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 Last Supper - Before Restoration, 1498
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$930
The Last Supper, 1615-20
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$840
The Light of the World, 1851-1853
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$500
The Madonna of Foligno, 1511-1512
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$885
The Marriage at Cana, c.1563
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$3170
The Martyrdom of Four Saints, 1523
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$600
The Martyrdom of St Erasmus, 1628
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$700
The Martyrdom of st Stephen , Triptych
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$2450
The Martyrdom of St. Stephen
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$950
The Nativity, 1776-1777
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$645
The Opening of the Fifth Seal, 1608
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$625
The Penitent Magdalene
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$335
The Penitent Magdalene, 1635
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$340
The Poem of the Soul - First Communion, c.1851
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$550
The Poem of the Soul - Memory of Heaven, 1854
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$735
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