Public domain paintings of Catholic male saints.
Details: This leaf was an opening page of a mariegola, or register, painted by Cristoforo Cortese, the most famous and prolific Venetian illuminator of the first half of the fifteenth century, for a German confraternity in Venice. The lay members of this confraternity are shown kneeling at the feet of...
Details: This icon depicts an important subject in Orthodox Christian art, the three corresponding figures of the single godhead known as the Holy Trinity. The Trinity is represented here in a composition known as the “New Testament Trinity,” which features Christ and God the Father seated on a bench with...
Details: This small icon was worn around the neck to ward off evil; it could be hung with either side facing out. This is a small replica of the famous icon known as the "Kwerata Reesu" (Christ with the Crown of Thorns), believed to protect the whole kingdom...
Details: Kaleb, also known as Saint Elesbaan, was King of Aksum, situated in modern-day Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia. Kaleb invaded Yemen around 520, to overthrow Dhu Nuwas, a Jew who was persecuting the Christian community of Najran. After much fighting, Kaleb's soldiers eventually routed Yusuf's forces....
Details: Martin de Porres Velázquez (9 December 1579 – 3 November 1639) was a mixed-race Dominican Order lay brother from Peru who was beatified by Pope Gregory XVI in 1837 and canonized by Pope John XXIII in 1962. His father was Spanish and his mother was of Peruvian and African descent....
Details: Daniel Jules Alexis Brottier, C.S.Sp. (7 September 1876 – 28 February 1936), was a French Roman Catholic priest in the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (who currently refer to themselves as Spiritans). He was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Légion d'honneur for his services...
Details: Joseph Gérard (12 March 1831 – 29 May 1914) was a French Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; he worked in the missions among the Basotho people in Lesotho and the Free State province of South Africa. His works in the mission...
Details: According to the Bible's New Testament, the Apostles are the primary disciples of Jesus of Nazareth, the central figure in Christianity. During the life and ministry of Jesus in the first century AD, the apostles were his closest followers and became the primary teachers of the gospel...
Details: The two saints, who were strongly associated with each other as the most influential leaders of the early Church. In this portrayal they are shown engaged in an animated discussion. The older, white-haired Peter, wrapped in a golden coloured cloak inclines his head thoughtfully to one side as he...
Details: Joseph of Copertino was a Christian mystic and saint who was an Italian Conventual Franciscan monk. He was claimed to be extraordinarily unclever, but prone to miraculous levitation and vivid ecstatic visions. As a toddler, Joseph began to experience ecstatic visions, which he would continue to experience throughout his...
Details: Saint George and the Monster is a tale about Saint George taming and destroying a dragon that wanted human sacrifices. According to legend, the dragon used to exact tribute from peasants. When they ran out of cattle and trinkets for the dragon, they began sacrificing a person once a...
Details: According to the New Testament, Jude was one of Jesus' Twelve Apostles. He is commonly identified as Thaddeus, but he is also known as Judas Thaddaeus, Jude Thaddaeus, Jude of James, or Lebbaeus. He is sometimes confused with Jesus' brother Jude, but he is distinct from Judas...
Details: The Christian tradition holds that the women who came to Jesus' tomb on the third day after his crucifixion discovered it empty. The story is told in all four canonical gospels, but they differ little beyond a basic outline. However, oral traditions predate the gospels and Paul'...
Details: Sir Anthony van Dyck (22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque painter who rose to prominence in England after achieving success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy. Saint Peter was one of Jesus Christ's Twelve Apostles and one of the early Church's...
Details: The early days of the church were a time of phenomenal growth and apostolic miracles. In Acts 5:15-16 we read, “People brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as...
Details: This set of posters created by Joseph Binder depict various Bible portraits with verses. This image shows Saint Mark and features the quote: "Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch....
Details: Saint Anthony Abbot's test of faith at the hands of a clutch of demons is represented here in a charming, if somewhat naive, Late Gothic style. Dressed as an abbot, the saint holds a crosier, which terminates in a tau cross and a mendicant's bell;...
Details: Tarchiani transforms a troubling subject—the thirteenth-century founder of the Dominican order flagellating himself—into a serene, meditative composition. With the attention of a still-life painter, he isolates a series of captivating motifs, including the linearity of the altarpiece viewed in profile contrasted with the soft folds of Dominic’...
Details: This set of posters created by Joseph Binder depict various Bible portraits with verses. This image shows Saint Thomas and features the quote: "And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed:...
Details: This set of posters created by Joseph Binder depict various Bible portraits with verses. This image shows Saint Paul and features the quote: "Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet...
Details: Gardeners and taxi cab drivers have a patron saint in St. Fiacre. Said to be the illegitimate son of a Scottish king, he was raised in County Kilkenny at a Kilfearagh monastery. He developed a local reputation for healing and herbal remedies. Finding notoriety unsettling, Fiacre went on a...
0:00/0:461×Details: St. Ignatius of Loyola was born 1491 in Spain and died 1556 in Rome. He was canonized March 12, 1622 and his feast day is July 31. He was a Spanish theologian and mystic, one of the most influential figures in the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation...
0:00/1:041×Details: Apotheosis is a genre that exists in Christian art as in other art. The features of the apotheosis genre may be seen in subjects that emphasize Christ's divinity (Transfiguration, Ascension, Christ Pantocrator) and that depict holy persons "in glory"—that is,...
Details: Didacus of Alcalá (Spanish: Diego de Alcalá), also known as Diego de San Nicolás, was a Spanish Franciscan lay brother who served as among the first group of missionaries to the newly conquered Canary Islands. He died at Alcalá de Henares on 12 November 1463 and is now honored...
