genre: religious art

instance of: painting (14,818) | triptych (168) | reredos (119) | polyptych (78) | drawing (38) | diptych (35) | tondo (34) | fresco (33) | altarpiece (29) | icon (25) | panel painting (21) | cycle of paintings (21) | engraving (19) | work of art (17) | sculpture (14) | watercolor painting (14) | tapestry (11) | winged altarpiece (8)

commissioned by: Pierre Polet (5) | Diego de Bordas (5) | Thomas Butts (4) | Catholic Church (2) | Cosimo de' Medici (2) | Leo X (2) | Charles I of England (2) | Francesco Maria del Monte (2) | Étienne Chevalier (2) | Giovanni della Casa (2) | Cassiano dal Pozzo (2) | Protasius von Boskowitz und Černahora (2) | Ciriaco Mattei (2) | Gregorio Correr (2) | Jacopo Pesaro (2) | Perchta II. of Boskovice (2) | church building (1) | Georges Petit (1)

owned by: Robert Lehman (152) | Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (121) | John G. Johnson (94) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (80) | Herbert Cook (41) | Michael Friedsam (38) | Birmingham Museum of Art (32) | Bartolomeo della Nave (30) | Jules Bache (13) | Samuel H. Kress Collection (12) | Benjamin Altman (12) | National Gallery of Armenia (11) | Léon de Somzée (11) | William T. Blodgett (11) | France (10) | Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook (10) | National Gallery (9) | Howard Agnew Noble (9)

movement: Flemish Primitives (321) | High Renaissance (226) | Italian Renaissance (195) | mannerism (116) | Venetian school (102) | Baroque (98) | Early Renaissance (78) | Renaissance (59) | Dutch Golden Age painting (55) | Gothic painting (44) | German Renaissance (33) | rococo (30) | Proto-Renaissance (30) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (25) | academic art (24) | Baroque painting (22) | Gothic art (18) | classicism (17)

named after: Gospel of John (1) | Revelation of John (1) | Alzano Lombardo (1) | Jakob Heller (1) | Saint Lucy (1) | Isaiah (1) | Cadolzburg (1) | Orsini family (1) | Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino (1) | Baglioni family (1) | Badia Ardenga (1) | Rucellai chapel (1) | Paolo Carnesecchi (1) | Lluís Desplà i d'Oms (1) | Greverade family (1)

based on: Madonna and Child (122) | Penitent Magdalene (36) | Susanna and the Elders (26) | Saint George and the Dragon (25) | New Testament (24) | Old Testament (20) | Bride of Christ (20) | Book of Genesis (19) | Nativity of Jesus (17) | Adoration of the shepherds (17) | Book of Judith (15) | flight into Egypt (15) | the Lord appears to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre (13) | The Holy Infants Embracing (12) | Dance of the Seven Veils (9) | Judith and Holofernes (7) | The Disrobing of Christ (5) | crucifixion (5)

artist: anonymous (2,011) | James Tissot (336) | El Greco (224) | Peter Paul Rubens (207) | Rembrandt (148) | Lucas Cranach the Elder (148) | Hans Memling (112) | Raphael (109) | Titian (107) | Cima da Conegliano (96) | Anthony van Dyck (96) | Pietro Perugino (91) | Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (91) | Fra Angelico (89) | Giovanni Bellini (89) | Carlo Crivelli (89) | Jacopo Tintoretto (86) | Sandro Botticelli (85)

part of the series: Jacob and his twelve sons (13) | Ancestors of Christ (8) | The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin (7) | Scenes from the Life of Saint Zenobius (4) | May (painting) (4) | St. Sebastian (3) | Christ Healing the Blind (3) | The Last Judgment (3) | The Four Elements (3) | The Life of the Virgin (3) | The Twelve Strong Men (3) | Alba Passion (3) | The Tower of Babel (2) | Boaz and Ruth (2) | Copies by Vincent van Gogh (2) | St. Jerome (2) | The Annunciation (2) | The Great Red Dragon Paintings (1)

depicts: Virgin Mary (2,233) | woman (1,769) | Child Jesus (1,515) | Jesus Christ (1,174) | man (1,076) | boy (797) | angel (579) | Mary Magdalena (508) | mother (496) | John the Baptist (443) | Jerome (365) | Catherine of Alexandria (322) | Peter (285) | Saint Sebastian (227) | long hair (184) | Child Saint John (184) | Annunciation (168) | John the Evangelist (164)

material used: oil paint (8,505) | canvas (4,281) | panel (1,986) | wood (1,647) | tempera (1,210) | canvas (260) | gold (175) | oak (175) | copper (160) | poplar wood (152) | fresco (132) | gold leaf (115) | paper (94) | color (57) | board (42) | gouache paint (37) | ink (34) | stucco (31)

collection: Bavarian State Painting Collections (1,092) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (892) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (675) | Museo del Prado (661) | Rijksmuseum (496) | National Gallery (431) | National Museum in Warsaw (415) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (356) | private collection (354) | Brooklyn Museum (350) | National Gallery of Art (343) | Hermitage Museum (303) | Statens Museum for Kunst (301) | Slovak National Gallery (255) | Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (223) | Flemish Art Collection (211) | Uffizi Gallery (206) | Samuel H. Kress Collection (205)

