# 17th-century Central Europe

Time and place · hang 751 · 4 works

Works made in Central Europe in the 17th century.

The rooms are imagined; every work on their walls is real.

## North wall

1. [A Chalice](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/a-chalice-aic-78888), Wenceslaus Hollar, 1640. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/17-central-europe/a-chalice-aic-78888?hang=751)
2. [Mercury Rescues the Disguised Io after Beheading Argus](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/mercury-rescues-the-disguised-io-after-beheading-argus-aic-12875), Johann Michael Rottmayr, c. 1695. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/17-central-europe/mercury-rescues-the-disguised-io-after-beheading-argus-aic-12875?hang=751)

## East wall

3. [Saint Euphrosyne](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/saint-euphrosyne-nga-98264), Melchior Steidl, c. 1695. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/17-central-europe/saint-euphrosyne-nga-98264?hang=751)
4. [The Knight and Death, from The Dance of Death](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-knight-and-death-from-the-dance-of-death-aic-109001), Wenceslaus Hollar, 1651. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/17-central-europe/the-knight-and-death-from-the-dance-of-death-aic-109001?hang=751)

## Doors

- [Wenceslaus Hollar's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-wenceslaus-hollar?hang=751&via=continue) (8 works)
- [More prints of the 17th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/print-17?hang=751&via=continue) (55 works)