16th century literature posters & prints

Page from Tales of a Parrot: Sixteenth night: The daughter-in-law…, c. 1560 Unknown

The Tower William James Grant

Frontispiece to the English translation of Sebastian Brandt's 'The Ship of Fools', edition published in 1874 (after) German School

Torquato Tasso reading Liberated Jerusalem to Eleonora d'Este, detail, 1865 Domenico Morelli

John Donne (1572- 1631) Anonymous

Page from Tales of a Parrot: Forty-sixth night: The court of the Raja of Ujjain, c. 1560 Unknown

Portrait of William Herbert 1st Earl of Pembroke Sarah Countess of Essex

Page from Tales of a Parrot: Thirty-fourth night: The princess discovers…, c. 1560 Unknown

Loves Labours Lost English School

Page from Tales of a Parrot: Forty-sixth night: The parrot laughs…, c. 1560 Unknown

Page from Tales of a Parrot: Forty-second night: Repenting his conduct…, c. 1560 Unknown

Sebastian Brant French School

A man kneeling and placing a laurel branch upon a pile of burning books, ca. 1515-27 Marco Dente

Portrait presumed to be Clement Marot Corneille de Lyon

The Poet Virgil in a Basket, 1512 Lucas van Leyden

Portrait of a Man with His Hand on His Chest, 1540-45 Corneille de Lyon

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616). English writer. Colored engraving Anonymous

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592). Writer of the French Renaissance. Colored engraving Anonymous

Macbeth, Banquo and the Three Witches, The Historie of Scotlande, 1577 English School

Allegorical Portrait of Dante, late 16th century Florentine School

Page from Tales of a Parrot: Forty-seventh night: The parrot addresses Khujasta…, c156 Unknown

William Shakespeare and Lord Bryron Anonymous

Portrait of a Man with a Rosary, 1545 Unknown

Tarquinius and Lucretia, 16th or early 17th century Jacopo Palma

Christ and the Adulteress, ca. 1545-50 Lucas Cranach the Younger

Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1510-15 Bernhard Strigel

A group of men at right pushing philosophers toward a fire with burning books at th…, ca. 1515-27 Marco Dente (attributed to)

Portrait of George Buchanan (1506-1582) Frans Pourbus

Galley of the 16th century Raphael

Landscape with the Parable of St Christopher, early 16th century Jean Mandyn

Female portrait, c1550-1620 Sofonisba Anguissola

Portrait of Thomas Cromwell, c.1537 English School

Portrait of Catherine Parr, c.1545 John Master

Page from Tales of a Parrot: Seventeenth night: The merchant…, c. 1560 Unknown

The Rape of Lucretia, late 15th-early 16th century Master of Marradi

Sir Francis Drake Anonymous