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Painting of the Virgin and Child with a kneeling donor and two female saints in an arcaded hall with a city view.

Virgin and Child, with Saints and Donor

Jan van Eyck, 1441

Exterior panels of an altarpiece showing the Annunciation, prophets, sibyls, two Saint Johns and kneeling donors in Gothic ni

The Ghent Altarpiece

Jan van Eyck, 1432

Predella Panel from an Altarpiece: St. Catherine of Siena Invested with the Dominican Habit

Predella Panel from an Altarpiece: St. Catherine of Siena Invested with the Dominican Habit

Giovanni di Paolo, 1460s

Painting of Christ being baptized by John the Baptist in a river, with angels, a dove, and nude figures on the bank.

The baptism of Christ

Peter Paul Rubens, 1604

Small oil painting of a rural road scene with a woman and child on a donkey and resting travelers beside a picnic.

Landscape with the Holy Family

Gillis Mostaert, 1573

Bacchus and Ariadne

Bacchus and Ariadne

Henry Bone, 1808-11

Painting of the Madonna in a dark robe and gold halo holding a child with a gold halo against a gold and white background.

Madonna and Child, after Cimabue

Helene Schjerfbeck, 1932

Landscape painting of a sower walking a field, reclining figures in the foreground, and a village with a church tower beyond.

The Sower, Parable of Christ

Master of the Prodigal Son, 1551

Crowd of people drinking and gathering water at a rock, with a figure pointing toward it under a dramatic cloudy sky.

Moses schlägt Wasser aus dem Felsen

Painting of Apollo reclining and gesturing to a young man beside white horses, with figures and a blue sky behind.

Apollo Granting Phaeton Permission to Drive the Chariot of the Sun

Johann Michael Rottmayr, c. 1695

Painting of dead Christ on a rock with grieving women and a man in red beside a cave under a cloudy sky.

The lamentation of Christ

Anthony van Dyck, 1629

Forest hunting scene with hunters, dogs, a horse and a pile of slain boar, hares and birds in the foreground.

Jagdbeute der Diana

Hendrik van Balen - Werkstatt oder Umkreis, 1620

Risen Christ stands above a skull and serpent, flanked by angels, a soldier with a flag, two bearded saints with books, and a

Christ Triumphant

Maerten de Vos, 1590

The Crucifixion

The Crucifixion

Andrea da Firenze, c. 1360s

Painting of a reclining nude woman on draped cloth in a dark, shadowed forest clearing with rocks and trees.

Ariadne

Wyatt Eaton, 1880

Circular ceiling painting of Apollo, Minerva and the nine muses among clouds, with putti and musical instruments.

Apollo Enthroned in the Clouds, with Minerva and the Nine Muses

Painting of a crowded church where pilgrims kneel and pray around a tomb, with a lit altar in the arched background.

Miraculous Events at the Grave of Saint Bruno the Carthuisian

Frans Francken the Younger, 1630

Grisaille painting of a bearded smith striking metal on an anvil in a workshop with hanging tools and a brick hearth.

Saint Eligius in his smithy

Ambrosius Francken I, 1588

Virgin and Child Adored by Saints Mary Magdalene and Nicolas of Bari; Christ Crucified with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist

Virgin and Child Adored by Saints Mary Magdalene and Nicolas of Bari; Christ Crucified with the Virgin and Saint John…

Sano di Pietro, 1400s

Painting of rows of tepees on green plains beside a wide river, with mounted riders on rolling hills under a pale sky.

Fort Pierre, Mouth of the Teton River, 1200 Miles above Saint Louis

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a plains ceremony with a figure beside a pole bearing a bison skull, drummers, and a watching crowd.

Self-torture in a Sioux Religious Ceremony

George Catlin, 1830

Gilded panel with the Baptism of Christ above and a banquet scene with a severed head below, in medieval style.

Panel from Saint John Retable

Domingo Ram, 1464

Medieval altarpiece panel showing Saint John the Baptist preaching in a landscape and before crowned figures in a gilded hall

Panel of Saint John the Baptist with Scenes from His Life

Domingo Ram, 1464

Gilded religious panel: an angel appears to a kneeling priest at an altar while robed onlookers stand in a Gothic arcaded int

Panel with the Angel Appearing to Zacharias (from a Retable depicting Saint John the Baptist and scenes from his life)

Domingo Ram, 1464

Drawing of a crowned saint in a long robe beside a dragon under a Gothic arch, with a patterned background.

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

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Painting of Mars and Venus surprised in bed by Vulcan, with Cupid, a green canopy, and gods in the clouds above.

Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan.

Joachim Wtewael, 1601

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi: Mary holds the infant Christ while kneeling and standing figures in a dim stable gathe

The Adoration of the Magi

Benjamin Gerritsz. Cuyp

Reclining nude woman asleep on a bed with red drapes, Cupid behind her, golden coins falling and an old attendant nearby.

Danae

Jacques Blanchard, 1630

Painting of a kneeling bearded saint in a dark habit as a woman in pink and blue appears, with cherubs in the sky.

Mary Appears to Saint William of Aquitaine

Painting of ruined stone buildings, trees, a small waterfall and three walking figures under a cloudy evening sky.

Landscape with Christ on the way to Emmaus

Charles Cornelisz. de Hooch, 1627