Richard Parkes Bonington’s "View of the Lagoon Near Venice" is a small Romantic seascape. The work shows the Venetian lagoon under a vast, changeable sky, its low horizon emphasizing the immensity of air and water.
In "Christ at the sea of Galilee" Alessandro Magnasco painted a scene from the episode where Christ's disciples are on a boat caught in a terrible storm. Jesus walked to them on the water to reassure them and invited Peter to join him.
Sandro Botticelli's "The birth of Venus" depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, having emerged nude and fully-grown from the sea, as the classical mythology had it.