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Kitchen still life with hanging meat, bread, flowers and a small background scene of Christ with Mary and Martha.

Christ with Mary and Martha

Pieter Aertsen, 1552

Painting of Saint Sebastian, nude and pierced by arrows, tied to a column beneath a carved arcade with a landscape behind.

Saint Sebastian

Pietro Perugino, 1490

Painting of a nude red-haired woman in stockings with a cupid aiming a bow on her shoulder, on a dark background.

Nude and Cupid

Jules Pascin, 1920

Painting of a reclining nude woman, a striped-shirted figure on a sofa, and a flying cupid above, on a dark ground.

Two Figures and Cupid

Jules Pascin, 1920

Angel kneeling before the seated Virgin Mary in an arcaded loggia, with a gardener and mountain landscape beyond.

L'Annonciation / The Annunciation / Verkündigung

Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 1815

Painting of a rider on a white horse amid battle, with a winged figure holding cloth above and fallen warriors below.

Victory of Saint James of Compostela over the Saracens at the Battle of Clavigo

Franz Anton Maulbertsch, 1762

Gilded arched panel of the Virgin and Child with saints and three musician angels, by Mariotto di Nardo.

La Vierge et l'Enfant avec quatre saints et trois anges musiciens

Mariotto di Nardo, 1385

Painting of the Madonna holding the naked Christ child beneath a tree, with a sprig of yellow flowers and a distant landscape

Madonna with field flowers

Jan van Scorel, 1528

Mythological scene with a winged figure handing an infant to a seated woman, nymphs, a satyr, cattle, and a river landscape.

The Education of Bacchus

Jean-François de Troy, 1717

Painting of shipwreck survivors on a crowded raft in a stormy sea, some waving cloth toward the horizon.

The Raft of the Medusa

Théodore Géricault, 1819

Painting of a nude woman beside a sea monster as a winged armored rider descends, with a harbor town behind.

Perseus Releases Andromeda

Joachim Wtewael, 1611

Oil painting of Venus reclining nude beside Adonis with hunting dogs, a cupid, white doves and dense forest foliage.

Venus and Adonis

Annibale Carracci, 1595

Painting of the risen Christ with a banner emerging from a rocky cave, soldiers below and angels at right, dated 1518.

The Resurrection of Christ

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1518

Painting of God on a cloud handing two stone tablets to kneeling Moses, with winged angels on a stormy sky.

God Writes the Ten Commandments to Moses on Two Tablets of Stone on Mount Sinai

Joseph von Führich, 1835

Oil painting of the Madonna holding the Christ Child beside a kneeling penitent woman, with two men behind them.

Madonna and Child with the Penitent Sinners

Anthony van Dyck, 1640

Black-and-white reproduction of a Renaissance painting: enthroned Virgin and Child flanked by two saints, angels above, lute-

Mary and child enthroned with two saints

Girolamo Romanino

Triangular gilded panel showing a winged angel with a halo and blue patterned robe, holding a Latin greeting scroll.

The Angel of the Annunciation

Matteo Giovanetti, 1340

Nativity scene with Mary, Joseph, infant Christ, ox, donkey and an angel, with shepherds in a landscape behind.

The Birth of Christ

Bernardino Luini, 1520

Painting of a bearded saint with an open book inside a stone cartouche wreathed in flowers, with cherubs above.

Saint Ignatius in a cartouche with flowers and cherubs

Cornelis Schut, 1643

Gold-ground panel of the Virgin in a dark mandorla with four angels, a kneeling man reaching up to receive her girdle.

Descent of Mary's Girdle to the Apostle Thomas

Maso di Banco, 1335

Grey-toned painting of St. Anna teaching young Mary to read, with St. Peter holding a key and St. Anthony with a lily.

St. Anna, accompanied by St. Peter and St. Anthony of Padua, instructs the young Mary in reading the Holy Bible; Kat.…

Giambattista Pittoni, 1748

Gilded Gothic panel showing Christ enthroned above angels and falling dark demons tumbling toward a dark mass below.

The Fall of the Rebel Angels

Master of the Rebel Angels, 1340

Oil painting of the crucifixion with the Trinity above and many kneeling saints, angels and donors around the cross.

Allegory of the Crucifixion with Jesuit Saints (Alegoría de la Crucifixión con santos jesuitas)

Francisco Antonio Vallejo, 1770

Painting of the Virgin and Child with a kneeling donor in prayer, set before a landscape with castles and mountains.

Madonna and Child with Donor

Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, 1493

Bronzino's Holy Family with St. Anne and infant St. John: Mary, Joseph and Anne with two nude infants before a landscape.

Holy Family with St. Anne and the Infant St. John

Gothic altarpiece panel of the Crucifixion with Mary, saints, a crowned king and a city landscape in a gilded frame.

Paris Parliament Crucifixion

André d’Ypres, 1449

Crucifixion scene with Christ on the cross, a kneeling Mary and Saint Francis, angels with chalices, and skulls on the ground

Christ on the cross, adored by Mary and Saint Francis

Filippino Lippi, 1490

Triptych of three hermit saints in fantasy landscapes, with a kneeling saint in pink at center and burning hell at left.

The Hermit Saints Triptych

Hieronymus Bosch, 1493

Painting of a chaotic swarm of falling winged figures under a glowing arc, with crowded armed figures below.

Fall of the Rebel Angels

James Ensor, 1889

Painting of the Deposition of Christ with mourning figures lowering a body wrapped in white cloth against a dark arched backg

Deposition of Christ

Jacob Jordaens, 1665