Renaissance at the Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum holds 585 Renaissance works in this public-domain catalogue, dating from 1400 to 1976. The collection is led by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, Raphael and Nicolas Beatrizet.
Sir Christopher Hatton
The Healing of the Lame Man
Christ Ascending
The Sultan Mehmet II
Portrait of a Lady known as Esmeralda Brandini
Portrait of Doge Pasquale Cicogna
An Unknown Woman
The Virgin and Child
Self-portrait, aged 30
Hans of Antwerp
An Unknown Woman aged 26
Portrait miniature of a gentleman, possibly Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk
Portrait miniature of Anne of Cleves (1515-1557)
Portrait Miniature of Mrs Jane Small, formerly Mrs Pemberton
Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587)
The Witch Anqarut ties Malik Iraj to a tree
Alice Brandon, Mrs Hilliard
Self Portrait as a Young Man
Portrait of an unknown woman
The Annunciation
Porträt der Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1566-1601)
Apostles and Saints
Richard Hilliard
Portrait of an unknown youth in yellow
Mary, Queen of Scots
Altarpiece of Saint George
12 Scenes of the Apocalypse (triptych altarpiece, right wing, inner)
The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins
The Adoration of the Magi (lower part of a rood screen)
Young Man Among Roses
Christoph von Laiming in His 59th Year
Portrait of an unknown man
A man in a red hat
Portrait of an Unknown Woman
The Nativity: The Virgin, Saint Joseph and the Shepherds Adoring the Infant Christ
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
The Raising of Lazarus
21 Scenes of the Apocalypse (triptych altarpiece, centre panel)
Akbar celebrates the birth of his second son
The Virgin, Apostles and Saints
Head of a Laurel-Crowned Poet (?)
The Virgin Annunciate
The Conversion of Saint Paul
Portrait of a Lady Aged 29
3 Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Evangelist; 3 Scenes from the Life of the Virgin (triptych altarpiece, left wing, outer)
A Human-Headed Lion in a Landscape (panel from a painted ceiling)
Profile Bust of a Man Facing Right (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
The Continence of Scipio
Saint Donatien (triptych, right wing)
The Boppard Altarpiece: The Virgin and Christ Child (left panel); Saint Anne Offering a Pear (right panel) (triptych, closed)
A Cupid with a Coat of Arms (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Profile Head of a King (panel from a painted ceiling)
The Annuciation
Profile Bust of a Roman Emperor Facing Right (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
A Cupid with a Coat of Arms (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Profile Bust of a Man Facing Right (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Profile Bust of a Roman Emperor Facing Right (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Profile Bust of a Roman Emperor Facing Right (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Head of a Woman under an Arch, Full Face (panel from a painted ceiling)
Laureated Bust of a Roman Emperor Facing Left (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Akbar visits the tomb of Khwajah Mu'in ad-Din Chishti at Ajmer
Shield with Two Arms Framed by a Garland (birth tray, back)
Profile Bust of a Man Facing Right (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Saint Catherine (panel from an altarpiece)
Profile Bust of a Man Facing Right (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Male Profile Bust
The Return of Ulysses (cassone panel)
Shield with a Coat of Arms (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Apocalypse triptych
Male Profile Bust
Saint Martin Dividing His Cloak (triptych, left wing)
Saint Barbara (panel one), Saint Dorothy (panel two), Saint Catherine (panel three), and Saint Margaret (panel four) (predella of an altarpiece)
Ceiling from the Casa Maffi, Via Belvedere, Cremona (detail)
Profile Bust of a Man Facing Right (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine
The Embarkation of St Helena to the Holy Land
Christ Crowned with Thorns
Portrait of Catherine de' Medici (1519-1589)
Portrait of a Lady
Saint Jerome (panel from an altarpiece)
Henry VIII (1491–1547)
The Adoration of the Magi
The Virgin and Child in a Gothic Architectural Setting
The Virgin and Child with Two Saints
Hercules and the Hydra
The Betrayal of Christ
3 Scenes from the Life of St Giles; 3 Scenes from the Life of Saint Mary Magdalen (triptych altarpiece, right wing, outer)
Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (cassone, front panel)
