MFA Images: Religion and MythologyExplore this subject through images from across the MFA's collection./internal/media/dispatcher/698674/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailAbraham Preparing to Sacrifice Isaac (Genesis, XXII, 9–12)about 1783William Blake90.11136637/internal/media/dispatcher/1807310/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailAdam and Eve Sleeping (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")1808William Blake90.10236628/internal/media/dispatcher/1626197/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailAegis of Isis945–712 B.C.31.195147427/internal/media/dispatcher/971659/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailAizen myôô, the Wisdom King of Passion14th century09.3839002/internal/media/dispatcher/981892/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailAmulet of Harsaphes (Heryshef)740–725 B.C.06.240837044/internal/media/dispatcher/1317499/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailAmulet of Hathor nursing a queen743–712 B.C.24.92845975/internal/media/dispatcher/1298114/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailAngels Representing Adoration, Praise, Thanksgiving, and Love1890sJohn La Farge21.1555.1238167/internal/media/dispatcher/1017977/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Archangel GabrielMaster of the Miraculous Annunciation of Ss. Annunziata1978.68534298/internal/media/dispatcher/1807326/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Archangel Raphael with Adam and Eve (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")1808William Blake90.97156665/internal/media/dispatcher/1016167/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailArchitrave relief from the Temple of Athena at Assos with a scene of Herakles and Centaursabout 540–525 B.C.84.67151022/internal/media/dispatcher/857375/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Ascension1775John Singleton Copley25.9532172/internal/media/dispatcher/747151/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailAvalokiteshvara11th century63.41822167/internal/media/dispatcher/1189924/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailBenzaiten, the Goddess of Music and Good Fortune, on a Dragonabout 1886 (Meiji 19)Hashimoto Gahō11.872827124/internal/media/dispatcher/1175254/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailBodhisattva3rd century C.E.37.9918387/internal/media/dispatcher/590218/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailBuddha Headabout 3rd century A.D.19.80228579/internal/media/dispatcher/897933/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailByaku-e Kannon, White-Robed Bodhisattva of Compassionfirst half of the 16th centuryKano Motonobu11.426724752/internal/media/dispatcher/1807327/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Casting of the Rebel Angels into Hell (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")1808William Blake90.98183701/internal/media/dispatcher/1807323/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailChrist Accepting the Office of Redeemer (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")1808William Blake90.94156661/internal/media/dispatcher/1132876/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailChrist as the Man of Sorrowsabout 1470Unidentified artist, Alsatian, 2nd half 15th century56.26233560/internal/media/dispatcher/1618780/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Communion of the ApostlesLuca Giordano82.11230910/internal/media/dispatcher/1009337/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailCoronation of the VirginMaster of Bonastre10.3631366/internal/media/dispatcher/942489/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailCovered drinking cup (kylix) with Apollo and a Museabout 460 B.C.the Carlsruhe Painter00.356154002/internal/media/dispatcher/1807324/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Creation of Eve (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")1808William Blake90.95156664/internal/media/dispatcher/676276/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailCrucified Christ with the Virgin and Saint John the EvangelistNaddo Ceccarelli16.11731560/internal/media/dispatcher/1052060/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Crucifixionabout 1525Joos van Cleve12.17031426/internal/media/dispatcher/899970/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Dead Christ with Angelsabout 1524–27Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo)58.52733615/internal/media/dispatcher/1396496/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Dean's Roll Call1899Thomas Eakins43.21132882/internal/media/dispatcher/1007634/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Descent From the Crosspossibly mid–1480sCosimo Rosselli22.65131978/internal/media/dispatcher/1091563/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailDoor of a Mosqueabout 1891John Singer Sargent37.5032584/internal/media/dispatcher/1039491/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailDrinking cup (skyphos) with the departure and recovery of Helenabout 490 B.C.Makron13.186153876/internal/media/dispatcher/610325/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailDurga as Mahishasuramardini (the Slayer of the Buffalo Demon)970–107027.17117153/internal/media/dispatcher/1000616/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailEarring with Nike driving a