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".
Agony in the Garden, c.1459
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$875
The Death of the Virgin, c.1460
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$670
The Fall of the Damned, 1468
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$2200
Madonna of Senigallia, 1470
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$565
Madonna with Sleeping Child, c.1465-1470
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$315
The Annunciation, 1472-1475
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$2850
The Baptism of Christ, Leonardo and Verocchio, 1472
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$3110
The Annunciation-Virgin Mary (detail), 1472
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$980
The Annunciation-the Angel (detail), 1472
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$1340
Madonna and Child with Saints (Montefeltro Altarpiece), 1472-1474
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$1350
Benois Madonna, 1478
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$1120
St Francis in the Desert, 1480
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$1290
Christ Carrying the Cross, 1480
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$1450
The Punishment of Korah, 1481-1482
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$2450
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