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Painting of Christ seated at a stone well speaking with a woman holding a jar, with trees and onlookers behind them.

Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Marcantonio Franceschini, 1700

Triangular gilded panel showing the seated Virgin in a blue mantle reading a book, with a halo and a dove above her.

The Virgin of the Annunciation

Matteo Giovanetti, 1340

Painting of Christ's baptism: a bearded man pours water on a nude kneeling figure as a dove descends under a yellow sky.

Baptism of Christ

Anthonie Blocklandt van Montfoort, 1550

Nude Venus raises a bow while a winged Cupid with a quiver clings to her arm against a dark background.

Venus Disarming Cupid

Anthonie Blocklandt van Montfoort, 1550

Religious panel painting of the Virgin and Child with kneeling donors and saints in a gilded frame.

Madonna and Child with Saints and Donors

Francesco Bissolo

Painting of the Virgin Mary with the infant Christ, a standing man with a staff, and a kneeling donor in a landscape.

The Holy Family with a Donor in a Landscape

Francesco Bissolo, 1520

Painting of the Annunciation: an angel with wings speaks to the kneeling Virgin Mary beside a lectern in a tiled room.

'The Annunciation' by Francesco Bissolo, Norton Simon Museum (cropped)

Francesco Bissolo

Religious painting of three saints and a kneeling donor on a checkered floor, with putti in clouds above.

Saint Justina with Ss. John the Baptist, Catherine of Alexandria and a donor

Francesco Bissolo, 1550

Gilded altarpiece with a central Saint John the Baptist surrounded by smaller scenes of his life and angels above.

Altarpiece of the Baptist

Giovanni del Biondo, 1360

Gilded Gothic polyptych showing the Annunciation at center, with saints, a crucifixion and a Pietà around it.

Polyptych of the Annunciation

Giovanni del Biondo, 1380

Gilded Gothic altarpiece panel showing Christ and the Virgin enthroned in blue robes, with angels below and scenes in the pin

Christ and the Virgin Enthroned, with Allegories of the Old and New Testament

Giovanni del Biondo, 1365

Gilded gothic panel showing a kneeling angel in red robes with raised hand and orange wings against gold leaf.

Angel Annunciate

Giovanni del Biondo, 1356

Oval painting of the Virgin and Child framed by a dense garland of tulips, lilies and roses on a dark background.

Holy Virgin and Child

Ambrosius Brueghel, 1650

Gold-ground triptych with enthroned Madonna and Child, saints, and side panels of Saint Francis and the Crucifixion.

Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Saints

Jacopo del Casentino, 1320

Medieval panel painting of the Virgin holding the Christ Child against a gold background, in a wooden Gothic frame.

Virgin and Child

Jacopo del Casentino, 1340

Painting of an upside-down crucifixion in a landscape, with a mounted soldier, red banner, and a crowd of onlookers.

The Crucifixion of Saint Peter

José Antolínez, 1660

Painting of a mounted armoured rider giving a red cloak to a beggar in a snowy village street with crowds and bare trees.

Saint Martin Cutting Off Part of His Cloak for a Beggar

Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot, 1623

Painting of Tobias and the Angel showing an older man, a weeping woman, a young man holding a staff and fish, and a winged an

Tobias and the Angel

Nicolas Tournier, 1620

Painting of the Madonna with the Christ Child and young St. John the Baptist holding a reed cross against a dark background.

Madonna and Child with the Young St. John the Baptist

Jacopo da Empoli

Painting of a haloed Christ in red and blue robes pointing upward while a horned devil leans toward him on a rocky ledge.

The Temptation of Christ by the Devil

Félix-Joseph Barrias, 1860

Painting of a seated nude woman with bowed head and clasped hands on a stone block against a dark background.

A Nymph. A Seated Female Model

Julius Paulsen, 1886

Nude young woman walking barefoot through a dim forest clearing toward a glowing pond at dusk.

Psyche

Antonín Hudeček, 1901

Painting of a winged youth with curly hair holding a pink rose and a golden lyre against a dark background.

Cupid having just Stolen a Rose

Jeanne-Élisabeth Chaudet, 1796

Crucifixion scene with Christ centered on the cross, two thieves beside him, grieving women and armored soldiers below.

Crucifixion

Master of the Aachen Altar, 1490

Painting of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child against a gold background with haloes and a dark mantle.

Madonna and Child

Pietro di Francesco Orioli, 1500

Saint Matthew writing at a desk in a tiled room while a small angel with a scroll kneels beside him, in a gilded frame.

St Matthew the Evangelist

Juan Rexach, 1450

Risen Christ with banner above a marble tomb, sleeping soldiers below, and a kneeling figure in green against a dusk landscap

The Resurrection

Master of the Osservanza, 1440

Haloed saint writing at a desk with a raven holding a scroll, a town street visible through an arch, gilded frame.

St John the Evangelist

Juan Rexach, 1450

Haloed saint in dark robes writes on a scroll beside a winged ox in a gilded gothic-arched interior.

St Luke the Evangelist

Juan Rexach, 1450

Madonna with a red carnation holds the Christ Child, who clutches an apple, against a green background with a halo.

Madonna with Child Jesus and a carnation

Hans Springinklee, 1525