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Painting of a winged angel in a blue robe holding a tall cypress tree against a golden cloud background.

Angel Carrying a Cypress (Ángel portando un ciprés)

Juan Correa, 1680

Nude woman seated on a bench with cherubs, a satyr at right, and a cat at lower left, against a green curtain.

Jupiter and Antiope

Vincent Sellaer, 1525

Painting of a kneeling bearded man in red robes comforted by a winged angel in dark blue against a shadowy background.

Christ on the Mount of Olives (Christ’s Fear of Death)

Battistello Caracciolo, 1615

Painting of a kneeling, weeping woman with a halo beside a skull, open book and cross, with a rocky seaside landscape at righ

Saint Mary Magdalene

Gebhard Flatz, 1876

Nativity scene with Mary, Joseph and the Christ Child in a night landscape with angels, a rotunda and glowing sky.

Nativity of Christ

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1520

Painting of a bearded central figure blessing a crowd of children and richly dressed women against a dark blue sky.

Christ Blessing Children

master HB of the Griffon's Head, 1528

Gold-ground religious panel of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, set in a Gothic townscape with onlookers.

Presentation of Christ in the Temple

Gentile da Fabriano, 1423

Domed ceiling fresco with mythological figures, cherubs and flower garlands around a central painted sky opening.

Venus and Adonis

Antoine François Callet, 1774

Mannerist painting of nude Venus kissing Cupid, with putti, masked figures, a white dove and blue drapery behind.

Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time [Allegory of the Triumph of Venus]

Painting of the Virgin holding the infant Christ, flanked by four haloed angels in flower crowns against gold.

Madonna and Child with Four Angels

Master of the Nativity of Castello, 1450

Painting of nymphs dancing in a grassy clearing beneath large trees, with soft light and a distant horizon.

A Morning. The dance of the Nymphs

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1850

Painting of the Virgin and Child flanked by two saints with gold halos against a dark background.

Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Catherine of Alexandria

Pietro Perugino, 1495

Painting of a nude woman with crescent moon descending toward a sleeping nude youth, with a cupid and blue drapery.

Diana and Endymion

Jérôme-Martin Langlois, 1822

Painting of Adonis led by cupids toward a reclining Venus in a wooded river landscape with flying putti.

Adonis Led by Cupids to Venus

Francesco Albani, 1621

Renaissance painting of the Holy Family with Mary in red, Joseph, and two infants, one asleep on a blue cushion.

Panciatichi Holy Family

Christ bound to a column with red wounds and gold halo, a torturer with a rod, and onlookers in a gothic gallery.

Flagellation of Christ

Michael Pacher, 1450

Painting of a young bare-chested man with curly red hair and red drapery, holding an arrow, as Saint Sebastian.

Saint Sebastian

Risen Christ rising with arms raised above sleeping soldiers beside a tomb, with angels and a red billowing cloth.

Resurrection of Christ

Franz Xaver Wagenschön, 1750

Reclining nude woman with a skull and silver ewer, a red urn and distant city behind her, under the inscription EVA PRIMA PAN

Eva Prima Pandora

Jean Cousin, 1550

Annunciation panel: the Virgin Mary in a canopied bed on a gold ground, with two kneeling angels and rays of light.

Annunciation

Bernardo Daddi, 1330

Painting of Christ handing keys to a kneeling Saint Peter on steps, with angels and cherubs in clouds above.

Le Christ donnant les clefs du Paradis à saint Pierre

Giambattista Pittoni, 1730

Painting of an elderly bearded man with raised arms praying as attendants flank him and a battle unfolds in the background.

Moses, um den Sieg betend

Leopold Kupelwieser, 1836

Painting of the Holy Family with the Virgin, Joseph, an elderly woman, and two nude children against a dark background.

The Holy Family

Painting of the Crucifixion with Christ between two thieves, mourning women at left and mounted soldiers at right.

Crucifixion

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1500

Line drawing of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child, with leaf-patterned haloes and decorative borders in brown and blue

The Blessed Virgin Mary with Child. Artistic reconstruction of a stained-glass panel from the Dominican church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Renaissance painting of the Madonna and Child on a throne with armored saints, a kneeling donor, and a garland of fruit.

Madonna della Vittoria

Andrea Mantegna, 1495

Medieval painting of Christ with a halo carrying a cross past a crowd of soldiers, with a woman in green and a city gate behi

Carrying the cross of Christ

Master of the Saint Lambrecht Votive Altarpiece, 1430

Painting of a haloed saint blocking richly dressed visitors at a doorway, with monks, a walled town and a lake behind.

Saint Romuald Forbidding Entry to the Monastery to Emperor Otton III

Fra Angelico, 1430

Painting of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child with an elderly bearded man and other figures against a dark background.

Presentation of Jesus

Giovanni Bellini, 1490

Painting of winged Cupid kissing the forehead of seated Psyche in a hilly landscape, with a butterfly in the sky.

Cupid and Psyche

François Gérard, 1798