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Painting of Diana and nymphs bathing in a forest clearing, with a huntress holding a hare and dogs at left.

Diana and her Nymphs

Jacob van Loo, 1654

Circular miniature of the Virgin Mary in blue gazing upward, holding the infant Christ wrapped in white cloth.

Virgin and Child

Anna Maria Carew, c. 1662

Painting of a robed prophet kneeling and gazing at a radiant heavenly vision while figures rest in a dark landscape below.

The Vision of the Prophet Ezekiel

Ditlev Blunck, 1830

Painting of a haloed robed figure with arms raised above serpents and a skull, as a crowd of reaching figures looks up in lig

Christ in the Realm of the Dead

Joakim Skovgaard, 1891-1894

Persian miniature of angels bringing food to a seated bearded man in a wilderness landscape, with calligraphy above.

Angels bring food to Jesus in the wilderness (folio 55 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father J…

Muhammad Sharif, 1602-4

Painting of a standing male figure and a pale female figure amid bold yellow, green and red brushstroke foliage.

Faun and Nymph

Edvard Weie, 1940-1941

Medieval manuscript leaf showing haloed Saint Barbara with a tower and palm frond, framed by gold foliate borders and Gothic

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Saint Barbara (6 of 6 Excised Leaves)

Workshop of Henri d'Orquevaulx, c. 1420-30

Triptych of the Last Judgment: Christ enthroned above, angels and the saved left, demons and the damned in fire right.

Triptych with the Last Judgement outer wings: Saints Peter and Paul

Lucas van Leyden, 1526

Painting of the Madonna and Child with a bishop saint and a bearded hermit saint, dark background, 1508.

Madonna with a Saint Bishop and Saint Onuphrius

Lorenzo Lotto, 1508

Virgin and Child seated with two saints, a bearded man with staff at left and a nude Saint Sebastian at right, in a red and g

Madonna with the Child and Sts Rock and Sebastian

Lorenzo Lotto, 1522

Painting of the Madonna and Christ Child on a throne, crowned by angels, surrounded by saints and kneeling figures.

Enthroned Madonna, Angels and Saints

Lorenzo Lotto, 1516

Religious altarpiece showing the Virgin and Christ Child crowned by angels, with saints on stone steps below.

Altarpiece of the Halberd

Lorenzo Lotto, 1532

Loose oil sketch of the Virgin rising into heaven amid angels and clouds, with apostles gathered below an open tomb.

The Assumption of the Virgin

Painting of a curved white footbridge over a pond of pink water lilies, framed by willows and reeds with reflections.

Le Bassin aux nymphéas, harmonie rose

Claude Monet, 1900

Medieval panel with compartments showing Saint Michael weighing souls, a heavenly banquet, a hell with devils, and enthroned

Panel of Saint Michael

Master of Soriguerola

Painting of a woman in red greeted by a turbaned man before a palace, with kneeling camels and travelers in a hilly landscape

Rebecca Welcomed by Abraham

Attributed to Barent Fabritius, c. 1650

Gold-ground panel of mourners with haloes lowering the dead Christ toward an open tomb beneath a wooden cross.

The Lamentation

Master of the Codex of Saint George, 1330

Gold-ground panel of Saint John the Evangelist in green tunic and red mantle, writing with a quill in an open book.

Saint Jean l’évangéliste

Lippo di Benivieni, 1300

Panel painting of Saint Peter with a key and Saint Paul with a sword, flanking a small nude supplicant on gold ground.

Supplicant Soul between Saint Peter Saint Paul

Master of Soriguerola

Gilded altar frontal with a central saint carrying a child across water, surrounded by four framed narrative scenes.

Altar frontal of Saint Christopher

Master of Soriguerola

Gold-ground panel of an angel weighing a soul on a scale while a horned demon pulls down the other pan.

Saint Michael Weighing Souls

Master of Soriguerola

Gilded arched panel of the Madonna holding the Christ Child, both with haloes against an incised gold background.

Madonna met kind

Master of Badia a Isola, 1300

Two oval paintings on gold ground: a youth with a lyre on a sea horse, and a woman with a thyrsus on a panther.

Arion on a Sea Horse and Bacchante on a Panther (pair)

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1855

Painting of Christ carrying the cross through a crowd on a hillside path, with soldiers, a stormy sky and a distant town.

Christ on the Road to Calvary

Pieter Brueghel, 1579-1638

Painting of a seated Buddha surrounded by flames, clouds, palaces, and many figures in a narrative scene.

The Life of the Buddha Shakyamuni, from a set based on the Hundred Jatakas of the Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje (1284…

Tibet or China, c. 1450-1550

Buddhist narrative painting with a seated Buddha medallion, pagodas, a bridge, monks, and cloud-filled landscape in red, gree

Birth Stories of the Youth Karma, Indra, the Buddha Brahma, and the Dancer, from a set based on the Hundred Jatakas o…

Tibet or China, c. 1450-1550

Narrative painting of Buddhist figures, monks, and royal attendants in red and gold palace halls among clouds and mountains.

Birth Stories of the Buddha Udayin, the Wealthy King, and Brahma Joy of the Moon, from a set based on the Hundred Jat…

Tibet or China, c. 1450-1550

Painting of a bound man in a red robe wearing a crown of thorns, mocked by armored soldiers and a crowd in a dim interior.

Christ Crowned with Thorns

Hendrick ter Brugghen, 1620

Painting of Christ driving merchants from a temple arch, with a crowd of beggars and townspeople in the foreground.

Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple

Hieronymus Bosch

Illuminated manuscript leaf with the Annunciation in an arch, a Nativity below, prophets and cherubs in a jewelled border.

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Annunciation, Nativity and Two Prophets

Master of Riccardiana, c. 1485