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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

3,775 works

Gilded religious panel of Saint Anne, the Virgin and Child enthroned, with angels playing instruments and a shell niche.

Saint Anne and the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Angels

Niccolò Alunno, ca. 1458-61

Panel painting of the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and a kneeling donor woman in black, with a landscape and town behind.

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne Presenting Anna van Nieuwenhove

Master of the Saint Ursula Legend, 1479-82

Saint Christopher wading a river with the Christ Child on his shoulders, holding a staff, with cliffs and a chapel behind.

Saint Christopher and the Infant Christ

Nativity scene with Mary kneeling by the Christ Child, Saint Joseph, many angels, an ox and donkey in a brick stable.

The Adoration of the Christ Child

Master of Frankfurt, possibly 1496-1502

Painting of the Virgin Mary nursing the infant Christ, with an older man reading in a straw hat and a still life of citrus an

The Holy Family

Joos van Cleve, possibly 1527-33

Small arched panel of the Virgin Mary in blue holding the Christ Child, who reaches up to her neck.

Virgin and Child

Gerard David, 1490-1523

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

Triptych panel of the Adoration of the Magi with Virgin and Child, three kings, and Latin inscriptions on the wings.

Adoration of the Magi

Imitator of Netherlandish Painter, probably seventeenth century

Painting of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ against a distant landscape with a hilltop castle.

Virgin and Child

Master of the Female Half-Lengths, ca. 1525-50

Painting of the Virgin Mary nursing the infant Christ, seated before a distant hilly landscape with a town.

Virgin and Child

Unknown artist, second quarter of the 16th century

Religious painting of the dead Christ mourned by the Virgin and companions, with a distant city and crucifixion hill behind.

The Lamentation of Christ

Simon Marmion, ca. 1473

Painting of the Virgin in a red mantle holding the infant Christ, who reaches toward a dragonfly against a green background.

Virgin and Child with a Dragonfly

Master of Saint Giles, ca. 1500

Gold-ground panel of the Virgin and Child in a garden, with Saint Jerome presenting a kneeling donor in red and green.

Virgin and Child with a Donor Presented by Saint Jerome

Master of the Munich Marian Panels, ca. 1450

Small panel of the Lamentation: dead Christ held by the Virgin, mourning women, an angel, and a cross on a hill.

The Lamentation

Unknown artist, ca. 1550

Gold-ground panel of the Madonna in a blue mantle holding the Christ Child in a red robe, both with halos.

Madonna and Child

Ugolino di Nerio, late 1310s

Painted panel of a bearded saint in a red mantle, with a gold background and patterned haloes.

Saint Matthew(?)

Ugolino di Nerio, late 1320s

Two haloed saints in blue and red robes stand under Gothic gilded arches, holding books, inscribed Matthias and Thomas.

Saints Matthias and Thomas

Bartolomeo Bulgarini, ca. 1370-75

Gilded panel painting of the Adoration of the Magi: Virgin Mary in blue holding the Christ Child as a kneeling king bows befo

The Adoration of the Magi

Follower of Giotto, ca. 1340-43

Gilded panel painting of the Madonna in a dark blue mantle holding the Christ Child, within a pointed gothic frame.

Madonna and Child

Lippo Memmi, ca. 1340

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

Small gilded panel showing Christ as Man of Sorrows, haloed, arms crossed, within a pointed gabled frame.

Man of Sorrows

Unknown artist, first quarter of the 14th century

Gilded panel painting of a bearded bishop saint in a red cope holding a crozier and three gold balls, against gold leaf.

Saint Nicholas of Bari

Pietro di Giovanni d'Ambrogio, mid-1430s

Medieval miniature of crowned virgins kneeling before Christ at a Gothic gate, with trumpeting angels above and seated women

The Holy Virgins Greeted by Christ as They Enter the Gates of Paradise

Simon Marmion, ca. 1467-70

Gold-ground panel of the Virgin and Child enthroned, surrounded by nine haloed angels, one drawing back a patterned curtain a

Madonna and Child with Nine Angels

Segna di Buonaventura, ca. 1315

Painting of the Crucifixion with Christ on a dark cross, angels catching blood, and grieving figures on a gold background.

The Crucifixion

Segna di Buonaventura, ca. 1315

Miniature of the Annunciation: kneeling Virgin Mary in blue robe beside red bed, angel Gabriel gesturing, dove of the Holy Sp

The Annunciation

Gerard David, ca. 1510

Painted Crucifixion scene with Christ between two thieves, Mary and John at left, a crowd at right, and gold halos.

The Crucifixion

Housebook Master, 1481-82

Haloed saints gathered in a large illuminated initial O, with a praying Virgin in blue at center and ornate foliate borders.

All Saints in an Initial E or O

Osservanza Master, ca. 1430-40

Virgin and Child enthroned between two saints holding palm fronds, with a mountain landscape and hilltop town behind.

Virgin and Child Enthroned between Saints Cecilia and Catherine of Alexandria

Francesco Morone, ca. 1510-15