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 degli Alberetti, 1487
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$380
The Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels
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$400
Madonna del Prato c.1505
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$515
Last Judgement, central panel of the triptych
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$2700
Last Judgement, left wing of the triptych
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$940
The Virgin and Child with Five Angels, c. 1470
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$400
The Flagellation of Our Lord Jesus Christ, 1880
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$685
Eve After the Fall
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$360
Judith Beheading Holofernes, c.1598
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$710
The Lamentation of Christ
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$455
St George and the Dragon
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$455
Saint Francis receiving the Stigmata
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$325
The Penitent Magdalene
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$335
Burial of Count Orgaz
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$2170
St Simon the Apostle, undated
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$350
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