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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,125 works

Gold-ground religious panel of a standing saint in a dark cloak and cap, with halo, under a Gothic arch.

The Blessed Andrea Gallerani (died 1251)

Giovanni di Paolo, 1447

Standing robed religious figure in black cloak and white habit holding a red book, against a gold Gothic arch background.

The Blessed Ambrogio Sansedoni (1220-1286)

Giovanni di Paolo, 1447

Painting of God over a circular world, with Adam and Eve led from an orange garden by an angel with a flaming sword.

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise

Giovanni di Paolo, 1445

Painting of a kneeling saint praying to Christ in glory while a woman lies ill in a red bed with attendants.

Saint Catherine of Siena Beseeching Christ to Resuscitate Her Mother

Giovanni di Paolo, 1447

Painting of a kneeling saint in grey robes with arms raised toward a floating crucified Christ above a gilded altar.

Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata

Giovanni di Paolo, 1447

Painted panel of an angel and an elderly man at a temple altar, with onlookers and Gothic domes above.

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

Giovanni di Paolo, 1455

Christ crowns the Virgin Mary on a red damask throne, surrounded by gold-haloed angels, with two angels playing music below.

Coronation of the Virgin

Giovanni di Paolo, 1455

Painted saint in a jeweled mitre and gold-ground halo, reading an open book and holding a crozier.

Saint Ambrose

Giovanni di Paolo, 1465

Tempera panel of Madonna and Child with an elderly saint holding a book and a young saint holding a lamb, on gold ground.

Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Agnes

Giovanni di Paolo, 1465

Gilt panel showing a haloed friar in black habit within a laurel and lily wreath, with angels and a bishop above.

The Exultation of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino

Giovanni di Paolo, 1450

Painting of a haloed saint gesturing beside a bed where a woman sits, with onlookers in an arched room.

Saint John the Evangelist Raises Drusiana

Giovanni di Paolo, 1460

Oval painting of a woman having her palm read by a fortune-teller while a gentleman watches, in an interior with a fireplace.

A Couple in an Interior with a Gypsy Fortune-Teller

Jacob Duck, 1632

Seated Buddha with clasped hands beside a shaggy fanged beast, flames and a pale moon behind them on rocky ground.

Shakyamuni Conquering the Demons (Shaka Gōma-zu)

Kawanabe Kyōsai, 1888

Ink painting of two mice on and in a melon, with a bird flying past white hibiscus flowers and grasses.

Mice in a Melon

Kawanabe Kyōsai, 1887

Two rabbits on a rock beneath berry branches, one holding a small dead rodent in its paws, in grey ink and colour.

Rabbits

Kawanabe Kyōsai, 1887

Ink and colour painting of a seated white-robed Guanyin beneath willows, with a gilded vessel and carp in water below.

白衣観音図

Kawanabe Kyōsai, 1887

Ink scroll painting of an eagle with spread wings on rocks, chasing a hare across grass below a misty mountain.

兎を追う鷲図

Kawanabe Kyōsai, 1885

Ink and color painting of a crowded gathering of seated men and women writing and painting on paper in a Japanese interior.

Painting and Calligraphy Gathering at the Nakamurarō in Ryōgoku 両国中村楼書画会之図 (Ryōgoku Nakamurarō shogakai no zu)

Kawanabe Kyōsai, 1876

Nativity scene at night: kneeling Virgin, Christ Child, ox and donkey, shepherds, and a glowing angel above a mountain landsc

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Girolamo da Carpi, 1535

Gold-background panel of the Virgin in blue veil holding the Christ Child in orange robe, with halos and a red scroll.

Madonna and Child

Berlinghiero Berlinghieri, 1230

Painting of the Virgin Mary in a red gown holding the nude Christ child before a rocky background with roses.

Madonna and Child

Francesco Bacchiacca, 1520

Painting of a nude woman with two infants in a landscape of palm trees, a parrot, and a distant arched building.

Eve with Cain and Abel

Francesco Bacchiacca, 1520

Nude Leda stands beside a swan in a wooded landscape as cherubs hatch from broken eggs around her.

Leda and the Swan

Francesco Bacchiacca, 1550

Painting of seven draped women dancing under a swirling starry sky, holding glowing cords aloft.

The Pleiades

Elihu Vedder, 1885

Painting of draped Greek women dancing and waving scarves on a sandy beach by the sea under a cloudy sky.

Greek Girls Bathing

Elihu Vedder, 1872

Small sketch of a rider on a donkey climbing stone steps while companions gesture beside a wall.

The Fable of the Miller, His Son, and the Donkey

Elihu Vedder, 1867

Oil sketch of tall medieval towers and buildings on a hilltop town under blue sky, with a grassy path in the foreground.

San Gimignano

Elihu Vedder, 1836

Black and white reproduction of a painting: a nude woman offers a cup to a winged youth beside a stone balustrade and roses.

The Cup of Love

Elihu Vedder, 1887

Barefoot woman in dark cloak and white shawl stands on a rocky path before pale desert hills under blue sky.

The Lost Mind

Elihu Vedder, 1864

Painting of a dark sea serpent coiled over a grassy sand dune beside a turquoise ocean under a pale pink sky.

Lair of the Sea Serpent

Elihu Vedder, 1899