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Gold-ground panel of the Virgin and Child enthroned with four saints and a kneeling Dominican supplicant in the foreground.

Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Peter, Paul, John the Baptist, and Dominic and a Dominican Supplicant

Attributed to Ugolino di Nerio, c. 1330

Painting of the Virgin holding the infant Christ on a red cushion, with two angels and pink roses before a dark green backgro

Virgin and Child with Two Angels

Attributed to Francesco Botticini, c. 1470

Painting of the Nativity in a barn: a woman tends a newborn in a manger while shepherds and visitors kneel in reverence.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Jan de Bray, 1665

Painting of figures in period dress around a sword and jewelry casket, a peddler with a basket, and a dog on a stone ledge.

Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes (Ovid, Metamorphoses, XII, 162 ff)

Jan de Bray, 1664

Painting of Mercury descending to a nude woman as a bearded man in armor rests beside her, with a helmeted child in front.

Mercury ordering Calypso to release Odysseus.

Gérard de Lairesse, 1676

Corner of a gilded ceiling painting with reclining women, trumpeters, cherubs and classical architectural ornament.

Plafondschildering in vijf delen met als hoofdvoorstelling Diana en haar gezellinnen, geschilderd voor de 'grote zaal…

Gérard de Lairesse, 1676

Painting of a kneeling nude man gesturing to a woman in blue with attendants, a fruit basket and dog, under a stormy sky.

Odysseus and Nausicaa

Joachim von Sandrart the Elder, 1630

Nude woman embracing a swan beside a rock cave, with three infants emerging from eggshells in the grass below.

Leda and the Swan

Francesco Melzi, 1508

Painting of the Nativity with Mary kneeling by the Christ Child, angels, shepherds, an ox and ass, and a landscape.

Adoration of the Shepherds

Hans Leonhard Schäufelein, c. 1510

Circular painting of Perseus flying toward a sea monster near a chained nude woman on a rocky coast.

Perseus and Andromeda

Jan Keynooghe, 1561

Reclining nude Venus beside winged Cupid with bow and arrows, dark curtain and distant city view behind.

Venus and Cupid

Frans Floris, 1560

Apollo in orange drapery points toward muscular blacksmiths working at an anvil in a smoky forge.

Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan

Diego Velázquez, 1630

Full-length painting of a winged young angel in white and pink robes holding a staff, under a stormy sky.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel

Francisco de Zurbarán, 1631

Arched painting of the Annunciation with the Virgin at a lectern, an angel with a lily, a dove and cherubs in clouds.

The Annunciation

Painting of the Virgin Mary on clouds surrounded by angels, with kneeling saints and a bishop gazing up in a landscape.

The Virgin Adored by Saints

Scarsellino, 1609

Painting of nude women bathing in a river beneath dark trees and a cloudy sky with distant mountains.

Nymphs at the Bath

Scarsellino, 1600

Painting of Saint Sebastian bound and pierced by arrows, with an armored archer and onlookers against a dark background.

Saint Sebastian

Cecco del Caravaggio, 1610

Dark painting of a winged nude Cupid on a bed, with Psyche holding a lamp toward him beneath red drapery.

Cupid and Psyche

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, 1707

Two manuscript leaves with miniatures of the Adoration of the Magi and a Coronation of the Virgin, bordered by floral scrolls

Pair of Bifolio from a Book of Hours: Adoration of the Magi and Coronation of the Virgin

Boucicaut Master, c. 1415

Painted Annunciation: a winged angel with a gold sceptre greets the seated Virgin beside an open book, under a gilded frame.

The Annunciation (Matins, Office of the Virgin): Leaf from a Book of Hours (1 of 3 Excised Leaves)

Noël Bellemare, c. 1530-35

Madonna and Child between Saint Michael with spear and Saint Andrew with cross, before classical ruins and a hilltop town.

Madonna col Bambino tra i santi Michele Arcangelo e Andrea

Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, 1505

Altarpiece of the enthroned Madonna and Child with saints, an angel musician, and a gilded Christ figure above.

Madonna Enthroned with the Child

Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, 1450

Annunciation painting: an angel with a lily enters a room where the Virgin Mary kneels at a prie-dieu before an arched landsc

Annunciation

Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, 1495

Madonna and Child flanked by Saint Francis holding a cross and Saint Clare in a veil, against green and blue landscape.

Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Clare

Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, 1510

Painting of Saint Mary Magdalene with curly auburn hair, holding a red book and silver jar, against a dark background.

Saint Mary Magdalene

Michele Tosini, 1560

Painting of the Virgin and Christ Child with saints, a dragon, a golden cross and a palm frond, in rich pink, blue and gold t

The Holy Family, with St Catherine of Alexandria, St Margaret of Antioch and St Francis of Assisi

Orazio Samacchini, 1570

Painting of a bound, seated Christ surrounded by soldiers and onlookers, one pressing a crown of thorns onto his head.

Christ Crowned with Thorns

Anthony van Dyck, 1620

Night scene of armored soldiers and a crowd seizing a calm bearded man beneath dark trees, lit by a torch.

The Taking of Christ

Anthony van Dyck, 1617

Oval double portrait of two men in 17th-century dress, one in white satin with lace collar, against a cloudy sky and drapery.

Sirs Endymion Porter and Anthony van Dyck

Anthony van Dyck, 1635

Oil painting of a wooded landscape with a group of figures near a stream and a small temple in the distance.

Birth of Bacchus

Károly Markó Sr., 1826 (?)