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Albrecht Bouts - Jesus at Simon the Pharisee

Antonio da Correggio’s "Jupiter and Io" shows the nymph Io in an ecstatic embrace with Jupiter, who has taken the form of a cloud.

In "Christ at the sea of Galilee" Alessandro Magnasco painted a scene from the episode where Christ's disciples are on a boat caught in a terrible storm. Jesus walked to them on the water to reassure them and invited Peter to join him.

Diego Velázquez’s "The Surrender of Breda" is a large, panoramic oil painting that captures the moment when the Dutch commander Justinus van Nassau hands the keys of the city of Breda to the Spanish general Ambrogio Spinola.

Domenico Ghirlandaio’s "Birth of Mary" is a large fresco in the Tornabuoni Chapel of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, painted around 1485–1490. It shows the moment aafter Anne has given birth to Mary, set not in biblical Palestine but in what looks like an elegant late-15th-century Florentine bedroom. Anne, the mother of Mary, reclines in a grand wooden bed, propped up against rich blue textiles, while attendants bustle around her.