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Painting of the Madonna holding the infant Christ against a landscape with a city, hills and a tree.

The Virgin and Child

Benvenuto Tisi da Garofalo, 1497-1500

Painting of a woman lying on a rose-garlanded barge poled by a hooded figure across dark water at dusk.

Elaine

Toby Edward Rosenthal, 1874

Miniature portrait of a man in a powdered grey wig and red collar, set in an ornate gilt circular frame.

Portrait of Carl Theodor, Archbishop of Mainz

Friedrich Heinrich Füger, c. 1775

Painting of a nude woman standing in a large pearly shell beneath clouds, with smaller shells on the shore below.

Odilon redon birth of venus

Odilon Redon, 1912

Round painting of the Holy Family with Mary kneeling in prayer, infant Christ, Saint John, Saint Joseph, and a landscape with

The Holy Family

Pietro Perugino, 1465-1523

Oil painting of the Nativity with Mary and infant Christ in candlelit straw, shepherds kneeling, and cherubs above.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari, 1720

Painting of the Holy Family: Mary holds the nude infant Christ while a bearded Joseph looks on in a dim interior.

The Holy Family

Peter Paul Rubens, 1630-1878

Painting of a woman with a golden spiked crown holding a palm frond, wearing a blue embroidered gown, against a dark backgrou

Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Artemisia Gentileschi, 1614

Painting of nude nymphs and satyrs beside a cornucopia of fruit and flowers, with a cow and ducks in a landscape.

Achelous Defeated by Hercules. The Origin of the Cornucopia. (Allegory of Fruitfulness)

Jacob Jordaens, 1649

Oil painting of a smiling woman with pearls and a red drape beside a curly-haired child holding a bow and arrows.

A Lady and her Child as Venus and Cupid

Govert Flinck, 1648-1649

Painting of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child before a red brick wall, cypress trees and a pale sky, in a wooden frame

Madonna with Child

Benozzo Gozzoli, 1460

Painting of the infant Zeus among nymphs and a satyr musician in a wooded landscape, with winged figures in the clouds.

The Infant Zeus among Nymphs

Nicolas Bertin, 1685

Framed Korean Buddhist painting showing haloed bodhisattvas in red and green robes and a fierce guardian figure at lower righ

Korean Buddhist Painting

Unknown artist, late 19th-early 20th century

Buddhist painting of a central bodhisattva on a lotus throne surrounded by attendants, guardians and clouds in red and green

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva with Assembly

Unknown artist, late 16th/early 17th century

Painting of a robed figure healing a seated blind man before a rustic house, with onlookers and a dusky sky.

Christ Heals a Born Blind

Pehr Hörberg, 1796

Painted panel of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child, with two angels and a red patterned background.

The Virgin and Child

Master of San Torpè

Religious painting of the Virgin Mary seated in prayer, flanked by winged angels and saints on a gold background.

Assumption of the Virgin

Andrea del Castagno, 1449

Painting of the Virgin in a red mantle kissing the infant Christ, seated in a Gothic niche with landscape views.

Madonna Enthroned

Quinten Metsys, 1520

Painting of the Virgin and Child flanked by two saints, one in black robes and one holding a lily, against a blue sky.

The Virgin and Child with Saints Nicholas of Tolentino and Catherine of Siena

Reclining nude woman with a cupid and small dog, a seated organ player beside her, and a hilly landscape behind.

Venus with the Organ Player

Titian, 1550

Painting of a banquet scene with figures in colourful robes around a long table, with trees and mountains in the background.

Christ in the House of Simon the Pharisee

Luca Signorelli, 1488

Painting of Saint Rufina holding two water jugs, gesturing outward, with a name inscription and bust at lower left.

Saint Rufina

Francisco de Zurbarán, 1635

Two haloed saints stand before a gold patterned background; one holds a book with a lamb, the other a chalice with a serpent.

Die Heiligen Johannes der Täufer und Johannes der Evangelist

Friedrich Herlin, 1460

Painting of the Virgin and Child in clouds with a kneeling cardinal in red robes, an angel and cherubs above.

The Virgin and Child adored by Saint Carlo Borromeo

Giambattista Pittoni, 1720

Baroque painting of Moses striking water from a rock while a crowd gathers and women and a child fill jars at a stream.

Moses drawing Water from the Rock

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, 1630

Painting of a crowded staircase procession with an armored soldier, a flying angel, classical columns, and onlookers.

Saints Mark and Marcellinus being led to Martyrdom

Painting of Hercules wrestling Antaeus on a shore, with Juno in a chariot of peacocks above and a ship in stormy seas.

Herkules und Antäus, am Himmel Juno auf ihrem Wagen

Johann Michael Rottmayr

Triptych of three haloed female saints with palm fronds, a tower model and gilded backgrounds under carved tracery arches.

Saints Apollonia, Barbara, and Agatha

Master Alejo, 1490-1500

Renaissance painting of the Holy Family and Saint Catherine with a sleeping infant and a landscape beyond the trees.

The Holy Family with Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Lorenzo Lotto, 1533

Triptych altarpiece with a central Nativity scene of the Virgin, angels and shepherds, flanked by saints and donors.

The Portinari Altarpiece

Hugo van der Goes, 1475