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Half-length oil portrait of a man in a dark cloak and lace cuffs, wearing a curled wig and pointing downward.

Jan Karel Nicolaas van Hove, Dean of the Guild of Saint Luke

Caspar Jacob van Opstal the Younger, 1699

Circular painting of the Madonna and Child with two angels and two saints against a landscape background.

Madonna and Child with Two Angels, Saint Rose and Saint Catherine

Pietro Perugino, 1475

Painting of Christ ascending in a rainbow mandorla above apostles and the Virgin, with musical angels and cherubs in the sky.

Ascension of Christ

Pietro Perugino, 1495

Minerva in a helmet gestures toward a marble statue as sculptors and a crowd watch in a colonnaded classical setting.

Minerva teaches the art of sculpture to the people of Rhodes

René-Antoine Houasse, 1688

Painting of mourners around the dead Christ on a hillside, with a city and two crosses in the background.

Pietà of saint germain les pres

Master of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 1500

Circular painting of the Virgin holding the infant Christ beside a kneeling young saint with a cross-topped staff.

Vierge avec l'Enfant et le petit saint Jean

Sandro Botticelli, 1475

Painting of the Virgin and Child receiving a kneeling king in red robes, with angels and a star above.

Adoration of the Magi

Abraham Bloemaert, 1624

Watercolor design of a dancer enveloped in sweeping yellow pleated fabric against a dark background, flanked by tall columns.

Loïe Fuller in the Dance "The Archangel"

Koloman Moser, 1902

Polyptych with a central figure of Saint Roch beside a dog, surrounded by ten narrative scenes in gilded frames.

Polyptych, Polyptych of Saint Roch, Polyptych of Saint Roch

Antonio Gandino, 1590

Virgin Mary seated in a shell niche holding the nude Christ Child on a gold cloth, against a blue background.

The Virgin and Child Enthroned

Master of the Pala Sforzesca

Painting of Saint John the Baptist pouring water on Christ in a river while a dove descends above in golden light.

The Baptism of Christ

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1655

Nude bearded elderly man seated with an open book, a skull and a lion beside him, in a rocky landscape.

Saint Jerome

Bartolomeo Passarotti, 1550

Oil painting of the Adoration of the Magi: Mary holds the Christ Child while kneeling kings offer gold vessels in a rocky sta

Adoration of the Magi

Peter Paul Rubens, 1620

Painting of Christ's body being lowered onto a tomb by mourners, with angels above and crosses on a distant hill.

The Deposition

Lorenzo Lotto, 1512

Painting of reclining nude Venus holding a laurel wreath, with winged Cupid beside her on a blue drape before red curtains.

Venus and Cupid

Lorenzo Lotto, 1530

Five Indigenous men in feathered headdresses and fringed leggings stand and sit on grass, one holding a feathered staff.

Black Hawk and the Prophet - Saukie

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of a girl in a red dress twirling on a wooden floor, with a lute player and a woman in period dress behind her.

Airs and Graces

Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema, 1872

Perugino's Crucifixion altarpiece with Christ on the cross, angels, kneeling saints and a landscape background.

Chigi Altarpiece

Pietro Perugino, 1506

Fresco of God the Father above saints Roch and Romanus, with a painted town view below.

God the Father with Two Saints

Pietro Perugino, 1476

Renaissance altarpiece showing the Virgin enthroned among angels, God above, and four saints standing in a landscape below.

Vallombrosa Altarpiece

Pietro Perugino, 1500

Altarpiece of the Virgin and Child enthroned with four saints, two mitred bishops, a deacon with a book, under arches.

Decemviri Altarpiece

Pietro Perugino, 1495

Painting of the Virgin spreading a mantle over kneeling clergy and donors, flanked by two saints, on a gold background.

Cadard Altarpiece

Enguerrand Quarton, 1452

Painting of Christ being baptised by John the Baptist in a river, with a dove above and three angels beside a tree.

The Baptism of Christ

Piero della Francesca, 1451

Painting of the Flagellation of Christ: a bound figure at a column in a colonnaded loggia, with robed men in the foreground.

Flagellation of Christ

Piero della Francesca, 1459

Painting of the Nativity: infant Christ on blue cloth, kneeling Virgin, musical angels with lutes, and figures beneath a rust

The Nativity

Piero della Francesca, 1460

Saint Jerome stands penitent beside a rocky niche with books, a lion resting nearby, under tall trees and a blue sky.

Saint Jerome penitent

Piero della Francesca, 1450

Standing friar with gold halo raising one hand in blessing, holding a book, against a blue sky with a sun.

Saint Nicholas of Tolentino

Piero della Francesca, 1454

Painting of a young woman with a jeweled headband holding a platter of pink roses, wearing a red drape and blue-green dress.

Saint Holding a Platter with Roses

Painting of two women on a stone step, one in gilded helmet and armor reading a book, with a peacock and cherubs nearby.

Margarita Trip as Minerva, Instructing her Sister Anna Maria Trip

Ferdinand Bol, 1663

Oil painting of the Death of Saint Anne with the Virgin, Christ child, attending men, and cherubs in a draped interior.

Death of Saint Anne

Francesco Monti