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Painting of young ballet dancers in white tutus practicing in a green-walled studio, with a cellist and an older man with a c

The Dance Class

Edgar Degas, 1874

Portrait of a man in a brown coat and white cravat, with a stormy sky and the Colosseum behind him.

Joseph-Antoine Moltedo (born 1775)

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, ca. 1810

Painting of three young women and a child in a rocky green valley with two cows and a dog, by Gustave Courbet.

Young Ladies of the Village

Gustave Courbet, 1851-52

Painting of a lion feeding on prey in a lush jungle with yellow and blue flowers and a rising moon.

The Repast of the Lion

Henri Rousseau, ca. 1907

Young man in a feathered hat playing a lute, with pink sleeves and an open book beside him against a dark background.

Lute Player

Valentin de Boulogne, ca. 1625-26

Painting of a young man in a striped turban and pink silk jacket, glancing over his shoulder, with a rifle and pistol.

Bashi-Bazouk

Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1868-69

Moonlit landscape with a robed figure seated in a glowing stone niche beneath a cliff, steps and trees beside.

Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming

Joseph Wright of Derby, 1779

Standing ruler with halo and prayer beads beside a lion and calf, with angels playing music in clouds above.

"Akbar With Lion and Calf", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Govardhan, verso: ca. 1630; recto: ca. 1530-50

Miniature painting of a ruler on a terrace in a pink robe, with a golden halo, angels above, and a river behind him.

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Chitarman, recto: dated 1627-28; verso: ca. 1530-50

Miniature painting of a seated ruler on a throne with courtiers, attendants, and a pink hilly landscape under a gold sky.

The House of Bijapur

Kamal Muhammad, ca. 1680

A Stallion

Habiballah of Sava, ca. 1601-6

Painting of a Great Indian fruit bat with wings fully spread, brown fur and dark membrane on a pale background.

Great Indian Fruit Bat

Bhawani Das, ca. 1777-82

Medieval painting of the Adoration of the Magi with Mary, the Christ Child, kneeling kings, and gilded haloes.

The Adoration of the Magi

Bartolo di Fredi, ca. 1390

Gold-ground panel of Christ crowning the Virgin Mary, surrounded by angels, with musician angels playing instruments below.

The Coronation of the Virgin

Niccolò di Buonaccorso, ca. 1380

Painting of Saint Anthony the Abbot with a golden halo and staff in a barren landscape with a church and animals.

Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness

Sano di Pietro, ca. 1440

Panel painting: God creates the round world in blue spheres, while an angel expels nude Adam and Eve from a garden of orange

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise

Giovanni di Paolo, 1445

Gold-ground arched panel of the Madonna in blue mantle holding fruit, with the Christ Child reaching toward it.

Madonna and Child

Benvenuto di Giovanni, ca. 1475-85

Gold-ground panel of the Virgin Mary seated in a mandorla, flanked by winged angels in pink, green, and blue robes.

The Assumption of the Virgin

Bernardo Daddi, 1337-38

Panel painting of an angel addressing an elderly priest at a temple altar, with onlookers and a domed Gothic building.

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation

Giovanni di Paolo, ca. 1455-60

Gilded panel painting of the Nativity with kneeling Mary, the infant Christ in a manger, ox, donkey, shepherds and an angel.

The Nativity

Lorenzo Monaco, ca. 1406-10

Painting of the Annunciation: a winged angel with a lily approaches a kneeling Virgin in a columned interior.

The Annunciation

Sandro Botticelli, ca. 1490

Painting of Christ crowning the Virgin Mary on a gold-patterned throne, with angels playing music below.

Coronation of the Virgin

Giovanni di Paolo, ca. 1455

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille

Jacometto Veneziano, ca. 1485-95

Portrait of a Man, possibly Matteo di Sebastiano di Bernardino Gozzadini

Maestro delle Storie del Pane, 1494(?)

Medieval painting of a banquet where a severed head is served on a platter while guests watch and an executioner stands nearb

The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist

Giovanni Baronzio, ca. 1330-35

Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck

Jacometto Veneziano, ca. 1485-95

Two bearded saints with gold halos stand against a gold background, one in a red patterned mantle holding a book.

Saints Bartholomew and Simon

Master of Saint Francis, ca. 1272

Painting of a goldsmith weighing coins at a counter beside a couple, with jewelry, silverware and a convex mirror in the shop

A Goldsmith in his Shop

Petrus Christus, 1449

Painting of the Annunciation: Mary in blue before a book, an angel in red brocade, a dove above, in a tiled room.

The Annunciation

Hans Memling, 1480-89

Two panels showing Christ carrying the cross with soldiers, and the risen Christ beside an open tomb with a sleeping soldier.

Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus

Gerard David, ca. 1510