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Painting of winged angels in colorful robes holding white cloth and pink roses above a pool of water.

Angels Descending

Rupert Bunny, 1897

Spring landscape of willow trees reflected in still water, with a grassy bank and a small red-roofed house in the distance.

Le Printemps (Le bassin aux nymphéas à Giverny)

Blanche Hoschedé Monet, 1928

Painting of Hercules wrestling a bearded figure while a winged figure with a laurel wreath descends above a rocky wooded land

Hercules fighting Achelous

Nicolas Bertin, 1715

Painting of prophets and kings adoring a glowing Hebrew name in heaven, surrounded by angels and putti.

Prophets and Kings of the Old Testament Adoring the Name of Jehovah

Nicolas Bertin, 1718

Painting of a woman with pearls and jewels holding a white lamb against a dark background.

Saint Agnes

Orsola Maddalena Caccia, 1600

Painting of Orpheus lying dead as maenads with thyrsi and a leopard gather in a dark wooded landscape, 1866.

Death of Orpheus

Henri Leopold Lévy, 1866

Dark painting of a nude woman bending forward as a large white swan with spread wings embraces her.

Leda and the Swan

Kai Nielsen, 1912

Painting of a bearded robed man speaking to a group of soldiers and onlookers, with a mounted rider and a dog at right.

Christ with the Centurion

Claes Moeyaert, 1632

Annunciation scene: angel Gabriel with a lily faces the kneeling Virgin Mary at a prayer desk in a gold-backed interior.

The Life of Mary: the Annunciation (lower half of the Crucifixion of Christ)

Master of the Life of the Virgin, 1450

Painting of the Virgin Mary rising to heaven above apostles gathered around a stone tomb against a gold background.

The Life of Mary: the Assumption of Mary (verso: lower half of the Coronation of Mary)

Master of the Life of the Virgin, 1450

Painting of the crucifixion with angels catching blood, the Virgin and John at left, a kneeling woman at right, and a hilly l

The crucifixion

Master of the Life of the Virgin, 1460

Panel painting of the Madonna and infant Christ with a white-robed monk holding a red book against a gold background.

The Madonna, the infant Christ and Saint Bernhard of Clairvaux

Master of the Life of the Virgin, 1470

Forest river landscape with two small figures by the water, flying birds, and warm light breaking through clouds.

Landscape with the angel Raphael and Tobais who is cutting open the fish (Tobit 6,1-5)

Adriaen van Stalbemt, 1628

Painting of a winged angel holding a rainbow ring above grotesque figures, set against a starry blue sky with pale clouds.

Angel and monsters

Kazimierz Stabrowski, 1920

Painting of a seated faun statue playing a pipe beside a fountain in a sunlit park with tall trees and a purple blossoming tr

Faun - Villa Borghese

Kazimierz Stabrowski, 1924

Painting of the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, two angels playing flute and violin, in a vaulted church interior.

The Virgin and Child with St. Anne

Defendente Ferrari, 1528

Nativity scene with Mary, Joseph holding a candle, the Christ Child on the ground, and oxen in a wooden stable.

The Adoration of the Christ Child

Defendente Ferrari, 1500

Painting of the Virgin Mary nursing the infant Jesus against a gold wavy background within a pointed arch.

The Virgin nursing Jesus

Defendente Ferrari, 1530

Nativity scene in a dark stable with kneeling Mary, the infant Christ, an ox, a donkey, and haloed figures at right.

Nativity in Nocturnal Light

Defendente Ferrari, 1510

Painting of the Virgin Mary rising among angels above apostles gathered around a flower-filled tomb, with a hilltop town behi

Assumption of the Virgin

Defendente Ferrari, 1500

Painting of the Virgin Mary in a blue mantle nursing the infant Christ against a red background with a gold halo.

Nursing Madonna

Defendente Ferrari, 1505

Painting of a standing woman in a red shawl holding a child, with stylized trees, green fields and a blue sea behind.

Madonna

Tytus Czyżewski, 1920

Woman in orange drapery holding grapes as a bacchante, with a satyr playing pipes in a wooded garden scene.

Mademoiselle Prévost as a Bacchante

Jean Raoux, 1723

Painting of a seated nude woman by a woodland pool, with a bather in the water beside a dark rock and trees behind.

Diana Bathing

Jean Raoux, 1721

Loose painted market scene with a stone column, oxen, figures in colorful clothing, and sacks under a cloudy sky.

On the market at the Holy Trinity Column in Szolnok

August von Pettenkofen, 1865

Painting of three women finding an infant in a basket by a river beneath a cliff and tree at dusk.

Finding of Moses

Johannes Voorhout, 1690

Painting of a woman with a seashell crown and loose hair, glancing over her bare shoulder against a dark background.

A Sea-nymph

Ginevra Cantofoli, 1600

Painting of a bearded friar in brown habit gazing upward, holding a white lily and a walking staff.

Saint Francis

Miguel Cabrera, 1750

Painting of a young girl with a bow and quiver, in blue silk, beside a greyhound in a dark forest landscape.

Portrait of a young girl as Diana

Abraham Lambertsz. van den Tempel, 1669

Painting of Minerva crowning a seated young woman with a laurel wreath, with attendant figures and a banner.

Minerva Crowns the Maid of Leiden

Abraham Lambertsz. van den Tempel, 1650