Free downloadable Catholic paintings which are in the public domain
About the Artist: Knut Magnus Enckell was a Finnish symbolist painter. At first he painted with a subdued palette, but from 1902 onwards used increasingly bright colors. He was a leading member of the Septem group of colorist painters. In Finland, Enckell is considered to have been a very influential...
About the Artist: Ludvig O. Ravensberg, born in Oslo, Norwegian painter. He studied in Munich in 1893–94 and in Italy, lived in Rome in 1930–39, as well as in Sweden from 1940. He depicted Roman ruins in meticulously drawn images. 🙏🏽 This image is in the public domain. Free...
About the Painting: The four cardinal virtues are prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance1234. Prudence is considered the "mother" of all virtues, as it is the ability to recognize one's moral duty and the good means to accomplish it24. It is also the ability to discern the...
Details: Henry IV of France was baptized as a Catholic but raised as a Protestant by his mother[1]. As a Huguenot, he was involved in the French Wars of Religion and later led Protestant forces against the French royal army[1]. Upon becoming king of France in 1589, he...
Details: According to the Gospel of Luke, John the Baptist began his ministry in the desert, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins4,5. He lived much of his life in the obscurity of the Judean desert before the word of God came to him, initiating his...
Details: Toward the end of his life, Rembrandt explored religious themes from an intimate perspective, producing a number of works for a possible Apostle series. The personal religiosity of An Elderly Man in Prayer, formerly attributed to Rembrandt, bears resemblance to such late works. Seated with eyes nearly closed and...
Details: The illuminator is unknown, but his style seems to conform to that known as "Antwerp Mannerism." It emerged among a group of Antwerp painters during the first half of the 1500s. Bolstered by its rich trade and cultural contacts, the port city of Antwerp attracted hundreds of...
Details: Carlos Manuel Cecilio Rodríguez Santiago, also known as "Blessed Charlie", was a Catholic catechist and liturgist from Puerto Rico who was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2001. He was the first Puerto Rican and Caribbean-born layperson to be beatified. Rodríguez was born in Caguas in...
Details: This precious volume was obviously highly prized by its owner, the French-born King of Navarre, who had his coat of arms painted on no less than twenty folios. Rather than directly commissioning this manuscript from a specific workshop, it seems that Charles the Noble acquired his book of hours...
Details: This work depicts Joachim and Anne, the parents of the Virgin Mary, and is likely a fragment from an altarpiece dedicated to the life of the Virgin. While Joachim was fasting in the wilderness, an angel appeared to tell him that he and Anne, who had previously been unable...
Details: Apart from the title, our only clue to the subject of this work is the inscription "VAEA," the name of the mountain in Samoa where Robert Louis Stevenson is buried. Stevenson's poetic tales of men at war with themselves had dazzled Abbott Handerson Thayer, whose...
Details: The 1520s Hours Workshop produced luxury books of hours for a wealthy, often royal, clientele. Recent evidence points to Paris as the site of the workshop’s activity under the direction of Antwerp-born miniaturist Noël Bellemare (died 1546). Containing fuschia pinks and bright acid greens, the palette is unusual...
Details: This small, gold-ground panel—most likely a fragment of a larger altarpiece—layers several episodes from Christ's Crucifixion at Golgotha (in Hebrew, "the place of the skull"). These are rendered in poignant detail and include the soldier piercing Christ's side with a lance,...
Details: Carlos Manuel Cecilio Rodríguez Santiago, also known as "Blessed Charlie", was a Catholic catechist and liturgist from Puerto Rico who was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2001. He was the first Puerto Rican and Caribbean-born layperson to be beatified. Rodríguez was born in Caguas in...
Details: June is considered Sacred Heart Month because it is dedicated to the devotion of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This devotion is a way of expressing love and gratitude to Jesus for his sacrifice and for his boundless love for humanity. The Feast of the Sacred Heart is celebrated...
Details: June is considered Sacred Heart Month because it is dedicated to the devotion of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This devotion is a way of expressing love and gratitude to Jesus for his sacrifice and for his boundless love for humanity. The Feast of the Sacred Heart is celebrated...
Details: June is considered Sacred Heart Month because it is dedicated to the devotion of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This devotion is a way of expressing love and gratitude to Jesus for his sacrifice and for his boundless love for humanity. The Feast of the Sacred Heart is celebrated...
Details: This delicately painted icon shows Christ's Crucifixion before the walls of Jerusalem. A detail rarely included in Crucifixion scenes is the resurrection of the dead, portrayed here as tightly wrapped corpses, after Matthew 27:52: "The tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints...
Details: This large Ethiopian Gospel Book was made in the first half of the sixteenth century and is written in Ge'ez, the traditional liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Containing eleven full-page miniatures, six canon tables, and five elaborately ornamented harags, or headpieces, this manuscript represents the...
Details: Aelred of Rievaulx, also known as Ailred, Ælred, and Æthelred, was a Cistercian monk from England. He served as the abbot of Rievaulx from 1147 until his passing in 1167 and was recognized for his writing abilities. Both Anglicans and Catholics consider him to be a saint. 🙏🏽This image...
Details: DID YOU KNOW? All books of hours contain the same basic sections, the order of which can shift, and individual prayers can vary, sometimes significantly, from region to region. DESCRIPTION One section of a Book of Hours is the Prayers to the Virgin. Dedicated to the Virgin Mary, this...
Details: The Agony in the Garden is a biblical event that occurred before Jesus Christ's crucifixion. It is recorded in the Gospel of Matthew 26:36-46, the Gospel of Mark 14:32-42, and the Gospel of Luke 22:39-46. In the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus prayed to God,...
Details: This image depicts a scene from the Bible story of David and Bathsheba. In the image, David is lying in bed, with Bathsheba standing over him, looking down at him with a sad expression. The image is in black and white, with a detailed and realistic style. The overall...
Details: According to Catholic teaching, each person is assigned a guardian angel at birth to guide and protect them throughout their life. The angel's presence is often felt as a comforting presence during times of fear or danger. They are believed to intercede on our behalf and provide...
