Adoration of the Magi (18th century) - Public Domain Orthodox Icon
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Jesus Christ Parting from the Virgin to go and Suffer Death (1505-1536) by Daniel Hopfer, I - Public Domain Catholic Painting
Free Download— Daniel Hopfer I’s visionary image depicts the Virgin sobbing before Christ’s betrayal, scourging, and crucifixion. Knowing her son will die a gruesome death, she feels physical pain at his departure. - This image is in the public domain. —jesus-christ-parting-via-sdcason-com.jpg2 MBdownload-circle...
The Virgin Mary Cradling the Ba (1764) by Charles-François Hutin - Public Domain Catholic Painting
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Christ Taking Leave of His Mother (c. 1504–1505) by Albrecht Dürer - Public Domain Catholic Painting
Free Download— Germany, early 16th Century. Medium: Woodcut - This image is in the public domain. —christ-taking-leave-of-his-mother-albrecht-dürer-via-sdcason-com.jpg216 KBdownload-circle Please SUBSCRIBE or DONATE to help keep this site free!...
Printed Book of Hours (Use of Rome): fol. 58r, Pentecost (1510) by Guillaume Le Rouge - Public Domain Catholic Painting
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Deesis with Saints, triptych (18-19th century) - Public Domain Orthodox Icon
Free DownloadThis image is in the public domain1280px-Deesis_with_Saints%2C_triptych_18-19_cent.jpg403 KBdownload-circle The images depict Saints Athanasius and Nicholas (top left); Saint George (bottom left); The King of Kings and Great [High Priest] Jesus Christ, sided by the Mother of God and Saint...
The Crucifixion (1487) by Carlo Crivelli - Public Domain Catholic Painting
Free DownloadThis image is in the public domain1929.862 - The Crucifixion.jpg878 KBdownload-circle Carlo Crivelli’s vivid style married the beautiful with the grotesque. Here, the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Evangelist gaze in anguish at Jesus on the cross. Crivelli enhanced the scene’s morbidness by depicting...
File:The Mother of God Trenousa (17-18th century) - Public Domain Orthodox Icon
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Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus (6th century) - Public Domain Orthodox Icon
Free DownloadThis image is in the public domainVirgin_Mary_with_the_infant_Jesus,_6th_century_AD.jpg159 KBdownload-circle An early Byzantine icon of Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus, 6th century AD in the collection of the Khanenko Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine. Please SUBSCRIBE or DONATE to help keep this...
The Virgin as Intercessor (1628-1629) by Anthony van Dyck - Public Domain Catholic Painting
Free DownloadThis image is in the public domain300068rg.jpg164 KBdownload-circle Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy. Please SUBSCRIBE or DONATE to help keep this site free!...
Four Gospels in Armenian - Folios 5v-6r, The Nativity / Presentation in the Temple (1434-1435) - Public Domain Orthodox Stock Photo
Illuminated manuscripts are among the finest works of Armenian art as the "Word" has been the primary focus of veneration in the Armenian Church since its founding in the early fourth century. In the fifteenth century under Mongol domination in the region of Khizan near Lake Van (now...
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels (ca. 1440) by Fra Filippo Lippi - Public Domain Catholic Painting
The Virgin Mary, known as "the rose without thorns" for having been born free of original sin, holds the symbolic flower while sitting upon the Throne of Wisdom. The scroll held by an angel reads: "Come over to me, all ye that desire me, and be filled...
Madonna and Child with Saints Philip and Agnes (ca. 1425–30) by Donato de' Bardi - Public Domain Catholic Painting
Donato de’ Bardi’s style brings together Netherlandish and French influences, focusing on refined detail and careful study of light. At the center of this painting, which is still in its original frame, Donato captures the sheltering affection between the infant Christ and Madonna. Gesturing to the goldfinch in his...
Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas (ca. 1420–30) by Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri) - Public Domain Catholic Painting
This work plays with our expectations of the flatness of the painted surface. Using a technique of gilded gesso, the artist gave Saint Nicholas’s miter and the crowns of the holy figures a raised surface. The Virgin’s robes and the intricate, angled throne also create a sense of...
Madonna and Child Enthroned (1472) by Carlo Crivelli - Public Domain Catholic Painting
These three panels are from an altarpiece painted for a Dominican church in the Marchigian town of Ascoli Piceno. It is possible that the child was originally shown reaching for a flying bird, his frequent attribute. The cracked marble dais is a recurrent feature of Crivelli's work. On...
Madonna and Child (ca. 1480) by Vincenzo Foppa - Public Domain Catholic Painting
Foppa was the founder of Renaissance painting in Milan, where he worked for the dukes. In addition to major fresco cycles and altarpieces, he also painted touching images of the Madonna and Child for private devotion. This one dates to about 1480 and shows them before a rose hedge—the...
Portable Icon with the Virgin Eleousa (early 1300s) - Public Domain Orthodox Icon
Images of the Virgin Eleousa, the Virgin of Compassion, developed in the later Byzantine centuries and profoundly influenced the art of the Latin West. Here, the intimate poses of the heads and hands display the warm emotional attachment of the Virgin and Child. The fifteenth-century Latin inscription on the...
Dormition of Mary (Uspenie Bogoroditsy) (Dormition Church at Kondopoga) (1774) - Public Domain Orthodox Icon
This icon depicts the Dormition of the Mother of God (her "falling asleep" or death). The central figure is Christ, who stands over Mary's body holding a small, swaddled child. This child might represent Mary’s pure soul, which Christ is receiving to carry into heaven....
Triptych with the Madonna and Child with Louise de Bourbon, Saint Louis, Saint John, and Two Prophets (1538) by Pierre Reymond - Public Domain Catholic Painting
This scene depicting the Virgin Mary, her infant son Jesus Christ, and various saints and prophets also includes the kneeling figure of Louise de Bourbon (1495–1545), a member of the French royal family (Note the inscription LOYSE DE BOURBON on the hem of her dark habit). She was the...
Virgin and Child in a Landscape (1492–98) by Possibly Master of the Madonna Grog; Possibly Aert van den Bossche; Formerly Master of the Embroidered Foliage - Public Domain Catholic Painting
This painting is an altarpiece, a devotional image used in a Christian church, and many of the details are religious symbols. The walled garden, for instance, refers to the garden in the Bible’s Song of Songs and is associated with the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. The...
Lamentation with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Catherine of Alexandria (1493–1501) by Master of the Legend of Saint Lucy - Public Domain Catholic Painting
Triptychs (hinged three-paneled works) such as this were often placed on or behind the altars of medieval churches and private chapels. The central panel of this triptych shows people mourning the death of Jesus. The city in the background is Bruges, where the artist worked. Saint John the Baptist...
Madonna and Child with Grapes (1537) by Lucas Cranach the Elder - Public Domain Catholic Painting
Lucas Cranach the Elder worked in a time of religious upheaval. Martin Luther (a close associate of Cranach) led the Protestant Reformation challenging the Catholic Church, arguing that man could have a direct relationship with God without the need for a priest to intermediate. Cranach adapted familiar Catholic imagery to...
Madonna and Child (1310) by Segna di Buonaventura - Public Domain Catholic Painting
Mary, the mother of Jesus, insists you look her in the eye. She has long inspired intense devotion. Christians believed that a relationship with her would bring them closer to her son, and worshippers identified with her role as a mother. Segna portrays them both as very human and approachable—...
The Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist (1520) by Workshop of Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen - Public Domain Catholic Painting
The grief-stricken faces of the Virgin Mary and John the Evangelist once faced another panel referencing the Crucifixion. