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Painting of Saint Anthony Abbot in red and gold robes with a bell-topped staff, a flame, and a pig at his feet.

Saint Anthony Abbot

Moretto da Brescia, 1530

Risen Christ levitating above clouds with angels and two turbaned bearded men beside Latin-inscribed stone pillars.

Christ in Passion with Moses and Solomon

Moretto da Brescia, 1541

Painting of Christ crucified between a grieving Virgin Mary and Saint John, with a skull at the base of the cross.

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen, 1625

Painting of the Adoration of the Kings showing Mary and the infant Christ with kneeling kings bearing gifts and horses at rig

The Adoration of the Kings

Hendrick ter Brugghen, 1619

The Virgin Mary and Child, the Infant St.John and two angels

The Virgin Mary and Child, the Infant St.John and two angels

Melchior Lorck, 1552

Venus reclines with a winged Cupid in her lap beside a gilded quiver and doves, framed by pink drapery.

Venus and Cupid

Luca Cambiaso, c. 1570

Black-and-white image of a Madonna nursing the Christ Child, both with haloes, against a gilded background.

Madonna and Child

Antoniazzo Romano, 1452

Nativity scene with kneeling Mary and Joseph, Christ Child, ox and donkey, angels above, shepherds and a hilltop town.

The Nativity

Antoniazzo Romano, 1480

Christ and the Adulteress

Christ and the Adulteress

Domenico Tintoretto, 1575-1635

Painting of Saint Sebastian with arrows, tended by a woman in black and a kneeling man in red in a tiled interior room.

Saint Sebastian Cured by Irene

Josse Lieferinxe, 1497

Botticelli's Lamentation over the dead Christ: mourners in colorful robes gather around Christ's body in a rocky tomb.

Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Sandro Botticelli, 1490

Botticelli painting of Saint Zenobius scenes: a bishop blessing a draped bier, mourners, and a fleeing crowd in a Renaissance

Last Miracle and the Death of Saint Zenobius

Sandro Botticelli, 1500

Painting of the Nativity with the Virgin and infant Christ in a stable, angels dancing overhead and figures embracing below.

Mystic Nativity

Sandro Botticelli, 1500

Madonna and Child with a blue-robed angel beneath a fruit garland, against a pink wall and blue sky.

Madonna and Child with an Angel

Sandro Botticelli, 1450

Virgin Mary holding the sleeping Christ Child while an angel offers grapes and wheat, with a landscape behind.

Virgin and Child with an Angel

Sandro Botticelli, 1470

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi: Virgin and Child in a stable, kneeling kings with gifts, attendants and horses.

Adoration of the Magi

Giorgione, 1506

Painting of the Annunciation: an angel with wings approaches the kneeling Virgin Mary across an arched colonnade with a red-t

Annunciation

Sandro Botticelli, 1490

Saint Augustine in red robes and halo writing at a desk in an arched niche, with a curtain and scattered papers.

Saint Augustin dans son cabinet de travail

Sandro Botticelli, 1490

Circular painting of the Madonna kneeling under red drapes with the Christ Child and three angels in a landscape.

Madonna of the Pavilion, Scene: Mary with the Christ Child and Three Angels, Tondo

Sandro Botticelli, 1495

The Holy Family with the Infant St John, St Elizabeth and St Anna

The Holy Family with the Infant St John, St Elizabeth and St Anna

Vincent Sellaer, 1538-1544

Painting of a dense forest with a rider on a white horse fighting a dragon in the lower right corner.

Countryside of Wood With Saint George Fighting the Dragon

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1510

Christ in a red robe gestures to grieving women beneath a Gothic arch, with tall trees and mountains behind.

Christ taking leave of his Mother

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1520

Painting of the Crucifixion with Christ center and two thieves, a ladder, grieving figures, and a mountain landscape with a t

Christ on the Cross between the Two Thieves

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1520

Apollo Flaying Marsyas

Apollo Flaying Marsyas

Girolamo Troppa, 1651-1706

Nude woman raising a sword beside a severed bearded head on a dark background, oil painting.

Judith

Jan Sanders van Hemessen, c. 1540

Painted panel of Saint Ansgar holding a church model, with a kneeling donor in a brown robe at his feet.

Saint Ansgar

Hans Bornemann, 1457

Seated haloed man with open book and quill gazes up at a glowing vision among clouds in a dark landscape.

Hl. Evangelist Johannes auf Patmos'

Diego Velázquez, 1619

Gilded devotional panel of the Virgin and Child with saints and angels, with a predella of small religious roundels below.

Madonna and Child with the Dead Christ, Saints Agnes and Catherine of Alexandria, and Two Angels

Sano di Pietro, 1470

Painting of a saint's burial: a bishop and haloed mourners beside a pink-shrouded body on a grey tomb, under a blue sky.

The Burial of Saint Martha

Sano di Pietro, 1460

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child in a stable, kneeling kings, a white horse, and a retinue.

The Adoration of the Magi

Sano di Pietro, 1470