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".
Tobias Saying Goodbye to his Father, 1860
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Christ Carrying the Cross, 1577
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Madonna degli Alberetti, 1487
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St. Hieronymus Writing,1605-1606
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The Virgin of the Rocks (detail), 1506
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The Emmaus Disciples, 1622
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The Virgin and Child with Five Angels
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John the Baptist, 1597 - 1598
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The Poem of the Soul - The Wrong Path
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Adoration of the Shepherds
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Madonna Litta (detail), 1490
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Detail From Virgin of the Rocks, 1506
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St Joseph with the infant Jesus, c.1635
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David and Uriah, 1665
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The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, 1627
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