Free public domain paintings of the joyful mysteries. Including free paintings from the annunciation, the visitation, the nativity, the presentation, and the finding in the temple.
About the Image: In the Bible, there is a story about Jesus as a child, where he is seen debating with the doctors (Luke 2:41-51). This image depicts that scene, using perspective to create a visually stunning piece of art. The temple's four pillars are prominently displayed in the...
About the Image: "Jesus disputing with the doctors" refers to an event from Christ's childhood, which is described in the Bible (Luke 2:41-51). In this captivating image of that event, we see a teenage Jesus Christ engaging in a deep conversation with Jewish Bible scholars in the temple. Two...
About the Image: The Annunciation is an intriguing event described in the Gospel of Luke 1:26-38. The painting depicts the Virgin Mary seated on a bench, reading the scriptures, while the archangel Gabriel appears on the right holding a staff with a cross. He asks the Virgin Mary to...
Details: The newborn Christ lies swaddled in a manger and reaches toward his mother, the Virgin Mary, while Joseph sits nearby. The resemblance of Christ's manger to a Gothic tomb poignantly signals his eventual sacrifice. Above, God the Father extends a banderole reading, "You are my son, whom I have...
Details: This panel was painted on the Greek island of Crete, once part of the Byzantine Empire, and reflects the Post-Byzantine style that prevailed among the island's artists during the 15th century. The Christ Child lies in a manger while the Virgin Mary kneels in veneration. Joseph sits at lower...
Details: This manuscript leaf comes from a Book of Hours illuminated by the French court painter Jean Bourdichon. It depicts the Presentation of Christ in the Temple of Jerusalem, an event celebrated in the liturgical calendar as Candlemas. Forty days after Jesus's birth, the Virgin Mary kneels before an altar...
Details: This small panel was once part of an altarpiece depicting the life of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ, along with a Nativity scene now in the Rijksmuseum and a depiction of the Annunciation, now in the Glasgow Art Gallery. Forty days after the birth of a male...
Details: Created between 1405 and 1408 or 1409, probably in Paris, the Belles Heures, or Beautiful Hours, a private devotional book, is one of the most sumptuous manuscripts to have come down to us from the Middle Ages. Commissioned by Jean de France, duc de Berry from the Limbourg brothers,...
Details: The Adoration of the Shepherds is a scene in which shepherds are near witnesses to the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem[1]. It is often combined with the Adoration of the Magi in Christian art and is sometimes included in a Nativity scene as a peripheral feature[1]. The...
Details: The Adoration of the Shepherds is a scene in which shepherds are near witnesses to the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem[1]. It is described in Luke 2:15[2]. An angel appears to them and tells them not to be afraid, bringing news of great joy[3]. It...
Details: The Adoration of the Magi (c. 1633) by Peter Paul Rubens is an oil painting on canvas measuring 4.2 m × 3.2 m (13 ft 9 in × 10 ft 6 in)[2]. It was painted as an altarpiece for a convent in Louvain, Belgium[2], and is now...
Details: The Adoration of the Magi (c. 1624) is an oil on canvas painting by Peter Paul Rubens, measuring 218 cm by 280 cm[1]. It was commissioned by Matthæus Yrsselius, abbot of St. Michael's Abbey, Antwerp, and paid for in two installments of 750 guilders each in 1624 and...
Details: The Visitation depicts the visit of Mary, the mother of Jesus, to her cousin Elizabeth, who was pregnant with John the Baptist. This event is described in the Gospel of Luke, and it is an important moment in the story of Jesus' birth. Mary travels to visit Elizabeth after...
Details: Harry Siddons Mowbray was an American artist. He executed various painting commissions for J.P. Morgan, F.W. Vanderbilt, and other clients. He served as director of the American Academy in Rome from 1902–1904. Wikipedia The biblical Magi also referred to as the Wise Men or Kings, also...
Details: Luke 2:41-52 describes the Finding in the Temple. At the age of twelve, Jesus joins Mary and Joseph, as well as a large number of their relatives and friends, on a journey to Jerusalem "according to custom" - that is, Passover. On the day of their return, Jesus...
Details: Guillaume Vrelant, born in Utrecht, was known to be in Bruges from 1454 onward where he died around 1481. He probably went there to sidestep a 1427 law which banned the sale of Utrecht images. A painter very much in vogue, he founded the Illuminators’ Guild in Bruges under...
Details: The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple is an early incident in Jesus Christ's life that describes his presentation at the Temple in Jerusalem and is commemorated by various churches on Candlemas, or the "Feast of the Presentation of Jesus," 40 days after Christmas. The incident is related in...
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 are evidence...
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, the Lord is...
Details: "And when they were departed, behold, an angel appears to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young Child and His mother, and flee into Egypt." Matthew 2:13 The artist, Harry Siddons Mowbray, was an American artist who executed various painting commissions for J.P. Morgan,...
Details: Guillaume Vrelant, born in Utrecht, was known to be in Bruges from 1454 onward where he died around 1481. He probably went there to sidestep a 1427 law which banned the sale of Utrecht images. A painter very much in vogue, he founded the Illuminators’ Guild in Bruges under...
Details: This illuminated manuscript of the Four Gospels was created at a monastic center in northern Ethiopia. Twenty full-page paintings depict scenes from the life of Christ and four portraits of the evangelists introduce the respective Gospel texts. The New Testament was translated from Greek into Geez, the classical language...
Virgin and Child with Four Saints Cleveland Museum of Art0:00/0:281×Details: The Virgin and Child appear with Saints Catherine, John the Evangelist, Jodocus, and Mary Magdalene. Symbols of the Virgin’s purity and of Christ’s death and redemptive mission are included in the scene: the wall,...
Details The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph. The subject became popular in art from the 1490s on, but veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the first bishop of New France, who...