Mrs John Croker, née Frances Kingsmill (c.1564–c.1627)
the conversion of St Paul
Laureated Bust of a Roman Emperor Facing Left (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Profile Bust of a Lady Facing Left (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Profile Bust of a Lady Facing Left (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Saint Corbian and (possibly) Saint Adalbert (top panel); Saint George and the Dragon (bottom panel) (left wing of an altarpiece, exterior)
Commander Honing (1557–1586?), Aged 26
Male Profile Bust
Profile Bust of a Man Facing Right (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
desco da parto con il trionfo dell'amore
A Cupid with a Coat of Arms (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Profile of a Woman Facing Left (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Profile Bust of a Lady Facing Left (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Profile Bust of a Lady Facing Left (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Laureated Bust of a Roman Emperor Facing Left (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
A Cupid with a Coat of Arms (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Vergine col bambino e due santi
Profile Bust of a Lady Facing Left (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Psyche at Her Toilet (after Michiel Coxie the Elder) (from Hill Hall, Essex)
A Shield Bearing a Hand Holding the Branch of a Tree (fragment of a panel from a painted ceiling)
A Virgin Martyr and (possibly) Saint Beatrice (top panel); Saint Martin Dividing His Cloak (bottom panel) (right wing of an altarpiece, exterior)
The Crucifixion with Mary Magdalen at the Foot of the Cross (triptych, centre panel)
Profile Bust of a Roman Emperor Facing Left (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Profile Bust of a Roman Emperor Facing Right (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Profile Bust of a Roman Emperor Facing Left (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Male Profile Bust
Profile Bust of a Lady Facing Left (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Horatius Cocles Defending the Sublician Bridge (cassone panel)
A Cupid with a Coat of Arms (one of 29 painted panels from a frieze)
Putto Holding Two Shields of Arms (birth tray, back)
The Annunciation
Bhairavi Ragini
St Jerome in the desert
'Sa'di's tomb at Shiraz'
Husain Mirza
King Iskander and his court
Untitled
The Virgin and Child in a Gothic architectural setting
Akbar
Qadam Khan
Husain Quli and Akbar
Umar searches for Hamza
Untitled
The Virgin and Child
Umar is received by the giant Zumrud Shah
Untitled
Head of a woman under an arch, full face
Mirza Ibrahim Husain
Hamza's scout Kawsadi searches for his lost steed, but finds it being devoured by a lion.
Untitled
Painted Crucifix
Akbar Crosses the Ganges on an Elephant
An Ayyar murders Qubad in his sleep
Krishna and Raja Bhishmaka
Untitled
St Jerome
Akbar
The Witch Anqarut ties Malik Iraj to a tree
Untitled
Narada and Suka
Akbar
Bunch of Flowers With Calamus
Akrura and Krishna
Akbar's entry into the fort of Ranthambhor
Untitled
Hamza's army battles Girang's men and kills a giant
Khan-i Kilan
Untitled
A Mongol archer on horseback
Tarkhan Divana and Husain Quli Khan
Rustam and Mihrafroz prepare for their wedding
Mir Muizzu'l Mulk and Bahadur Khan
Untitled
Duryodhana and Salya
Daud Shah
Ali Quli Khan
The Virgin Annunciate
Mirza Sulayman
Akbar
Krishna and Indra
Bhairava Raga
Sultan Adam
Akbar
Adham Khan and Akbar
Prince Alamshah Rustam with Mihr Afruz in a garden pavilion
Akbar
Akbar assists in capturing a cheetah
Rai Surjan Hada making Submission to Akbar
Akbar
Bhima and Aswathama
Ali Quli, Bahadur Khan and Akbar
Virgin and Child
Akbar
Untitled
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Mu'nim Khan and Khan Zaman
Bairam Khan is Assassinated by an Afghan at Patan
Untitled
Akbar and Asaf Khan
Untitled
Akbar
View of Florence from the South West
Untitled
Akbar and Rai Surjan Hada
Temple idols fall and the sea dries up on the birth of the Prophet Muhammad
Untitled
Akbar
Prince Salim
St Anthony of Padua with a Nun
Hamzanama
Basu beheads Namadpush and enters Acre Castle
Akbar hunting at Palam, near Delhi
King Solomon on his throne
Krishna kills his uncle, the tyrant ruler Kamsa
Baqi Muhammed Khan
Krishna
Rani Durgavati
Charity suckling a Child and Surrounded by Three Children Playing with a Dog and Hobby Horses
Krishna and Nikumba
Untitled
Khan Kilan
Akbar
The spy Tayir enters a fort to release the captive Faizlan Shah.
