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Painting of Circe kneeling before a stern Ulysses in a marble hall, with a dog, golden ewer and attendants.

Circe begging Ulysses for mercy after he has resisted her drugged cup

Willem van Mieris, 1690

Oil painting of a woman in a blue feathered headdress holding a spear beside arrows, in a forest landscape with distant mount

Diana, Goddess of the Hunt

Willem van Mieris, 1686

Painting of a woman crowned with wheat and a youth with grapes beside a stone ledge, with a dark landscape behind them.

Ceres and Bacchus

Willem van Mieris, 1701

Painting of the Madonna and Child with two saints in a gilded frame, with a lunette of Christ supported by angels above.

Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalen

Neroccio di Bartolomeo de’ Landi, 1490

Arched panel painting of the Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Andrew against a blue sky.

Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Andrew

Neroccio di Bartolomeo de’ Landi, 1494

Tempera panel of the Madonna holding the Christ Child, who holds a dove, against a gold incised background.

Madonna and Child

Neroccio di Bartolomeo de’ Landi, 1470

Painting of the Virgin and Child with infant John the Baptist and Saint Catherine of Siena, with a dove and ruins behind.

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Saint Catherine of Siena

Rutilio di Lorenzo Manetti, 1608

Elderly bearded man in a red robe writes with a quill at a desk piled with old books in a dark room.

Saint Jérôme écrivant

Rutilio di Lorenzo Manetti, 1620

Two bearded elderly men in robes reading large open books by candlelight, one pointing to a page, against a dark background.

The prophets Jeremiah and Baruch'

Rutilio di Lorenzo Manetti, 1600

Painting of a kneeling friar in brown robes praying in a rocky landscape beside a skull, cross and open books.

Saint François d'Assise en prière

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, 1747

Painting of a bishop in gold mitre and pink vestments confronted by armed attackers inside a classical church interior.

The martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre

Painting of the Nativity: the Virgin and infant Christ in a stable, with kneeling shepherds and angels in clouds above.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, 1745

Painting of a muscular hero wrestling horses while a terrified bearded man in armor and red cloak is pulled toward a trough.

Diomedes King of Thrace Killed by Hercules and Devoured by his own Horses

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, 1742

Painting of a bearded man, women and children in a garden with red fruit, in warm orange and blue tones.

Christ and children, series: “Ceremonies” VI

Witold Wojtkiewicz, 1908

Painting of a nude Saint Sebastian bound and pierced by arrows, lit dramatically against a dark background.

The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian

Battistello Caracciolo, 1625

Painting of a shirtless young man with curly hair, half-length, smiling over his shoulder against a dark background.

Study of a young man half-length (St. John the Baptist or Bacchus?)

Battistello Caracciolo, 1610

The apostle Peter praying

Hendrick Bloemaert, 1630

Painting of ruined classical arches and columns with the Holy Family in the foreground and a flying angel above.

architectural capriccio with the Holy Family

Viviano Codazzi, 1650

Painting of classical ruins with columns, vaults, scaffolding and small figures, opening onto a distant hilly landscape.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Viviano Codazzi

Bishop exorcising a kneeling man while a winged demon sits on a red roof in a medieval town scene.

Saint Hugh of Lincoln Exorcises a Man Possessed by the Devil

Gherardo Starnina, 1404

Arched gold-ground panel of the Virgin seated in a blue mandorla surrounded by winged angels and cherubs on clouds.

The Assumption of the Virgin

Gherardo Starnina, 1404

Painting of a centaur guiding a nude youth in a red drape to draw a bow, with a rocky cave and sea behind.

Chiron Instructing Achilles in the Bow

Giovanni Battista Cipriani, 1776

Painting of a bearded man holding an open book beside an elderly veiled woman who points upward, with scrolls above.

Saint Augustine and Saint Monica

Gioacchino Assereto, 1650

Oil painting of a goddess addressing a bearded man on rocks while nymphs recline on clouds beside a peacock.

Juno asking Aeolus to release the winds

Louis de Boullogne, 1727

Painting of infant Bacchus tended by a woman and satyrs in a wooded grove, with a seated woman holding a lyre.

Enfance de Bacchus

Louis de Boullogne

Painting of Venus, Bacchus and Ceres beside a sleeping Cupid, with a red curtain and stone column behind them.

Venus, Bacchus en Ceres met slapende Amor

Jacob de Wit, 1720

Two nude putti with a golden lyre, bow and arrows, and red and blue drapery beside a stone pedestal.

Apollo en Diana

Jacob de Wit, 1720

Ceiling painting of Apollo and nine Muses among clouds, with a harp and putti, framed by brown and white stucco reliefs.

Apollo Surrounded by the Nine Muses

Jacob de Wit, 1743

Large painting of a robed figure on a rock gesturing to a crowd of turbaned men, with tents, palms and mountains behind.

Moses elects the Council of Seventy Elders

Jacob de Wit, 1737

Painted oval ceiling panel showing a rising female figure in red drapery surrounded by gods and putti among clouds, in a gild

De apotheose van Psyche

Jacob de Wit, 1744