Free downloadable Catholic paintings which are in the public domain
This painting, made around 1544, depicts Saul's dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus, where he was struck down by a vision of Christ and became the Apostle Paul. It is an early work by Jacopo Tintoretto, the Venetian Mannerist painter known for his bold brushwork and dramatic use of perspecti
This painting shows the body of Christ being laid in the tomb after the Crucifixion. It is by the Flemish Baroque painter Jacob Jordaens, who, alongside Rubens and van Dyck, was one of the leading painters working in Antwerp in the 17th century.
This panel shows Saint John the Evangelist weeping, likely a fragment from a larger Crucifixion or Lamentation scene. It is by the early Netherlandish painter Colijn de Coter, who worked mainly in Brussels and Antwerp producing altarpieces in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
This painting depicts Jesus at the Sea of Galilee, a setting for several Gospel episodes including the calling of the disciples and the calming of the storm. It is by the German painter Carl Oesterley, who became court painter to the Kingdom of Hanover in 1844 and produced numerous altarpieces for G
This painting shows the Magi presenting their gifts to the infant Christ. It is by the Venetian painter Jacopo Palma il Giovane, who became Venice's leading painter after the death of Tintoretto in 1594 and produced many religious works for the city's churches and confraternities.
This painting, made about 1570, shows Christ on the cross with the Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist, and Saint Catherine of Siena gathered at its foot. It is by Marco Pino, an Italian Mannerist painter trained in Siena who later worked in Rome and Naples.
This painting of the Virgin and Child, made between 1506 and 1512, is by the Venetian Renaissance painter Cima da Conegliano. He was known for painting quiet, contemplative religious scenes with detailed landscape backgrounds, and repeated the Madonna and Child theme in many variations throughout hi
This painting of Christ's first miracle, turning water into wine at a wedding feast, was completed in 1923 by the English painter Winifred Knights while she held the Rome Scholarship at the British School at Rome. It was one of several works by British artists that helped revive religious imagery in
This painting depicts the Gospel scene of Christ speaking with the Samaritan woman at Jacob's Well. It is by the Norwegian painter Axel Hjalmar Ender, who created altarpieces for several churches in Norway, including Asnes, Haug, Kampen and Lunner.
This French Renaissance painting, dated 1537, combines an Old Testament scene of Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh with an allegorical portrait of the Dinteville family, a noble French family. It is by an unidentified painter known as the Master of the Dinteville Allegory.
This painting depicts a vision of the Virgin Mary appearing to Saint Philip Neri, the 16th-century Roman priest known for his joyful spirituality. It is by the French painter Etienne Parrocel, who spent most of his career in Rome and was in demand for religious commissions during the 18th century.
This painting, made in 1890 by the German painter Hans Thoma, depicts the temptation of Christ in the wilderness. Thoma trained at the Karlsruhe Academy and drew inspiration from early German masters such as Albrecht Altdorfer and Lucas Cranach the Elder.
This painting shows Herod being presented with the severed head of Saint John the Baptist, an episode from the Gospels. It is by the Venetian painter Pietro della Vecchia, who was one of the leading religious painters in Venice during the 17th century and was known for reviving the style of the grea
This painting shows the Virgin Mary and the infant Christ set before a landscape. It is by the Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Antonio Sogliani, who was active mainly in Florence and trained in the workshop of Lorenzo di Credi.
This long panel, painted in tempera and gold on wood by the Florentine painter Marco del Buono Giamberti, depicts scenes from the biblical Book of Esther. It measures about 17 1/2 x 55 3/8 inches and was likely made to decorate a piece of furniture such as a cassone.
This panel, painted around 1400 by the German painter known as the Master of the Berswordt Altar, depicts Christ on the cross flanked by mourning figures, including the Virgin Mary and Saint John. It is painted in oil and gold on wood.
This devotional panel, painted in oil on poplar around 1506 by the Spanish painter Fernando Yanez de la Almedina, presents a close study of the face of Christ. Yanez trained in Italy, likely in Leonardo da Vinci's circle, before returning to work in Spain.
This oil painting, made in the late 1520s by the Ferrarese painter L'Ortolano (Giovanni Battista Benvenuti), depicts the shepherds kneeling before the infant Christ at his birth. It is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This panel by the Spanish painter Domingo Ram shows the angel Gabriel appearing to the priest Zacharias to announce the birth of his son, John the Baptist. It comes from a retable depicting Saint John the Baptist and scenes from his life, painted in tempera on wood with a gold ground.
This gouache is part of James Tissot's series The Life of Christ, painted between 1886 and 1894. It depicts the boy Jesus seated among the teachers in the Temple, discoursing with them. The work is held in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum.
North French illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours showing the Descent from the Cross, made in the late 15th century. Tempera, ink, and shell gold on parchment, 8.7 x 6.9 cm.
The rubric at the top tells us that the prayers that follow are to be said before and after Communion. Therefore, the artist portrayed a priest administering the sacrament to a man in a fur-trimmed cloak, presumably the owner of the manuscript. The man, whose family arms appear on the adjacent leaf,
This painting and another depicting an unidentified male saint, which also belongs to the Lehman Collection, formed part of a group of eighteen panels depicting saints (now in the Courtauld Institute Gallery, London; Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Hon
These panels were among thirty scenes of an extensive narrative cycle that formed part of a large altarpiece from the Neustädter Marienkirche in Bielefeld, Westphalia. They were created two decades before panel painting underwent a revolution through the art of Jan van Eyck, Robert Campin, and Rogie
