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".
The Marriage at Cana, c.1563
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$3170
Cristo in Casa di Marta e Maria, 1567
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$790
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, 1570-75
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$555
Crowning with Thorns, c.1570-1575
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$430
Christ Carrying the Cross, 1577
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$375
Mars and Venus United by Love, c.1570
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$535
St Veronica with the Sudary, c.1579
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$335
The Spoliation, 1577-1579
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$1005
The Disrobing of Christ, 1579
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$2250
Christ in the Garden Supported by an Angel,c.1580
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$450
The Rape of Europe, 1580
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$800
Pieta, 1576-1582
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$410
The Baptism of Christ, 1584 - detail
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$490
Christ on the Cross Adored by Donors , 1585-1590
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$415
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