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Holy Family painting: Virgin Mary lifts a white cloth over the infant Christ beside an elderly Saint Joseph, with a landscape

Holy Family

Gian-Francesco de Maineri, 1489

Kneeling bearded old man in prayer in a dark cave, with a skull, books, quill and red cardinal's hat in the foreground.

The Penintent Saint Jerome

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1650

Full-length painting of a bearded bishop with a golden crozier and jewelled mitre beside a stone colonnade.

Saint Ambrose

Gaspar de Crayer, 1655

Painting of the Holy Family with an older woman, a bearded man, and a small nude child with a basket of fruit.

Holy Family with Saints

Two men in dark robes at a table with a quill, books, a skull and a mortar, lit against a dark brown background.

The Saint Physicians Cosmas and Damian

Battistello Caracciolo, 1620

Painting of the Holy Family with two kneeling men in the foreground, a dove and flowers, and a landscape at right.

The Holy Family of Cardinal Fernando de’ Medici

Alessandro Allori

Painting of Moses holding stone tablets with Hebrew text, with rays of light behind his head and a dark stormy sky.

Moses with the Tables of the Law

Pieter Gaal, 1803

Full-length painting of Saint Catherine with a spiked wheel, palm frond, and open book against a gilded patterned background.

Saint Catherine

Miguel Ximénez, 1475

Painting of a curly-haired winged angel playing a golden lute against a dark background.

Angel Playing the Lute

Rosso Fiorentino, 1521

Christ carrying the cross with a crown of thorns as Saint Veronica offers a cloth, with soldiers and women nearby.

Christ on the way to Calvary and Saint Veronica

Juan de Valdés Leal, 1660

Painting of nymphs bathing in a forest pool as a hunter with a spear and dogs watches from the right.

Diana and Actaeon

Andries Cornelis Lens, 1754

Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child while two angels crown her against a gold background.

The Virgin and Child crowned by two Angels

Gerard David, 1520

Painting of a flower garland framing a grey relief showing a veiled saint, a standing figure, and cherubs, on a dark ground.

Saint Catherine of Siena Surrounded by a Garland of Flowers

Daniël Seghers, 1650

Saint Francis preaching to birds under a tree while two friars sit on rocks nearby, with hares and a pheasant in the foregrou

Saint Francis preaching to the birds

Antonio Carnicero, 1788

Damaged panel painting of a kneeling king in red robes beside a standing figure in blue, with gold vessel visible.

Bernard van Orley - The Adoration of the Magi, 971

Bernard van Orley

Oil painting of Christ among crowds of sick people beside a colonnade, with an angel and cherubs in the sky above.

Christ Healing the Sick People Lying near the Pool of Bethesda

Theodoor Boeyermans, 1675

Oil painting of a sleeping bearded man visited by a winged angel descending through glowing clouds.

Saint Joseph’s Dream

Vicente López Portaña, 1790

Two bishops in gold jeweled robes and mitres face each other across a stone column, with open books before them.

Saint Ambrose and Saint Augustine

Pedro Berruguete, 1495

Angel of the Annunciation

Simone Martini, 1320

Dim studio interior with a seated nude woman, an older bearded man, a white dog, and paintings on easels.

Rest of Diana

Jan Stobbaerts, 1858

Kneeling friar in brown habit gazes up at angel musicians playing cello, harp and lute, with a lily vase nearby.

Saint Anthony of Padua

Pedro de Obregón, 1650

Friar in brown habit holding a chalice of red liquid wrapped in red cloth, pointing upward, with figures in a courtyard behin

Saint James of the March

Francisco de Zurbarán, 1650

Gothic panel of the Virgin and Child with angels, kneeling donors in crowns, and a gold background.

Madonna and Child

Jaume Serra, 1359

Painting of a winged cherub holding a crown of white lilies against a pale blue sky.

Angel with a Crown of Lilies

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1767

Painting of Christ in a pink robe and crown of thorns surrounded by soldiers with spears and grieving women under a stormy sk

Disrobing of Christ (by J.M.Theotocópuli)

Jorge Manuel Theocupulus, 1606

Painting of God the Father holding the body of Christ on a globe, with a dove above and angels and putti around them.

Holy Trinity

Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen, 1550

Painting of Christ kneeling under a heavy cross, wearing a crown of thorns, with mourners behind him.

Christ on the way to Calvary

Juan de Valdés Leal, 1661

Four-panel altarpiece with two standing saints and two scenes of surgery and martyrdom, one in a room and one outdoors.

Altarpiece of the Guild of the Barbers and Surgeons

Ambrosius Francken I

Painting of a saint lying in a vaulted crypt as a bishop blesses her while mourners and a scribe attend.

Burial of Saint Cecilia in the Catacombs of Rome

Luis de Madrazo, 1852

Painting of mourners tending the body of the dead Christ on a cloth beside a rocky wood under a stormy sky.

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Peter Paul Rubens, 1613