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Painted manuscript folio showing Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara in red and white robes among devotees, flanked by columns of bla

The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara Dispensing Boons: Folio from an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Manuscript

Mahavihara Master, early 12th century

Krishna plays a flute on a lotus pedestal under a flowering tree, flanked by three women bearing offerings against a red back

Krishna fluting, folio from a Dasavatar series

the Master of the Court of Mankot, 1720

Painting of a crowned blue-skinned figure and a group of devotees pointing upward at a crescent moon on a hillside.

Krishna and his family admire a solar eclipse, perhaps a page from the “Kangra/Modi” <em>Bhagavata Purana</em>

First generation after Nainsukh, 1770

Saint Ambrose

Saint Ambrose

Francisco Goya, c. 1796-99

Two haloed angels with gold nimbuses stand side by side in a painted manuscript illumination with a decorative border.

Illumination Excised from a Choir Book: Two Female Angels

Niccolo di ser Sozzo Tegliacci, c. 1332

Clio, Muse of History

Clio, Muse of History

Charles Meynier, 1800

St. Francis Kneeling before Christ on the Cross

St. Francis Kneeling before Christ on the Cross

Sassetta, 1437-1444

Painting of St. John the Evangelist with golden halo, holding a scroll and quill, in red cloak against a dusk landscape.

St. John the Evangelist

Victorine Nordenswan, 1866

Painting of a crowned bearded man in red cloak seated beside a woman in dark gown holding a naked infant against green draper

Pharaoh's daughter presents Moses

Jacopo Vignali, 1592

Venus pours a healing light on the wounded Aeneas while Cupid and an older man attend him in a cloudy landscape.

Venus Healing Aeneas

Merry-Joseph Blondel, c. 1820

Painting of Saint Blaise as a bishop in jeweled mitre and green cope, holding a wool comb and candle, with hills behind.

Saint Blaise

Pedro Fernández de Murcia, 1517

Ink painting of Bodhidharma, bald and bearded, gazing upward, with calligraphy and a red seal above on a hanging scroll.

Portrait of Daruma

Fūgai Ekun, early 17th century

Fragment of a gilded panel showing a veiled woman's head with lowered eyes, inside a dotted gold halo.

Madonna, Fragment

Gentile da Fabriano, 1425

Painting of a vaulted church interior where sick and crippled figures approach a white marble tomb on steps.

The Crippled and Sick Cured at the Tomb of Saint Nicholas

Gentile da Fabriano, 1425

Paris

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, c. 1787

Half-length portrait of a red-haired woman with a white headband and golden shawl against a dark background.

Helen

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, c. 1787

Baptism of Christ

Baptism of Christ

Jacopo Tintoretto, 1580s

Painting of Krishna in a tree above bathing women, with herders and cattle on a green hillside, framed in red.

"Krishna Steals the Clothing of the Gopis (Female Cowherds)", Folio from the Devotional Text of the Bhagavata Purana

The Early Master at the Court of Mandi, ca. 1640

Pair of hanging scrolls: gold-on-black moonlit gathering beneath pines, and grey mountain landscape with seated figures aroun

Luring the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Out of a Cave with Music; Death of the Historical Buddha

Kôno Bairei, late 19th century

Nude Venus stands on a scallop shell at sea, surrounded by cherubs, nymphs and tritons in a pale, cloudy sky.

The Birth of Venus

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1879

Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ on a throne, surrounded by praying angels, with two kneeling angels swinging golden cen

The Queen of the Angels or The Virgin with Angels

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1900

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Christ Child, kings offering gifts among ivy-covered ruins under a

The Adoration of the Magi

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1530

Painting of the Nativity in a ruined stone building at night, with Mary kneeling, Joseph on a ladder holding a lantern, and a

Nativity

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1507

Painting of the Madonna and Child enthroned between two angels in green robes, one holding a scroll, against a gold and arche

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels

Filippo Lippi, 1440

Painting of the Madonna holding the Christ child, with a winged angel beside them and a rocky landscape behind.

Madonna and Child

Filippo Lippi, 1460

Painting of the Virgin adoring the Christ Child in a rocky landscape, with angels, a dove, and kneeling monk.

Adoration of Camaldoli

Filippo Lippi, 1463

Altarpiece of the enthroned Virgin and Child with angels, John the Baptist and bishop saints under an arched frame.

Altarpiece of the Eight

Filippo Lippi, 1424

Painting of Saint Sebastian supported by two angels, pierced by arrows, against a dark background.

Saint Sebastian

Tanzio da Varallo, 1620

Painting of a fantastical paradise garden with a central fountain, nude figures, animals and strange rock formations.

The Garden of Paradise

Workshop of Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1500-c. 1520

Standing bearded saint with an axe rests a hand on a kneeling donor in white robes before a brick wall and gilded arch.

Saint Matthias (?) and a Donor (recto); Saint Andrew (verso)

Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, c. 1520