location: Metropolitan Museum of Art (882) | Alte Pinakothek (673) | Museo del Prado (644) | Rijksmuseum (486) | National Gallery (401) | Brooklyn Museum (350) | National Gallery of Art (333) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (308) | Statens Museum for Kunst (300) | Hermitage Museum (293) | Slovak National Gallery (254) | Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (211) | National Museum in Warsaw (196) | museum's storage space (186) | Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (164) | Detroit Institute of Arts (158) | Museum of Fine Arts (155) | Nationalmuseum (144)

part of: Ciudad Rodrigo altarpiece (25) | Convent of Jesus Altarpiece (13) | Sistine Chapel ceiling (12) | Pisa Polyptych (12) | Montefiore dell'Aso Polyptych (12) | Scenes from the Life of the Virgin (12) | Category:Public art in Bern (11) | Middle Rhine altar (11) | Sèrie L'Espoli de El Greco (11) | 1472 Polyptych (10) | works by Biagio Bellotti (9) | The San Pier Maggiore Altarpiece (9) | Santa Croce Altarpiece (9) | San Marco Altarpiece (8) | Wurzach Altar (8) | Seven Sorrows Polyptych (8) | The Consecration of Saint Augustine (8) | Roverella Altarpiece (8)

country of origin: Italy (291) | Spain (112) | United States of America (100) | Portugal (20) | France (17) | Brazil (7) | Catalonia (4) | Netherlands (3) | Mexico (3) | Germany (3) | Yuan dynasty (3) | Greece (2) | United Kingdom (2) | Flanders (2) | India (2) | Tang Empire (2) | Qocho (2) | England (1)

exhibition history: Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges (274) | Exposition des primitifs français (45) | Europeana 280 (33) | Corps et Ombres (25) | Velázquez (25) | Jheronimus Bosch - Visions of genius (17) | El Siglo de Oro. The Age of Velázquez (16) | Mirabilis (15) | Prayers and Portraits, Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych (13) | Florence and its Painters: From Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci (10) | Loan Exhibition of French Primitives and Objects of Art (9) | The Old Testament – Stories and Figures (9) | Cristóbal de Villalpando: Mexican Painter of the Baroque (8) | Dutch masters from the Hermitage (8) | Mantegna and Bellini (7) | The Dance of Life – The collection from antiquity to 1950 (5) | L'invention du passé. Histoires de cœur et d'épée en Europe, 1802-1850 (4) | Francis I and the art of the Netherlands (4)

main subject: Madonna and Child (1,324) | crucifixion of Jesus (412) | Annunciation (374) | Adoration of the Magi (362) | Holy Family (249) | Adoration of the shepherds (215) | lamentation of Christ (195) | Nativity of Jesus (186) | Sacra Conversazione (151) | Visitation (148) | Descent from the Cross (134) | Penitent Magdalene (128) | rest on the flight into Egypt (116) | Christ carrying the cross (108) | Ecce Homo (105) | martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (105) | Assumption of Mary (101) | Pietà (98)

donated by: Robert Lehman (5) | Theodore M. Davis (3) | George Blumenthal (3) | Palla Strozzi (1) | heir (1) | Edwin Binney (1) | Girolamo Bernerio (1) | George Blumenthal (1) | anonymous (1) | Coudert Brothers (1) | Enric Serra Auqué (1) | Revell McCallum (1) | Leslie H. Green (1) | Axel Beskow (1) | Michael Friedsam (1) | Mrs. Henry Morgenthau (1) | Adele L. Lehman (1) | Hertha Katz (1)

location of final assembly: Italy (24) | Spain (22) | Florence (12) | Bahia (11) | Venice (5) | Paris (4) | France (4) | Germany (4) | Rome (4) | Siena (4) | Basel (3) | Peru (3) | Padua (3) | Antwerp (3) | Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (3) | Europe (2) | Netherlands (2) | Mexico (2)

published in: European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue (22) | Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (6) | A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (6) | Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 3, Sienese and Central Italian Schools (5) | German Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350–1600 (4) | The Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 1, Italian Paintings (3) | Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, Florentine School/ (3) | Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 4, North Italian School (2) | Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300–1450 (2) | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 5, The Renaissance in the North (2) | Mirror of the Medieval World (2) | Italian Renaissance Frames (2) | The Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 4, Illuminations (1) | The Adele and Arthur Lehman Collection (1) | The Cloisters: Medieval Art and Architecture (1) | From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century European Paintings: France, Central Europe, The Netherlands, Spain, and Great Britain (1) | The Robert Lehman Collection, Volume XV: European and Asian Decorative Arts (1)

fabrication method: chiaroscuro (48) | oil painting (46) | fresco painting (31) | gilding (30) | wash (18) | tapestry weaving (10) | grisaille (4) | Reverse glass painting (3) | art of painting (2) | embroidery (2) | etching (2) | relief sculpture (2) | quilting (2) | appliqué (2) | piecing (2) | punchwork (2) | engraving process (1) | polychromy (1)

time period: Renaissance (60) | Baroque (28) | Early Renaissance (2)