Free downloadable Catholic paintings which are in the public domain
Details: This type of icon is known as the Virgin Eleousa (Virgin of Tenderness) characterized by the touching cheeks of mother and child in a loving moment. The icon signifies Christ’s incarnation, suffering, and death for the sake of humankind. Three ornamental stars on the Virgin’s cloak are...
Details: Before leaving for Jerusalem to be crucified, Jesus says farewell to his mother—an ideal subject for meditation that would have been paired with the Virgin and Child to form a folding work that could be carried on a journey. Gerard David was also an illuminator of books, which...
Details: Escape from Chile Laura del Carmen Vicuña was born on April 5, 1891, in Santiago, Chile,[2] to José Domingo and Mercedes Pino. The Vicuña family were Chilean aristocrats, the father in military service and the mother working at home. Forced out of Santiago by the revolution, the family...
Details: Saint Rafqa, also known as Saint Rebecca, was born in Hemlaya, Lebanon on June 29, 1832. She was the only child of Saber El-Choboq El-Rayess and Rafqa Gemayel. Her parents were devout Christians and taught her daily prayers. According to legend, when she entered the convent and gazed upon...
Details: This is one of Solario’s last works and must have been painted for a church in or near Milan. The architecture of the frame must have matched the painted architecture in the picture so as to create the illusion that the figure of Christ stands in a space...
Details: Christ and the Virgin are shown pleading with God the Father for mercy on behalf of eight small figures, perhaps members of a prominent Florentine family. In the tradition of hieratic scale, the divine figures are portrayed many times larger than the mortals, who kneel in adoration and prayer....
Details: Denis-Auguste Affre (September 27, 1793 – June 27, 1848) was a French Catholic Archbishop of Paris from 1840 until 1848. During the June Days uprising of 1848, he was assassinated while attempting to broker a peace treaty. His canonization process has begun, and he is regarded as a Servant of...
Details: The miracle of curing the man born blind is one of the Gospel miracles in which Jesus is said to have restored the sight of a man at Siloam. Although not identified in the gospel, the man who was healed has been given the name Celidonius by church tradition....
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: John Martin was a Romantic painter, engraver, and illustrator from England. He was known for his typically large and melodramatic paintings of religious subjects and fantastic compositions, which were populated with minute figures set in imposing landscapes. Martin's paintings and prints were popular with the general public—...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
Details: Duccio di Buoninsegna was a Tuscan painter who worked in Siena in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. Throughout his career, he was contracted to perform several major works in government and religious buildings throughout Italy. Duccio is regarded as one of the finest Italian painters of the...
Details: Kenyon Cox was a painter, illustrator, muralist, writer, and teacher from the United States. Cox was an early and influential instructor at the Art Students League of New York. He created the League's logo, which has the motto Nulla Dies Sine Linea (No Day Without a Line)...
Details: The artist captures the display of splendour at court while combining realism in the detailing with religious symbols and typological references. The solemn earnestness of his figures and the carefully depiction of the human face are characteristic of his work. While the Annunciation scene provides a view of 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: When Nicolás Enríquez painted this copy of the Virigin of Guadalupe in 1773, it was the most widely venerated sacred image in New Spain. Here, the miraculous image is encircled by four scenes that attest to its divine origin. They record the Virgin’s three appearances to the Indian...
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...
