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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

199 works

Virgin and Child enthroned under a canopy with two saints, two harp-playing angels, and a male figure in a garden landscape.

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling, early 1480s

Painting of the Madonna in a red dress holding the Christ Child against a gilded background with putti and medallions.

Madonna and Child

Luca Signorelli, 1505

Painting of a seated crowned king in blue armor facing a mitred figure holding a serpent-entwined staff, with onlookers.

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory, 1537

Four panels in a gilded Gothic frame showing scenes of Christ's Passion: prayer, carrying the cross, crucifixion, and lamenta

Four Scenes from the Passion

Bernard van Orley

Painting of Christ bearing the cross, crowned with thorns, pulled by soldiers in orange and yellow garments, with haloed onlo

Christ Carrying the Cross

Hans Leonhard Schäufelein, 1510

Painting of the Madonna and Child seated among six saints against a gold background, with a bishop and an armored saint at ri

Madonna and Child with Six Saints

Francesco Pesellino, late 1440s

Russian icon showing Elijah ascending in a fiery chariot as Elisha reaches for his falling mantle, with an angel above.

Saint Elias's Fiery Ascension

Russian Painter

Oval painting of a veiled Madonna holding a nude infant with grapes, flanked by angels under a grapevine trellis.

Madonna of Giverny

Frederick William MacMonnies, 1901

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

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

Illuminated manuscript leaf with gold initial showing Christ ascending among clouds above the Virgin and two apostles.

Ascension in an Initial V

Niccolò di Ser Sozzo Tegliaccio, 1342

Painting of a haloed figure in red and blue at a table with two companions, a bowl and fruit on a white cloth, dark backgroun

The Supper at Emmaus

Velázquez, 1622-23

Medieval banquet scene with a crowned king, seated guests, a woman playing a viol, a servant with a cup, and a dog on a tiled

Salome Dancing before Herod

Spanish Painter

Painting of Christ with a crown of thorns, bowed head and bare chest, surrounded by bearded onlookers in turbans and caps.

Christ Presented to the People (Ecce Homo)

Il Sodoma, ca. 1540-49

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

Gilded panel of Saint Michael in red armor and wings stabbing a dragon with a sword against a gold background.

Saint Michael and the Dragon

Spanish Painter, ca. 1405

Painting of the Virgin Mary kneeling at a lectern as a winged angel with a lily approaches, with a dove and putti above.

The Annunciation

Philippe de Champaigne, ca. 1644

Madonna and Child with infant Saint John the Baptist and a lamb under trees, with a blue hilly landscape behind.

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Orsola Maddalena Caccia, ca. 1645

Gold-ground Spanish altarpiece with a Crucifixion, enthroned Trinity, archangel and demons, and rows of saints.

The Trinity Adored by All Saints

Spanish Painter

Two haloed saints playing lutes, one in red and one in dark robes, with lilies and wings against a blue sky.

Saint Bonaventure and Saint Anthony of Padua

Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao, ca. 1670-90

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

Madonna and Child

Sano di Pietro, ca. 1445-50

Gilded Gothic panel with the Madonna and Child in a garden, flanked by Annunciation, Nativity, and Pietà scenes.

The Madonna of Humility, the Annunciation, the Nativity, and the Pietà

Bartolomeo Vivarini, ca. 1465

Virgin nursing the Christ child beside Saint Joseph at a table with bread and bowls, with a village landscape in the window.

Virgin and Child with Saint Joseph

Unknown artist, second half 16th century

Haloed friar in brown habit holding a blue panel with a golden sun and IHS monogram, on a gold background.

Saint Bernardino

Sano di Pietro, 1447?

Painting of a haloed man in blue robes fallen to the ground, surrounded by armored soldiers with spears under a fruiting tree

The Conversion of Saint Paul

Andrea Vanni, probably 1380s

Small gilded panel painting of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child, both with haloes, in a gabled frame.

Madonna and Child

Unknown artist, first quarter the 14th century

Painting of Saint Francis in a brown habit holding a red book, with a gilded halo against a gold background.

Saint Francis

Sano di Pietro, 1447?

Illuminated initial B with three haloed seated figures in blue above a group of angels, framed by gold foliage and prophets.

The Trinity in an Initial B

Master of the Codex Rossiano, Probably 1387

Illuminated manuscript cutting showing the Ascension of Christ in a gold initial V, with the Virgin and two apostles below.

Ascension in an Initial V

Niccolò di ser Sozzo, ca. 1342-50

Illuminated initial D showing Saint Agatha's martyrdom, with executioner, soldier with SPQR shield, and seated judge.

Martyrdom of Saint Agatha in an Initial D

Sano di Pietro, ca. 1470-73