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Virgin Mary in red robes holds a book with the Christ Child in a Gothic niche, an angel with a crown above.

Durán Madonna

Rogier van der Weyden, 1435

Painting of Christ gesturing to a kneeling veiled woman with attendants behind her, under a pine tree and hilly landscape.

Christ taking leave of his Mother

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1520

Painting of Christ being baptized by John the Baptist in a river, with a dove above and three angels attending.

The Baptism of Christ

Guido Reni, 1623

Classical landscape with a reclining man, deer, swans, a temple on a hill, and figures under trees by a lake.

Landscape with Apollo and the Muses

Claude Lorrain, 1652

Painting of women on a riverbank rescuing an infant from the water, with an arched bridge and pyramid in the background.

Moses Saved from the River

Nicolas Poussin, 1638

Painting of Mars and Venus embracing beside armor as Amor aims an arrow from the sky above a landscape.

Mars, Venus and Amor

Titian, 1550

Painting of Achilles turning from the embrace of Thetis, surrounded by nymphs and mourning women, with ships and red drapery.

Achilles, frantic for the loss of Patroclus, rejecting the consolation of Thetis

George Dawe, 1803

Painting of the Madonna in blue holding the nude Christ Child, with a white dove and open book on a ledge below.

Madonna and Child with a Dove - Piero di Cosimo - Louvre INV 817

Piero di Cosimo, 1490

Painting of a haloed woman touching a pale young man in a white cloth, watched by three men in a dark setting.

Saint Margaret Resurrecting a Young Man

Giovanni Serodine, 1620

Virgin Mary kneels in prayer as an angel kneels before her, with a dove and cherubs in clouds above.

Annunciation

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1660

Painting of the dead Christ with a crown of thorns supported by two winged angels against pink drapery and a blue sky.

Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels

Giovanni Bellini, 1470

Black-and-white reproduction of a Madonna and Child with two saints, with a hilly landscape and castle behind.

Madonna and Child with two Saints

Vittore Carpaccio, 1490

Religious painting of the Virgin and Christ Child with a red-robed cardinal, a brown-robed friar, and two floating cherubs.

La Vierge à l'Enfant avec saint Charles et saint François

Tanzio da Varallo, 1628

Saint John the Baptist in a blue robe holds a lamb on a red book, with a riverside landscape behind him.

Saint Jean-Baptiste

Maître du retable d'Avila, 1510

Gold-ground panel of Madonna and Child with a bishop saint, a female saint, and a kneeling donor, with angels in trees.

Madonna and Child, Sts Nicolas, Catherine and Donor

Gentile da Fabriano, 1400

Baroque allegory of a helmeted woman with a spear, crowned by putti, with a trampled figure, palette and open book below.

Allegory of France as Minerva Trampling Ignorance and Crowning Virtue

Sebastiano Ricci, 1718

Painting of Christ among a crowd of robed men beside a kneeling woman before classical stone buildings under blue sky.

Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery

Nicolas Poussin, 1653

Oil painting of the Virgin Mary presenting the infant Jesus to a high priest at a temple with columns and onlookers.

Presentation of Jesus Christ at the Temple

Luca Giordano, 1670

Painting of the enthroned Virgin and Child with angels, cherubs, and two saints, one in Roman armour, on steps.

The Virgin and Child Enthroned, with Angels and Two Saints

Domenico Mondo, 1773

Gilded altarpiece panel of a bishop saint in pink robes and dark cape holding a crozier, book and gold balls.

Saint Nicolas

Antonio Aleotti, 1498

Painting of nude nymphs at a fountain beneath classical arches, with flying putti, a peacock and a parrot.

Nymphs at the Fountain of Love

Jacob Jordaens, 1630

Painting of an elderly bearded man in red drapery writing at a desk, looking upward, with books and an hourglass nearby.

Writing St. Hieronymus - Saint Jerome Writing

Nicolas Régnier, 1633

Painted study of a robed bearded figure on a hillside gesturing toward misty mountains, with a glowing light at left.

Study for Moses and the Burning Bush

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1902

Painting of a woman playing a harpsichord beside cherubs holding sheet music, with a red curtain and classical column.

Saint Cecilia

Nicolas Poussin, 1635

Annunciation painting: Virgin Mary in blue robe with crossed hands faces kneeling angel with sceptre in a Gothic room with li

Annunciation

Aelbrecht Bouts, 1480

Painting of the dead Christ surrounded by mourners, with a skull, a basin, and a walled town in the background.

Retable de la Déploration du Christ : La Déploration

Joos van Cleve, 1520

Painting of a bearded friar in a brown hooded habit holding a white lily branch beside an open book on a dark background.

Saint Anthony of Padua

Lamentation of Christ: dead Christ held by grieving women with two winged angels in red garments on a dark background.

The Lamentation of Christ

Francesco Francia, 1500

Triptych of the Nativity, Adoration of the Magi and Presentation in the Temple, with figures in rich red and blue robes.

Adoration of the Magi Triptych

Hans Memling, 1470

Small painting of an older woman and a young girl reading a book beneath golden trees in a woodland setting.

The Young Virgin Mary with Saint Anne

Adam Elsheimer, 1610