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".
Madonna del Prato c.1505
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St Martin Dividing his Cloak, c.1618
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Madonna of the Carnation, 1457
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The Buccleuch Madonna (The Madonna of the Yarnwinder)
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The Annunciation-Virgin Mary (detail), 1472
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The Annunciation-the Angel (detail), 1472
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The Death of the First-Born, 1877
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Apostle Paul in Prison, 1627
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Christ Driving the Money Changers From the Temple, 1626
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The Apostle Peter Kneeling, 1631
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Road to Emmaus, 1877
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Christ at the Column, c.1607
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The Dreyfus Madonna, 1457
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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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