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Blue-toned painting of a kneeling woman by water at moonlight, with a standing figure and a distant sailboat.

Moses in the Bullrushes

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1920

Study for "The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian" (for the Augustinian monastery at Diessen, Germany)

Study for "The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian" (for the Augustinian monastery at Diessen, Germany)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1739

Kneeling winged angel reaching toward a lily in a garden with cypress trees and a distant landscape under a pale sky.

Angel, detail copy after Leonardo da Vinci's painting Annunciation

Magnus Enckell, 1895

The Crucifixion of St. Andrew, with St. Francis and St. Paul below

The Crucifixion of St. Andrew, with St. Francis and St. Paul below

Berlinghiero Berlinghieri, c. 1230s

Painting of a nude woman standing on a scallop shell at sea, with winged figures blowing in from the left and an attendant at

The Birth of Venus

Sandro Botticelli, 1485

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Christ Child, a kneeling king in red, and a crowd of richly dressed

Adoration of the Magi Alternative title(s): Zanobi Altarpiece

Sandro Botticelli, 1474

Expressionist painting of a haloed crucified Christ above a landscape, with nude mourners grieving in the foreground and a sh

(Crucifixion)

Carl Newman, 1930

Painting of the Madonna holding the Christ Child with two angels, cypress trees and a landscape behind.

Madonna and Child and Two Angels

Sandro Botticelli, 1468

Virgin Mary in blue mantle holds Christ Child beside an open book, with a fruit bowl and landscape window behind them.

The Virgin and Child (The Madonna of the Book)

Sandro Botticelli, 1479

Painting of the Nativity with Mary in blue kneeling over the infant Christ in a cave, shepherds approaching, and a river land

Adoration of the Shepherds

Giorgione, 1505

Botticelli painting of three miracles of Saint Zenobius: a bier, mourning crowd, kneeling figures and horse in a Renaissance

Three miracles of Saint Zenobius

Sandro Botticelli, 1500

Saint Mary Magdalen

Saint Mary Magdalen

Simon Vouet, c. 1630

Oil painting of an elderly bearded man in blue robes with a winged angel leaning on his shoulder against a dark background.

Saint Peter released from prison

tekijä ei tiedossa, 1600

Saint John the Baptist

Saint John the Baptist

Dieric Bouts, c. 1475-85

Painting of two armored men beside nymphs by a stream, with a fruit table, black dog, and trees in a hazy landscape.

Carlo and Ubaldo Resisting the Enchantments of Armida's Nymphs

Giovanni Antonio Guardi, 1750

Front cover of a late medieval leather-bound book with embossed medallions, floral borders, and two brass clasps.

Gospel Book with Evangelist Portraits

Master of the House-Book, c. 1480

Painting of the Virgin nursing the nude Christ child beneath grapevines, with a rocky landscape and village behind.

Madonna of Humility

Jan Sanders van Hemessen, 1544

Painting of Christ with a halo, long brown hair and beard, red robe, and raised hand against a dark background.

Head of Christ

Palma Vecchio, 1590

Pen and wash drawing of a bowed man kneeling as an executioner raises an axe, watched by armored soldiers and a crowd.

The Martyrdom of Saint Paul

Taddeo Zuccari, 1557

Painting of Saint Sebastian, nude and bound, pierced by arrows, against a black background above a carved stone parapet.

Saint Sebastian

Amico Aspertini, 1505

Saint Paul the Hermit

Saint Paul the Hermit

Mattia Preti, c. 1662-64

Medieval miniature of a crowned queen with attendants, gold coins and a chest, and a battle scene with knights in the backgro

Single Miniature Excised from Boccaccio's Des Cleres et nobles femmes: Queen Medusa and Her Court

Maître François, c. 1470

Painting of the Crucifixion with Christ on the cross, two angels, a dove above, and two kneeling mourners before rocky hills.

Crucifixion

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1920

Dark painting of a glowing amber dusk sky over hills, with small reddish female figures in a shadowed landscape.

Dance of the Wood Nymphs

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1840

Painting of a winged white horse rising through golden clouds, watched by a kneeling figure and a draped woman on dark ground

Pegasus Departing

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1900

Painting of a sunlit courtyard with a horseback rider, a turbaned man reading a paper, merchants in a carved shop window, and

Hindu Merchants

Edwin Lord Weeks, 1880

Painting of the Madonna in a red robe and dark veil holding a nude standing child on a draped ledge.

Madonna and Child

Flemish Peter Paul Rubens, 1610

Woman in white gown reclining on red couch by the sea, gazing at a distant ship, with an open jewelry box beside her.

Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus

Angelica Kauffmann, 1774

Gold-ground panel of a crowned saint enthroned beside two standing red-robed figures and two kneeling donors in prayer.

Saint Catherine Disputing and Two Donors

Cenni di Francesco, 1380

Gilded Gothic altarpiece with Christ crowning the Virgin at center, flanked by saints and angels, and predella scenes below.

Polyptych with Coronation of the Virgin and Saints

Cenni di Francesco, 1390