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Gilded processional cross with a painted crucifixion of Christ and small figures in ornate scrolled frames.

Processional Crucifix

Pietro di Francesco Orioli, ca. 1480s

Three painted panels showing the Mass of Saint Gregory, Saint Michael slaying a dragon, and Saint Jerome with a lion.

Saint Michael; The Mass of Saint Gregory; Saint Jerome

Master of the Saint Catherine Legend

Black and white view of an icon showing four standing saints, one with large angel wings, under Cyrillic inscriptions.

Panel from a Saints' Calendar (painted on both sides)

Russian Painter

Painting of a haloed bishop gesturing beside a seated woman at a table, with a wine barrel and gold brocade in an interior.

Saint Remigius Replenishing the Barrel of Wine; (interior) Saint Remigius and the Burning Wheat

Swiss Painter, ca. 1500-1505

Painting of a bishop in white vestments celebrating Mass in a columned hall, with attendants, a kneeling bread offering, and

The Mass of Saint Basil

Pierre Subleyras, 1746

Painting of the Annunciation: an angel with a sceptre kneels at left before the Virgin Mary at a lectern in a tiled room.

The Annunciation

South German Painter, 1440-50

Painting of the Virgin Mary with a golden halo surrounded by robed apostles holding a candle, palm and book.

The Dormition of the Virgin; (reverse) Christ Carrying the Cross

Hans Leonhard Schäufelein, ca. 1510

Painted interior with a coffered ceiling, draped curtains, and robed figures seated among children in a patterned room.

Egyptian Scene (possibly Moses and Zipporah)

Erastus Salisbury Field, 1865-80

Oil portrait of a man in a dark double-breasted coat and white collar, seated beside a red upholstered chair.

Moses Pond

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1832

Painting of a winged angel holding a glowing light above a sleeping veiled woman beside a dark forest.

Mercy's Dream

Daniel Huntington, 1858

Dim painting of the Madonna and Child with a small figure of Saint John at right, in loose dark brushwork.

Madonna and Child and Little Saint John

Robert Loftin Newman, by 1894

Painting of Hagar and an angel pointing upward while Ishmael sits slumped beside her beneath a stormy sky.

Hagar and Ishmael

Benjamin West, 1776, reworked 1803

Painting of a crowned Virgin in red holding a child, flanked by two angels in dark gowns and two kneeling infants.

Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados (Our Lady of the Forsaken)

Spanish Painter, 18th century

Panel painting of the Adoration of the Magi with Mary, the Christ Child, kneeling kings, attendants and a star above.

Adoration of the Magi

Unknown artist, ca. 1470-90

Painting of an elderly woman in a white bonnet reading a large book in a dim room with a table of bread and bowls.

Old Woman Reading the Bible

Quirijn van Brekelenkam, 1663

Study of a bearded man's head beside a hand gripping a sword, on a warm ochre and pale ground.

Esquisse pour le décor de l'église Notre-Dame-de-Lorette à Paris : Tête de saint André, étude de main tenant une épée…

Victor André Jacques Orsel, 1850

Painting of a tall church tower in warm golden light, with small figures in a city square below.

Eglise Saint Merry

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Loose painting of a woman in a pale robe beside pale animals in a warm, ochre-lit interior room.

Study for the Annunciation

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1890

Painting of a haloed figure rising into a blue sky while robed followers look upward from a rocky landscape.

The Ascension

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1920

Landscape with biblical figures

Landscape with biblical figures

van de Laeter, 1749-1848

Une Martyre (Saint Thechla)

Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson, 1890

Painting of a seated bronze Buddha and a vase of yellow and white flowers before a busy, colorful scene of figures.

Bronze Buddha

Henry Golden Dearth, 1910

Ten-sqúat-a-way, The Open Door, Known as The Prophet, Brother of Tecumseh

George Catlin, 1830

Portrait of a man with green face paint holding a red and black feather fan, wearing a white fringed garment.

Wah-pe-kée-suck, White Cloud (called the Prophet), Adviser to Black Hawk

George Catlin, 1830

Oval ceiling study of God the Father receiving the Madonna, surrounded by angels and putti in soft blue and rose tones.

God the Father Receiving the Madonna of the Immaculate Conception

Carlo Carlone, 1720

Loose painting of a seated Madonna in red and blue with a rabbit, an infant, and a standing woman before a dusky landscape.

After Titian's "Madonna of the Rabbit"

Kenyon Cox, 1880

Hanging scroll on gold ground: a robed female figure with a lotus and young attendant, and a dragon-faced figure bowing at ri

The dragon king revering the Buddha

Chen Hongshou, 1640

Ink drawing of the thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara seated on a lotus, with a robed attendant standing at the right.

Thousand-armed thousand-eyed bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) 明佚名《千手千眼觀世音菩薩像》軸

Seated Dhyani Buddha in a red and floral robe on a lotus throne beneath a gilded canopy, painted on silk.

Dhyani Buddha

Zhou Shan, 1700

The Mass of Saint Gregory

The Mass of Saint Gregory

Hans Baldung Grien, 1511

Virgin and Child in a Landscape

Virgin and Child in a Landscape

Jan Gossaert, 1531

Gilded altarpiece of the Virgin and Child enthroned with four saints, one in a pink bishop's robe and one in yellow.

Virgin and Child, with Saints Anthony Abbott, Mark, Severino, and Sebastian

Lorenzo da Sanseverino, c. 1490-96