Mu'nim Khan and Khwaja Jahan
Shuja'at Khan and Asaf Khan
Untitled
Asaf Khan
Untitled
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Anvar-i Suhayli
Shiva and Andhaka
Vasudeva and Devaki
The giant Sar Farangi dashes Mesluq to the ground
Qutb ad-Din Khan and Muhammad Husain Mirza
Bahadur Khan
Akbar and Hamid Bakari
Shah Abu'l Ma'ali
Pir Muhammad Khan
Battle of Sarnal in Gujarat
Khojasta talking to the parrot
Adham Khan
Bhisma
Mirza Mirak Mashhadi
Untitled
Akbar and Jaimal
Zumrud Shah falls into a pit and is beaten by gardeners
Baz Bahadur
Untitled
Wazir Khan and Bahadur Khan
Mariam Makani
A Human-headed lion in a landscape
Akbar Receiving the Drums and Standards Captured from Abdullah Khan Uzbeg, Governor of Malwa, in 1564
St Catherine of Alexandria
Akbar Receives the Iranian Ambassador Sayyid Beg in 1562
Untitled
Akbar
Mu'nim Khan
Akbar
Hamza receives an envoy of Qitanush Shah
Akbar and Asaf Khan
The Embarkation of St Helena to the Holy Land
Akbar and Abdu'r Rahim
Untitled
Hamza arrives in Mecca
Untitled
Travellers Among Mountains
Muhammad Husain Mirza and Akbar
Khwajah Mu'azzam
Akbar and Azim Khan at Dipalpur
Zain Khan Koka
Mirza Ibrahim Husain
Untitled
Attack on a walled city
Mandala
Rustam and Sohrab
Visiting a friend in the mountains
Untitled
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Yudhisthira
Untitled
Pomegranate; Peach
Stavesacre; Lavender
Cyclamen; Borage
Iris
Millet; Water chestnut
Quince; Apple
Cherry; Bullace (wild plum)
Opium poppy; Vetch and black-veined white butterfly
Bugloss and painted lady butterfly; Heartsease or wild pansy
Rue; Camomile
A red clover; a field scabious
Pear; Grape vine
Almond plant
Cob-nut
Two dog roses and a lackey moth caterpillar
Daisies and lady butterfly; Roses
A common mallow and a damselfly; a snowdrop and a lady butterfly
Periwinkle; Peony
Daffodils and red admiral butterfly; Violets and red admiral butterfly
Dragon arum flower and tortoiseshell butterfly
Apricots; Cherries
Nonsuch Palace from the South
Clove pinks and marigold; Marigold
Fig; Medlar
Walnuts
Love-in-a-mist; Field cow-wheat
Foxglove
Strawberry and emperor moth
Melon; Cucumber
Lemon and orange; Mulberry branch
Lily of the valley; Pinks
Corn poppies; larkspur
Columbine; Gilliflower
Globe artichoke
Cornflower; Corn cockle
Madonna and Child with Cradle and a Bagpiper on Horseback
Mr John S. Sargent
Untitled
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St Jerome in Penitence
Untitled
The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise
La Dialéctique et Logique
Saint Cecilia
La Théologie et la Métaphysique
Judgment of Paris
David cutting off the head of Goliath
Joseph Interpreting his Dreams
St Jerome in his Study
Untitled
The Plague in Crete/ 'Il Morbetto'
Christ taken down from the Cross
David raising the head of Goliath
The Sacrifice of Cain and Abel
The Holy Family, with the Infant St. John
The Coronation of the Virgin
A Village Kermis
Two Trees
Design for three painted or sculptured panels in an ornamented frame: in the middle the Virgin and Child adorded by St Jerome and a king; to the left and right St Peter and St Paul
Design for a ewer and a vase
Reclining sibyl holding a book, with a winged putto supporting an inscribed tablet
Saturn Devouring his Child
A team of four horses drawing a chariot
The battle of the sea gods
Untitled
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The Martyrdom of Saint Margaret of Antioch
A frieze of figures
A Village Kermis with a Wedding Feast
