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Madonna and Child painting with gold halos and gold background, the Virgin embracing the infant Christ in a blue mantle.

Madonna and Child

Master of the Osservanza, 1460

Painting of a nude woman with long hair seated on a rock, bowing her head over an open box beside a birch tree.

Pandora

Thomas Benjamin Kennington, 1908

Painting of Christ's baptism by John the Baptist, with angels, saints in gold clouds, and a knight slaying a dragon at right.

The Baptism of Christ

Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece, 1485

Two saints in red and blue robes beside a dragon, one holding a chalice, against a gilded background with a landscape.

Die Hl. Evangelist Johannes und Margarethe

Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece, 1503

Painting of Mary with the Christ child reading a book, Saint Anne beside them holding a carnation, under an arcade.

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece, 1495

Painting of the Nativity with kneeling Virgin, newborn Christ, Saint Joseph, a woman in green, ox and donkey.

The adoration of the Christ-child

Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece, 1475

Panel painting of Mary holding the Christ Child as a richly dressed saint reaches toward him, with a lamb, angels and a cathe

Marriage of Saint Agnes

Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece

Painting of three saints with a bishop, a cross-bearer and a lamb-holder, with two angels holding a mitre above.

Saint Nicholas of Bari, John the Baptist and Philip

Rocco Marconi, 1485

Painting of the Madonna in a white veil and blue mantle holding the infant Christ, with a landscape and tree on the right.

Madonna and Child

Painting of mourners lowering the dead Christ, with a kneeling woman in blue, a cross on a hill, and a rocky landscape.

The lamentation over the dead Christ

Master of the Virgo inter Virgines, 1486

Annunciation painting: angel Gabriel and Virgin Mary with a kneeling armored man, lily vase, and castle view through a window

The Annunciation with the 1st Duke of Alba

Master of the Virgo inter Virgines, 1470

Crowned saint in red brocade gown holds a book beside a kneeling emperor, with a walled city and roses behind her.

Saint Catherine of Alexandria, with the Defeated Emperor

Master of the Legend of Saint Lucy, 1482

Virgin and Child on a throne flanked by two angels playing lute and harp, with a city view behind.

The Virgin and Child surrounded by musician angels

Master of the Legend of Saint Lucy, 1480

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, kneeling kings with gifts, and a procession across a hill.

The Adoration of the Magi

Master of the Legend of Saint Lucy, 1480

Virgin and Child enthroned between two angels in an arcade, with a castle city and river landscape behind.

Virgin and Child Enthroned with Angels

Master of the Legend of Saint Lucy, 1450

Panel painting of the Adoration of the Magi: Mary holds the Christ Child as a kneeling king in red offers homage.

Master of the Saint Lucy Legend - Adoration of the Magi, 1955005

Master of the Legend of Saint Lucy, 1450

Painting of a seated Zeus statue with an eagle in a domed temple, with crowds, athletes and a chariot below.

The Phidian statue of Zeus at Olympia, with olympic games taking place at its feet

Jacob van der Ulft

Half-lunette painting of the Transfiguration with Christ between two figures, a Hebrew tablet, and three kneeling disciples.

Transfiguration of Jesus (lunette)

Francesco Torbido, 1550

Gold-ground panel of the Crucifixion with Virgin Mary, Saint John and a kneeling clerical donor at the cross.

Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist and a Clerical Donor

Lippo Vanni, 1350

Gilded altarpiece panel of the Madonna and Child enthroned, flanked by standing saints and two angels against gold.

Madonna and Child Enthroned, with Saints and Angels

Lippo Vanni, 1358

Oil painting of Christ seated at a well gesturing to a woman in a gold dress drawing water, with a distant town behind.

Christ and Samaritan woman

Domenico Fiasella

Woman in plumed helmet and armor holding a spear, beside a nude child with a golden shield, before a rocky landscape.

Portrait of a lady as Minerva

Joseph Werner the Younger, 1650

Oil painting of women and a naked infant before a dark landscape, with a crowned woman gesturing toward the child.

Finding of Moses

Andrea Celesti, 1650

Painting of a reclining nude woman with red hair lying on grass in a dark, shadowy forest.

Nymph

Victor Müller, 1862

Two-panel Annunciation: angel Gabriel with lily kneeling left, Virgin Mary at lectern right, gold background.

Annunciation

Bartolomeo Caporali, 1467

Seated woman in black dress with lace collar, resting her hand on a white dog, red shawl draped over her lap.

Portrait of Diana Vernon

Edouard Agneessens, 1876

Painting of a forest landscape with reclining women, hunting dogs and a bow beside large trees, with hills and a distant buil

Landscape with Diana and her nymphs

Johannes Glauber

Painting of Apollo in nude three-quarter view playing a violin, with red drapery, a halo, and dancing figures in a landscape.

Apollo playing the violin

Pietro della Vecchia, 1650

Painting of Christ with a crown of thorns seated among men in red, lit by a candle in a dark interior.

Christ in the Praetorium

Pietro della Vecchia, 1650

Painting of Christ with a halo gesturing to a crowd beside a bowed adulterous woman held by a soldier.

Christ and the Adulteress

Pietro della Vecchia, 1650