Byzantine (Constantinople or Sinai?), second half of the 13th century, Icon with the Archangel Gabriel, tempera and gold on wood panel with raised borders, 105 x 75 cm (41 3/8 x 29 1/2 inches), Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai, Egypt.

Harbaville Triptych: Deisis and Saints, Constantinople, Mid-10th century, lvory with traces of goldleaf

Byzantium, The Cambrai Madonna, c. 1340 [Met]

Byzantium, Christ Pantocrator, 1363, egg tempera on gesso, wood, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Cimabue, The Madonna in Majesty (Maestà), 1285-86, Tempera on panel, 385 x 223 cm, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

Giotto, Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ), 1304-06, Fresco, Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

Masaccio, La trinità, c.1427, Florence, S. Maria Novella

Masaccio, La trinità, c.1427, Florence, S. Maria Novella (one-pt. perspective diagram)

Fra Angelico, Annunciation, 1433-34

Jan van Eyck, The Madonna with Canon van der Paele, 1436, Oil on wood, Groeninge Museum, Bruges

Jan van Eyck, The Madonna with Canon van der Paele, 1436 (detail)

Fra Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels, c. 1437 [Met]

Filippo Lippi, Florentine, c. 1406 - 1469, Madonna and Child, 1440/1445

Fra Filippo Lippi, The Annunciation with two Kneeling Donors, c. 1440

Domenico Veneziano, Madonna and Child with Saints, c. 1445

Domenico Veneziano, The Madonna and Child with Saints c. 1445 (detail of St. John)

Pietro Perugino, The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John, Saint Jerome, and Saint Mary Magdalene, c. 1482/1484

Pietro Perugino, Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John, Saint Jerome, and Saint Mary Magdalene, c. 1482/1484

Sandro Botticelli, The Adoration of the Magi, early 1480s, National Gallery of Art

Sandro Botticelli, The Adoration of the Magi (detail), early 1480s.

Giovanni Bellini, Pieta, 1505

Raphael, The Alba Madonna, c.1511

Raphael, The Transfiguration, 1518 - 1520

Jacopo Pontormo, Deposition, c. 1528

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, The Supper at Emmaus, 1601