Catholic paintings of angels which are in the public domain.
Details: The Spirit led Jesus in the desert. Jesus fasted for forty days and was then tempted by the Devil. The devil proposed Jesus to turn stones into bread because Jesus was hungry. He tempted Jesus to throw himself down from the parapet of the Temple to see whether angels...
Details: Andrei Rublev was born in the 1360s. He was a Muscovite icon painter and he was known as one of the greatest medieval icon painters. Rublev lived in Russia and decorated icons and frescos for many churches including the Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Moscow Kremlin. He died...
Details: This miniature, together with another illuminated music-making angel (Robert Lehman Collection, 1975.1.2465b), is a fragment of the decorative border of a manuscript folio. The leaf may have belonged to an antiphonary—a choir book containing sung portions of the Divine Office—that was commissioned in 1401 for...
Details: Émile Jean-Baptiste Philippe Bin was a French portraitist, mythology painter, watercolorist and politician. He was born in Paris. His father was the painter Jean-Baptiste François Bin (c.1791–1849), sometimes called "Bin père", who gave him his first art lessons. From the ages of twelve to fifteen,...
Details: Émile Jean-Baptiste Philippe Bin was a French portraitist, mythology painter, watercolorist and politician. He was born in Paris. His father was the painter Jean-Baptiste François Bin (c.1791–1849), sometimes called "Bin père", who gave him his first art lessons. From the ages of twelve to fifteen,...
Details: Maffei, who lived and worked in the cities of Vicenza and Padua, was profoundly influenced by the art of Bassano, Tintoretto, and Veronese, his Venetian predecessors. His style is characteristic for its elegance, far removed from realism. This scene from the biblical book of Genesis shows the angel appearing...
Details: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. A creative and prolific master in three media, he is typically considered one of the finest visual artists in the history of art and the most significant in Dutch art history. 🙏🏽This...
Details: Paul Jean Étienne Balze (1815 – 24 March 1884) was a French painter and art copyist. He was born in Rome, the son of Joseph Balze (1781–1847), grand chamberlain to Charles IV of Spain during the latter's exile in Rome between 1811 and 1819. His brother Raymond...
Details: The Christian doctrine of the Trinity defines one God existing in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial divine persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, three distinct persons sharing one homoousion. As the Fourth Lateran Council declared, "it is the Father who begets, the Son...
Details: This hypnotic panel, painted front and back and with its original frame, shows two angels holding the cloth on which Christ's head was miraculously imprinted (Veronica's veil). The inscription on Christ's collar suggests that it may have been used during the Mass as...
Details: Rogier van der Weyden or Roger de la Pasture was an Early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commissioned single and diptych portraits. He was highly successful in his lifetime; his paintings were exported to Italy and Spain, and he received commissions from,...
Details: Following his baptism by John the Baptist, Christ retired to the wilderness for forty days, where he was "tested by Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to him" (Mark 1:13). This picture is a fragment of a larger canvas in which...
Details: Raczki is a village in Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Raczki. It lies approximately 15 kilometres south-west of Suwałki and 100 km north of the regional capital Białystok. The village has a population of 2,100. 🙏🏽This image...
Details: The Christian theology of the Trinity states that there is one God who exists in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial divine beings: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, who are three different individuals sharing one homoousion. The three persons define who God is in this...
Details: The post-resurrection appearances of Jesus in the canonical gospels (and, to a lesser extent, other New Testament books) are said to have occurred after Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection, but before his ascension. The Gospel of John was written around the year 80 or 90 CE. Jesus appears...
Details: The liberation of the apostle Peter is an event described in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 12 in which the apostle Peter is rescued from prison by an angel. Although described in a short textual passage, the tale has given rise to theological discussions and has been the...
Details: This work belongs to the genre of "statue painting," that is, painted simulacra of sacred images. As a "true likeness" of a cult image, it was believed to possess the miraculous powers of the original, a sculpture of Christ the Nazarene venerated in the Cuzco...
Details: One of the most celebrated paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection, this depiction of the Annunciation unfolds in a classicizing architectural interior rendered with one-point perspective to create the illusion of depth, a technique achieved in early fifteenth-century Florence. The incised lines visible on the panel's surface...
Details: In a domestic interior, the Virgin Mary kneels before a prie-dieu on which her prayer book rests. The archangel Gabriel, at the left, greets her with the Gospel announcement of the forthcoming birth of Jesus: "Ave Maria gratia plena dominus tecum" ("Hail Mary, full of grace,...
Details: Saint Joseph's dreams are four dreams described in the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament in which Joseph, the legal father of Jesus, is visited by an angel of the Lord and receives specific instructions and warnings of impending danger. All four dreams come from the...
Details: There is very little information available about this painting, by Merson. I assume that this painting depicts Catherine of Siena's mystical marriage to Jesus Christ, however, one cannot be sure. Luc-Olivier Merson was a French academic painter and illustrator also known for his postage stamp and currency...
Details: Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc [c. 1412 – 30 May 1431]) is considered a heroine of France for her role in the siege of Orléans and the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War. She was captured, convicted as a heretic, and...
Details: Catherine was one of the most important saints in the religious culture of the late Middle Ages and arguably considered the most important of the virgin martyrs, a group including Agnes of Rome, Margaret of Antioch, Barbara, Lucia of Syracuse, Valerie of Limoges and many others. Her power as...
Details: The Three Marys (also spelled Maries) are women mentioned in the canonical gospels' narratives of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, several of whom were, or have been considered by Christian tradition, to have been named Mary (the most common name for Jewish women of the period). The...
