Job Tempted by a Demon

Job Tempted by a Demon; verso text from the Speculum Patientiae

Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

Lucretia instructing her daughters in needlework from Giovanni Ostaus's, La vera perfettione del disegno di varie sorte di recami (Venice, 1557)

Giuseppe Salviati (Giuseppe Porta, called Il Salviati)

The infant Hercules killing the snakes, set within an elaborate frame, from "Loves, Rages and Jealousies of Juno"

Giulio Bonasone

Dance of Death: Adam Tilling the Ground

Hans Holbein the Younger

The Labors of Hercules: Hercules and Antaeus

Gabriel Salmon

The Lamentation, from "The Small Passion"

Albrecht Dürer

Vulcan et Thetis

Etched by Stefano della Bella, Designed by Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Published by Henri Le Gras, Dedicated to Louis XIV, King of France, Commissioned by Cardinal Jules Mazarin

A satyr about to remove drapery covering a Nymph

Marcantonio Raimondi

Juno sending famine against Crasiton, set within an elaborate frame, from "Loves, Rages and Jealousies of Juno"

Giulio Bonasone

The Lamentation

Israhel van Meckenem, the younger

The Lamentation, from "The Small Passion"

Albrecht Dürer

The Power of Women: Samson and Delilah

Lucas van Leyden