The Virgin and Christ Child in a rural landscape, with four putti gazing down through clouds, after Barocci

This Virgin and Child entered the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection in 1975. The painting was acquired as a work by Bernaert van Orley from the Cramer gallery in The Hague where it was...

The Virgin and Child with Angels was in a private English collection, entering the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection in 1933 via the Sanct Lucas gallery in Vienna. The painting has bee...

This pair of panels formed part of a large ensemble of which the other subjects are now unknown. Within the Museum’s collection they are among the most iconographically interesting...

This anonymous painter worked in the city of Bruges, as we can tell from the depictions of the city that appear in some of the backgrounds of his paintings. His name is derived fro...

This pair of panels formed part of a large ensemble of which the other subjects are now unknown. Within the Museum’s collection they are among the most iconographically interesting...

Lucas Cranach, who was of the same generation as Dürer, was the great painter of the Reformation. A personal friend of Melanchthon and Luther, he was involved with Reformational mo...

Dirck Bouts was born in the northern Low Countries and moved to Louvain around the mid-1440s. His name regularly appears in the city’s archives from 1457. One of the great artists ...

This Virgin and Child between Angels and six Saints may have been the central panel of a triptych similar to one now in a private German collection. Niccolò di Tommaso located the ...