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Landscape painting of a bearded hermit in rocky mountains, with a stone bridge, travelers, sheep and a distant castle.

Mountainous Landscape with Saint Jerome

Paul Bril, 1592

Painting of the Virgin Mary nursing the infant Christ, with an elderly man in a blue hood behind them in an arched interior.

The Holy Family

Joos van Cleve, 1521

Black and white view of a forest scene where nymphs flee from bearded satyrs beside a stream, with dogs and a dead deer.

Diana and her Nymphs surprised by Satyrs

Painting of Saint Jerome kneeling beside an open book, skull and crucifix, with a lion and a landscape behind him.

Saint Jerome

Palma il Giovane, 1595

Oval painting of the Virgin and infant Christ surrounded by shepherds, cattle, and angels above classical ruins.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Valerio Castello, 1655

Reclining woman with red hair holds a sickle and wheat beside a stone pedestal, with pink blossoms and a column behind her.

Muse of Agriculture

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1893

Painting of the Wedding at Cana with Christ seated at a banquet among guests, servants, a dog and a cat.

The Wedding at Cana

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, c. 1686

Painting of nude Eve holding an apple beside a serpent in a tree, with a deer resting at her side.

Eve

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1533-37

Young man in dark coat and wide-brimmed hat reading a book by a bed, with an open window showing a hillside.

Young Clergyman Reading

Martin Rørbye, 1836

Gold-ground panel of Saint John the Evangelist in blue tunic and red mantle, holding a book and quill under a Gothic arch.

Saint John the Evangelist

Lippo Memmi, 1330

Painting of nude Christ as Man of Sorrows, crowned with thorns, flanked by two angels against a red background.

Christ as Man of Sorrows with angels

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1532

Mannerist painting of Vulcan seated with a shield in a vaulted forge, surrounded by nude smiths, putti and a helmeted Minerva

Vulcan's Forge

Giorgio Vasari, 1540

Painting of a young Christ in red and grey gesturing among bearded doctors in red caps holding books.

Christ among the Doctors

Hans Hoffmann, 1550

Painting of nude bathing nymphs by a river with a ruined arch, a huntress with a dog, and a wide hazy landscape.

Bathing nymphs

Daniel Vertangen, 1618

Ceiling fresco of saints ascending through clouds with angels and trumpeters beneath gilded coffered panels.

Apotheosis of Saints Faustinus, Jovita, Benedict and Scholastica

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1754

Painting of the Nativity with Mary, Joseph, the infant Christ, a kneeling shepherd, a boy with a dog, and a distant hilltop t

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Vincenzo Catena, 1520

Virgin and Child with two saints in a painted interior with blue cloak, pink gown, green and orange garments.

Madonna and child with saints John the baptist en Joseph

Vincenzo Catena, 1520

Pastel study of a robed figure raising his arms in a stormy boat while rowers look up at churning waves.

Christ Calms the Storm, study for the altarpiece in Raahe church

Eero Järnefelt, 1925

Painted panel of the Virgin and Child flanked by two haloed female saints against a gold background.

Virgin and Child with Saints Margaret and Catherine of Siena

Guidoccio Cozzarelli, 1490

Panel painting of Saint Flora in a black veil and white wimple against a gold background, with angels in the frame corners.

Saint Flora, One of Two Panels from an Altarpiece

Master of Saints Flora and Lucilla, 1310

Tibetan scroll painting of a seated Buddhist master in red robes with a green halo, flowers and clouds behind, and attendants

Indian Buddhist Master Shantarakshita (725-788 CE), Included with a Seven-Part Set of the Sixteen Arhats (Elders)

Unknown artist, 19th century

Hanging scroll of seated Kannon in white robes beside a bamboo branch in a blue vase, with a halo behind.

Kannon

Shibata Zeshin, 19th century

Portrait of a young woman with wavy blonde hair and blue eyes in a white blouse against a dark painted background.

World Mother (Madonna)

Juho Forsell, 1937

Hanging scroll of seated Buddha above two bodhisattvas on a lion and elephant, against a brown background.

Buddhist triad: Sakyamuni, Manjusri and Samantabhadra

Sumiyoshi Gukei, 1700

Christ on the Cross

Christ on the Cross

El Greco, c. 1600-1610

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, a kneeling king in gold robe, and a landscape with horsemen.

Adoration of the Magi

Jan van Scorel, c. 1519

Gold-ground panel of the Virgin in blue mantle seated on a throne, holding the Christ Child who touches her cheek.

Virgin and Child Enthroned

Taddeo Gaddi, 1345

Ink and color handscroll showing small figures in a riverside landscape, a house interior, and a haloed Jizo figure.

Miracles performed by the bodhisattva Jizo (copy of a section of a handscroll)

Kano Tan'yu, 1627

Miniature painting of a seated woman in a red shawl with a child holding an open book under a tree.

A Christian subject: The Madonna and Child

Probably by Farrukh Beg, 1610

Miniature painting of a blue-skinned figure before a seated woman in a courtyard with attendants, a fountain, and a white pav

Page from a Dispersed Rasikapriya (Lover's Breviary)