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Stylized blue and yellow painting of a golden figure with horns amid swirling concentric rings and smaller nude figures.

Apollo - Copernicus solar system

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1904

Painting of winged angels with women and children in a patterned landscape of flowering trees and brown mountains.

Angels

Charles Prendergast, 1917

Baroque painting of a haloed woman gesturing as bearded philosophers in red and green robes debate beside an open book.

Saint Catherine of Alexandria in discussion with the fifty philosophers

Peter Ykens, 1688

Painting of nymphs bathing in a forest stream while a hunter with dogs stands near a tree at left.

Diana bathing with her nymphs with the stories of Actaeon and Callisto

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1635

Painting of a reclining winged angel gazing upward on a stone pedestal against a black background.

Untitled (Angel)

Annie Cauley, 1870

Painting of a bloodied man in a white robe lying on dark barren ground under a dim, cloudy dusk sky.

Saint Stephen

Constantin Meunier, 1867

Classical landscape with a river, dancing figures, a lyre player, a ruined temple, and distant mountains under a pale sky.

Apollo and the Seasons (Classical Landscape)

Welsh Richard Wilson, 1770

Painting of a small boat with crew fighting to control sails and ropes in a violent storm on dark, churning waves.

Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1633

Saint Peter Repentant

Saint Peter Repentant

Georges de La Tour, 1645

Oil portrait of a seated woman in a black dress and white ruff praying, with a standing woman behind her gesturing.

Barbara Kegeleers with Saint Barbara

Cornelis de Vos, 1620

Painting of Saint James on a white horse, wearing a black hat and halo, framed by red drapery.

Saint James (Santiago)

School of José Aragon, 1830

Rembrandt's 1661 self-portrait as the Apostle Paul: an older man in a white turban holding an open book against a dark backgr

Self-portrait as the Apostle Paul

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1661

Painting of a winged archangel with a sword and scales standing over a dark demon, on a pale background with red and gold bor

Archangel Saint Michael (San Miguel)

Pedro Antonio Fresquís, 1810

Saint George on a white horse spearing a dragon while a nude woman and a sheep stand nearby under a stormy sky.

Saint George

Gillis Coignet, 1581

Painting of the dead Christ on a white cloth, mourned by figures in colorful robes, with three crosses on a hill behind.

The Lamentation

Ambrosius Francken I, 1573

Crucifixion panel with Christ, Mary, Mary Magdalene, two thieves and a kneeling monk before a castle landscape.

Crucifixion

Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, 1500

Painting of a bearded saint in a white robe and red cape holding a crozier, framed by red drapery and a black border.

Saint Raymond Nonnatus (San Ramon Nonato)

José Aragon, 1830

Oval painting of a winged archangel in the sky above tumbling, falling figures in warm browns and greens.

Saint Michael Defeats the Devil

Eugène Delacroix, 1850

Loose blue-toned painting of two robed figures on a rooftop beside a dark dome, with a pale horizon behind them.

Study for Christ and Nicodemus on a Rooftop

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1920

Painting of a stone chapel with a tower beside red-roofed village houses, with figures working in a green field under an over

Saint Anne Chapel in Oudergem

Jean-Baptiste Degreef, 1885

Painting of Christ as Man of Sorrows with crown of thorns, eyes closed, arms resting on a ledge with a rope.

Christ as Man of Sorrows

Johannes Emilius Phaff, 1807

Painted panel of a haloed saint in red robe holding a cross, with a crab in the arched top and light rays.

Saint Jerome (San Geronimo)

The A. J. Santero, 1825

Painting of a red-haired woman with pearl headband, gold jewelry and bare shoulders against a black background.

Venus

Workshop of Lucas Cranach, 1540

Loose painted study of robed figures, one kneeling in the foreground, against a yellow wall.

Study, Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1900

Folk painting of a winged archangel with halo and cross-topped staff, framed by columns with flower urns and zigzag borders.

Archangel Saint Raphael (San Raphael)

José Rafael Aragón, 1840

Oil painting of the Adoration of the Magi: a kneeling king in gold brocade offers coins to the Christ Child seated with Mary.

The adoration of the Magi (Matthew 2:1-12)

Abraham Janssens I, 1616

Painting of the Annunciation: an angel in yellow gestures to the kneeling Virgin Mary in red beneath a golden dove.

Annunciation

Two kneeling haloed saints on a gold background: a bishop with a crozier and Saint Lawrence with a palm frond and gridiron.

A Bishop Saint and Saint Lawrence

Gherardo di Jacopo, 1404

Renaissance painting of the Virgin and Child in a shell niche with a kneeling family group on a patterned carpet.

Darmstadt Madonna

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1526

Gilded panel painting of a haloed woman before a crowned, bearded emperor on a throne, with attendants under a gothic arch.

Saint Katherine of Alexandria before the Roman Emperor

Nicolás Solana, 1400