OIL PAINTINGS BY GENRE - Religious Paintings
The themes of religion have provided a lot of the content of painting in the West. In great periods of painting, such as the Renaissance in Europe, the wealthy who could afford to hire artists often subsidized major religious paintings as appropriate to the scale of their own palaces and as gifts to religious institutions.
The church has been described as the "Mother of the Arts." Michelangelo was supported by popes and other princes of the church in the production of his greatest paintings. The painting itself may not have specifically religious subject matter but may be expressive and in that expression reveal something of the grandeur and misery of the human spirit. The artist who paints religious themes in ways that are religiously powerful might just say "I mix my paints with faith".
Martyrdom of St Bartholomew, 1630
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The Dreyfus Madonna, 1457
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Apostles Peter and Paul, 1628
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Flagellation, c.1607
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The Emmaus Disciples, 1622
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Christ among the Doctors, 1506
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The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, 1601-1602
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Madonna with the Siskin, 1506
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The Poem of the Soul - First Communion, c.1851
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Rest on the Flight to Egypt (re-worked), 1519
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The Death of the Virgin, c.1460
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Madonna with the Long Neck, 1534
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Saint John the Baptist, 1510
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Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, 1669
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The Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist, 1507
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