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".
Crucifixion, 1636-1637
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$670
Allegorie des Reichtums
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$480
St Francis in the Desert, 1480
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$1290
The Last Supper - Before Restoration, 1498
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$930
Virgin and Child
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$360
The Abduction of Proserpine, 1631
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$470
Cristo in Casa di Marta e Maria, 1567
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$790
The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, 1627
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$390
The Martyrdom of st Stephen , Triptych
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$2450
The Purification of the Captured Virgins of Midian
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$820
Saint Gregorie, 1608
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$1270
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, 1570-75
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$555
Sainte Famille [The Holy Family], 1863
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$470
Compassion !, 1897
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$360
La Madone aux Roses [The Madonna of the Roses], 1903
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$630
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