two-horse chariotabout 350–325 B.C.98.788155707/internal/media/dispatcher/1534655/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailElijah in the Desert1818Washington Allston70.130844/internal/media/dispatcher/1807308/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Expulsion from Eden (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")1808William Blake90.100183700/internal/media/dispatcher/813463/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailExpulsion from Paradise1470sBenvenuto di Giovanni56.51233565/internal/media/dispatcher/1066240/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailExpulsion from the Garden of Eden1828Thomas Cole47.118833060/internal/media/dispatcher/727043/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Fall of Man (Small Passion)1510–11Albrecht Dürer61.1354344/internal/media/dispatcher/1807312/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailFamine1805William Blake90.104183708/internal/media/dispatcher/839296/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailFigurine of Herakles shooting his bowabout 550 B.C.98.657152666/internal/media/dispatcher/686043/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Finding of Moses1870sAlexander F. Loemans47.123133102/internal/media/dispatcher/1453218/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailFisherman and the Genieabout 1863Elihu Vedder06.243131297/internal/media/dispatcher/782696/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailFragment of a mummy-case1070–760 B.C.72.4807133602/internal/media/dispatcher/675102/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailFraternal Love1851William Adolphe Bouguereau08.18631336/internal/media/dispatcher/1138725/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailFriend of the Humble (Supper at Emmaus)1892Léon-Augustin Lhermitte92.265731032/internal/media/dispatcher/801374/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Garden of Edenabout 1860Erastus Salisbury Field48.102733347/internal/media/dispatcher/614034/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailGoliath Cursing David (I Samuel XVII, 43–44)about 1803–05William Blake90.109183706/internal/media/dispatcher/913790/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailHarivamsa (Genealogy of Krishna): The Birth and Escape of KrishnaAbout 1590, border added later66.148148520/internal/media/dispatcher/1662412/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailHathor-headed crystal pendant743–712 B.C.21.321143587/internal/media/dispatcher/801362/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailHead of a goddess or queenabout 300–270 B.C.96.712152722/internal/media/dispatcher/1046884/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailHead of Aphroditeabout A.D. 138–19201.820070/internal/media/dispatcher/914128/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailHead of Aphroditeabout 1st century B.C.96.694189/internal/media/dispatcher/788525/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailHead of Aphrodite of the Capitoline typeabout 2nd century A.D. (after a Hellenistic Greek type)99.351151167/internal/media/dispatcher/1203851/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailHead of Aphrodite ("The Bartlett Head" )about 330–300 B.C.03.743151059/internal/media/dispatcher/988392/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailHead of Polyphemosabout 150 B.C. or later63.120151108/internal/media/dispatcher/1016159/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailHead of Zeus350–340 B.C.04.12151048/internal/media/dispatcher/613818/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailHerakles88.350151162/internal/media/dispatcher/1174692/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailHercules as Heroic Virtue Overcoming Discordabout 1632–33Peter Paul Rubens47.154333143/internal/media/dispatcher/1000617/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailHermes Kriophoros (Ram-bearer)about 500–490 B.C.99.489152668/internal/media/dispatcher/1030873/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailHermes Kriophoros (the ram bearer)about 520–510 B.C.04.6152667/internal/media/dispatcher/600037/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailHydriaShortly before A.D. 1889, imitating a work of about 530–520 B.C.89.562153436/internal/media/dispatcher/761557/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailIn Memoriamabout 1861Alfred Stevens23.49132048/internal/media/dispatcher/1102495/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailIsaiah with Two Angelsabout 1410Gherardo di Jacopo Starnina20.185631852/internal/media/dispatcher/1346109/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailIzanami and Izanagi Creating the Japanese Islandsmid 1880sKobayashi Eitaku11.797226669/internal/media/dispatcher/746843/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailJar (pelike) with Odysseus and Elpenor in the Underworldabout 440 B.C.the Lykaon Painter34.79153840/internal/media/dispatcher/1009340/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailJeremiah with Two Angelsabout 1410Gherardo di Jacopo Starnina20.185731853/internal/media/dispatcher/632521/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailKannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassionlatter half of the 17th - first half of the 18th centuriesKano Tansetsu11.670625875/internal/media/dispatcher/1020918/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailKrishna