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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

3,775 works

Painting of a saint's burial: a bishop and haloed mourners beside a pink-shrouded body on a grey tomb, under a blue sky.

The Burial of Saint Martha

Sano di Pietro, 1460

Candlelit painting of an old bearded man gesturing beside a woman in a headscarf and a helmeted soldier in red.

The Denial of Saint Peter

Caravaggio, 1610

Painting of a haloed saint in a red robe holding a staff against an ornate gold background.

Saint Julian

Taddeo Gaddi, 1340s

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child in a stable, kneeling kings, a white horse, and a retinue.

The Adoration of the Magi

Sano di Pietro, 1470

Gold-ground panel of a kneeling nun reaching toward the Virgin and Christ Child, with haloed saints gathered behind them.

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Siena

Giovanni di Paolo

Oil painting of the Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist, with putti picking fruit from a tree in a landscape.

The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist

Nicolas Poussin, ca. 1627

Circular gold-ground panel of the Madonna holding the Christ Child, who holds a small bird, in blue and red robes.

Madonna and Child

Sano di Pietro, 1450

Painting of a haloed saint in a black cloak exchanging a red heart with Christ appearing in gold above a rooftop.

Saint Catherine of Siena Exchanging Her Heart with Christ

Giovanni di Paolo

Gold-ground triptych with the Crucifixion at center, Virgin and Saint John below, and saints and Madonna with Child on wings.

The Crucifixion

Paolo Uccello, probably mid-1450s

Illuminated initial D with gilded border showing haloed Saint Agatha, tongs, a soldier with an SPQR shield, and a seated judg

Martyrdom of Saint Agatha in an Initial D

Sano di Pietro, 1470

Gilded frame with Virgin and Child, an elderly man and an angel, and a lunette of the Man of Sorrows between two angels.

The Man of Sorrows with Two Angels

Francesco di Giorgio, ca. 1470

Tiepolo painting of the Holy Family with a donkey and a kneeling winged angel beside a rocky cliff and sea.

The Flight into Egypt

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1767-70

Gold-ground painting of the Madonna and Child with four saints and two angels in the arch above.

Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome, Bernardino, John the Baptist, Anthony of Padua and two angels

Sano di Pietro, 1469

Seated woman in silk gown holds a palm frond and looks up at a white dove in a dim prison interior.

Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Prison

Paolo Veronese, ca. 1585

Painting of the Madonna with the Christ Child and infant Saint John holding a lamb, in a rocky landscape.

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Santi di Tito, early 1570s

Sano di Pietro's gold-ground panel of the Madonna and Child with saints and four angels above.

Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist, Jerome, Peter Martyr, and Bernardino and Four Angels

Sano di Pietro, 1425

Painting of Salvator Mundi seated on clouds in blue and red robes, holding an orb and cross, surrounded by cherubs.

Salvator Mundi

Domenico Fetti, ca. 1622-23

Dark painting of mourners carrying the dead body of Christ at night, lit by a torch, with a kneeling woman in red at right.

The Burial of Christ

Annibale Carracci, 1595

Saint John the Baptist enthroned with a halo, holding a lamb on a cushion, in a gilded Gothic canopy painting.

Panel with Saint John the Baptist Enthroned from Retable

Domingo Ram, 1450

Two panels: Saint John the Baptist with a lamb beside trees, and Saint Francis kneeling as a winged seraph appears above him.

Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Gerard David, ca. 1485-90

Virgin Mary in blue and rose robes on clouds above kneeling saints and clergy adoring her in a dusky landscape.

The Virgin Adored by Saints

Scarsellino, ca. 1609

Medieval painted panel of the Crucifixion with mourners at left, bystanders at right, and gilded haloes against a hilly lands

Panel with The Crucifixion from Retable

Domingo Ram, 1450

Painting of the dead Christ on a white shroud, mourned by the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene and two other figures.

The Lamentation

Ludovico Carracci, ca. 1582

Painting of the Virgin in red and green robes holding the nude Christ Child, with a landscape with trees behind them.

Madonna and Child

Francesco Granacci, ca. 1520

Painting of the Virgin, Joseph, and two kneeling shepherds adoring the infant Christ, with a landscape of city and mountains.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Medieval painting of Christ tied to a column with a crown of thorns while two flagellants with rods stand beside him on gold

The Flagellation

Master of the Berswordt Altar, ca. 1400

Triptych painting of the Crucifixion with grieving figures, a risen Christ and soldiers at a tomb, and a heavenly gathering.

The Crucifixion

Francesco Granacci, ca. 1510

Crucifixion scene with Christ between two thieves, kneeling donors, saints, and angels under a blue sky.

The Crucifixion with Donors and Saints Peter and Margaret

Cornelis Engebrechtsz, 1525

Painting of attendants bathing an infant in a basin beside a red bed, with a peacock and colonnade at left.

The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist; (reverse) Trompe-l'oeil with Painting of The Man of Sorrows

Bernard van Orley, ca. 1514-15

Bearded friar in brown habit looks upward in a cave beside a crucifix, with a twilight landscape behind him.

Saint Francis

Federico Barocci, ca. 1600-1604