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Guido Reni was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, although his works showed a classical manner, similar to Simon Vouet, Nicholas Poussin and Philippe de Champaigne. He painted primarily religious works, but also mythological and allegorical subjects.
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From the church of Archangel Michael, village of Krowitsia-Sama. Castle-Museum in Łańcut, Poland Free DownloadThis image is in the public domain18-3-Ланцут-З-церкви-архангела-Михаїла-у-Кровиці-Самій.jpg361 KBdownload-circle Please SUBSCRIBE or DONATE to help keep this site free!...
From the church of Cosmas and Damian in the village of Kotan, Castle-Museum in Łańcut, Poland Free DownloadThis image is in the public domain17-1-Матвій-із-с.-Котань.-Ланьцут.jpg266 KBdownload-circle Please SUBSCRIBE or DONATE to help keep this site free!...
Depiction of Christ's appearance to Mary Magdalene after the Resurrection, by Alexander Andreyev, 1835.
Leaves from a Coptic manuscript dating from the 6th to the 14th century.
Illuminated manuscripts are among the finest works of Armenian art as the "Word" has been the primary focus of veneration in the Armenian Church since its founding in the early fourth century. In the fifteenth century under Mongol domination in the region of Khizan near Lake Van (now...
Orthodox Christian cross with the inscription Iesus Hristos is victor. Free DownloadThis image is in the public domain.orthodox-cross.jpg34 KBdownload-circle Please SUBSCRIBE or DONATE to help keep this site free!...
Photograph of an Orthodox Christian pro-life rally, taken in 2020.
Photograph of St. Elijah Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church, taken in 2016.
Saint Bridget of Sweden (ca. 1303–1373) is shown in the act of writing her “Revelations,” which, according to legend, were dictated to her by Christ himself. Shown in the monastic habit of the order she founded, Saint Saviour of the Brigittines, she was especially popular in Northern Europe. Free...
Photograph of the Gospel lesson being chanted during Divine Liturgy in an Orthodox church, taken in 2009.
The angular drapery of the loincloth, the facial expression, and the linear treatment of the hair and beard of Christ suggest the sculptor was a follower of the Rimini Master. src: metmuseum.org Free DownloadThis image is in the public domain.crucifix.jpg411 KBdownload-circle Please SUBSCRIBE or DONATE to...
The penitent Magdalen at the base of a now-lost crucifix was the focus of a carved altarpiece. Depictions of Mary Magdalen as a solitary figure before the cross first appeared in Italian painting of the twelfth century. src: metmuseum.org Free DownloadThis image is in the public domain.mary-...
This profile image of a bishop, carved in the dark limestone characteristic of the South Lowlands, is a fragment of a larger funerary relief. Although isolated from its original context, the sculpture still conveys the solemnity of the memorial monument. The image was carved at about the time when the...
Medieval reliquaries often took the form of the body parts they were created to contain. Bust reliquaries for the skulls of saints were placed on or near altars and, by the late Middle Ages, were assembled in large numbers in some church sanctuaries, from Cologne in the north to Ubeda...
Reliquary bust of a female saint by a South Netherlandish artist, made in the early 16th century.
Piety in the late Middle Ages encouraged the believer's intense emotional empathy in the suffering of Christ. Here, stone is transformed into flesh by the actual wood thorns piercing the forehead. The capacity for sculptural naturalism developed in Burgundy by Claus Sluter (ca. 1360–before 1406) and Niclaus...
Miniature cradles for the Christ Child were popular devotional objects in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and were venerated, especially in convents, where they were often presented to women taking their vows. This splendid cradle comes from the Grand Béguinage of Louvain, Belgium, established for lay women in the twelfth...
The coats of arms of the donors, Pons de Gontaut and his brother Armand, in whose family funerary chapel this sculpture and the Pietà opposite originally stood, were held by the angels. The donors are represented in the Pietà. Free DownloadThis image is in the public domain.entombment-of-christ....
Saint Catherine, depicted in the delicately jeweled statuette, was seen to embody the power of Christian erudition. According to legend, Saint Catherine's learned arguments on behalf of Christianity converted not only the court philosophers of the pagan emperor Maxentius, but 200 guardian soldiers and the ruler's...
Exquisitely painted, these icons represent the height of icon painting during the last decades of Byzantine rule from Constantinople. Detailed representations of the Baptism of Christ and the Anastasis, the Easter image of the Orthodox Church, animate the major events with related narratives. Saint John dictates to his scribe, Prochoros,...
The Hypapante is one of the Great Feasts of the Orthodox church. According to the Gospel of Luke (2:22–38), when Joseph (far left) and the Virgin (center) presented Christ in the temple for the rite of purification forty days after his birth, his divinity was immediately recognized by...
The Virgin Mary, known as "the rose without thorns" for having been born free of original sin, holds the symbolic flower while sitting upon the Throne of Wisdom. The scroll held by an angel reads: "Come over to me, all ye that desire me, and be filled...
