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".
Virgin of the Rocks, 1486
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$785
Saint Jerome Reading, c.1480-1490
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$570
Haywain, central panel of the triptych, c.1485-1490
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$2350
Haywain, left wing of the triptych, c.1485-1490
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$780
Haywain, right wing of the triptych, c.1485-1490
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$750
Christ at the Column, 1490
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$375
Madonna Litta (detail), 1490
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$390
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ, c.1490
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$355
The Last Supper - Before Restoration, 1498
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$930
Mystic Nativity, 1500
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$1720
Madonna of the Yarnwinder, 1501
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$405
The Crucifixion, 1501-1503
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$735
St Jerome in Prayer, 1505
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$555
The Engagement of Virgin Mary, 1504
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$890
The Ansidei Madonna, 1505
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$890
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