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Painting of nude Venus with a gold chain necklace holding hands with winged Cupid who holds a bow, on a dark background.

Venus and Cupid

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1537

Landscape painting with a waterfall, a pool, and women with hunting dogs in a wooded scene by Paul Bril, 1615.

Landscape with Diana Discovering the Pregnancy of Callisto

Paul Bril, 1615

Painting of seated nude Venus at her toilet with a mirror, jewelry casket, cupid and dove beside a fountain.

The Toilet of Venus

Simon Vouet, 1626

Classical landscape with ruined columns, women tending a burial in a sarcophagus, and the Colosseum in the distance.

Landscape with the Burial of Saint Serapia

Claude Lorrain, 1639

Painting of the Nativity with Mary and the Christ Child, shepherds kneeling, and two angels with a scroll above.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Painted Crucifixion scene with Christ between two thieves, grieving figures below, mounted soldiers and a hilly landscape wit

Crucifixion

Niccolò di Liberatore, 1487

Painting of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child with a red carnation, gold halos and a landscape on gilded side panels.

Virgin and Child

Master of the Habsburgs, 1490

Painting of the kneeling Virgin in prayer beside the infant Christ, with classical ruins and an arch behind them.

The Virgin Adoring the Christ Child ('The Ruskin Madonna')

Andrea del Verrocchio, 1470

Painting of the Virgin Mary holding the nude infant Christ, with angels in clouds above and an older man at the right.

The Holy Family

Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen, 1528

Gilded panel painting of Saint John the Evangelist seated in a red robe with a halo, against a gold background.

Saint Jean l'Evangéliste

Pere Lembrí, 1400

Painting of the risen Christ in a red cloak with a golden halo above sleeping soldiers and an open tomb with an angel.

Resurrection of Christ

Bartholomaeus Bruyn the Elder

Rubens painting of nude nymphs and satyrs in a struggle in a forest, with a dead stag and fox in the foreground.

Diana and nymphs attacked by satyrs

Peter Paul Rubens, 1639

Brown-robed friar with halo levitating in a study, holding a crucifix, while two monks watch from a doorway at right.

Saint Bonaventura in Ecstasy

Abraham van Diepenbeeck

Painting of the Virgin Mary in red and blue holding a child with a halo, against a rocky landscape with a hilltop building.

Madonna and Child

Sandro Botticelli, 1460

Titian painting of Saint Peter seated with a kneeling bishop holding a banner and a pope behind him, with ships in a harbor.

Jacopo Pesaro, Bishop of Paphos, being presented by Pope Alexander VI to Saint Peter

Titian, 1503

Religious painting of the Holy Family with infant John the Baptist, angels, an apple tree, and a landscape background.

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape

Denys Calvaert, 1590

Black and white reproduction of a ceiling painting with gods on clouds, an eagle, a lion, and a cupid with a bow.

Jupiter, Juno, Cybele and Neptune

Paolino Caliari, 1565

Tall panel painting of a bearded bishop with gilded mitre, green cloak, and open book, with Latin inscriptions.

Saint Werner

Master of Messkirch, 1520

Nude goddess with golden braids stands on a shell boat with two cherubs, doves and distant ships at sea.

Venus Guiding Eneas and the Trojans to the Latin Shore

William Page, 1860

Painting of a muscular bearded man carrying a child on his shoulders while holding a staff against a dark background.

Saint Christopher

Orazio Borgianni, 1615

Dark baroque-style painting of a radiant figure appearing above men in robes, one nude figure reaching toward the vision.

Christ Appears to St. Thomas

Franz Anton Maulbertsch, 1764

Watercolor sketch of a crucified bearded man with bowed head against a dark teal background and brown wooden cross.

Crucifixion, Sketch for thr Altarpiece in the Mikkeli Church

Pekka Halonen, 1896

Circular painting of the Adoration of the Magi with a procession of riders, camels, a stable and a peacock in a valley.

Adoration of the Magi

Domenico Veneziano, 1435

Painting of nude winged Cupid and sleeping Psyche reclining on a gilded bed with red drapery and a dusk landscape.

Cupid and Psyche

Jacques-Louis David, 1817

Gold-ground panel of the Madonna and Child enthroned, flanked by six winged angels in blue, pink and gold robes.

The Madonna and Child in Majesty Surrounded by Angels

Painting of a helmeted warrior turned from a bearded king, with a woman in a flower wreath and a crowned woman behind them.

The Anger of Achilles

Jacques-Louis David, 1819

Painting of two haloed saints, a bishop with a crozier and a bearded man with a staff and book, on gold ground.

Saint Pétrone et saint Jacques

Antonio Vivarini, 1463

Painting of Saint Stephen with a halo, holding a palm frond and stones, in gold brocade vestments before a rocky landscape.

Saint Stephen

Juan Correa de Vivar, 1559

Painting of a smiling satyr with ivy in his hair, holding grapes and resting beside a leopard skin and wine vessel.

Satyr (Bacchant)

Friedrich Schilcher, 1840

Nativity scene with the Holy Family in a ruined stable, shepherds and angels above, and a moonlit landscape at right.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Lelio Orsi, 1565