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 with a Donor, 1480-1485
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$560
The Tribute Money, 1782
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$490
The Nativity, 1776-1777
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$645
First Study For the Madonna of Port lligat, 1949
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$455
The Sacrament of the Last Supper, 1955
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$710
Miracollo dello Schiavo , 1548
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$1700
La Principessa, San Georgio e San Luigi, 1553
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$575
Christ Carrying the Cross, 1480
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$590
St Simon the Apostle, undated
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$350
The Purification of the Temple, 1600
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$495
St Jerome, 1590
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$350
Eve After the Fall
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$360
The Virgin of Guadalupe, 1959
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$1310
Madonna of Port Lligat, 1950
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$740
Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, 1669
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$530
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