Trophy of arms
Copy of a design for a ewer
Ewer
St. Luke reclining, with a book on his knees
The Goddess Brizo
A garzone grinding pigments
grotesque mask and animal skull
Allegory of the Union of Painting and Sculpture
Pietà
The punishment of Prometheus
Head of a youth in a plumed helmet
Cherub revealing a portrait to a young woman
Massacre of the Innocents
Design for the ceiling of an apse or chapel, decorated with coffers enclosing angels displaying the instruments of the Passion
Madonna and Child
Study for sculpture
A Saint reading ; on his right stands a bishop
A female saint surrounded by cherubs
Decorative acanthus scrollwork with bird of prey and snail
Mankind Feasting and Making Love, Awaiting the Last Judgement (‘the coming of the son of man’) (Matthew 24:37–42)
Frieze of foliated ornament containing a goat and two human figures
Design for a ceiling with a deep cove, showing a corner only
A Betrothal
Untitled
Fragments of a design for a fresco in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
'Marie Hayes'
The Adoration of the Shepherds, in an architectural frame ornamented with caryatids, putti, festoons, birds, trophies etc
Head of a boy
Untitled
Design for the back of a gem-set handmirror
Untitled
Design for the decoration of the underside of a tazza
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Design for a ewer with nude figures and serpents
Faith, Hope and Charity
The Conversion of Saint Paul
The Presentation of the Infant Christ in the Temple
Christ in the Garden
'Reclining Nude'
Vase
Twelve naked children dancing
Untitled
Recto: (above) Panoramic Views of Jerez de la Frontera; (below) Barcelona
Judith showing the head of Holofernes to the Israelite elders
A nymph dancing
Design for a free-standing structure
Untitled
Harpocrates (or Horus), God of Silence
Design for the decoration of a pilaster: infant angels playing round the stem of a candelabrum
A sacrifice
Panoramic View of Jaén, with the Figure of a Man Sketching in the Foreground
A Bacchic frieze; below, two studies of classical ornament
Venus and Vulcan
Untitled
Studies of modelli for sculptural projects by Giambologna, on the front the Apennine and detail from the base of the fountain of Samson and on the back a fountain, possibly with the figure of Neptune
An oval with scenes of the Metamorphoses: The Rape of Europa, the peasants turned into frogs, The Fall of Icarus, Glaucus and Scylla
Les Rougebleus
Untitled
Workmen with hammers
Untitled
The Woman Who Eats Hearts
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The Boy Archer
The Dancer
Plumed Knight
Untitled
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Dea Hu Hu
Untitled
The Dance of the Assassinated
The Jar
Untitled
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La bataille au bouclier sur la lance
Untitled
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Turkish sultans, sultanas and other historical figures
Battle of the Sea Gods
Untitled
Holy Family
Tityus devoured by a Vulture
Sierk Fürst in der Moldau
Assumption of the Virgin
Fall of Phaeton
The Sacrifice of Abraham
Illustrations to Apuleius
Dido
Temptation of Saint Anthony
Adoration of the Shepherds
Iuba Rex
Creation of Eve
Untitled
Il Stregozzo
Untitled
Untitled
Mercury and the Graces
Rape of the Sabines
Untitled
Dream of Human Life
The Ascension of Jesus Christ
Massacre of the Innocents
A draftsman leaning against an obelisk sketching ruins
Martyrdom of St. Lawrence
A Monstrance
