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A man wearing a tunic, cape and boots stands in a minimal landscape. His walking stick seems to be falling away from him at the right as the man points upwards toward the sun's rays, as well as extends his right hand towards fire at the lower left.
René Boyvin
Empedocles
1539 – 1540
Museum Purchase
1990/1.189
This decorative image is organized along a vertical axis wtih fanciful creatures, grotesque heads, depictions of carved gems and harpies.
Agostino dei Musi (Italian (culture or style))
Upright Ornament with Bull and Satyrs
1515 – 1525
Museum Purchase
1960/2.133
Within an elaborate decorative framework consisting of griffins, birds, dogs, and fantastic half man-half beast creatures is a central panel with the image of a nude woman standing on a column holding a victor's wreath in either hand. Approaching for either side is a man in a quadriga holding a banner; each also holds a line that extends up to the wreath in the woman's hand.
Hans Vries
Ornament Print from a series: 'Grottesco in diversche manieren'
1555 – 1560
Museum Purchase
1960/1.118
This impressively large engraving depicts the muscular back of a marble statue of a man. The figure leans upon a club draped with a lion skin and holds three apples in his right hand behind his back. Two men look up at the statue from the lower right corner of the print.
Hendrick Goltzius
The Farnese Hercules
1587 – 1597
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
1994/2.13
The nude figures of four women, a man, a winged boy, and numerous putti stand in front of a curtained bed. The man stands near the center of the crowd and gasps, apparently in shock, as his jacket is pulled off by the young boy behind him. The woman seated on the bed beckons toward the man.
Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio
Mars and Venus Surrounded by Nymphs and Putti
1530 – 1540
Museum Purchase
1985/1.86
Two men standing in a stream, two other men standing on the bank. There are many oxen crossing the stream. In the background, there is a castle on top of a hill surrounded by foliage.
Claude Lorrain (French (culture or style))
Pastoral Landscape
1770 – 1780
Gift of Dr. Seymour and Barbara K. Adelson
2013/1.288
This print contains four distinct scenes demarcated by boxes which depict four different incarnations of a deity. 
Bernard Picart (French (culture or style))
Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the People of the World: Incarnations (Avatars) Five through Eight of Vishnu
1722
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink
2007/2.123
This print is broken into two scenes, each of which depict a sculpture of a deity in an architectural interior. Each figure is depicted as seated, or standing on a pedestal with worshippers standing or kneeling to each side. 
Bernard Picart (French (culture or style))
Religious Ceremoies and Customs of the People of the World: Shiva and Ganesha
1722
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink
2007/2.125
Paper folded under on bottom approximatly 7cm. Partial label remnants are at lower center of verso. Image size: h 28 3/5cm x tw 21 4/5cm & bw 20 7/10cm.
Odilon Redon
Sainte et Chardon
1891
Gift of Ruth W. and Clarence J. Boldt, Jr.
2008/2.452
Eight hands and wrists, some male others female, are arrayed across this sheet in various gestures.
Italian
Sheet of Studies of Hands
19th century
Gift of Clan Crawford, Jr.
2009/1.481

Richard Tuttle
The Edge
1998
Gift of J. Richard Pinnell and Robert J. Scanlan
2011/1.80.A-M
This print depicts an ornamental design. The central axis of the design is composed of a fanciful stand with a nude winged boy holding a trident, seen from the back, seated on the top. A pair of sirens holding small banners flank the base, and a pair of hybrid sphinx-like creatures perch near the top. The letter "L" appears in the center of the stand and the date "1528" is inscribed in the base.
Lucas Van Leyden
Panel of Ornament with Two Sirens
1528
Museum Purchase
1960/2.134
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