1. GRECO, El; The Virgin Mary; 1594-1604 Museo del Prado, Madrid

2. RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel; Annunciation; c. 1628 Rubens House, Antwerp

3. BOTTICELLI, Sandro; Cestello Annunciation; 1489-90 Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

4. ANTONELLO da Messina; Virgin of the Annunciation; Oil on panel Alte Pinakothek, Munich

5. PONTORMO, Jacopo; Visitation; 1528-29 San Michele, Carmignano (Florence)

6. TINTORETTO; The Visitation; c. 1588 Scuola di San Rocco, Venice

7. BAROCCI, Federico Fiori; The Nativity; 1597 Museo del Prado, Madrid

8. GRECO, El; The Nativity; 1603-05 Hospital de la Caridad, Illescas

9. RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel; Adoration of the Shepherds; c. 1608 St.-Pauluskerk, Antwerp

10. SCHONGAUER, Martin; Nativity; c. 1480 Staatliche Museen, Berlin

11. RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel; Adoration of the Magi; 1626-29 Musée du Louvre, Paris

12. EECKHOUT, Gerbrand van den; Presentation in the Temple; 1671 Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

13. CHAMPAIGNE, Philippe de; The Presentation of the Temple; 1648 Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

14. RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel; Virgin in Adoration before the Christ Child; c. 1615 Rockox House, Antwerp

15. BATONI, Pompeo; Madonna and Child; c. 1742 Galleria Borghese, Rome

16. RAFFAELLO Sanzio; Madonna della Seggiola (Sedia); 1514 Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence

17. MICHELANGELO Buonarroti; Madonna and Child; 1501-05 O.L. Vrouwekerk, Bruges

18. MICHELANGELO Buonarroti; Madonna and Child (detail); 1501-05 O.L. Vrouwekerk, Bruges

19. DÜRER, Albrecht; The Virgin Mary in Prayer; 1518 Staatliche Museen, Berlin

20. ALTDORFER, Albrecht; Christ on the Cross between Mary and St John Staatliche Museen, Kassel

21. VOUET, Simon; Crucifixion;1622 Chiesa del Gesù, Genoa

22. TINTORETTO; Descent from the Cross (Pietà); c. 1559 Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

23. MICHELANGELO Buonarroti Pietà; 1499 Basilica di San Pietro, Vatican

24. MICHELANGELO Buonarroti; Pietà (detail0;; 1499 Basilica di San Pietro, Vatican

25. EYCK, Hubert van; The Three Marys at the Tomb Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam

26. SCHEDONI, Bartolomeo; The Two Marys at the Tomb; 1613 Galleria Nazionale, Parma

27. GUERCINO; The Resurrected Christ Appears to the Virgin; 1629 Pinacoteca Comunale, Cento

28. SASSOFERRATO; Madonna in Prayer; 1640s Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

29. POUSSIN, Nicolas; The Assumption of the Virgin; 1650 Musée du Louvre, Paris

30. CEREZO, Mateo; Assumption of Mary Museo del Prado, Madrid

31. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y; The Coronation of the Virgin;1641-44 Museo del Prado, Madrid

32. EYCK, Jan van; The Ghent Altarpiece: Virgin Mary; 1426-29 Cathedral of St Bavo, Ghent