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Painting of Saint Francis Borgia recoiling before an open coffin holding a corpse, with clergy and onlookers around him.

L'illumination de Saint François Borgia

Pietro della Vecchia, 1664

Oil painting of a bearded man with a fiery bolt reaching over a startled woman lying on a white bed.

Jupiter and Semele

Pietro della Vecchia, 1650

Painting of a kneeling man in pink robes offered a golden chalice by a winged angel, with a cross and soldiers in the distanc

Christ on the Mount of Olives

Pietro della Vecchia, 1650

Painting of the Virgin holding the infant Christ beside an older woman holding cherries, with fruit on a marble table.

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

Geldorp Gortzius

Illuminated manuscript leaf with gold initial showing Christ ascending among clouds above the Virgin and two apostles.

Ascension in an Initial V

Niccolò di Ser Sozzo Tegliaccio, 1342

Painting of Moses and Aaron at a gilded ark, with incense smoke rising and onlookers gathered in a stormy landscape.

Moses and Aaron at the Ark, by Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont, about 1738, from the Hood Museum of Art - P.993.5

Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont, 1738

Virgin seated in a forest holding a sleeping infant on a red cushion, with a blue mountain landscape beyond.

The Virgin and Child in a Landscape

Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, 1536

Virgin Mary with the Christ Child reading a book in a flowery meadow, with a castle and lake behind them.

Virgin and Child in a Landscape

Master of the Embroidered Foliage, 1500

Painting of the Virgin and Christ Child surrounded by musical angels, one holding a crown above, against a gold patterned bac

Madonna and Child with Angels

Master of the Embroidered Foliage

Painting of Saint Nicholas in gold vestments rising toward heaven, with God, a dove, Christ and an angel above and kneeling c

Saint Nicholas of Myra

Godfried Maes, 1689

Young man offers a bouquet of flowers to two women and a boy beside a wall with a Madonna shrine, under a tree.

Flowers for the Madonna

Mikhail Scotti, 1841

Painting of a bishop in gold robes raising a man from the dead, with Christ and angels above among clouds.

Saint Martin of Tours raises a man from the dead

Godfried Maes, 1687

Painting of three haloed saints on a gold background: a bishop, a woman in red holding a palm, and a deacon with a book.

Saints Blaise, Catherine of Alexandria, and Lawrence

Naddo Ceccarelli

Gilded Gothic altarpiece showing the Crucifixion with mourners, soldiers, saints in side niches, and medallions below.

Crucifixion

Jacopo di Cione, 1369

Gold-ground panel of the Madonna in blue robe holding the Christ Child, flanked by six praying angels and a dove above.

Madonna with Child and Angels

Jacopo di Cione, 1370

Gilded panel of crowded haloed saints under Gothic arches, including bishops, apostles and women, with books and a palm.

Adoring Saints: Right Main Tier Panel

Jacopo di Cione, 1370

Gold-ground panel of the Nativity with Mary, Christ child, Joseph, angels, ox and donkey, and shepherds above.

The Nativity with the Annunciation to the Shepherds and the Adoration of the Shepherds: Upper Tier Panel

Jacopo di Cione, 1370

Gold-ground panel of Christ ascending with angels playing instruments and the Virgin and apostles kneeling below in prayer.

The Ascension: Upper Tier Panel

Jacopo di Cione, 1370

Gilded panel of the risen Christ with a banner above a tomb and sleeping soldiers, with rocky mountains behind.

The Resurrection: Upper Tier Panel

Jacopo di Cione, 1370

Gold-ground panel of the Adoration of the Kings with the Virgin and Child, kneeling kings, and attendants on a rocky hillside

The Adoration of the Kings: Upper Tier Panel

Jacopo di Cione, 1370

Painting of rows of haloed angels in red, blue, green and white robes against a gold background, one playing a lute.

Seraphim, Cherubim and Adoring Angels

Jacopo di Cione, 1370

Gothic panel of the Virgin and Child under a pointed arch, with gold haloes, worn blue and white robes, and a red brocade bac

Virgin and Child

Jacopo di Cione, 1370

Fresco of the Annunciation: the angel Gabriel kneels at left while the Virgin Mary sits at right beside a lectern in a Gothic

Annunciation

Jacopo di Cione, 1371

Four figures dine at a candlelit table with fruit, a jug, and a goose in the foreground, in a dark interior scene.

Philemon and Baucis Entertaining Jupiter and Mercury

Theodoor van Loon, 1605

Painting of the Virgin Mary kneeling over the infant Christ in straw, with shepherds and a child adoring him.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Theodoor van Loon

Painting of the Virgin Mary rising to heaven on clouds with angels, while apostles and women look up beside a stone tomb of r

Assumption of Mary

Theodoor van Loon

Painting of the Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist, with a lamb in the foreground.

la Vierge et l'Enfant entre Saint Jean-Baptiste et Saint Jean l'Évangéliste

Theodoor van Loon

Painting of an imaginary classical colonnade with arches and gilded columns, robed figures on steps and a rowing boat in the

Architectural Capriccio with Christ and Disciples

François de Nomé, 1650

Painting of Hercules wearing a laurel wreath, lifted by a winged woman with a star, attended by two putti.

De apotheose van Hercules

Mattheus Terwesten

Dark Gothic church interior with a ceremony at a raised altar, columns, stained glass, and small figures in the foreground.

The Circumcision of Christ

François de Nomé, 1623