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Melencolia I

Albrecht Dürer · 1514

Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses

Rembrandt · 1653

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1440–41

The Penitent Magdalen

Georges de La Tour · ca. 1640

The Meditation on the Passion

Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

Study for the Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza

Antonio del Pollaiuolo · early to mid 1480s

The Dead Christ with Angels

Édouard Manet · 1864

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

The Judgment of Paris; he is sitting at left with Venus, Juno and Pallas Athena, a winged victory above; in the upper section the Sun in his chariot preceeded by Castor and Pollux on horseback; at lower right two river gods and a naiad above whom Jupiter, an eagle, Ganymede, Diana and another Goddess

Marcantonio Raimondi · Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1510–20

The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches

Henry Fuseli · 1796

Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons

Martin Schongauer · 1470–74

The Ballet from "Robert le Diable"

Edgar Degas · 1871

The Lamentation

Petrus Christus · ca. 1450

The Crucifixion with Saints and a Donor

Joos van Cleve · ca. 1520

The Crucifixion

Fra Angelico · ca. 1420–23

Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill

Pieter Claesz · 1628

Seated Woman with a Spider's Web (Die Frau mit dem Spinnennnetz zwischen kahlen Baumen)

Christian Friedrich · Caspar David Friedrich · probably 1803

Woman with a Raven (Die Frau mit dem Raben am Abgrund)

Christian Friedrich · Caspar David Friedrich · probably 1803

The Lamentation

Ludovico Carracci · ca. 1582

Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand

Albrecht Dürer · n.d.

The Turkish Family

Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1496

The Burial of Christ

Annibale Carracci · 1595

Isaac Blessing Jacob

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout · 1642

Battle of the Sea Gods (right portion of frieze)

Andrea Mantegna · before 1481

Battle of the Sea-Gods (right portion of frieze)

Andrea Mantegna · ca. 1485–88

The Entrance Hall of the Regensburg Synagogue

Albrecht Altdorfer · 1519

Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness

Master of the Osservanza · ca. 1435

Angel of the Divine Presence Bringing Eve to Adam (The Creation of Eve: "And She Shall be Called Woman) (recto); Sketch for the same (verso)

William Blake · ca. 1803

The Sudarium Displayed by an Angel

Albrecht Dürer · 1516

Saint Anthony Reading

Albrecht Dürer · 1519

Time Smoking a Picture

William Hogarth · ca. 1761

The Burial of Punchinello

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1800

The Betrothal of the Virgin

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1770

Saint Dominic

Carlo Crivelli · 1472

The Angel Appearing to Zacharias

William Blake · 1799–1800

The Miraculous Communion of Saint Catherine of Siena

Giovanni di Paolo

Erasmus of Rotterdam

Albrecht Dürer · 1526

The Entombment

Moretto da Brescia · 1554

The Entombment

Niccolo Pussino · ca. 1656–57

The Crucifixion

Francesco Granacci · ca. 1510

Hercules chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses

Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi · Ugo da Carpi · ca. 1520–27

The Resurrection

Pietro Perugino

Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1620

Three Virtues (Temperance, Hope, and Fortitude or Justice) and Studies of a Seated Man

Lorenzo Monaco · ca. 1420

Beata Beatrix

Dante Gabriel Rossetti · 1871–72

Christ Crucified Between the Two Thieves: 'The Three Crosses'

Rembrandt · 1653-c.1660

Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione · 1645–50

Saint Margaret of Cortona

Gaspare Traversi · ca. 1758

Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra

Gustave Moreau · 1875–76

Fish (Still Life)

Édouard Manet · 1864