nataliakoptseva:

1375-1400  Anonyme Allemand  Descente aux Limbes Détail droit, Descent with the Limbs, right Détail  psb  Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne
necspenecmetu:

Jacopo Palma il Giovane, The Francesco Saint Jerome, c. 1595
corinthian-girl:

Piramide papistique, satiric-allegoric representation of the Roman Church hierarchy as the Serpents of Hell. From a Protestant anti-Papist broadside, Holland, late sixteenth century.
blackpaint20:

Devious detail from Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Vanité, 1535

Monastero di San Benedetto, Subiaco
herekitty:

Nicolai Abildgaard, Nightmare (1800)
“St. Catherine of Alexandria” by Konrad Witz
thorsteinulf:

Rodrigo de Osona - Adoration of the Kings (1490-1500)
imagediver:

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Detail from Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John, Joan de Burgunya