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Painting of the Annunciation: an angel with a scroll points upward while the Virgin Mary reads a book in a wooden room.

The Annunciation

Konrad Witz, 1440

Painting of two young haloed figures shaking hands in a dark forest, with deer and two robed figures nearby.

The Meeting of the Young Christ and the Young St. John

Jacopo da Sellaio, 1475

Landscape painting of many animals gathered by a stream and rocks beneath tall trees, with birds flying in a cloudy sky.

Orpheus and the Animals

Roelant Savery, 1617

Landscape painting with biblical and saints' legend scenes: soldiers, a kneeling saint, an angel, and a hermit with a lion.

Landscape with biblical scenes and scenes from the legends of saints

Jacopo da Sellaio, 1490

Virgin Mary in blue mantle with gold halo holds the Christ Child, who grasps a dark rosary against a black background.

The Virgin and Child

Master of the Pala Sforzesca, 1500

Oil painting of the Virgin Mary rising on clouds with angels, while apostles gather around an open tomb below.

The Assumption of Mary

Martin Johann Schmidt, 1756

Painting of a warrior in armor freeing a nude woman on a rocky shore beside a winged white horse and cherubs.

Perseus Freeing Andromeda

Peter Paul Rubens, 1620

Painting of young women sewing and spinning around a central seated figure in a tiled interior, with a small dog at left.

Education of the Virgin Mary

Guido Reni, 1640

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Christ Child, kneeling king, attendants, soldiers, and flying putti

Adoration of the Magi

Hendrick van Balen the Elder, 1500

Painting of Christ kneeling to wash an apostle's feet in a wood-paneled room, with haloed apostles watching.

Passion Retable: The washing of the apostles feet

Master of the Housebook, 1480

Painting of the Virgin and Child on a throne with haloed angels, a lute, and fruit on a green ledge.

Virgin and Child with Angels

Lucas van Leyden, 1520

Night nativity in a barn: a kneeling woman in red beside the infant on straw, with shepherds, an ox and a hanging lamp.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Abraham Bloemaert, 1600

Painting of Cupid joining hands with Psyche before Venus in a golden chariot, with winged figures and doves in a classical in

The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche

Pompeo Batoni, 1756

Virgin Mary seated on an ornate throne holding the infant Christ, with fruit garlands and a landscape behind them.

The Virgin and Child Enthroned

Pedro Berruguete, 1455

Painting of Saint Sebastian nude except a white loincloth, bound to a tree and pierced by arrows, with a distant city behind.

Saint Sebastian

Sandro Botticelli, 1474

Painting of a bearded man holding an infant while a seated woman in white and pink looks up, under a dark cloudy sky.

Holy Family

Godfried Maes, 1664

Painting of the crucifixion with Christ on a cross, a woman in blue and a man in green looking up, and a skull at the base.

The Crucifixion

Luis Tristán, 1613

Two reclining nude figures, Venus and Mars, with a rabbit, doves, armor and playful cupids in a green landscape.

Venus, Mars and Cupid

Piero di Cosimo, 1505

Painting of the Virgin Mary and young John the Baptist adoring the Christ Child before a landscape and brick wall.

The Adoration of the Child with St. John the Baptist

Bernardo di Stefano Rosselli

Virgin Mary kneels on clouds with angels above an open tomb while robed apostles gather below in dramatic light.

The Assumption of the Virgin

Alessandro Turchi, 1631

Gold-ground painting of the Crucifixion with Mary, John, Mary Magdalene, a skull, and God the Father above.

Christ on the Cross with Saints John, Mary and Mary Magdalene

Francesco Pesellino, 1455

Gold-ground panel of the Virgin and Child enthroned between two standing saints, one holding a red book.

Madonna and Child enthroned with two Saints, Crucifixion

Allegretto Nuzi

Reclining nude woman with a swan and three children beside her under a tree, with red drapery and a distant landscape.

Leda and the Swan

Georg Pencz, 1550

Renaissance painting of the infant Christ on a stone pedestal, with the Virgin Mary, a bearded priest and onlookers in an arc

Presentation of Christ

Lorenzo Costa, 1465

Painting of a kneeling winged angel in red and orange robes holding a white lily branch against a dark background.

Angel of Annunciation / John the Evangelist writing

Giovanni Agostino da Lodi, 1500

Adoration of the Shepherds: Virgin kneels by the infant Christ in a manger, with shepherds, angels, a lamb and a donkey.

Adoration of the Shepherds

Felipe Pablo de San Leocadio, 1539

Painting of Apollo and Diana firing arrows from the sky at fleeing and fallen figures near classical columns.

Apollo and Diana Kill Niobe's Children

Jan Boeckhorst, 1630

Night scene of a kneeling figure praying under a crescent moon as an angel with a chalice appears, sleeping disciples nearby.

Christ on the Mount of Olives

Jan Gossaert, 1509

Painting of a bearded bishop with a crozier gesturing to a kneeling child beside seashells on a shore.

Saint Augustine

Gaspar de Crayer, 1655

Christ stands at a table in a dark forest while winged angels serve him food and drink, with cherubs in the clouds above.

Christ in the Wilderness, Served by Angels

Ludovico Carracci, 1608