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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

3,775 works

Painting of a bearded saint with a golden halo reading a red book with gold decoration against a gold background.

Saint (Mark?) Reading

Bartolomeo Vivarini, 1470

Gilded panel painting of the Virgin and Child with three saints in Gothic arches above, against gold backgrounds.

Madonna and Child

Segna di Buonaventura, ca. 1320

Altarpiece of the Virgin in glory with Saint Michael spearing a demon and Saint Benedict holding a book, with musical angels

The Assumption of the Virgin with Saints Michael and Benedict

Luca Signorelli, ca. 1493-96

Painting of the Madonna in red and blue robes holding a nude infant, with trees and a distant landscape behind her.

Madonna and Child

Titian, 1508

Gold-ground panel of Saint Andrew with halo, red cross and book, in green mantle and red tunic, arched frame.

Saint Andrew

Simone Martini, ca. 1317-19

Painting of the Virgin Mary gazing down at the nude Christ Child on her lap, against an ornate gilded background with cherubs

Madonna and Child

Luca Signorelli, ca. 1505-7

Painting of a bearded man in animal skin raising one arm beside a cross and banner, with a lamb in the foreground.

Saint John the Baptist Preaching

Mattia Preti, 1650

Painting of Saint Bartholomew with a halo, holding a knife and a book against a gold background in an arched frame.

Saint Bartholomew

Simone Martini, ca. 1317-19

Painting of Christ in red robe and blue mantle, raising one hand in blessing before a green curtain.

Christ Blessing

Andrea Solario, ca. 1524

Painting of the Madonna with a gold halo, red dress, lace collar and dark cloak against a gold background.

Head of the Madonna

Franciabigio, 1509

Painting of Saint Matthias with a gold halo, red mantle and green book against a gold background in an arched frame.

Saint Matthias

Simone Martini, ca. 1317-19

Painting of a woman in a jeweled blue headdress holding a silver platter with a severed bearded head, against a black backgro

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist

Andrea Solario, ca. 1507-9

Painting of an angel beside a kneeling youth holding a fish, with a dog, hills, a city and river landscape behind.

Tobias and the Angel

Davide Ghirlandaio, 1479

Gold-ground panel of Saint Thomas holding a red book and pointing upward, with a haloed head and teal cloak.

Saint Thomas

Simone Martini, ca. 1317-19

Painting of the Virgin's birth with a glowing infant, attendant women, a kneeling servant, and a brass ewer in an interior.

The Birth of the Virgin

Francesco Solimena, ca. 1690

Painting of a funeral procession with clergy carrying a red-draped bier past a tree and mourners in colorful robes.

The Burial of Saint Zenobius

Davide Ghirlandaio, 1479

Haloed cleric raises a chalice before a vision of Christ with Passion instruments, attended by two kneeling clerics in an arc

The Mass of Saint Gregory

Spanish Painter

Winged archangel Michael in armor and red cloak stands on a fallen horned demon, raising a sword against a gold sky.

Saint Michael the Archangel

Ignacio de Ries, 1640s

Virgin Mary in a red mantle holds the Christ Child in a hedged garden while five angels hold a crown above her.

Virgin and Child

Jan Provoost, 1495

Painting of the Virgin and Child enthroned with two saints, one holding a book beside a lion, under a Gothic canopy.

Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Catherine and Jerome

Spanish Painter

Oil painting of an angel and a young figure treating an elderly blind man's eyes, with a dog and fish in the foreground.

Tobias Curing His Father's Blindness

Bernardo Strozzi, 1630-35

Painting of Christ crowned with thorns, bound and holding a reed, beside the grieving Virgin in a dark hood, before a gothic

Christ Crowned with Thorns (Ecce Homo), and the Mourning Virgin

Adriaen Isenbrandt, 1530

Gothic gilded altarpiece with a central Pietà, four painted saints on side panels, and a carved Virgin and Child below.

Virgin and Child with the Pietà and Saints

Spanish Painter

Christ and the Twelve Apostles

Taddeo di Bartolo, ca. 1400

Gold-ground panel of mourners with haloes lowering the dead Christ toward an open tomb beneath a wooden cross.

The Lamentation

Master of the Codex of Saint George, 1330

Painting of a haloed youth teaching seated scholars with open books on a staircase, with two haloed figures watching in a Got

Christ among the Doctors

Spanish Painter

Oil sketch of the Adoration of the Magi by Tiepolo, with Mary and the Christ child before a kneeling king and classical ruins

The Adoration of the Magi

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, late 1750s

Painting of the Annunciation: a kneeling angel in red greets Mary in blue beside a Gothic doorway, with a dove and lilies.

The Annunciation

Petrus Christus, 1450

Medieval painting of an executioner presenting a severed head on a platter to a richly dressed woman before a city wall.

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist

Spanish Painter

Tiepolo sketch of a kneeling saint praying as angels and a bearded figure with a globe float above a city and plague victims.

Saint Thecla Praying for the Plague-Stricken

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1758-59