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Painting of a woman in a red dress holding a nude infant on her lap against a dark, cloudy background.

Madonna and Child

Erasmus Quellinus II, 1630

Painting of a woman with auburn hair nursing a nude infant lying on white and red cloth against a dark background.

Madonna nursing the Child (Maria Lactans)

Erasmus Quellinus II, 1614

Painting of a dark oval cartouche with a grey scene of the Virgin and Child, framed by a lush garland of colourful flowers.

The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine

Erasmus Quellinus II, 1650

Dark interior painting of a kneeling woman with raised arms beside a wooden frame, watched by robed men and armored guards.

A Jewish Family Accused of Handling Stolen Religious Artefacts and Tortured by the Inquisition

Annunciation painting: kneeling Virgin with open book faces winged angel holding a lily, a dove and God in clouds above.

Annunciation

Hans Rottenhammer, 1610

Painting of the Virgin Mary being crowned in heaven by angels, with saints and a crowd of figures gathered below.

Crowning of the Virgin Mary in Heaven

Hans Rottenhammer, 1595

Painting of the Nativity with the Virgin Mary and infant Christ in a manger, surrounded by shepherds, a mother with child, an

Adoration of the Sheperds

Hans Rottenhammer

Painted view of Saint Peter's Square in Rome with colonnades, an obelisk, the basilica dome, carriages and crowds.

View of Saint Peter's Square, Rome

Gaspar van Wittel, 1700

Painting of a bound bearded man in a white robe mocked by three grimacing figures, one in a red cap, against a dark backgroun

The mocking of Christ

Karel Škréta, 1630

Painted panel of a kneeling blindfolded man being beheaded on a platform, with robed onlookers and a bridge behind.

The beheading of a saint

Gaudenzio Ferrari, 1540

Arched altarpiece of the Virgin and Child under orange trees, with saints, a bishop, a kneeling donor and putti.

La Madonna degli aranci

Gaudenzio Ferrari, 1529

Gilded panel of the risen Christ rising from a stone tomb with a banner, while sleeping soldiers lie around the sarcophagus.

le Christ sortant du tombeau

Taddeo di Bartolo, 1405

Octagonal painting of Saint John the Evangelist gazing upward, holding a quill and open book, in a dark setting with red cloa

St John the Evangelist

Massimo Stanzione

Painting of the dead Christ on a white cloth, with a grieving hooded woman holding his arm and a winged angel behind.

Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Massimo Stanzione, 1621

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

Virgin and child

Massimo Stanzione, 1645

Kneeling bare-chested man with raised hands praying beside a skull, with a dark bird flying in a shadowy landscape.

Saint Paul ermite en prière

Massimo Stanzione, 1635

Panoramic landscape painting of a crowd gathered before rocky cliffs and trees, with a preacher, horses and deer in the foreg

Landscape with Saint John the Baptist Preaching

Herri met de Bles, 1550

Painting of a forest landscape with a kneeling hunter, a deer, a winged creature, and a castle on a hill in the distance.

Landscape with Saint Hubertus

Herri met de Bles, 1500

Painting of Abraham and Isaac with an angel above, set in a wide rocky landscape with a distant city and a donkey.

When Abraham has his hand raised to kill Isaac, an angel restrains Abraham's hand (Genesis 22:10)

Herri met de Bles, 1540

Painting of sailors in a rocking boat on rough sea, with a robed figure on the rocks reaching toward a man in the water.

The last appearance of Christ to his disciples

Herri met de Bles, 1850

Painting of Christ leading nude figures from a fiery hellscape with demons, a monstrous mouth and burning towers.

Christ in Limbo

Herri met de Bles, 1525

Painting of the Crucifixion with three crosses, mounted soldiers, mourning women and a walled city with domes behind.

The Crucifixion and Christs's death: Longinus piercing Christ's side

Jan Provoost, 1501

Diptych with Christ crowned with thorns beside mocking figures, and a praying monk in grey robes on green.

diptych of christ carrying the cross and a minderbroeder (reverse has memento mori)

Jan Provoost, 1522

Painting of the Annunciation: an angel with red wings kneels before the Virgin in a room with a green bed and a dove.

Annunciation

Worn painting of a standing female saint in a flowing robe against a rocky landscape with cloudy sky.

Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Jan Provoost, 1500

Pen and watercolor illustration of a glowing robed figure in a stone shelter, with kneeling villagers and a dawn village land

Nativity, Dawn Song (Illustration for the ""Gospel of the Infancy of Our Lord Jesus Christ")

Carlos Schwabe, 1890

Painting of Mary holding the infant Jesus with a cross, while young John the Baptist kneels beside them before green drapery.

Mary with Jesus and St. John

Daniel Gran, 1745

Blue-toned drawing of a winged angel pointing skyward as shepherds and a child kneel beneath a crescent moon.

Nativity, Midnight Song (Study for the ""Gospel of the Infancy of Our Lord Jesus Christ")

Carlos Schwabe, 1890

Gothic altarpiece with gilded frame showing enthroned Virgin and Child at center, surrounded by narrative scenes of Christ's

Altarpiece of the Virgin

Jaume Serra, 1367

Painting of a haloed saint holding a staff and red book, wearing a pink robe and teal mantle against a gold ground.

Saint Jame

Niccolò di Tommaso, 1365

Damaged gold-ground panel showing a kneeling haloed woman in green and the Christ Child in a red mandorla below.

Saint Bridget’s Vision of the Nativity

Niccolò di Tommaso, 1375

Religious panel of the Madonna and Child surrounded by angels and kneeling saints under a pale blue sky with gold halos.

Madonna Trivulzio

Filippo Lippi, 1430