Free downloadable Catholic paintings which are in the public domain
Details ‘Samson’ was created in c.1858 by Frederic Leighton in Academicism style. In the Hebrew Bible, Samson (/ˈsæmsən/; Hebrew: שִׁמְשׁוֹן, Šīmšōn, "man of the sun") was the last of the judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Book of Judges (chapters 13...
🙏🏽Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to help keep this site free!Image Description0:00/0:451×Image Details ‘St. Cecilia’ was created in c.1610 by Guido Reni in Baroque style. Saint Cecilia (Latin: Sancta Caecilia) was a Roman martyr venerated in Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and some...
🙏🏽Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to help keep this site free!Image Details ‘The good samaritan’ was created by Leon Bonnat in Academicism style. The parable of the Good Samaritan is told by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. It is about a traveler (implicitly understood to...
🙏🏽Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to help keep this site free!Image Details According to the New Testament, a woven crown of thorns was placed on the head of Jesus during the events leading up to his crucifixion. It was one of the instruments of the Passion,...
🙏🏽Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to help keep this site free!Image Details This is a tapestry—made of wool and silk—depicting a repentant Mary Magdalene, looking to heaven as she leaves behind her life of sin. The Gospel of Luke 8:2–3 lists Mary...
🙏🏽Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to help keep this site free!Image Details Fyodor Evtikhievich Zubov (1615 – November 3, 1689), was a Russian painter, engraver, miniaturist and illuminator. Zubov was born in Solikamsk, a member of the noble Zubov family. He began working in Veliky Ustyug and...
🙏🏽Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to help keep this site free!Image Details ‘The Virgin, Jesus and Saint John Baptist’ was created in 1881 by William-Adolphe Bouguereau in Neoclassicism style. The image features the Virgin Mary who is sitting on a throne, the child Jesus Christ and...
🙏🏽Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to help keep this site free!Image Details A half-figure of Mary, with folded hands, looking up to the right. After an original by Guido Reni. A Madonna is a representation of Mary, either alone or with her child Jesus. These images...
🙏🏽Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to help keep this site free!Image Details Matthias Grünewald (c. 1470 – 31 August 1528) was a German Renaissance painter of religious works who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th century. Only...
🙏🏽Please Subscribe or Donate to help keep this site free! Image Details ‘The Penitent Magdalene’ was created in 1635 by Guido Reni in Baroque style. Reni created an idealized, as well as classical style influenced by ancient sculpture and by the Renaissance artist Raphael (1483-1520). This influence is visible in...
🙏🏽Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to help keep this site free!Image Details William-Adolphe Bouguereau concluded the oil painting entitled Virgin and Lamb, or La Vierge à L'agneau in the original French La Vierge à L'agneau, in 1903. As a student at the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Raphael is an archangel mentioned in the Book of Tobit and in 1 Enoch, both dating from the last few centuries before Christ. In later Jewish tradition, he became identified as one of the three heavenly...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This image of King David playing a harp would have been bound in a Bible with the Psalms. In general, this museum does not acquire individual manuscript pages so as not to encourage the dismemberment of...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The French painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau concluded the artwork entitled The Madonna of the Roses in 1903, only two years before his death. The painter had gone through significant losses during his lifetime, as he saw four...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! ‘The Resurrection of Lazarus’ was created in 1857 by Leon Bonnat in Academicism style. Saint Lazarus of Bethany, also venerated as Righteous Lazarus, the Four-Days Dead in the Eastern Orthodox Church, is the subject of a...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! William-Adolphe Bouguereau concluded the dramatic artwork entitled The Flagellation of Christ in 1880. The artist was praised by critics as well as the public for his oil paintings depicting mythological subjects and biblical stories. His most...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! ‘St Cecilia’ was created in 1606 by Guido Reni in Baroque style. Saint Cecilia, is a Roman martyr venerated in Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and some Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden. She became the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! During the early 1700s, Roman artists returned to fundamental Christian subjects, especially those focused on the Christ child. This work presents the Holy Family with Christ’s maternal grandparents and baby cousin, John the Baptist, stressing...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Different from the paintings of the past masters and their interpretation of this scene, Bouguereau gives a unique view of this sacred event. Although he follows the standards of traditional Christian religious imagery, the atmosphere is...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! According to the canonical gospel accounts, Jesus, after His crucifixion, was placed in a tomb by a councillor of the sanhedrin named Joseph of Arimathea,. In art, it is often called the Entombment of Christ. This...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! 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...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! After losing three of his five children to health issues, as well as his wife, Nelly Monchablon, Bouguereau felt the pain of grief and translated it into many paintings, like Pieta. In Compassion!, the artist also...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau concluded the oil painting entitled Sainte Famille, translated as The Holy Family, in the year 1863 and was exhibited in the Paris Salon shortly after. Four years later, the artwork was...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This splendid crucifixion scene originally served as the canon illustration in a liturgical missal. The open landscape is remarkable since it is not found in Dutch missals before the end of the 1500s. The large number...
