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Free DownloadThis image is in the public domain304804rg.jpg186 KBdownload-circle Paintings of the crucifixion in this style are often created as private devotional art for viewing and meditation on Christ's passion. It utilizes dramatic tenebrist lighting (chiaroscuro) to focus attention solely on Jesus' suffering body against...
Free DownloadThis image is in the public domain35875dr.jpg135 KBdownload-circle Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy. Please SUBSCRIBE or DONATE to help keep this site free!...
Free DownloadThis image is in the public domain300068rg.jpg164 KBdownload-circle Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy. Please SUBSCRIBE or DONATE to help keep this site free!...
Free DownloadThis image is in the public domain310157rg.jpg157 KBdownload-circle Hans Thoma was a German painter. He was born on 2 October 1839 in Bernau, Grand Duchy of Baden, in the Black Forest, Germany. He was the son of a miller and was trained in the basics of painting...
Free DownloadThis image is in the public domain307604rg.jpg203 KBdownload-circle Hans Thoma was a German painter. He was born on 2 October 1839 in Bernau, Grand Duchy of Baden, in the Black Forest, Germany. He was the son of a miller and was trained in the basics of painting...
Free DownloadThis image is in the public domain302094rg.jpg84 KBdownload-circle 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. Active...
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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!...
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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!...
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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...
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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...
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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...
