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Panel painting of Madonna and Child with saints and angels against a gold background, by Matteo di Giovanni.

Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, and Angels, Italian,

Matteo di Giovanni, 1465

Arched religious panel of the Madonna holding the Christ Child, flanked by two saints against a gold background.

Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Christoph

Matteo di Giovanni, 1490

Arched panel painting of the Virgin and Child with three saints against a gold background, Matteo di Giovanni, 1470.

Virgin and Child Enthroned with Three Saint

Matteo di Giovanni, 1470

Fragmentary painting of two nude men wrestling, one lifting the other, against a blue sky with a small tree below.

Hercules Slaying Antaeu

Matteo di Giovanni, 1470

Gilded panel of the Virgin Mary seated among musical angels, with God above and a kneeling figure below by a tomb.

Matteo di Giovanni - The Assumption of the Virgin - 1474

Matteo di Giovanni, 1474

Painting of the Virgin and Child with two angels, gold halos and brocade robes, against a dark blue background.

Madonna and Child with Angels

Matteo di Giovanni

Painting of the Madonna and Child with Saints Anthony and Catherine and two angels against a gold background.

Madonna and Child with St. Catherine of Siena, Saint Anthony of Padua and Angels

Matteo di Giovanni, 1480

Christ on a rocky shore gestures to two fishermen in a boat, with a walled town and hills behind them.

The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew

Matteo di Giovanni

Saint Jerome in red robes writes at a desk in a study, with a lion at his feet and an arched window behind him.

Saint Jerome in his Study

Matteo di Giovanni, 1482

Nude woman with long red hair stands on a stone by water, surrounded by pink roses and small peeping figures.

Nymph

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope

Painting of Diana, a huntress with a crescent moon and bow, standing by a lake at night beside a dark forest.

Diana

Julius Kronberg

Painting of reclining Venus in a cloud chariot drawn by white doves and cherubs, set in a carved wooden panel.

Venus i sin char

Julius Kronberg, 1898

Ceiling painting of Perseus on a white horse with a shield, a dragon below, and chained Andromeda on a rock among clouds.

Perseus Releases Andromeda

Julius Kronberg, 1918

Painting of Neptune with tritons and nereids beside a heap of lobsters, fish, shells and a sea turtle in a dark grotto.

The riches of the sea with Neptune, tritons and two nereids

Giuseppe Recco, 1684

Baroque painting of Apollo on a cloud above musical Muses and putti, set within an ornate gilded frame.

Apollo and Muses

Paolo de Matteis

Gold-ground Gothic triptych with enthroned Madonna and Child, angels, and saints; left panel shows Saint Anthony Abbot with s

Saint Anthony Abbot [left panel]

Allegretto Nuzi, 1354

Gilded Gothic triptych with Virgin and Child enthroned among angels, flanked by two standing saints.

Saint Venantius [right panel]

Allegretto Nuzi, 1354

Gothic altarpiece with Madonna and Child at center flanked by four saints, gold backgrounds and a crucifixion in the top gabl

Madonna and Child with Saint Mary Magdalene, Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Bartholomew and Saint Venantius

Allegretto Nuzi, 1350

Two gold-ground panels: the Virgin holding the Christ Child with a bird, beside the wounded Man of Sorrows with crossed arms.

Virgin and Child; Man of Sorrows

Allegretto Nuzi

Painting of Saints Catherine and Bartholomew standing before a gold background, with a wheel and a knife as attributes.

Saints Catherine and Bartholomew

Allegretto Nuzi, 1350

Gothic gold-ground panel with haloed saints and angels, a bishop with crozier in the foreground, and a woman holding a book.

Saints and angels

Allegretto Nuzi, 1360

Gilded Gothic triptych with Madonna and Child at center, Nativity on left wing and Crucifixion on right wing.

Madonna and Child with Saints, Crucifixion and Nativity

Allegretto Nuzi

Tempera panel of the Madonna nursing the Christ child, with a starry halo, gold background and red cushion.

Allegretto Nuzi, Madonna dell'Umilta, 1134x1511, tempera su tavola, San Severino Marche, Pinacoteca civica

Allegretto Nuzi

Painting of a winged angel in blue pointing beside a horse, with a young man in a dark cloak, a dog, and a stone gate.

Tobias Meets the Archangel Raphael

Andrea Vaccaro, 1640

Baroque painting of a dying man on a bed, a veiled mourning woman, Christ gesturing, and cherubs above in dark clouds.

La mort de saint Joseph

Andrea Vaccaro, 1650

Oil painting of a woman with a flower crown holding a violin and bow, against a dark background, with a red drape.

Saint Cecilia

Andrea Vaccaro, 1670

Painting of Salome holding a platter with the head of Saint John the Baptist, with a shirtless man and an older woman beside

Salome receiving the Head of Saint John the Baptist

Andrea Vaccaro, 1670

Painting of a haloed risen figure rising above a tomb while startled soldiers fall around it, with a city beyond.

Resurrection of Christ, after studies by Michelangelo

Marcello Venusti

Painting of the Entombment: mourners and torchbearers lower a body into a rock tomb, with crosses on a hill above.

The Entombment

Marcello Venusti, 1550

Painting of the Annunciation: the Virgin Mary with a book beside a green canopy bed, an angel with wings gesturing, and a glo

The Annunciation

Marcello Venusti, 1550