The Holy Family and Two Music-Making Angels

The "Last Judgement" fresco at the Humor Monastery (in Suceava County, Romania) was painted by Toma Zugravu (Thomas the Painter) of Suceava. It can be still viewed at the church...

In 1518 Dürer designed the woodcut “Mary as Queen of Angels,” also known as “Maria von 15t.” In the center, the Mary accentuated by a ray nimbus, who holds the standing naked Jesus...

Joachim Wtewael was one of the leading representatives of the northern trend within Mannerist painting, among whose most important members were Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem, Hen...

Chasuble of silk velvet with linen orphrey embroidered in silk, floss silk, and gold and silver-gilt threads, made in Italy and England, 15th century-17th century. Chasuble of crim...

The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant Saint John the Baptist was dated by Thuiller to between 1653 and 1657. Anthony Blunt suggested a later date of around 1660–70,...

Chain made up of double links, with a central suspension spring, from which hang fourteen pendants. Four openwork medals with Marian dedications. A medal with a filigree frame depi...

Within Rubens’ enormous output as a painter, which covered the principal pictorial genres (all of which he handled with equal skill), religious painting occupies a prominent positi...