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Crowd in a forest clearing listens to a preacher gesturing at the center, with a distant landscape and village on the right.

The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist

Pieter Brueghel the Younger, 1566

Painting of a winged angel with a halo seated on a stone tomb, raising one finger, in a white robe against a dark background.

The Angel at the Tomb of Christ

Johan Ludwig Lund, 1846

Cupid (Amor)

Cupid (Amor)

Johann Liss, c. 1630

Dark landscape with a kneeling man beside a skull and book, a leaning cross, trees, and distant snowy mountains under clouds.

Saint Jerome in a Landscape

Alessandro Magnasco, 1701

Painting of a seated woman in red holding fruit beside a child in white and a nun in black veil before a classical column.

Saint Clare of Assisi Adoring Jesus

Reclining male nude with arm raised, resting on red cloth in a loose, colorful green and yellow landscape.

Awakening Faun

Magnus Enckell, 1914

Adoration of the Magi: Mary holds the infant Christ as a kneeling king offers a gift, with attendants and soldiers around.

Adoration of the Magi

Artus Wolffort, 1615

Brown line drawing of a bearded bishop with mitre and crozier inside a haloed inscription, a reconstruction of stained glass.

Saint Augustine. Artistic reconstruction of a stained-glass panel from the Dominican church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Bishop preaching from a pulpit to a crowd of men, women and children in a columned church interior.

Saint Eligius preaches in Antwerp

Ambrosius Francken I, 1588

Watercolor and ink drawing of nude and clothed women gathered in an interior around a reclining nude beneath a floating bouqu

Offering to Venus (Offrande à Vénus)

Jules Pascin, 1922

Painting of the Holy Family with Mary holding a cloth over the infant Christ, Joseph beside them, and a dove in an arch.

The Holy Family

Gian-Francesco de Maineri, 1500

Painting of a red-haired Madonna holding the infant Christ while young Saint John drinks from a bowl in a landscape.

Madonna with Little Saint John

Alessandro Allori, 1601

Madonna in blue mantle holds an open book while the Christ Child leans on her knee, with a castle landscape behind.

Madonna and Child

Filippino Lippi, 1475

Painting of a crucifixion scene with crosses, soldiers on horseback, a crowd, rocky cliffs and a walled city in the distance.

Crucifixion

Pieter Brueghel the Younger

Madonna in blue mantle holds infant Christ before red brocade, with two angels, a golden fountain and a rose garden.

Madonna at the Fountain

Jan van Eyck, 1439

Grayscale painting of Saint Joseph holding the Christ Child, with a lily staff and orb, before a landscape and column.

Joseph and Christ as a Child

Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato, 1640

Painting of the dead Christ held by Mary in blue and a companion in green against a blue sky.

The Lamentation: The corpse of Christ held by Mary and St. John

Giovanni Bellini, 1490

Painting of Perseus on a winged white horse attacking a sea monster to free a chained nude woman on a rock.

Perseus Freeing Andromeda

Giuseppe Cesari, 1594

Painting of a flower garland with roses and thistles framing a sculpted seated Christ in a stone cartouche.

Christ in distress, sitting on the cold stone in a cartouche, surrounded by roses, thistles and other flowers

Erasmus Quellinus II, 1645

Reclining nude woman with long auburn hair holding a white swan on blue drapery, painted in loose brushstrokes.

Leda and the Swan (Léda au cygne)

Paul Cézanne, 1880

Black-and-white reproduction of the Baptism of Christ with John the Baptist pouring water over Christ in a river landscape.

Baptism of christ

Marco Palmezzano, 1534

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Workshop of Sandro Botticelli, c. 1490

Painting of a bearded prophet in red, a veiled woman with sticks, and a child before a walled city and hills.

Der Prophet Elias und die Witwe von Sarepta

Jan Matsys, 1565

Nude male figure with arms raised high against a dark background, lit dramatically, in a crucifixion-like pose.

Crucifixion

William Merritt Chase, 1870

Wooded landscape with a river, wooden footbridge, two figures, sheep, village buildings and a windmill under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with Prophet Elijah and the Widow of Zarephath

Gillis d'Hondecoeter, 1613

Three panels of evangelists writing at desks with an ox, a lion and a winged angel beside them.

Lucas van Leyden - The Evangelists, na 1518, 204-206

Lucas van Leyden

Painting of a reclining nude woman with a winged Cupid kissing her cheek on a white bed against dark drapery.

Venus door Amor gekust

Adriaen van der Werff, 1700

Brown-toned panel of a crowned woman and a man giving alms to kneeling beggars beneath gothic tracery.

Saint Laurens and Saint Elizabeth

Bernard van Orley, 1517

Painting of a dancing nymph and a seated flute-playing shepherd beside a ruin, set among dark trees.

A Nymph Dancing to a Shepherd's Flute-Playing

Adriaen van der Werff, 1718

Painting of a blue-clad youth with iridescent wings on a path, watched by a barefoot boy with a flute among sheep in a field.

Following the Angel - Triptych (Central Part)

Jacek Malczewski, 1901