A Bishop's Crozier
Untitled
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Christ's Charge to Peter
Marriage of St. Catherine
H Beard Print Collection
Susannah Suprised by the Elders
The Adoration of the Magi
Untitled
The Prophet Isaiah
Conversion of Saul
The Annunciation
Untitled
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H Beard Print Collection
The History of Apollo and Daphne
Battle of the Nudes (2nd state)
H Beard Print Collection
Martyrdom of St. Peter
Battle of the Romans with Pyrrhus
Untitled
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CALABER
Turkish sultans, sultanas and other historical figures
A vase and a tripod
H Beard Print Collection
The Annunciation
Untitled
Ruins with a seated draftsman
Venus and Cupid on the Sea Riding on Dolphins
Leda and the Swan
The Entombment of Christ
Untitled
Tomb of Lorenzo De' Medici
Untitled
Untitled
H Beard Print Collection
Charles the Great, King Arthur and Godfrey of Bouillon
Untitled
Last Judgment
Bacchanal with Silenus
Untitled
The Battle of the Lapithæ and Centaurs
Untitled
The Archers
The Bathers
Aruj and Hayreddin Barbarossa- Ruler of Algiers & Tunis and Admiral of the Ottoman Empire
The Continence of Scipio
La Disputa del Sacramento
Cleopatra
Untitled
River Tiber
Martyrdom of St. Lawrence
Birth of Diana and Apollo
Transfiguration
Untitled
The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds
Turkish sultans, sultanas and other historical figures
The Ascension
Coronation of the Virgin
Turkish sultans, sultanas and other historical figures
The Flagellation
The Prophet Jeremiah
Untitled
Holy Family
Untitled
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The Virgin Crowned by Jesus Christ
Laocoon and His Sons
Untitled
The Farnese Hercules
History of Cupid and Psyche
Minerva nourishing Peace and Plenty
A Roman trophy
Turkish sultans, sultanas and other historical figures
Christ and the Woman of Samaria
St. Paul in the School of Athens
The Prophets and Sibyls
The Two Sons of Noah
Untitled
The Rich Man and Lazarus
Untitled
The Silence
H Beard Print Collection
The Last Judgment
Battle of the Amazons
Noah and His Family Leaving the Ark
H Beard Print Collection
Untitled
Martyrdom of St. Peter
Birth of Memnon
Il Gra Carlo Quinto imperatore nacque n Gl'anni de Cristo MD
Turkish sultans, sultanas and other historical figures
Designs for Necklaces, Pendants and Earrings of the Highest Skill
Death of St. Peter the Martyr
La bataille au coutelas
Entombment with Three Birds
Marcus Aurelius
The Daughters of Niobe
Judith with the head of Holofernes
Murder of the Innocents
Untitled
St. George and the Dragon
Untitled
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Monilivm Bvllarvm, Inavrivmqve Artificiocissimae Icones
Paulus de Praun
Untitled
The Nativity and the Adoration of the Shepherds
ANCHORA o INPARO
David standing with the head of Goliath
Battle of the Amazons
Untitled
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Michelangelo
Mercury bearing Psyche to Olympus
Fall of Phaeton
Holy Family
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Festival of the Gods
Marriage of Vertumnus and Pomona
Tomb of Giuliano De' Medici
Conversion of St. Paul
Untitled
Turkish sultans, sultanas and other historical figures
H Beard Print Collection
The Laocoon Before Restoration
The Crucifixion
Winged Altarpiece
Untitled
The Assumption of the Virgin
The Swansea Altarpiece
The Adoration of the Magi
The Nativity
The Crucifixion of Christ
Untitled