Lucas Cranach the younger. Portrait of a Lady (‘Weibliches Bildnis’), 1564 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

Oil on lime: 106.5 x 89.5 cm. Pendant with a portrait of an unidentified man, with the same distinct shadow on the wall.

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Titian. Emperor Charles V at Mühlberg (‘Carlos V en la batalla de Mühlberg’), 1548 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).

Oil on canvas: 335 x 283 cm(!).

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Anthonis Mor (van Dashorst). Portrait of Sir Thomas Gresham (‘Portret van Sir Thomas Gresham’), ca. 1565 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).

Oil on wood: 90 x 75.5 cm. Sir Thomas Gresham (1519-1579). Merchant and financial agent of the English crown in the Netherlands, founder of the Royal Exchange. Pendant panel with a portrait of wife Anne Fernely.

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Lorenzo Lotto. Self-Portrait (‘Autorretrato’), ca. 1540 (Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid).

Oil on wood: 43 x 35 cm.

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Pieter Bruegel the elder. Winter Landscape with Bird Trap (‘Paysage d'hiver avec patineurs et trappe aux oiseaux’, ‘Winterlandschap met schaatsers en vogelknip’), 1565 (Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels).

Oil on oak: 37 x 55.5 cm. Generally considered as the original version (over 100 copies have been documented). Interpreted as skaters and birds confronted with looming danger.

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Adriaen Thomasz Key (attributed). Johan II Knight of Mauregnault (‘Ridder Johan II de Mauregnault’), ca. 1580 (Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp).

Oil on oak: 104.5 x 73.8 cm. Part of a double portrait with wife Marguerite Le Prince.

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Brunswick (Braunschweiger) Monogrammist. A Dispute in a Brothel (‘Bordellszene’), ca. 1537 (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin).

Oil on wood: 29 x 45 cm.

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Agnolo Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo). An Allegory of Venus and Cupid, ca. 1545 (National Gallery, London).

Oil on wood: 146.1 x 116.2 cm.

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Jan Brueghel the elder. Visit to the Tenants (‘Besuch auf dem Pachthof’), ca. 1597 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

Oil on copper: 27 x 36 cm. A copy by Jan Brueghel the elder of a now lost original by his father Pieter Bruegel. The Frits Lugt Collection in Paris still holds a grisaille drawing attributed to Pieter Bruegel, dated 1567 and titled 'Visit to the Tenant Farmer' (Fondation Custodia, Paris). In Antwerp lies another grisaille panel by Jan Brueghel the elder, titled 'Visit to the Peasants' (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp). Yet another oil on wood panel copy in The Holburne Museum/ UK by Pieter Brueghel the younger (son of Pieter Bruegel, and brother of Jan Brueghel the elder), dated ca. 1620 and titled ‘The Visit of the Godfather’. It was initially thought that the scene depicted a visit by a rich foster father to a newly born godchild, but it is now believed to represent a maternity visit by a landlord to his tenants.

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Lucas Cranach the elder. A Faun and his Family with a slain Lion, ca. 1526 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).

Oil on wood: 82.9 x 56.2 cm.

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Joachim Patinir. Charon crossing the Styx (‘El paso de la laguna Estigia’), 1524 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).

Oil on wood: 64 x 103 cm.

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Joachim Beuckelaer. The butcher’s Shop (‘Bottega del macellaio’), 1568 (Museo di Capodimonte, Naples).

Oil on canvas: ca. 160 x 220. Inspired by or referring to Aertsen’s Meat Stall.

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Lucas Cranach the elder. Portrait of John Frederick-I Elector of Saxony, ca. 1530 (private collection).

Oil on wood: 62.8 x 39.7 cm. Originally from the Gutmann estate in the Netherlands and confiscated by the Nazi regime during WW-II. Rediscovered in the USA and returned to its rightful owners (Gutmann/ Goodman heirs). Auctioned at Christie’s New York, April 2018. Price tag: US$ 7.737.500 (ca. € 6.570.000).

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Jan Jansz Mostaert. Portrait of an African Man (‘Portret van een Afrikaanse man’), 1530 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).

Oil on wood: 30.8 x 21.2 cm(!).

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Agnolo Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo). Portrait of a Lady in Green, ca. 1530 (Royal Collection Trust, London).

Oil on poplar: 76.6 x 66.2 cm.

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Titian. Portrait of Alfonso d'Avalos, Marchese del Vasto, in Armor with a Page, 1533 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).

Oil on canvas: 110 x 80 cm.

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Alonso Sánchez Coello. Joanna of Austria Princess of Portugal at the Age of 22 with a Dog (‘Prinzessin von Portgual, ganzfiguriges Bildnis im Alter von 22 Jahren mit einer Dogge’), 1557 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

Oil on canvas: 180.5 x 112.5 cm.

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Lucas Cranach the elder. The Fall of Man (‘Sündenfall’), ca. 1540 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

Oil on beech: 53.3 x 37.1 cm.

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Anthonis Mor (van Dashorst). William of Orange-Nassau in Armour (‘Wilhelm I. von Oranien-Nassau’), 1555 (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel).

Oil on oak: 105 x 82.1 cm.

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Paolo Veronese. Happy Union, ca. 1575 (National Gallery, London).

Oil on canvas: 187.4 x 186.7 cm. One of four paintings concerning the trials and rewards of love. The titles were only given to the paintings in 1727.

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