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Painted sketch of the risen Christ with a halo rising above a tomb as Roman soldiers recoil in a dark landscape.

Esquisse pour l'église de Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul de Montreuil-sous-Bois : La Résurrection de Jésus Christ

Paul Philippoteaux, 1874

Gilded tympanum panel showing the Nativity on the left and the Resurrection with an angel and sleeping soldiers on the right.

The Nativity and Resurrection of Christ

Cenni di Francesco, 1390

Gold-ground Crucifixion panel with Christ on the cross, angels, and haloed mourners and saints below.

The Crucifixion

Cenni di Francesco, 1400

Circular fragment of a painted winged angel in a red robe with a patterned gold halo on a weathered orange ground.

Annunciatory Angel

Cenni di Francesco

Oil painting of the Holy Family with the infant John the Baptist in a wooded landscape under a cloudy sky.

Holy Family with St. John the Baptist

Benedetto Caliari, 1580

Painting of mourners lowering the dead Christ from a cross beside a ladder, with a basket of tools under a cloudy sky.

The Deposition of Christ

Benedetto Caliari, 1577

Renaissance painting of the Virgin and Child with two angels, gilded haloes and gold-bordered robes against a dark background

Virgin and Child with Two Angel

Zanobi Machiavelli, 1460

Madonna and Child with a red-robed woman, nude infant, fruit basket, and parrot on a railing in a garden setting.

Madonna and Child in a garden arbour

Vincent Malò, 1630

Watercolor portrait of a woman with closed eyes, wearing a veil, golden headband and gold-trimmed grey robe.

Saint Cecilia (Rallis)

Théodore Ralli, 1873

Painting of Christ on the cross with a crown of thorns, a skull at the base, and a dark sky over a distant city.

Christ on the cross

Willem Jacob Herreyns, 1827

Religious painting of the Virgin and Child with saints under a green canopy, a cherub above, and an apple tree.

Virgin and Child with Saints Mary Magdalene, Peter, Clare, Francis, and an Abbess

Painting of a martyrdom scene with soldiers, a red banner, a stone tower, and cherubs descending from clouds.

Martyrdom of Saint Venantius of Camerino

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, kneeling kings, angels in clouds, and a landscape.

Adoration of the Magi

Scarsellino, 1580

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi with Mary and the Christ Child, kings offering gifts, and angels in clouds above.

Adoration of the Magi

Scarsellino, 1575

Painting of Christ reaching to take the hand of Saint Peter, who kneels on the water near a boat of fishermen.

Christ and Saint Peter at the Sea of Galilee

Scarsellino, 1585

Gold-ground altarpiece panel of the Annunciation: angel Gabriel in yellow points to the Virgin in blue beside a lily and a do

The Annunciation

Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, 1380

Gold-ground panel showing a haloed saint in red, a kneeling man in blue, a black horse, and a crucifix in an arcaded loggia.

Scene From the Legend of Saint Giovanni Gualberto

Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, 1410

Gilded panel of the Virgin holding the Christ Child, both with haloes, in an ornate gothic frame.

Virgin and Child

Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, 1380

Gilded Gothic altarpiece of Saint Anthony Abbot with angels, displayed between green damask hangings in a room.

Saint Anthony Abbot with Four Angels

Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, 1380

Gilded Gothic panel of the Holy Trinity with a crucified Christ, the Virgin, Mary Magdalen and two Saint Johns on a red groun

Holy Trinity with the Virgin and Saints Mary Magdalen, John the Baptist, and John the Evangelist

Master of the Ashmolean Predella, 1390

Gold-ground panel of the Adoration of the Magi: Mary and the Christ Child under a Gothic canopy, a kneeling king, and crowned

Adoration of the Magi

Master of the Ashmolean Predella

Dark oil painting of a woman embracing a nude child, with a man and another figure behind them in a shadowed landscape.

The Holy Family

Francisque Millet

Painting of figures gathered at a waterfall between rocky cliffs, drinking and filling vessels under a stormy sky.

Moses strikes water from the stone

Krzysztof Lubieniecki, 1714

Painting of people gathering at a rocky cliff where water flows from stone into a stream under a stormy sky.

Moses bringing forth water from the rock

Krzysztof Lubieniecki, 1714

Oil study of an outstretched hand with palm up, emerging from a white cuff, on a pale background.

Hand. Sketch for a Picture of Christ

Ceiling fresco of a kneeling bishop beneath Christ with a cross, God the Father, a dove, and angels in clouds.

Glory of Saint Nicholas

António Manuel da Fonseca, 1850

Painting of a haloed young saint in red and green robes reading a book against a cloudy landscape.

A Youthful Saint Reading

Girolamo da Santacroce, 1510

Painting of a haloed saint holding a banner staff and a small fortress, with a shepherd and sheep in a landscape behind.

A Saint with a Fortress and a Banner

Girolamo da Santacroce, 1510

Painting of the risen Christ on a stone tomb with a banner, two kneeling angels, a woman in red, and a landscape.

The Resurrection

Girolamo da Santacroce

Painting of the Madonna holding the Christ Child against a gold background, with a green mantle and red garment.

Madonna and Child

Mello da Gubbio

Painting of the Nativity with Mary kneeling by the infant Christ, Joseph in red, an angel above, and shepherds in a landscape

The Birth of Christ

Gian-Francesco de Maineri, 1495

Painting of a seated nude Christ on a stone tomb, touched by a winged angel in a red robe, with a rocky landscape behind.

The Resurrected Christ with an Angel

Gian-Francesco de Maineri, 1500