Heaven Opens
Assumptions, baptisms and skies full of angels.
Bacchus and Ariadne
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1740
The Last Judgment
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525–30
The Baptism of Christ
Sebastiano Ricci · ca. 1713–14
The Sudarium Displayed by an Angel
Albrecht Dürer · 1516
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s
Seated River God, Nymph with an Oar, and Putto
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1696–1770
Shakespeare – Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice
James Gillray · James Aitken · William Shakespeare · June 20, 1789
The Fall of the Giants
Salvator Rosa · 1663
Venus entrusting Cupid to Time
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1758–80
Trumpeting Angels from The Last Judgment, after Michelangelo
Michelangelo Buonarroti · Nicolas Beatrizet · 1530–66
Naked archers shooting at a target attached to a herm, Cupid sleeping below, possibly an allegory related to vice
Michelangelo Buonarroti · Antonio Lafreri · Nicolas Beatrizet · ca. 1540–60
The Day of Judgment
William Blake · 1805
The Book of Job: Pl. 2, When the Almighty was yet with me, When my Children / were about me
William Blake · 1825
The Submersion of Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea
Titian · 1514–15, printed 1549
Liberty
Gustave Doré · c. 1865–75
Noah's Sacrifice
Niccolo Pussino · n.d.
Sketch for a Ceiling
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1750s
Titans Storming Mount Olympus
Henry Fuseli · c. 1770–72
Odin in the Underworld
Henry Fuseli · 1770/72
Satan Starts from the Touch of Ithuriel's Spear
Henry Fuseli · 1776
Anteros Victorious
Annibale Carracci · 1560–1609
Studies of Flying Putti (recto); Composition Studies (verso)
Guido Reni · 1575–1642
Two Putti with Potted Plant
Guido Reni · after 1611/12
Angels in Glory
Guido Reni · c. 1607
Time Seated on Clouds, Flanked by Two Other Angels
Giulio Romano · n.d.
Study for Jupiter Hurling Thunderbolts
Giulio Romano · n.d.
Vignette from the Galerie des Glaces, Versailles
Charles Le Brun · Bernard Picart · early 18th century
Allegorical Figures Holding the Papal Insignia, study after the Allegory of Divine Providence in Palazzo Barberini in Rome
Luca Giordano · c. 1650
A Study of Bound Male Figures being Manhandled, and Various Putti, One Holding a Palm Frond
Agostino Carracci · c. 1590
Last Judgement
Jacob Jordaens · n.d.
Standing Nude Child Surrounded by Women and Children
Antonio da Correggio · 1489–1534
Saint Peter and other Seated Apostles, with Saint John the Evangelist Below
Antonio da Correggio · n.d.
The Fall of the Giants
Salvator Rosa · 1663
Rape of Persephone
Gaetano Gandolfi · ca. 1755–90
Juno, Zeus and Aeolus
Pietro da Cortona · n.d.
The Holy Trinity with Saint Michael Conquering the Dragon
Pietro da Cortona · 1666
Saint Mark
Domenichino · after 1627
Cupid Blindfolded and Two Doves
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · 1757 or after
Cupid in the Clouds with Attendant Cherubs
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · 1757 or after
Dance of Cupids
Marcantonio Raimondi · 1517/20
Resurrected Christ and Lamb of God (verso)
Alonso Cano · 1666
Assumption of the Virgin
Federico Zuccari · 1607/08
Study of Two Angels
Mattia Preti · 1661/1666
Father Time
Alessandro Algardi · c. 1620-1650
Copies after Illustrations of Statues and Paintings (recto); Measurements for a Man's Skeleton (verso)
Gerard de Lairesse · n.d.
Four Putti
Giovanni Battista Gaulli · n.d.
Detail Study for The Assumption of St. Agnes
Giovanni Battista Gaulli · 1670/90
Sketch for "The Four Prophets of Israel" (for Il Gesù, Rome)
Giovanni Battista Gaulli · c. 1675–1677
Study for "An Apotheosis of a Saint" (for San Bernardino dei Morti, Milan)
Sebastiano Ricci · c. 1695
Apollo and the Muses
Bartholomeus Spranger · c. 1700
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