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Painting of richly dressed riders and pack animals climbing a hillside toward a pink city under a star in a blue sky.

The Journey of the Magi

Sassetta, ca. 1433-35

Gilded panel of the Virgin and Christ Child with two angels crowning her, set in a gothic frame.

Madonna and Child with Angels

Sassetta, ca. 1445-50

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

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

Bearded saint in pink robe writing at a desk while a blue-robed winged angel looks over his shoulder.

Saint Matthew and the Angel

Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo

Painting of moored sailing boats on a river at dusk, with a glowing golden horizon and a church tower on the distant shore.

Night Scene on the Volga

Alexei Savrasov, 1871

Dark forest scene of a wounded woman in blue and red reclining as a man in a dark coat reaches toward her, an arrow nearby.

Cephalus and Procris

Godfried Schalcken, probably 1680s

Interior scene with a woman in red, a woman in striped dress, and a man in green robe reading beside a secretary desk.

Domestic Scene

Painting of a classical wedding procession with nude and draped women, a winged figure with a laurel wreath, and a teal sky.

The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche

Andrea Schiavone, ca. 1540

Painting of a crowned, bound figure led by soldiers past a servant with a basin and ewer, with a landscape at upper left.

Christ before Pilate; The Resurrection

Ludwig Schongauer

Seated elderly man with white hair writing in a notebook, with a sunlit snowy mountain behind him.

Baron Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)

Julius Schrader, 1859

Painting of mounted riders in robes and turbans crossing a dusky landscape, with a white horse in the foreground.

Arabs on the March

Black and white painting of turbaned horsemen with lances riding white horses across grassland under cloudy skies.

Battle Scene: Arabs Making a Detour

Painting of the Thames with an arched bridge under construction, a Gothic abbey on the right, boats and a timber crane in the

The Building of Westminster Bridge

Half-length portrait of a man in a black hat and dark robe, hand on chest, with Latin inscription across the top.

Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus (born about 1446, died 1506)

Sebastiano del Piombo, 1519

Painting of the Virgin and Child with saints and kneeling donors, the Christ Child asleep in the Virgin's lap.

Madonna and Child with Saints and Donors

Sebastiano del Piombo

Painting of a woodland path in spring with bare trees, ivy-covered trunks, mossy rocks and yellow wildflowers under a pale sk

Spring in Brittany

Paul Sébillot, 1874

Full-length portrait of a young man in green velvet and gold embroidery with a dog, before a tree and distant country house.

Sir James Dashwood (1715-1779)

Enoch Seeman the Younger, 1737

Gold-ground panel of Christ raising his hand in blessing, holding a book, in a red mantle and dark robe.

Christ Blessing

Segna di Buonaventura, ca. 1311

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

Painting of the Virgin adoring the Christ Child, with the infant John the Baptist in a rocky landscape with a river.

The Virgin Adoring the Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Jacopo di Arcangelo, late 1480s

Painting of slender pale tree trunks in a green forest with speckled, dappled light across grass and foliage.

The Forest at Pontaubert

Georges Seurat, 1881

Painting of a bent-over gardener in a sunlit wooded garden, with trees and dappled green and yellow foliage.

The Gardener

Georges Seurat, 1882-83

Hazy green meadow with rolling hills, dark fallen logs in the foreground, and a shadowed tree at the right under an overcast

Landscape at Saint-Ouen

Georges Seurat, 1878 or 1879

Painting of two figures in a rowboat on a rippling river beside a dark barge, with city buildings and a bridge behind.

View of the Seine

Georges Seurat, 1882-83

Oil painting of a man in a tricorn hat riding a grey horse across a field, with a brown dog and a country house behind.

Portrait of a Horseman

Portrait of a young boy in a red jacket and white ruffled collar, gazing upward against a dark background with a landscape at

William Archer Shee (1810-1899), the Artist's Son

Martin Archer Shee, ca. 1820

Altarpiece of the Virgin in glory with Saint Michael spearing a demon and Saint Benedict holding a book, with musical angels

The Assumption of the Virgin with Saints Michael and Benedict

Luca Signorelli, ca. 1493-96

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

Gold-ground panel of Saint Andrew with halo, red cross and book, in green mantle and red tunic, arched frame.

Saint Andrew

Simone Martini, ca. 1317-19