Collection Context: subjects

An Allegory of the Labours of Heracles

The Labours of Herakles

Crucifixion miniature, by Giovanni Todeschino

The Crucifixion

The Virgin of Humility. Paolo Schiavo (Paolo di Stefano Badaloni) (Italian, 1397-1478)

Flagellant Saints

Marcus Aurelius on horseback

Men on Horseback

The Nativity by Sebastiano Mainardi

The Nativity

Paolo Veronese's depiction of Hermes in the chamber of Herse

Mercury/Hermes

Mary Magdalene in a landscape

Mary Magdalene

Jews in the synagogue, by Rembrandt

Judas

Florentine print, c 1500 depicting Christ on the Cross

The Suffering Christ

The Adoration of the Magi Flemish, c. 1540

The Adoration of the Magi

Canelleto View of Venice

The City

The abduction of Ganymede by Giovanni Battista Foggini

The Loves of Jupiter

A drachma showing Athena

Athena or Minerva

Dürer's 'Four horsemen of the Apocalypse'

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Christ's troubled sleep, by William Blake

Bad Dreams

On the Brink by Alfred Elmore (PD.108-1975)

Temptation

An early sixteenth-century Flemish Annunciation

Reading

The descent from the cross by Graham Sutherland

The Descent From The Cross