and his favorite shelter from a stormabout 1825The Family of Nainsukh17.2614149055/internal/media/dispatcher/777210/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailKrishna as Lover of ManyAbout 166566.117149672/internal/media/dispatcher/952396/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailKrishna fluting for gopas and cowsabout 170017.2804149208/internal/media/dispatcher/953049/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailKrishna Vanishes from His Favoriteabout 1760The Family of Manaku61.382149264/internal/media/dispatcher/1007645/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Lamentation1538Lucas Cranach, the Elder74.2830873/internal/media/dispatcher/1411327/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Lamentation (Christ at the Tomb)1848Eugène Delacroix96.2131074/internal/media/dispatcher/1807311/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailLucifer and the Pope in Hell (The King of Babylon)about 1805William Blake90.103183709/internal/media/dispatcher/988745/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailMadonna of Humilityabout 1442Giovanni di Paolo30.77232399/internal/media/dispatcher/1463311/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailMan of Sorrowsabout 1320-25Pietro da Rimini28.88732324/internal/media/dispatcher/1000608/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailMantiklos "Apollo"about 700–675 B.C.03.997152660/internal/media/dispatcher/1174691/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailMercury and a Sleeping Herdsmanabout 1632–33Peter Paul Rubens42.17932830/internal/media/dispatcher/1807309/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailMichael Foretelling the Crucifixion to Adam (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")1808William Blake90.101157412/internal/media/dispatcher/1146358/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailMixing bowl (bell krater) with the death of Aktaion and a pursuit sceneabout 470 B.C.the Pan Painter10.185153654/internal/media/dispatcher/603150/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailMixing bowl (calyx-krater)about 380–360 B.C.The Nazzano Painter1970.487154445/internal/media/dispatcher/794156/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailMixing bowl (calyx krater) with scenes from the fall of Troyabout 470–460 B.C.the Altamura Painter59.178153660/internal/media/dispatcher/863753/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailMixing bowl (calyx krater) with the killing of Agamemnonabout 460 B.C.the Dokimasia Painter63.1246153661/internal/media/dispatcher/1350703/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailMixing bowl (volute krater)about 340 B.C.the Varrese Painter03.804154078/internal/media/dispatcher/1009365/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailMoses and the Israelites after the Miracle of Water from the Rock1527Lucas van Leyden54.143233532/internal/media/dispatcher/1807315/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailMoses Erecting the Brazen Serpent (Numbers XXI, 9)about 1800–03William Blake90.10736636/internal/media/dispatcher/1188652/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherineabout 1590Peter Candid1980.7234344/internal/media/dispatcher/794139/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Nativityabout 1776John Singleton Copley1972.98134161/internal/media/dispatcher/799232/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNeck-amphora depicting Herakles and Triton (A) and Dionysos (B)about 520 B.C.80.621153385/internal/media/dispatcher/1046886/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailNine dragonsdated 1244Chen Rong17.169728526/internal/media/dispatcher/782263/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailOffering tableA.D. 90–11423.872145171/internal/media/dispatcher/981888/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailOil flask (lekythos) in the form of Aphroditefirst half of 4th century B.C.00.629154023/internal/media/dispatcher/776678/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailPage from a Gita Govinda series: Krishna and the gopisAbout 166066.141149695/internal/media/dispatcher/953039/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailPage from a Gita Govinda series: Krishna awaiting RadhaProbably 1629Sahibdin32.53149649/internal/media/dispatcher/1807314/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailPestilence: Death of the First Bornabout 1805William Blake90.10636635/internal/media/dispatcher/693654/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailPhineas and the Sons of Boreasabout 1695Sebastiano Ricci1980.27534365/internal/media/dispatcher/1807313/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailPlagueabout 1805William Blake90.105183707/internal/media/dispatcher/743686/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailRelief of Akhenaten as a sphinx1349–1336 B.C.64.194446197/internal/media/dispatcher/1260014/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailRelief of the gods Amen and Ptah-Sokar-Osiris284–246 B.C.51.739148420/internal/media/dispatcher/1525259/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailRest on the Flight into Egypt1879Luc Olivier Merson18.65231734/internal/media/dispatcher/692541/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailThe Return of the Prodigal SonPeter Brandl1973.8934170