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Painting of Venus reclining nude beside Adonis with a hunting dog, Cupid, white doves and lush woodland behind them.

Venus, Adonis and Cupid

Annibale Carracci, 1591

Painting of Christ's entombment with mourners and a kneeling donor, plus a background crucifixion scene on a hill.

Meester van Hoogstraeten - Entombment and the Lamentaion over the dead Christ, 1510-1520, 387

Master of Hoogstraeten

Diptych with gold background: left, a child presented at a temple altar; right, mourners around Christ's body in a tomb.

Two Scenes from the Life of Christ

Pietro da Rimini, 1330

Painting of Saint Sebastian bound to a post as executioners attack him, with a tower and city behind and arrows on the ground

The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian of Rome

Ambrosius Francken I, 1575

Reclining nude woman sleeps as a satyr approaches, with a cupid in a tree, hunters and dogs in a wooded landscape.

Jupiter and Antiope

Titian, 1551

Painting of Christ with a halo on a rock, raising his hand as a winged, nude tempter reaches toward him against a blue sky.

La tentation du Christ

Ary Scheffer, 1850

Saint Barbara

Master of Frankfurt, 1510

Tintoretto painting of the Virgin and Child with four saints, including a bishop, a palm-bearing saint, and John the Baptist

Virgin and Child, with Saint Catherine, Saint Augustin, Saint Marc and Saint John the Baptist

Jacopo Tintoretto, 1549

Painting of Christ's body being laid in a stone tomb, mourned by women and men in a rocky cave, with a kneeling woman in red

Passion cycle - Entombment

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1538

Painting of a bearded hermit reading in a cave, surrounded by demons, a blue-gowned woman and flying creatures.

The Temptations of Saint Anthony the Abbot

David Teniers the Younger, 1647

Circular painting of an embracing couple with a leafy garland, the woman in a pink gown and pearls, the man in blue, before d

Mythological Couple

Paris Bordone, 1540

Medieval painting of an angel in white and red wings addressing a seated woman in a blue gown within a niche.

Annunciation to Saint Ann

Meister der Darbringungen, 1430

Painting of the Madonna and Child enthroned with saints, a bishop, a bound martyr with an arrow, and playing angels.

Madonna with Child Enthroned and Saints

Paris Bordone, 1530

Reclining Venus with cupids beside an apple tree, with a wide landscape of hills and water behind her.

Venus and Cupid

Battista Dossi, 1530

Triptych with the Holy Family, a lute-playing angel, and two crowned saints in landscape panels.

The holy family with a musician angel

Master of Frankfurt, 1510

Painting of a bearded saint in a red cape writing at a green-draped table, with a lion at his feet and a putto above.

Saint Jerome

Juan de Valdés Leal, 1656

Painting of a young angel with large white wings and a white robe against a pale blue background.

Angel

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1887

Painting of a Bacchic procession with nude revelers, satyrs, a wine cart with grapevines, and a classical temple behind.

The Triumphal Procession of Bacchus

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1536

Painted panel of the Virgin and Child with gold halos, blue mantle, and a dark background of fruit-bearing branches, in a Got

Virgin and Child Enthroned

Gentile da Fabriano, 1419

Gold-ground triptych with Virgin and Child in center, Saint John the Baptist left, and Saint Michael slaying a dragon right.

La Vierge et l'Enfant entre saint Jean Baptiste et saint Michel

Barnaba da Modena, 1370

Painting of Saint Stephen being stoned by a crowd while Christ and angels with a crown and palm appear above.

La Lapidation de saint Étienne by Charles Le Brun

Charles Le Brun, 1651

Painting of a Bacchic revel with dancing figures, satyrs, cherubs and a gilded chariot in a wooded landscape.

Bacchanale ou Bacchus et Ariane

Nicolas Poussin, 1624

Painting of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ beside a bearded man, with blue mountains and a city behind them.

The Holy Family

Francesco Francia, 1485

Elderly bearded man in red cloak writes in a book in a cave while a winged angel appears at the entrance.

Saint Jerome

Guido Reni, 1633

Painting of Venus and Cupid beside nude smiths working at an anvil and forge, with armor and a shield in the foreground.

Venus and Cupid in the Forge of Vulcan

Frans Floris, 1560

Saint Luke painting at an easel as the Virgin and Christ Child appear above him, surrounded by cherubs.

Saint Lucas painting the Virgin

Luca Giordano, 1650

Bearded muscular man in red drapes carries a flaming torch upward through blue clouds toward a shaft of light.

Prometheus

Peter Paul Rubens, 1637

Renaissance painting of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, with a priest receiving the infant at an altar in a columned

Presentation of Jesus in the Temple

Jan van Scorel, 1530

Dark landscape with a bearded saint praying among ruined arches, a leaning tree, a river with boats and a distant bridge.

Landscape with the Temptations of Saint Anthony

Claude Lorrain, 1635

Elderly bearded man in red cloth holds a stone, with a skull and book beside him, against a dark background.

Saint Jérôme

Jusepe de Ribera, 1633