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18,037 works

Virgin Mary gives a gold-trimmed chasuble to a kneeling churchman as angels hold it aloft, with an old woman holding a candle

Saint Ildefonso receiving the Chasuble

Juan Sánchez Cotán, 1600

Elderly bearded man in red cap pointing at a skull on a table beside a book, candle and hourglass.

Saint Jerome in Meditation

Renaissance painting of the Virgin and Child enthroned with Saints John the Baptist and Lucy, an angel playing lute below.

The Virgin and Child Enthroned, with Saints John the Baptist and Lucy

Marco Palmezzano, 1513

Elderly bearded man carving meat at a table while three winged angels attend him in a dim interior.

Abraham entertaining the three angels (Genesis 18:9-15)

Jan Victors, 1640

Painting of a flower garland framing the Virgin and Child with Saint John, set within a painted stone cartouche.

Sculpted cartouche adorned with flowers with a representation of the Virgin and Child with Saint John

Daniël Seghers, 1600

Oil painting of the Holy Family: an older bearded man in a yellow cloak beside a woman holding a child in white against a dar

Holy Family

Bartolomeo Cavarozzi, 1617

Circular painting of Mary adoring the Christ Child with infant John the Baptist and two angels before a pastoral landscape.

Adoration of the Christ Child

Piero di Cosimo, 1501

Arched panel painting of the Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and three kneeling saints beside a skull.

Crusifixion with the Virgin Mary and Sts Dominic, Jerome and Francis

Antonio del Ceraiolo, 1520

Painting of an elderly man kneeling before three winged angels beneath a tree, with a white dove on a wooden structure.

Abraham and the Angels

Sebastiano Ricci, 1694

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi, Virgin and Child under an arch, surrounded by an oval garland of colorful flowers.

Adoration of the Magi framed by a Garland of Flowers

Carlo Maratta, 1650

Painting of Christ raising a hand beside a cross with white cloth, with God the Father and a dove above in golden light.

Christ the Saviour

Antonio María Esquivel, 1842

Painting of a reclining nearly nude man in a dark wooded landscape with a rock, distant water, and cloudy sky.

Saint John in the Desert

Antonio Carracci, 1585

Oil sketch of the risen Christ greeting a kneeling veiled woman amid angels, a crowd, and classical architecture.

The Resurrected Christ Appearing to his Mother

Theodoor van Thulden, 1660

Gilded altarpiece of Madonna and Child with two saints and angels under a pointed arch, against a gold background.

Madonna and Child, with St Jacob the Younger, St John The Baptist and Angels

Bicci di Lorenzo, 1430

Gilded panel painting of the Crucifixion with Mary and John mourning below, skull at base, angels above, in a pointed frame.

Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John

Nicola di Maestro Antonio d'Ancona

Painting of Christ with a crown of thorns standing before a seated judge in a columned hall, with soldiers and onlookers.

Christ before Pilate

Corrado Giaquinto, 1754

Renaissance painting of the Virgin, sleeping Christ Child, bearded Joseph and young John the Baptist with a cross staff.

Holy Family with St John the Baptist

Michele Tosini, 1550

Painting of the dead Christ on a shroud surrounded by grieving figures, one holding a crown of thorns and another a jar.

The Lamentation

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1538

Painting of a bearded older man in a red cloak and green tunic, hands clasped, against a dark background.

Saint Paul

Jusepe de Ribera

Painting of the Madonna in a red robe and white veil holding a child who looks at an open red book, with a hilly landscape be

The Madonna and Child

William Dyce, 1845

Virgin and child with a bearded man inside an oval wreath of roses, irises and other flowers on a dark background.

Holy Family in a Wreath of Flowers

Erasmus Quellinus II, 1636

Painting of a dense flower garland around a stone cartouche showing two child figures in a central oval.

Garland of Flowers Around a Cartouche with Jesus and St John the Baptist as Children

Daniël Seghers, 1630

Painting of Saint Joseph in a gold cloak holding a flowering staff, looking down at a child reaching up beside a fruit basket

Saint Joseph with the Christ Child

Sebastián Martínez, 1650

View of Saint Mark's Square in Venice with the bell tower, Doge's Palace and strolling 18th-century figures under blue sky.

Saint Mark's Square, Venice

Bernardo Bellotto, 1756

Gauguin painting of a seated woman holding an infant, with a green-winged angel behind her and animals in a yellow thatched s

Be Be (The Nativity)

Paul Gauguin, 1896

Virgin Mary holds the Christ Child in a garden as two angels, one playing a violin, attend them.

Virgin and Child with two angels

Hans Memling, 1480

Oil painting of a noblewoman pointing to an infant in a basket by a riverbank, with attendants, trees and a distant city.

The Finding of Moses

Sebastiano Ricci, 1720

Painting of the Annunciation: Mary kneels at a book beside a winged angel with a lily in a red-draped interior.

The Annunciation

Master of Sopetrán, 1470

Oil painting of a bearded man with a crown of thorns looking up as an angel with a skull and sword descends above him.

Appearance of the Angel to King David

Luca Giordano, 1690

Dark forest painting of a woman in white crossing a log over a waterfall, guided by two men, with torchlit figures on the rig

Lady Blanche Crosses the Ravine Guided by the Count and Saint Foix (a Scene from 'The Mysteries of Udolpho')

Nathaniel Grogan, 1796

Painting of the Virgin and Child with two kneeling donors, a dark-robed man and a woman in red, with a landscape behind.

The Virgin and Child with Donors

Paris Bordone, 1535

Painting of the Madonna holding the Christ Child, with three winged angels behind her against a dark red background.

Madonna della Grazie

Lorenzo Lotto, 1501