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 Annunciation, 1597
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$1200
The Annunciation, Cortona 1434
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$3900
The Annunciation-the Angel (detail), 1472
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$520
The Annunciation-Virgin Mary (detail), 1472
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$520
The Ansidei Madonna, 1505
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$890
The Apostle Peter Kneeling, 1631
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$520
The arrival at Bethlehem, 1897
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$335
The Baptism of Christ, 1584 - detail
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$490
The Baptism of Christ, Leonardo and Verocchio, 1472
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$990
The Blinding of Samson, 1636
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$570
The Buccleuch Madonna (The Madonna of the Yarnwinder)
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The Calling of St. Matthew, 1599-1600
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The Canigiani Holy Family, 1508
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The Charity of St. Elizabeth of Hungary
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The Conversion of Mary Magdalen, 1598
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