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Study of Violets (German, late 16th century) by an anonymous artist.
Watercolour on paper.
© The Trustees of the British Museum.
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Two écorchés, facing right by Bartolomeo Passarotti (Italian, 1529-1592)

Archduke Ernest of Austria (c. 1580) by Alonso Sánchez Coello. Museo del Prado.

"A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms" (The Butcher’s Stall) by Pieter Aertsen (1551). North Carolina Museum of Art.

Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici portrait by Pontormo (c. 1520). Uffizi Gallery.

Venetian Lovers (c. 1530) by Paris Bordone. Pinacoteca di Brera.

Louis XII, King of France (c. 1514) by Jean Perréal. Hampton Court Palace.

Portrait of Barbara Radziwiłł, Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania (c. 1551) by Lucas Cranach the Younger. National Museum, Kraków.

Portrait of Johann Georg, prince-elector (Kurfürst) of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1564) by Lucas Cranach the Younger. Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister.