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Gilded panel showing seated Christ in blue mantle, blessing with raised hand and holding a globe, in a Gothic frame.

Christ as Salvator Mundi

Gherardo Starnina, 1404

The Adoration of the Kings

The Adoration of the Kings

Hugo van der Goes

Painting of a young woman gazing upward with a white lamb beside her against a dark background.

Saint Agnes

Massimo Stanzione, 1635

Painting of nude Venus reclining as winged Cupid reaches for her bow, with white doves, roses, and a distant landscape.

Venus disarming Cupid

Alessandro Allori, 1570

Painting of a dark forest with a kneeling figure in a red cloak beside rocks, with light glowing through the trees.

Woodland with Saint Jerome

Gillis van Coninxloo, 1560

Painting of a woman with a flower wreath holding a naked infant with a crown of thorns, with a basket of linens and a landsca

The Virgin and Child with a Floral Wreath and a Crown of Thorns

Alessandro Allori

Angel in white embraces a bearded man in green while guards sleep in a vaulted prison corridor lit by a torch.

Liberation of Saint Peter from Prison

Unknown artist, c. 1600

St Matthew the Evangelist

St Matthew the Evangelist

Annibale Carracci, 1575-1747

Sleeping Venus with Cupid Watched by Satyrs

Sleeping Venus with Cupid Watched by Satyrs

Peter Paul Rubens, 1592-1640

Painting of a bearded man looking upward, hand on chest, holding a key, against a dark background.

Saint Peter

after Sir Anthony van Dyck, after 1660

Gold-ground altarpiece panel with multiple scenes of the Virgin, Christ, angels, and saints in a grid of compartments.

Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Francis and Sain…

Giovanni da Rimini, 1300

Oval painting of a sleeping nude nymph on a bank while a satyr with a leaf wreath leans over her in a wooded landscape.

Nymph and Satyr

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1716

Painting of a sleeping nude nymph on gold drapery, watched by three fauns peering through dense green foliage beside a pool.

Nymph and Fauns

Julius Kronberg, 1875

Painting of a winged cupid drawing a bow in flight above a landscape, with pink roses and butterflies in the lower right.

Cupid

Julius Kronberg, 1878

Ten hand-coloured panels showing the ten avatars of Vishnu, including fish, tortoise, boar, and warrior figures.

Das Avataras, Ten Incarnations of Vishnu (verso), from a Kalighat album

Shri Gobinda Chandra Roy, c. 1890

Apollo and Marsyas

Apollo and Marsyas

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1757

Bacchus, Ceres and Venus

Bacchus, Ceres and Venus

Cornelis Schut, 1612-1655

Oval painting of sleeping Cupid and Psyche embracing on a draped couch beside a bow, roses and a classical column.

Cupid and Psyche

Jean-Baptiste Regnault, 1828

The Adoration of the Kings

The Adoration of the Kings

Raphael, 1500-1599

Medieval painted miniature of the Deposition: haloed figures lower a body from a cross against a gold background, with a knee

Miniature Excised from the "Potocki Psalter": The Deposition

Master of the Potocki Workshop, c. 1240-1250

The Angel and Hagar

The Angel and Hagar

Jean François I Millet, 1657-1679

Diana and her Nymphs

Diana and her Nymphs

Gerard Hoet I, 1663-1733

Moses and the Burning Bush

Moses and the Burning Bush

Lieven Mehus, 1645-1691

Angels in clouds announce to shepherds with sheep and cattle in a dark, dramatic night landscape painting.

The Annunciation to the Shepherds

Lieven Mehus, 1645-1691

Painting of the Holy Family: a woman in red holds an infant, a bearded man looks on, a child with a lamb stands left, an elde

The Holy Family

Jan van den Hoecke, 1626-1651

Paris Giving Venus the Apple

Paris Giving Venus the Apple

Johannes van Haensbergen, 1657-1705

Nude nymphs gather around a woodland pool beneath a rocky arch, with dogs and drapery in the foreground.

Diana and Callisto

Johannes van Haensbergen, 1657-1705

Painting of a seated woman in red with a floral wreath beside a nude winged youth, with a lyre and flowers under a tree.

Erato, Muse of Lyrical Poetry

Charles Meynier, 1800

Manuscript page of the Crucifixion with mourners in blue and red, framed by a gold border of painted flowers and butterflies.

Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain: Fol. 72v, Crucifixion

Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximillian, c. 1500

Oil sketch of bearded prophets, a robed figure with a lion, and putti on clouds against a brown ground.

Sketch for "The Four Prophets of Israel" (for Il Gesù, Rome)

Giovanni Battista Gaulli, c. 1675-1677