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Circular gold-ground panel of the Madonna holding the Christ Child, who holds a small bird, in blue and red robes.

Madonna and Child

Sano di Pietro, 1450

Illuminated initial D with gilded border showing haloed Saint Agatha, tongs, a soldier with an SPQR shield, and a seated judg

Martyrdom of Saint Agatha in an Initial D

Sano di Pietro, 1470

Gold-ground painting of the Madonna and Child with four saints and two angels in the arch above.

Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome, Bernardino, John the Baptist, Anthony of Padua and two angels

Sano di Pietro, 1469

Sano di Pietro's gold-ground panel of the Madonna and Child with saints and four angels above.

Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist, Jerome, Peter Martyr, and Bernardino and Four Angels

Sano di Pietro, 1425

Christ gestures toward a reclining paralytic man as robed followers watch, with an angel above and sick people by a pool.

Christ healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1667

Renaissance painting of the Annunciation with an angel, a bishop holding a city model, and a peacock in an ornate architectur

The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius

Carlo Crivelli, 1486

Virgin and Child enthroned between Saint Francis and arrow-pierced Saint Sebastian, with a kneeling donor, by Carlo Crivelli.

The Virgin and Child with Saints Francis and Sebastian

Carlo Crivelli, 1491

Painted manuscript page of a palace with domed pavilions, Krishna and Rukmini figures, and rowed boats on water below.

Rukmini Seeks Krishna's Permission to Visit her Brother Rukma, page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana manuscript

Unknown artist, c. 1775

Painting of Venus and Cupid with a satyr holding fruit, a basket of white doves, and a seated nude woman at left.

Allegory of Venus and Cupid

Imitator of Titian, c. 1600

Grayscale painting of women dancing with satyrs in a woodland revel, with reclining figures and a cherub in a tree.

Bacchic Revels

Johann Georg Platzer, c. 1740

Painting of crowned Saint Catherine with sword and wheel beside a kneeling donor in prayer before a landscape.

Saint Catherine of Alexandria with a Donor

Pinturicchio, 1478

Virgin nursing the infant Christ in a green landscape with a swan, rabbit, distant riders and a classical arch.

Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist

Pinturicchio, 1492

Painting of a kneeling haloed saint praying as an executioner raises a sword, with a walled city and an angel above.

The beheading of Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Pinturicchio, 1480

Painting of the Holy Family: Mary holds the infant Christ as Joseph in an orange cloak offers him a bird.

The Holy Family

Raffaello Vanni, 1640

Two mourning men with gold halos tend to the dead body of Christ on a stone slab, one in a white turban and gold robe.

Mourning over the Dead Body of Christ

Joan Mates, 1410

Hanging scroll of a bodhisattva with a jeweled crown and halo, painted in ink on pale paper, framed in brocade.

Manjushri Bodhisattva

Painting of a nude infant holding an orb beside a young boy with a staff, with two women in red and blue behind them.

Madonna and Child with Saints

Andrea Mantegna, 1490

Painting of the Madonna and Child with an older bearded man, an elderly woman in a yellow turban, and a young boy holding a c

The Madonna and Child with Saints Joseph, Elizabeth, and John the Baptist

Andrea Mantegna, 1485

Two young children stand before dark foliage with red fruit, with a bearded older man in red behind them and a pointing figur

The Holy Family with Saint John

Andrea Mantegna, 1490

Painting of the Holy Family: Mary holds a standing nude infant Christ, with an elderly man and woman behind and a child with

The Holy Family

Andrea Mantegna, 1495

Saint Euphemia in a crown with a lion, lily and sword, framed by an arch with fruit garlands and an inscription.

Saint Euphemia

Andrea Mantegna, 1454

Two painted panels: a bearded saint writing with a quill, and an armored archangel pressing down a kneeling putto.

Saint John the Evangelist and the Archangel Michael

Painting of the Virgin holding the Christ Child with a winged angel behind them, against a background of red roses and gold h

Virgin and Child with an Angel

Francesco del Cossa, 1460

Mural-like painting of Orpheus playing a lyre on a horse, surrounded by deer, rabbits, birds, a crocodile and a leopard.

Orpheus with the animals

Anita Rée, 1930

Seated woman in pink and gold robes gently touches a white lamb against a patterned gold background.

Meekness

Eustache Le Sueur, 1650

Circular painting of the Nativity with Mary kneeling in blue, the infant Christ, angels, John the Baptist and Joseph.

The Adoration of the Christ Child

Cosimo Rosselli, 1490

Saint John the Baptist enthroned with a halo, holding a lamb on a cushion, in a gilded Gothic canopy painting.

Panel with Saint John the Baptist Enthroned from Retable

Domingo Ram, 1450

Medieval painted panel of the Crucifixion with mourners at left, bystanders at right, and gilded haloes against a hilly lands

Panel with The Crucifixion from Retable

Domingo Ram, 1450

Annunciation: an angel kneels with a lily before the Virgin Mary praying in a columned marble portico.

The Annunciation

Gentile Bellini, 1465

Nude figure bound to a tree as archers aim arrows at him, with a wide landscape of rivers, hills and mounted soldiers behind.

Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian

Antonio del Pollaiuolo, 1475