Gothic/Medieval Art

Detail from <n>The Accolade</n> (1901) by <n>Edmund Blair Leighton</n>.

Detail from <n>Portrait of a Young Man</n> (c. 1480-1490) by the <n>Master of the View of Saint Gudula</n>.

<n>The Wound of Christ as the Fountain of Life</n>, from a German prayer book, c. 1500.

A detail from the <n>Baroque</n> painting <n>Virgin and Child with Angels</n> (c. 1618) by <n>Bartolomeo Cavarozzi</n>.

A detail from <n>Amor vincit omnia</n> (c. 1602) by <n>Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio</n>.

<n>The Accolade</n> (1901) by artist <n>Edmund Blair Leighton</n>.

A detail from <n>The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb</n> (1432) by <n>Hubert van Eyck</n> and <n>Jan van Eyck</n>.

<n>The Eye of Providence</n> by <n>William Preston</n> (1742-1818).

A detail from <n>Peter Paul Rubens</n>'s painting <n>Saint Simon</n>, created circa 1611.

Folio 12v from a <n>Model Book</n>, created in southern Germany c. 1400-1410. From the <n>Getty</n> collection.

<n>The Sun (Sol)</n>, an allegorical figure from the 1596 christening of <n>Princess Elisabeth of Hesse</n>.

A portrait of <n>Saint Clare of Assisi</n>.

A detail from <n>The Immaculate Conception</n> (c. 1628-29) by <n>Peter Paul Rubens</n>.

<n>The Heart of Mary</n> (1759), an oil on copper painting by <n>Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz</n>.

Detail of the painting <n>Saint Paul</n> (1611) by artist <n>Peter Paul Rubens</n>.

<n>Young Woman Holding a Sunflower</n> (c. 1647) by Dutch artist <n>Bartholomeus van der Helst</n>.

Detail of <n>Bacchus and Ariadne</n> (c. 1600) by <n>Domenico Fiasella</n>.

A detail from <n>Guillaume Seignac</n>'s 1895 painting, <n>Psyche</n>.

A detail from <n>Incostanza. An Allegory of Fickleness</n> by artist <n>Abraham I Janssens</n>.

Detail from a 16th-century German painting of <n>St. John the Evangelist</n>.

Detail of the <n>La Promenade</n> tapestry from <n>The Noble Life</n> series, c. 1500. Housed at the <n>Musée de Cluny</n>.

A detail from <n>Edwin Austin Abbey</n>'s <n>Pre-Raphaelite</n> painting, <n>King Lear, Act I, Scene I</n> (1898).

Detail from a tapestry depicting the legend of <n>The Swan Knight</n>.

Detail from the painting <n>Saint Augustine</n> by <n>Philippe de Champaigne</n>, c. 1645-1650.

A detail of <n>Salvator Mundi</n>, c. 1500, by <n>Leonardo da Vinci</n>.

Illustration for <n>Gustave Flaubert</n>'s novel <n>Salammbô</n> by <n>Alméry Lobel-Riche</n>, 1935.