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Painting of a woman in blue and red robes holding a young boy with a bare foot on a ledge, with a column and landscape behind

Barbara Palmer, née Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland with her son, Charles Fitzroy, as Madonna and Child

Peter Lely, 1664

Painting of Mary, Elizabeth, infant Jesus and young John the Baptist with a lamb in a landscape with ruins.

Mary and Elizabeth with Jesus and John the Baptist

Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 1825

Painting of the Madonna and Child in heaven above saints and kings, with scholars and artists gathered around a fountain belo

The Triumph of Religion in the Arts

Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 1829

Painting of a young boy with brown hair, bare chest and red cloak holding a staff, with a town and mountains behind him.

Portrait of the boy Xaverio as Saint John the Baptist

Johann Friedrich Overbeck

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi: kneeling kings offer gifts to the Virgin and Christ child beside a wooden shelter.

Adoration of the Magi

Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 1813

Painting of Saint Sebastian tied to a spiral column, pierced by arrows, with a church and hills behind him.

Saint Sebastian

Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 1815

Painting of a farmer with oxen and plough, a nursing mother and praying child, and a blessing figure in golden clouds above.

Saint Isidore - the Blessing of Work

Marcello Bacciarelli, 1805

Painting of a haloed woman and a child at a table in a dim attic room, lit by a hanging lamp.

Madonna

Ivar Arosenius, 1907

Oil sketch of a farmer ploughing with oxen, a woman nursing an infant, and a heavenly figure in clouds above.

Saint Isidore ploughing, sketch

Marcello Bacciarelli, 1805

Elderly bearded man in a red hood kissing a small crucifix, lit against a dark background, painted by Giuseppe Maria Crespi.

Anthony the Abbot Kissing the Crucifix

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, 1701

Painting of the Annunciation: an angel with a lily kneels before the Virgin in blue, flanked by two saints in an arched setti

The Annunciation

Mariotto Albertinelli, 1508

Triptych with a river baptism, a kneeling penitent saint in a rocky valley, and a bearded saint reading beside a lion.

The Penitence of Saint Jerome (triptych)

Joachim Patinir, 1512

Panoramic landscape with a preaching figure, a crowd of listeners, rocky hills, a winding river and distant town under clouds

Landscape with Saint John the Baptist Preaching

Joachim Patinir, 1515

Panoramic painting of the Virgin's Assumption above a rocky cave and river landscape, with two small religious roundels.

The Assumption of the Virgin, with the Nativity, the Resurrection, the Adoration of the Magi, the Ascension of Christ…

Joachim Patinir, 1510

Painting of Saint Christopher carrying the Christ Child across water beneath a stormy sky, with a city and boats in the dista

Saint Christopher bearing the Christ Child

Joachim Patinir

Painting of a haloed angel appearing above two startled shepherds in a dark, night-time landscape.

The Annunciation to the Shepherds

Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1875

Oval garland of fruit and vegetables framing a grey statue of a draped woman, with a squirrel and birds on the floor below.

Wreath of fruit with Madonna in grisaille

Frans Snyders, 1630

Painting of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ, surrounded by shepherds, a cow, a dog and a rooster, with angels above

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Abraham Bloemaert, 1641

Oil painting of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ, who gazes upward, against a dark background.

Virgin and Child

Abraham Bloemaert, 1625

Painting of Moses raising his staff at a rocky cliff as people, cattle and cherubs gather to collect water.

Moses Striking the Rock

Abraham Bloemaert, 1611

Oil painting of thatched cottages, rocky hills and figures in red cloaks under a dramatic sky, by Abraham Bloemaert, 1628.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Abraham Bloemaert, 1628

Painting of a shepherd boy pointing toward Tobias and an angel walking in a distant green field with a dog.

Shepherd Boy pointing at Tobias and the Angel

Abraham Bloemaert, 1625

Painting of men carrying Christ's body while grieving women look on in a dark setting.

The bearing of Christ's body to the grave

Dirck van Baburen, 1617

Painting of an elderly bearded man in a dark robe looking upward with clasped hands against a dark background.

The apostle Paul of Tarsus

Abraham Bloemaert, 1631

Painting of the Holy Family with infant John the Baptist and a lamb in an open landscape with cattle and trees.

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist in an open landscape

David Teniers the Younger, 1655

Painting of Christ driving money changers from a temple, with a whip, a bound sheep, startled merchants and a soldier.

Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple

Dirck van Baburen, 1610

Painting of a haloed boy debating bearded elders in turbans in a dim interior, with books in the foreground.

Christ among the Doctors

Dirck van Baburen, 1622

Painting of armored soldiers seizing a man in a red robe, lit dramatically against a dark background.

The Capture of Jesus Christ

Dirck van Baburen, 1619

Oil painting of a haloed priest baptising kneeling figures beneath a raised cross, with a crowd watching under a pale sky.

Saint François Xavier baptisant les Indiens

Théodore Chassériau, 1854

Christ kneels in prayer while angels offer a chalice beneath a stormy sky, with sleeping disciples in the foreground.

Chassériau - Le Christ au Jardin des Oliviers, 1840, D 2002-1

Théodore Chassériau, 1840

Painting of Tobias with a large fish on a riverbank, accompanied by a winged angel, with a wooded landscape behind.

Tobias with the angel

Painting of the Baptism of Christ: two nude men in a river, an angel and cherubs above, and a wooded landscape with onlookers

The Baptism of Christ

Adam Elsheimer, 1599