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Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art holds 275 Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces in the Paintale collection, including works by Albrecht Dürer, Anna Maria Carew, Anonymous, Anthony van Dyck. Each painting page unpacks the symbolism, technique, and provenance of the work — turning a gallery visit, or a search for a single canvas, into a deeper encounter with the period.
Famous paintings at the Cleveland Museum of Art
A Draped Female Figure (possibly an Amazon) and Architectural Studies (verso)
Correggio
The Dance of Death: Expulsion from Paradise; Adam Cultivating the Ground
Hans Holbein the Younger
Coat of Arms of John Frederic, Elector of Saxony, called the Magnanimous
Lucas Cranach
James the Greater from Christ, the Apostles, and Saint Paul
Lucas Cranach the Elder, After
James the Less from Christ, the Apostles, and Saint Paul
Lucas Cranach the Elder, After
![Various Sketches of the Madonna and Child (recto); Architectural Studies (verso) [partially visible on recto]](https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.670/1939.670_web.jpg)
Various Sketches of the Madonna and Child (recto); Architectural Studies (verso) [partially visible on recto]
Paolo Veronese
Reconciliation of the Romans and the Sabines (recto) Venus Disarming Mars, Drapery Study (verso)
Peter Paul Rubens
The Feast of Herod (recto) Tomyris with the Head of Cyrus (verso)
Peter Paul Rubens
The Meeting of Christ with Martha and Mary after the Death of Lazarus
Rembrandt van Rijn
About the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Renaissance and Baroque collection
The Cleveland Museum of Art’s holdings of Renaissance and Baroque painting in Cleveland sit among the most significant surviving collections of pre-modern European art. The works in this group — 275 paintings — span the themes of portrait, religion & mythology, daily life, power & politics, tragedy & death, love & romance and the hands of artists from Albrecht Dürer, Anna Maria Carew, Anonymous, Anthony van Dyck, Bartolommeo Coriolano.
If you’re planning a visit, use this page as a starting list of the must-see paintings. If you’re researching from a desk, each painting page goes deeper than a museum label: the patron, the symbolism a 17th-century viewer would have recognised, the technique under the surface, and where the painting fits in Cleveland Museum of Art’s longer history.