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Painting of a nativity scene with an infant bathed below a glowing light and descending angels in clouds.

Nativity of St. John

Martin Johann Schmidt

Black and white image of Mary enthroned with the Christ Child between a friar with a crucifix and a mitred bishop.

Mary and child enthroned with two saints

Bastiano Mainardi, 1500

Painting of a standing Gothic Madonna holding a child, draped in a veil and robe, within a pointed arch on a red background.

Statue of Gothic Madonna

Konrad Krzyżanowski, 1912

Painting of mourners carrying a nude body across a rocky landscape, a woman in red at left and women in dark and grey robes a

Entombment of Christ

Konrad Krzyżanowski, 1912

Loose painted sketch of two haloed bearded apostles in dark robes against a pink background, one raising an arm.

Apostles Peter and Paul, sketch

Konrad Krzyżanowski, 1901

Painting of the Virgin and Christ Child with kneeling Magi offering gifts, with a landscape and oxen behind.

Adoration of the Magi

Painting of the Annunciation: an angel with a lily staff faces a kneeling Virgin in teal, with a dove in a halo above.

Annunciation

Painting of a winged angel offering a crown to three kneeling nuns with halos before a Gothic building.

Appearance of an Angel to Saints Clara and Inês from Assis and Coleta from Corbie

Painting of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, showing the infant on an altar with a priest, the Virgin, and doves.

Presentation of Jesus in the Temple

Painting of soldiers binding Christ, crowned with thorns, to a cross, with hammer, nails and rope in the foreground.

Christ to be nailed to the cross

Painting of Christ's body being lowered by mourners, with a grieving Virgin, haloed figures, and a distant castle landscape.

Deposition of the Cross

Painting of the Nativity with Mary kneeling by the infant Jesus in a manger, Joseph, an ox, a donkey and praying angels.

Nativity

Painting of a seated woman with a nude infant, haloed children, two men in period dress, and a child playing with a dog.

Saint Mary Cleophas and Her Family

Bernhard Strigel, 1520

Painting of a seated woman in red with a white veil, an angel holding a scroll, and shepherds with sheep in a gilded backgrou

The Annunciation to Saint Anne

Bernhard Strigel, 1505

Painting of a prophet in a red hat and robe holding a Latin scroll against a gold background.

Der Prophet Sachaja

Bernhard Strigel, 1500

Painting of the Holy Family resting in a wooded landscape with angels, a child offering fruit, and a seated man in red.

Rest on the flight into Egypt (Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine)

Jacques Stella, 1650

Painting of the Holy Family with young John the Baptist, a lamb, fruit basket, and a hovering angel in a dim interior.

Sainte Famille avec Saint Jean-Baptiste

Jacques Stella, 1635

Painting of an elderly man dying on a bed, attended by Christ, a grieving woman in blue, angels, and cherubs in clouds.

La mort de Saint Joseph

Jacques Stella, 1655

Seventeenth-century seascape of Dutch sailing ships in rough water before a town with a church tower under stormy skies.

The 'Hercules' and 'Eenhorn' off Hoorn

Bonaventura Peeters the Elder, 1634

Painting of a stormy harbor with a sailing ship, a fortified hilltop town, reindeer sledges and people on the shore.

The Port of Archangel

Bonaventura Peeters the Elder, 1644

Painting of a bearded apostle with a halo, hands clasped in prayer, seated on clouds against a gold background.

Apostle (St. Peter)

Marco Pino, 1550

Painting of the dead Christ held by three angels, one in a green robe and one in pink, beneath a dark drape.

Pietà and Angels

Lambert Sustris

Painting of Christ's baptism in a river landscape with angels, bathers, a distant city and a dove above.

The baptism of Christ

Lambert Sustris, 1550

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, kneeling kings, a crowd, and an elephant under a glowing lig

"The Adoration of the Magi"

Domingos Sequeira, 1828

Painting of two muscular figures wrestling, one winged in golden drapery, the other in a dark cloak, against a shadowy backgr

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

Cristoforo Roncalli

Painting of a winged angel descending through clouds above two kneeling men in an architectural interior with columns.

The Archangels Rafael and Tobias

Cristoforo Roncalli

Grayscale image of a Madonna and Child with two saints, one reading a book and one holding a jar, with gold halos.

Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalen

Matteo di Giovanni, 1450

Gilded altarpiece with the Annunciation, a crucifixion above, and saints on side panels, painted in 1455.

Altarpiece of San Pietro a Ovile

Matteo di Giovanni, 1455

Painting of the Madonna holding the Christ Child, surrounded by angels with golden halos against a gold background.

Madonna and Child with Angels and Cherubim, Italian,

Matteo di Giovanni, 1460

Arched panel painting of the Madonna and Child flanked by two saints against a gold background.

Madonna and child with Saints Francis and Catherine of Siena

Matteo di Giovanni, 1479