Detail of Seven Sacraments Altarpiece | The Seven Sacraments ( 1445 ) by Roger van der Weyden showing the sacrament of Extreme Unction or Anointing of the Sick.

Saint Dominic ( 1170-1221 ), portrayed in the Perugia Altarpiece by Fra Angelico.

Isenheim Altarpiece | Isenheim Altarpiece: The Resurrection by Matthias Grünewald, completed 1515

On February 19, 1426 Masaccio was commissioned by Giuliano di Colino degli Scarsi da San Giusto, for the sum of 80 florins, to paint a major altarpiece, the Pisa Altarpiece, for his chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Pisa.

One of Jan's most famous works, the Ghent Altarpiece, is believed to be a collaboration between the two, begun c. 1420 by Hubert and completed by Jan in 1432.

* Gozzi Altarpiece by Titian

** Altarpiece of Sant Pere ( 1411 ) by Lluís Borrassà

** Altarpiece of Sant Miquel ( 1450-51 ) by Jaume Cirera and Guillem Talarn

The van Eycks ' Ghent Altarpiece, then as now famous as a supreme example of Early Netherlandish painting and already a major tourist attraction, just restored in 1550, was saved by dismantling it and hiding it in the cathedral tower.

In fact, the artistic legacy of his reign is slight, especially when compared to that of his successors, James IV and James V. Such evidence as there is consists of portrait coins produced during his reign that display the king in three-quarter profile wearing an imperial crown, the Trinity Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, which was probably not commissioned by the king, and an unusual hexagonal chapel at Restalrig near Edinburgh, perhaps inspired by the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

The Miraflores Altarpiece was probably commissioned by King Juan II of Castile, since Juan II donated it to the monastery of Miraflores in 1445.

The Mérode Altarpiece by Robert Campin, c. 1425

* the Ghent Altarpiece ( 1432 ) by Hubert and Jan van Eyck

* the Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald

Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, with gushing blood, detail of the Ghent Altarpiece by Jan Van Eyck.

Altarpiece by Carlo Crivelli.

Franco-Gothic painting is well represented by the Saint Christopher Altarpiece, while examples of the Italo-Gothic are The Saint John the Baptist Altarpiece and The Mary Magdalen Altarpiece by Jaime Serra.

By the end of the 19th century it became clear, however, that Van Eyck was the contemporary of an artist who painted a number of works, including the Mérode Altarpiece.

* Robert Campin ( Flemish, 1375 – 1444 ) Northern Renaissance artist who painted Merode Altarpiece

Signed and dated by van Eyck in 1434, it is, with the Ghent Altarpiece by the same artist and his brother Hubert, the oldest very famous panel painting to have been executed in oils rather than in tempera.

San Luca Altarpiece, 1453 ; Tempera on panel ; Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Such are, among others, the Montini Altarpiece ( about 1506-1507 ) in the Galleria Nazionale di Parma ; the Madonna with Four Saints ( about 1511 ) in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, and the smaller Virgin and Child Enthroned with St. John the Baptist and the Magdalen ( about 1513 ) in the Louvre, which was Cima's last bequest as poet and landscape painter.

* San Luca Altarpiece ( 1453 )

One masterpiece is considered to be the St. Lucy Altarpiece ( c. 1445-1447 ), originally in the Santa Lucia dei Magnoli in Florence but has been moved to the Uffizi.

Orcagna's works include the " Altarpiece of the Redeemer " ( 1354 – 57 ) in the Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella and the tabernacle in Orsanmichele ( finished 1359 ) which was regarded as " the most perfect work of its kind in Italian Gothic ".

The San Cassiano Altarpiece was especially influential on Venetian painters, as it was one of the first of the large compositions in the sacra conversazione format which was perfected by Giovanni Bellini ( Antonello's surviving work in Vienna is only a fragment of the much larger original ).

