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Crucifixion scene with Christ on the cross, the Virgin, Saint John and Mary Magdalene beneath a dark stormy sky.

Christ Crucified with the Virgin, Saint John and Mary Magdalene

Anthony van Dyck, 1617

Rubens painting of nude figures on clouds, including Ixion embracing a cloud, a peacock, a cupid, and a seated god.

Ixion, king of the Lapiths, deceived by Hera (Juno)

Peter Paul Rubens, 1615

Painting of a garden landscape with a pyramidal fountain, a broken Neptune statue in water, women on steps, and tall trees.

Paysage composé : la Rivière, dit aussi Fontaine pyramidale avec une statue de Neptune brisée

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1700

Two saints in dark monastic and gold episcopal robes stand before a red damask background, one holding an open book.

Saint Benoît et saint Augustin

Carlo Braccesco, 1400

Gold-ground panel of a sleeping haloed man in pink robe as a winged angel descends toward him beside a bed.

Le Songe de saint Joseph

Master of the Osservanza, 1430

Painting of the Adoration of the Shepherds with the Virgin, Christ Child, Saint Longinus in armour, and Saint John holding a

Adoration of the Shepherds with Sts. Longinus and John

Giulio Romano, 1531

Painting of the Virgin and Child receiving kneeling and standing kings with gifts, angels above, and soldiers with horses beh

Adoration of the Magi

Hendrick de Clerck, 1614

Fresco lunette of God the Father blessing, flanked by two angels and cherubs among clouds, within a gilded border.

God the Father Blessing among the Angels

Painting of a kneeling woman reaching toward a winged angel in the clouds, with a sleeping child and dense trees in a landsca

Landscape with Hagar and the Angel

Pier Francesco Mola, 1650

Painting of men carrying a dead nude body in a white shroud while mourning women watch against a blue sky.

The Entombment of Christ

Titian, 1523

Painting of Christ rising in a forest as three kneeling women in colorful robes reach toward him.

Christ Appears to the Three Marys

Laurent de La Hyre, 1625

Venus on a gilded chariot led by Cupid toward a reclining figure in a dark wooded landscape, with putti above.

Venus Led by Cupid to the Dead Adonis

Jacopo Bertoia, 1550

Oil painting of reclining Venus with armored Mars, cupids, a dog and attendants before a smoky forge glow.

Mars and Venus in Vulcan's Forge

Luca Giordano, 1670

Bishop in golden mitre gives alms to beggars on steps while a cherub descends with lilies above.

Saint Thomas of Villanova Giving Alms

Mateo Cerezo, 1660

Painting of reclining Venus on a bed with cupids working at a forge in a wooded landscape by Francesco Albani.

The Rest of Venus and Vulcan

Francesco Albani, 1621

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi: a kneeling king before the infant Christ, the Virgin, and attendants in a stable.

Adoration of the Magi

Peter Paul Rubens, 1617

Painting of the Annunciation: Mary seated with lilies as an angel gestures, a dove and cherubs above.

Annunciation

Giulio Cesare Procaccini, 1620

Painting of two nude women bathing by a forest pool with hunting dogs, bows, arrows and dead game beside them.

Diana leaving her Bath

François Boucher, 1742

Painting of women on a riverbank rescuing an infant from the water, with an arched bridge and pyramid in the background.

Moses Saved from the River

Nicolas Poussin, 1638

Painting of the Madonna in blue holding the nude Christ Child, with a white dove and open book on a ledge below.

Madonna and Child with a Dove - Piero di Cosimo - Louvre INV 817

Piero di Cosimo, 1490

Religious painting of the Virgin and Christ Child with a red-robed cardinal, a brown-robed friar, and two floating cherubs.

La Vierge à l'Enfant avec saint Charles et saint François

Tanzio da Varallo, 1628

Saint John the Baptist in a blue robe holds a lamb on a red book, with a riverside landscape behind him.

Saint Jean-Baptiste

Maître du retable d'Avila, 1510

Baroque allegory of a helmeted woman with a spear, crowned by putti, with a trampled figure, palette and open book below.

Allegory of France as Minerva Trampling Ignorance and Crowning Virtue

Sebastiano Ricci, 1718

Painting of Christ among a crowd of robed men beside a kneeling woman before classical stone buildings under blue sky.

Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery

Nicolas Poussin, 1653

Oil painting of the Virgin Mary presenting the infant Jesus to a high priest at a temple with columns and onlookers.

Presentation of Jesus Christ at the Temple

Luca Giordano, 1670

Gilded altarpiece panel of a bishop saint in pink robes and dark cape holding a crozier, book and gold balls.

Saint Nicolas

Antonio Aleotti, 1498

Painting of the dead Christ surrounded by mourners, with a skull, a basin, and a walled town in the background.

Retable de la Déploration du Christ : La Déploration

Joos van Cleve, 1520

Large painting of Venus on clouds with Vulcan beside armor, surrounded by cupids and doves in a blue sky.

Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas

François Boucher, 1757

Classical landscape with figures by a river, a lyre player, a fortified city with a bridge, and dark clouds above.

Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice

Nicolas Poussin, 1650

Painting of an elderly bearded man offering grapes at a classical arched doorway to seated figures at a laden table.

Abraham and the Three Angels

Gérard de Lairesse, 1675

Gothic triptych with a Nativity scene in the centre, a kneeling figure, angels and two standing saints on gold grounds.

Saint Vittorino (?) (au-dessus : l'Ange de l'Annonciation)

Giovanni di Paolo, 1470

Painting of Bacchus in a chariot with panthers, satyrs, and a reclining woman holding grapes in a pastoral landscape.

Le Triomphe de Bacchus

Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1747

Painting of Christ crucified between two thieves on a hill, with mourners below and a light beam breaking through a dark sky.

The Last Sigh of Christ

Julien-Michel Gué, 2017

Painting of Vulcan holding a sword below Venus seated on clouds with a cherub, swans and armor nearby.

Venus Asking Vulcan for Arms for Aeneas

François Boucher, 1732

Monks in brown habits aid a woman and child on a snowy ledge as an avalanche sweeps down a mountain behind them.

Religieux de l'hospice du mont Saint Gothard

Louis Hersent, 1820

Painting of a kneeling bearded saint in brown habit with halo, hand on a skull, before a crucifix in a rocky landscape.

Saint François d'Assise en oraison devant un crucifix

Francesco Albani

Painting of the dead Christ supported by mourners beside a tall wooden cross, with a town and hills in the background.

The Lamentation over the dead Christ

Dieric Bouts, 1425

Gold-ground Nativity panel with the Virgin reclining, the Christ Child in a manger, angels above and attendants below.

Nativity

Guido of Siena, 1270

Painting of Saint Ambrose as a bishop holding a book and crozier before a gold background and Gothic railing.

Saint Ambrose

Master of Burgo de Osma, 1450

Painting of two saints on gold ground: John the Baptist pointing to a scroll, and a bishop in a jeweled mitre holding a crozi

Saint Jean Baptiste et saint Louis de Toulouse

Bartolomeo Vivarini, 1463

Gold-ground panel of the Crucifixion with a kneeling saint at the cross base, grieving women left, and crowded figures right.

La Crucifixion avec saint François agenouillé portant les stigmates

Taddeo di Bartolo, 1400

Painting of Minerva enthroned on clouds above women and cupids gathered among books and art tools.

Minerva and the Arts

Nicolas Pierre Loir, 1666

Painting of a bare-chested preacher with a staff gesturing to a crowd and seated mothers with infants under large trees.

Predication of Saint John the Baptist

Francesco Albani, 1630

Painting of Christ carrying the cross through a crowd of soldiers, with a walled city and mountains behind.

Christ Carrying the Cross

Master of the Repudiation of Hagar, 1510

Landscape painting with a waterfall, a pool, and women with hunting dogs in a wooded scene by Paul Bril, 1615.

Landscape with Diana Discovering the Pregnancy of Callisto

Paul Bril, 1615

Painted Crucifixion scene with Christ between two thieves, grieving figures below, mounted soldiers and a hilly landscape wit

Crucifixion

Niccolò di Liberatore, 1487

Gilded panel painting of Saint John the Evangelist seated in a red robe with a halo, against a gold background.

Saint Jean l'Evangéliste

Pere Lembrí, 1400

Painting of the Virgin Mary in red and blue holding a child with a halo, against a rocky landscape with a hilltop building.

