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Venus and Mars by Sandro Botticelli, 1485
The long, low shape is the giveaway, apparently: pictures built this wide were often part of the furniture — a bench back, or the panel set above a bed — rather than something hung by itself. There are wasps up in one corner that some people read as a pun on a family's name.
Erisava: Not one hair is out of place here, including on the one who's asleep.
Visions of the Hereafter: Ascent of the Blessed by Hieronymus Bosch, 1490
Palazzo Grimani di Santa Maria Formosa · wikidata.org
Public domain
This is one panel out of four on what happens after you die — the other three are a lot less pleasant, and they were probably the wings of something bigger that's since been broken up. Wikipedia says not everyone is convinced he painted them at all.
Erisava: Does that light look welcoming to you, or not really?