Among the works of art are seven Flemish tapestries depicting The Hunt of the Unicorn, Robert Campin's Mérode Altarpiece, and the Romanesque altar cross known as the Cloisters Cross or Bury St. Edmunds Cross, which was acquired under the curatorship of Thomas Hoving.

Around 1510 he was asked to paint four saints in grisaille for the outside of the wings of Albrecht Dürer's Heller Altarpiece (: de ) in Frankfurt.

By the end of the century, when the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolph II, embarked on his quest to secure as many Dürer paintings as possible, the Isenheim Altarpiece was already generally believed to be a Dürer.

In the late 19th century he was rediscovered, and became something of a cult figure, with the angst-laden expressionism — and absence of any direct classicism — of the Isenheim Altarpiece appealing to both German Nationalists and Modernists.

In 1475, Hugo van der Goes ' Portinari Altarpiece arrived in Florence where it was to have a profound influence on many painters, most immediately Domenico Ghirlandaio who painted an altarpiece imitating its elements.

The exact time line of the frescoes is in question ; some scholars believed the cycle was painted in sections over several years as the style had some similarities to Lorenzetti's Carmelite Altarpiece.

The Isenheim Altarpiece, currently on display at the Unterlinden Museum of Colmar, was completed in 1515 by Matthias Grünewald for a local monastery.

The work's protagonist, Matthias Grünewald, was an actual historical figure who flourished in that era, and whose art, in particular the Isenheim Altarpiece, inspired many creative figures in the early 20th century, including Joris-Karl Huysmans's novel Là-Bas.

He was possibly born and probably trained in Venice, and signed the Withypool Altarpiece " Antonius Desolario, Venetus 1514 "; this includes a donor portrait and the heraldry of the London merchant Paul Withypool.

A report by a German physician, Hieronymus Münzer, from 1495, according to which a painter from Ghent was driven to melancholy by the attempt to equal the Ghent Altarpiece, may refer to Hugo.

His father's house ( which survived until destroyed by Allied bombs in 1944 ) was a few metres from the church where Albrecht Dürer's Heller Altarpiece was then displayed.

The Altarpiece was painted by Niels Dahl.

In the sixth chapel to the left of the nave is a SS Ignatius, Erasmus and Blaise by Raffaellino del Garbo ; the next chapel has one of the panels of Annunziata Altarpiece ( 1507 ) by Perugino, once at the high altar of the church ( the Deposition, begun by Filippino Lippi, is now at the Gallerie dell ' Accademia, while other panels are divided between other collections in the world ).

* Rachel Billinge, Luke Syson and Marika Spring, Altered Angels: Two Panels from the Immaculate Conception Altarpiece once in San Francesco Grande, Milan, accessed 2012-01-05

* Christ and the Samaritan Woman, ( Altarpiece, 1575, Santa Maria Novella, now Prato )

From this period are his frescoes Aurora at the casino of the Villa Ludovisi, the ceiling in San Crisogono ( 1622 ) of San Chrysogonus in Glory, the portrait of Pope Gregory XV ( now in the Getty Museum, and The Burial of Saint Petronilla or St. Petronilla Altarpiece for the Vatican ( now in the Museo Capitolini ), which is considered his masterpiece.

Only religious works are included in his small surviving corpus, the most famous being the Isenheim Altarpiece, completed 1515, now in the Musée d ' Unterlinden, Colmar.

The next is the Altarpiece of the Virgin ( c. 1440 ), which has been associated with panels now in Basel, Nuremberg, and Strasbourg ( Musée de l ’ Œuvre Notre-Dame ).

Witz's final altarpiece is the St. Peter Altarpiece of 1444, painted for St. Peter's Cathedral, Geneva, and now in the Musée d ' Art et d ' Histoire, Geneva, which contains his most famous composition, the Miraculous Draught of Fishes.

A dismembered canvas altarpiece — now in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique ( Brussels ), the J. Paul Getty Museum ( Los Angeles ), National Gallery ( London ), Norton Simon Museum ( Pasadena ), and a Swiss private collection — with the same dimensions as the Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament may belong to this period.