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Night scene of castaways warming by a bonfire on a rocky coast beside a stormy sea, with a wrecked ship in the surf.

Saint Paul on Malta

Adam Elsheimer, 1600

Painting of a winged angel above a youth in white robes, with turbaned onlookers, a fire, and a marble statue.

Saint Lawrence prepared for Martyrdom

Adam Elsheimer, 1600

Small painting of Saint John the Evangelist in a red cloak beside a tree, with a distant town and hills at right.

Saint John the Evangelist

Adam Elsheimer, 1605

Elderly bearded man in white robe holds golden keys on a wooded path with a distant landscape behind him.

Saint Peter

Adam Elsheimer, 1605

Small painting of a bearded man in blue cloak leaning on a sword, with a wide landscape of hills and mountains behind him.

Saint Paul

Adam Elsheimer, 1605

Painting of Saint John the Baptist with a lamb and staff in a wooded landscape beside a pond with deer.

Saint John the Baptist

Adam Elsheimer, 1605

Painting of men in loincloths digging with pickaxes and shovels, a wooden cross in the background, with robed onlookers at ri

The Frankfurt Altarpiece of the Exaltation of the True Cross: The Digging for the Cross (bottom middle left)

Adam Elsheimer, 1603

Painting of two women in gold and dark blue robes boarding by a harbor with a colonnade, boats, and a hilltop town behind.

The Frankfurt Altarpiece of the Exaltation of the True Cross: The Embarkation of the Empress Helena (left)

Adam Elsheimer, 1603

Painting of a barefoot figure in a patterned robe carrying a large wooden cross past kneeling women, children and a crowd nea

The Frankfurt Altarpiece of the Exaltation of the True Cross: Emperor Heraclius’ Entry into Jerusalem

Adam Elsheimer, 1603

Rider in gold robe and turban carries a cross on horseback, with angels in clouds above and a servant helping in the forest.

The Frankfurt Altarpiece of the Exaltation of the True Cross: Heraclius on Horseback with the Cross (bottom right)

Adam Elsheimer, 1603

Dim interior where a nude man lies on a wooden cross as a bishop and onlookers watch, painted in 1603.

The Frankfurt Altarpiece of the Exaltation of the True Cross: The Testing of the Cross (middle right)

Adam Elsheimer, 1603

Painting of a kneeling old man questioned by a red-clad nobleman and a pointing woman, with children and a rider in a landsca

The Frankfurt Altarpiece of the Exaltation of the True Cross: The Questioning of the Jew (bottom left)

Adam Elsheimer, 1603

Painting of shepherds adoring the newborn Christ in a candlelit stable, Mary in red beside the manger.

Adoration of the Shepherds

Carl Bloch, 1882

Large painting of Christ before a seated Roman official in a crowded tribunal hall, with a soldier, a shouting crowd and marb

Christ in front of Pilate Jezus przed Pilatem

Mihály Munkácsy, 1881

Painting of a robed figure standing before a seated Roman official on a throne, with a crowd and soldiers in an arched hall.

Le Christ devant Pilate[1]

Mihály Munkácsy, 1881

Painting of an elderly bearded hermit with a rosary, gazing upward while a raven holding bread perches nearby.

Saint Paul the Hermit

Mattia Preti, 1650

Painting of a martyrdom scene with a nude bearded man in a red cloth, a soldier with a spear, and a statue behind.

The Martyrdom of Saint Paul

Painting of the Nativity: Mary and the infant Christ in a manger surrounded by shepherds, a piper, a donkey and hovering ange

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Mattia Preti, 1660

Painting of a bearded man bound to an X-shaped cross, arms raised, as angels above offer a golden crown under a fiery sky.

The crucifixion of St Andrew

Mattia Preti, 1651

Painting of a haloed youth gesturing among bearded elders in turbans and caps, with an open manuscript in the foreground.

Jesus among the doctors of the Law

Mattia Preti, 1640

Dark painting of a glowing figure in clouds above a fallen rider, white horse, and startled men in a gilded frame.

La Vision de saint Paul

Mattia Preti, 1650

Baroque painting of the Virgin and Child with saints, a bishop, an armored knight, and putti holding an inscription scroll.

Madonna di Costantinopoli - M. Preti

Mattia Preti, 1656

Painting of a bound, seminude man tied to a tree with arrows piercing his body, gazing upward against a dark background.

Saint Sébastien, par Mattia Preti

Mattia Preti, 1650

Seated nude figure with crown of thorns, red cord and reed staff, gazing upward with tears, against a dark background.

Christ as Man of Sorrows

Hendrick Goltzius, 1607

Painting of St. Sebastian tied to a tree with arrows in his body, consoled by a curly-haired angel in red drapery.

St. Sebastian being consoled by an angel

Hendrick Goltzius, 1615

Painting of a dim Gothic church interior with two boys in dark coats singing from a hymnal beside a gilded altarpiece.

From the Trinity Church, Oslo

Harriet Backer, 1904

Open carved wooden altarpiece with painted panels of Adam and Eve, the Crucifixion, the Nativity, and other Biblical scenes.

Altarpiece with Scenes from the Old and New Testaments (the Tendila Retablo)

Catarina van Hemessen, 1550

Nativity scene: a kneeling Virgin gazes at the infant in a manger, flanked by angels, one holding a lantern.

Hughes-Nativity

Arthur Hughes, 1858

Painting of a haloed figure in pink robes on a cloud, surrounded by kneeling people, chains and a reclining nude man.

Christ the Consoler

Ary Scheffer, 1837

Two seated figures in white and brown robes gaze upward toward a blue sky above a calm sea.

Saints Augustine and Monica

Ary Scheffer, 1854

Sketch of the Virgin and Child in a cloud with two kneeling figures below, in a gilded arched frame.

The Painter Raphael and the Poet Dante in Adoration Before the Blessed Virgin and Child

Ary Scheffer, 1810

Fresco of the Annunciation: an angel offers a lily to kneeling Mary while God and a dove with rays appear above in an arch.

Attributed to Melozzo da Forlì: Annunciation, c. 1510, Pantheon of Rome

Melozzo da Forlì