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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,986 works

Painting of a nude woman standing with bowed head among colorful flowers beneath a bare tree and turquoise sky.

Pandora

Odilon Redon, ca. 1914

Triptych with Christ blessing at center, a donor family beside him, and single portraits of a man and a woman on the wings.

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter, ca. 1573-82

Pastel-toned mural-style painting of figures in a garden with fruit trees, a stone fountain, arches and a river landscape bey

Inter artes et naturam (Between Art and Nature)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, ca. 1890-95

Painting of crumbling classical arches with ivy, a seated woman with a child, a kneeling man, and distant mountains.

Arches in Ruins

Tempera panel of a shrouded figure laid in a stone tomb, attended by a bishop, haloed figures, and an angel holding a scroll.

The Burial of Saint Martha

Sano di Pietro, ca. 1460-70

Horizontal painting of nude and draped figures in a rural landscape with a thatched hut, trees, and a pond.

Ludus pro patria (Patriotic Games)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, ca. 1883-89

Painting of a crumbling classical colonnade on a hillside, with a man reading a map, a pointing woman, a dog, and mountains b

A Colonnade in Ruins

Grayscale-toned frieze of putti in a bacchanal around a horned goat, holding wreaths, grapes and a thyrsus staff.

Infant Bacchanal

Piat Joseph Sauvage, 1780s

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

Black chalk drawing with white highlights of a standing bearded man draped in cloth, holding a tall staff.

Saint John the Baptist

Innocenzo da Imola, 1550

Grisaille painting of putti in a Bacchic triumph, with a child on a chariot holding a cup and thyrsus beside a lion.

The Triumph of Bacchus

Piat Joseph Sauvage, early 1780s

Six haloed apostles in robes stand in Gothic arched niches against gold backgrounds, one holding a large wooden cross.

Six Apostles

Spanish Painter

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

Christ and the Twelve Apostles

Taddeo di Bartolo, ca. 1400

Grisaille painting of a draped female statue labeled Arithmetica, set between fluted columns with a marble pedestal and green

Allegorical Figure Representing Arithmetic

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1760

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

Painting of a kneeling doge presented to the Redeemer by haloed saints, with a Venetian lagoon view behind.

Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507-1577) Presented to the Redeemer

Jacopo Tintoretto, probably 1577

Monochrome painting of a draped statue of Geometry on a dolphin, between Ionic columns, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

Allegorical Figure Representing Geometry

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1760

Panel painting of the Marriage of the Virgin with a priest joining hands of Mary and Joseph, watched by onlookers.

The Marriage of the Virgin

Davide Ghirlandaio, 1479

Painting of Christ blessing loaves and fishes before a crowd of richly dressed figures in a wide green landscape.

The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes

Jacopo Tintoretto, ca. 1545-50

Monochrome painting of a draped female allegorical figure on a marble pedestal between Ionic columns, labeled Grammatica.

Allegorical Figure Representing Grammar

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1760

Wide panoramic painting of formal palace gardens with a central fountain, clipped topiary, and a long tree-lined avenue.

Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles

John Vanderlyn, 1818

Painting of a richly robed rider on a white horse in a procession through a classical city with a crowd of onlookers.

The Triumph of Mordecai

Jean-François de Troy, ca. 1736

Monochrome painting of a draped female allegorical statue on a marble pedestal beside a fluted column and relief panel.

Allegorical Figure Representing Metaphysics

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1760

Painting of the sailing ship Franklin flying the American flag among many boats in a New York harbor under cloudy sky.

The U. S. Ship Franklin, with a View of the Bay of New York

Thomas Thompson, 1820

Gilded panel painting of Saint George in ornate armor with a red and white lance, standing over a dragon.

Saint George

Carlo Crivelli, 1472

Full-length painting of an armored knight in red plumed hat holding a banner, with a sword, before a landscape with a castle.

Saint Maurice

Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop, ca. 1520-25

Nativity scene with kneeling Mary and Joseph, Christ Child, ox and donkey, angels above, shepherds and a hilltop town.

The Nativity

Antoniazzo Romano, 1480

Haloed monk in a dark habit holding a red book, with a robed figure and an angel above on a gold panel.

Saint Silvester Gozzolini

Segna di Buonaventura, 1320s

Painting of a woman in a fur-trimmed coat and feathered hat beside a balustrade with a black poodle on a yellow background.

Woman Standing Beside a Balustrade with a Poodle

Paul Ranson, ca. 1895