Madonna and Child

Sandro Botticelli, 1460

Gold-ground panel of the Madonna and Child enthroned, flanked by six winged angels in blue, pink and gold robes.

The Madonna and Child in Majesty Surrounded by Angels

Painting of two haloed saints, a bishop with a crozier and a bearded man with a staff and book, on gold ground.

Saint Pétrone et saint Jacques

Antonio Vivarini, 1463

Reclining nude woman sleeps as a satyr approaches, with a cupid in a tree, hunters and dogs in a wooded landscape.

Jupiter and Antiope

Titian, 1551

Painting of Christ with a halo on a rock, raising his hand as a winged, nude tempter reaches toward him against a blue sky.

La tentation du Christ

Ary Scheffer, 1850

Tintoretto painting of the Virgin and Child with four saints, including a bishop, a palm-bearing saint, and John the Baptist

Virgin and Child, with Saint Catherine, Saint Augustin, Saint Marc and Saint John the Baptist

Jacopo Tintoretto, 1549

Circular painting of an embracing couple with a leafy garland, the woman in a pink gown and pearls, the man in blue, before d

Mythological Couple

Paris Bordone, 1540

Gold-ground triptych with Virgin and Child in center, Saint John the Baptist left, and Saint Michael slaying a dragon right.

La Vierge et l'Enfant entre saint Jean Baptiste et saint Michel

Barnaba da Modena, 1370

Painting of Saint Stephen being stoned by a crowd while Christ and angels with a crown and palm appear above.

La Lapidation de saint Étienne by Charles Le Brun

Charles Le Brun, 1651

Saint Luke painting at an easel as the Virgin and Christ Child appear above him, surrounded by cherubs.

Saint Lucas painting the Virgin

Luca Giordano, 1650

Elderly bearded man in red cloth holds a stone, with a skull and book beside him, against a dark background.

Saint Jérôme

Jusepe de Ribera, 1633

Virgin and Child enthroned in glory between Saint Ambrose and Saint Francis, with kneeling monk, angels, and river landscape.

La Vierge en gloire entre saint François et saint Ambroise

Bartolommeo Bononi, 1507

Panel painting of two saints on gold ground: a robed man with a red hat and a bearded man carrying a child with a staff.

Homme bon et saint Christophe

Pietro di Giovanni Lianori, 1400

Gold-ground panel of the Virgin seated with the Christ Child reaching for a pink rose, under a Gothic canopy.

Madonna and Child

Lorenzo Veneziano, 1372

Painting of the Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and infant St. John in a wooded landscape with blue robes.

Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the infant St. John

Painting of the Annunciation: Mary seated with a book, kneeling angel offering a lily, dove descending above a green curtain.

Annunciation

Giorgio Vasari, 1563

Oval painting of Apollo chasing Daphne, who reaches for a laurel branch, with a river god and spilling urn below.

Apollo pursuing Daphne

René-Antoine Houasse, 1677

Panel painting of Saint Jerome seated with a lion at his side, a red hat nearby, a Gothic church and gold sky behind.

Saint Jérôme guérissant le lion

Ottaviano Nelli, 1415

Oil painting of a barefoot man in red robes before a turbaned ruler on a throne, with soldiers and a scribe nearby.

Le Christ devant Pilate

Gold-ground predella panel: a sleeping haloed saint in bed beside a vision of a nude soul carried to heaven by an angel.

Le Songe de saint Jérôme (élément de la prédelle du Retable Rinieri)

Francesco di Antonio di Bartolomeo, 1430

Painting of a sleeping nude nymph beside a stone well, watched by a satyr leaning over it, with a pink curtain and landscape.

A Sleeping Nymph with a Satyr

Giulio Carpioni, 1660

Painting of a seated nude young man with a staff and grapes, pointing skyward, in a wooded landscape with mountains and a lak

Saint John the Baptist, known as Bacchus

Francesco Melzi, 1510

Two winged angels in blue and gold robes hold up a framed Latin inscription scroll against a pink landscape.

Two Angels Bearing a Scroll

Niccolò di Liberatore, 1475

Madonna nursing the Christ Child in a rocky landscape, with young Saint John the Baptist holding a cross staff at left.

Madonna and Child with Saint Jean-Baptiste

Francesco Granacci, 1500

Painting of Saint Anthony confronted by a nude woman, witches and demons, with a burning city and bridge behind.

