verso), Illustration from a Single Page Manuscript

Riza-yi Abbasi

Studies of Hands (recto)

Carletto Caliari

Seated Male Nude

Baccio Bandinelli

Ascension of Christ

Albrecht Dürer

Hercules Resting (recto)

Annibale Carracci

The Parable of the Tribute Money

Master of the Egmont Albums

Jonah Cast Out by the Whale onto the Shore of Nineveh

Maarten van Heemskerck

Persian Couplets (recto); Sleeping Youth (verso)

Riza-yi Abbasi

Virgin and Child with St. Catherine of Alexandria and Saint Anne (?)

Battista Franco

Vajrapani Embroidered Mount with Garuda

Choying Dorje, the Tenth Black Hat Karmapa

Three Male Nudes

Domenico Beccafumi

Aulad Tied to a Plane Tree, from a Shahnama by Firdausi

Sadiqi Bek

The Virgin and Child

Lorenzo di Credi

Poros Assailed by the Macedonian Army (recto); Sketches of Animals (verso)

Perino del Vaga

Man Entwined by Two Snakes

Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone

Studies of a Naked Seated Boy

Jacob de Gheyn II

Saint Jerome and Saint Catherine of Alexandria Standing in a Landscape

Girolamo da Treviso the Younger

Footed Vessel with Handle (verso)

Annibale Carracci

Adoration of the Magi

Maarten de Vos

Design for a Chalice (recto) Architectural Plan (verso)

Luzio Romano

Man in Armor beside a Chariot

Francesco Salviati

Eight-Sided Cup (verso)

Wolfgang Huber

Poros Assailed by the Macedonian Army (recto)

Perino del Vaga

Two Female Heads

Abraham Bloemaert

The Annunciation

Luca Cambiaso

Five Figure Studies (verso)

Anonymous