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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)

Maria and Child

painting
by Agnese Dolci (1680s)

Madonna and Child on a grass bench.

painting
by Dieric Bouts (1470)

Annunciation to the Shepherds

painting
by anonymous (17th century)
herder angel Ovis putto

Lamentation over the Body of Christ

painting
by Dosso Dossi (1517)

The Resurrection

painting
by El Greco (1577)

Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen

painting
by Domenico Fetti (1620)
man

The Last Supper

painting
by Agostino Carracci (1593s)

Christ Blessing the Children

painting
by Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (19th century)

Christus am Kreuz (Schule)

painting
by Johann Carl Loth (17th century)

Bathsheba

painting
by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1889)
nudity washing standing woman Bathsheba chignon sponge contrapposto back hip waist steatomery intergluteal cleft Gluteal sulcus breast brown hair carpet flower flowerbed terrace sky cloud squatting position veil basin morning drapery

Sketch for 'The Last Supper,' St. Mary's, Weymouth

painting
by James Thornhill (18th century)

Solomon in the Temple

painting
by François de Nomé

Crucifixion of Christ with Mary and John

painting
by Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra (1649)
Jesus Christ crucifixion of Jesus Virgin Mary John the Apostle

Judith Presenting Herself to Holofernes

painting
by Antonio Gionima (1720s)
Judith Holofernes

The Virgin Mary and Five Standing Saints above Predella Panels

painting
by anonymous (1440s)

The Widow's Mite

painting
by James Tissot (19th century)

Григорій Чудотворець (Ермітаж)

painting
(14th century)
Gregory Thaumaturgus

Communion of Saint Jerome

painting
by Domenichino (1614)
Jerome communion lion putto priest

The adoration by the shepherds

painting
by Erasmus Quellinus II (1652)

Virgin and Child

painting
by anonymous (1490s)

Nativity

painting
by Eugenio Caxés (1610)

Madonna enthroned with child and two figures

painting
by Hans Holbein (1522)
woman Child Jesus boy Virgin Mary mother

Pentecost

painting
by Giotto di Bondone (1310s)

Preaching of John the Baptist

painting
by Gerrit Pietersz Sweelink (1606)

Saint Anne with the Virgin and Child

painting
by anonymous (15th century)

Saint James Minor

painting
by Master of Saint Francis (1272)

Christ among the Doctors

painting
by Bernardino Luini (1515)
Jesus Christ physician

The Journey of the Magi

painting
by Stefano di Giovanni (1434)
woman man

Saint Sebastian

painting
by Augustin van den Berghe (1780)
Saint Sebastian

Saint Benoît à Subiaco

painting
by Fra Angelico (1430)
Benedict of Nursia cave mortification of the flesh food basket

Saint Joseph

painting
by James Tissot (19th century)

House altar of Count William II of Hessen

painting / triptych
by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1500s)
man Jesus Christ Saint Barbara Catherine of Alexandria

Annunciation

painting
by Jacopo Bellini (16th century)
Annunciation

Christus in der Vorhölle (Werkstatt) und Hans Rottenhammer (

painting
by Hans Rottenhammer (1597)

The Crucifixion with Saint Mary Magdalene and Saint Francis

painting
by Gaspar de Crayer (17th century)
angel crucifixion of Jesus Francis of Assisi Mary Magdalena prayer

The Entombment

painting
by Adriaen van der Werff (1703)
Jesus Christ

Moses protects Jethro's Daughters

painting
by Louis de Deyster (1680)

Our Lady of Grace

painting
Virgin Mary Child Jesus

Saint Mary Magdalene at the Foot of the Cross

painting
by Eugène Delacroix (1829)
Mary Magdalena

Kaïn en Abel

painting
by Willem de Zwart (20th century)
Cain Abel

Presentation in the Temple

painting
by Sébastien Bourdon (17th century)
candle pigeon thurible domestic sheep Presentation of Jesus at the Temple

Study for The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds

painting
by Thomas Cole (1831)

Saint Anthony and Saint Stephen

painting
by Bicci di Lorenzo (15th century)
Stephen Anthony the Great

Nativity

panel painting / painting
by Petrus Christus (1450)
nativity scene

Saint John the Baptist Preaching

painting
by Raphael (1505)
John the Baptist