Paintings for Advent

40 paintings by 34 painters, 1405 to 1767. Each is printed from the holding museum's own photograph of the original.

• The AnnunciationThe Limbourg Brothers1405–1408/9 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters
• Saint John the Baptist in the WildernessThe Limbourg Brothers1405–1408/9 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters
• The AnnunciationMasolino da Panicalec. 1423/1424 · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• The AnnunciationFra Angelicoc. 1425–1426 · Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
• The Last JudgmentFra Angelicoc. 1431 · Museo di San Marco, Florence
• The AnnunciationJan van Eyckc. 1434–1436 · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• The Last JudgmentFra Angelico1435/40 · Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
• The Annunciation and Expulsion from ParadiseGiovanni di Paoloc. 1435 · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• The AnnunciationFra Carnevalec. 1445/1450 · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• The AnnunciationDieric Boutsabout 1450–1455 · J. Paul Getty Museum
• The AnnunciationRogier van der Weydenc. 1460 · KMSKA, Antwerp
• The Annunciation with Saint Francis and Saint Louis of Toulouse [four panels]Cosmè Turac. 1470/1480 · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• The AnnunciationLeonardo da Vincic. 1472–1476 · Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence
• The AnnunciationLorenzo di Credic. 1475–1500 · Musée du Louvre, Paris
• The AnnunciationHans Memling1480–1489 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Leaf from a Book of Hours: Annunciation, Nativity and Two ProphetsAttributed to the Master of Riccardiana 231c. 1485 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
• The Annunciation, with Saint EmidiusCarlo Crivelli1486 · The National Gallery, London
• The AnnunciationCima da Conegliano1495 · State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
• St John the Baptist in the WildernessHieronymus Boschc. 1495 · Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid
• The Four Horsemen of the ApocalypseAlbrecht Dürerc. 1498 · Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
• Mystic NativitySandro Botticellic. 1500–1501 · The National Gallery, London
• The Martyrdom of Saint LucyMaster of the Figdor Depositionc. 1505–c. 1510 · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
• The VisitationPontormoc. 1525–29 · Pieve di San Michele Arcangelo, Carmignano
• The AnnunciationGarofalo1528 · Pinacoteca Capitolina, Musei Capitolini, Rome
• Annunciation (Recanati Annunciation)Lorenzo Lottoc. 1534 · Museo Civico Villa Colloredo Mels
• The Last JudgmentMichelangelo1536–1541 · Sistine Chapel, Vatican Museums
• The Census at BethlehemPieter Bruegel the Elder1566 · Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
• The Sermon of St John the BaptistPieter Bruegel the Elder1566 · Museum of Fine Arts (Szépművészeti Múzeum), Budapest
• The AnnunciationCaravaggioc. 1608 · Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy
• The Last JudgmentPeter Paul Rubensc. 1617 · Alte Pinakothek, Munich
• The Immaculate ConceptionDiego Velázquez1618-19 · The National Gallery, London
• AnnunciationOrazio Gentileschi1623 · Galleria Sabauda (Musei Reali)
• The Incarnation as Fulfillment of All the PropheciesPeter Paul Rubensc. 1628–1629 · Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
• The Immaculate ConceptionJusepe de Ribera1637 · Columbia Museum of Art
• The Immaculate Conception of Los VenerablesBartolomé Esteban Murillo1660–1665 · Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
• The AnnunciationLuca Giordano1672 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• The Immaculate ConceptionBartolomé Esteban Murilloc. 1680 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
• The Immaculate ConceptionGiovanni Battista Tiepolo1767–1769 · Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
• The AnnunciationGirolamo Mazzola Bedolilate 1530s · Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan
• The NativityPiero della Francescaearly 1480s · The National Gallery, London