The temptation of Saint Anthony Abbot

Pieter Huys, 1547

Painting of Saint Sebastian, nude and pierced by arrows, tied to a column beneath a carved arcade with a landscape behind.

Saint Sebastian

Pietro Perugino, 1490

Angel kneeling before the seated Virgin Mary in an arcaded loggia, with a gardener and mountain landscape beyond.

L'Annonciation / The Annunciation / Verkündigung

Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 1815

Gilded arched panel of the Virgin and Child with saints and three musician angels, by Mariotto di Nardo.

La Vierge et l'Enfant avec quatre saints et trois anges musiciens

Mariotto di Nardo, 1385

Painting of shipwreck survivors on a crowded raft in a stormy sea, some waving cloth toward the horizon.

The Raft of the Medusa

Théodore Géricault, 1819

Painting of a nude woman beside a sea monster as a winged armored rider descends, with a harbor town behind.

Perseus Releases Andromeda

Joachim Wtewael, 1611

Triangular gilded panel showing a winged angel with a halo and blue patterned robe, holding a Latin greeting scroll.

The Angel of the Annunciation

Matteo Giovanetti, 1340

Gilded Gothic panel showing Christ enthroned above angels and falling dark demons tumbling toward a dark mass below.

The Fall of the Rebel Angels

Master of the Rebel Angels, 1340

Gothic altarpiece panel of the Crucifixion with Mary, saints, a crowned king and a city landscape in a gilded frame.

Paris Parliament Crucifixion

André d’Ypres, 1449

Nude woman seated on a bench with cherubs, a satyr at right, and a cat at lower left, against a green curtain.

Jupiter and Antiope

Vincent Sellaer, 1525

Painting of a bearded central figure blessing a crowd of children and richly dressed women against a dark blue sky.

Christ Blessing Children

master HB of the Griffon's Head, 1528

Gold-ground religious panel of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, set in a Gothic townscape with onlookers.

Presentation of Christ in the Temple

Gentile da Fabriano, 1423

Domed ceiling fresco with mythological figures, cherubs and flower garlands around a central painted sky opening.

Venus and Adonis

Antoine François Callet, 1774

Painting of the Virgin holding the infant Christ, flanked by four haloed angels in flower crowns against gold.

Madonna and Child with Four Angels

Master of the Nativity of Castello, 1450

Painting of nymphs dancing in a grassy clearing beneath large trees, with soft light and a distant horizon.

A Morning. The dance of the Nymphs

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1850

Painting of the Virgin and Child flanked by two saints with gold halos against a dark background.

Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Catherine of Alexandria

Pietro Perugino, 1495

Painting of a nude woman with crescent moon descending toward a sleeping nude youth, with a cupid and blue drapery.

Diana and Endymion

Jérôme-Martin Langlois, 1822

Painting of Adonis led by cupids toward a reclining Venus in a wooded river landscape with flying putti.

Adonis Led by Cupids to Venus

Francesco Albani, 1621

Reclining nude woman with a skull and silver ewer, a red urn and distant city behind her, under the inscription EVA PRIMA PAN

Eva Prima Pandora

Jean Cousin, 1550

Annunciation panel: the Virgin Mary in a canopied bed on a gold ground, with two kneeling angels and rays of light.

Annunciation

Bernardo Daddi, 1330

Painting of Christ handing keys to a kneeling Saint Peter on steps, with angels and cherubs in clouds above.

Le Christ donnant les clefs du Paradis à saint Pierre

Giambattista Pittoni, 1730

Renaissance painting of the Madonna and Child on a throne with armored saints, a kneeling donor, and a garland of fruit.

Madonna della Vittoria

Andrea Mantegna, 1495

Painting of winged Cupid kissing the forehead of seated Psyche in a hilly landscape, with a butterfly in the sky.

Cupid and Psyche

François Gérard, 1798

Painted gilded crucifix with Christ crucified, mourning figures on each side, and an inscription above the head.

Crucifix by the Master of San Francesco, Louvre

Master of Saint Francis, 1250

Baroque painting of a chaotic cavalry battle with armored riders, white horses, banners, and fallen soldiers under a hazy sky

Moses' Battle

Jacques Courtois, 1625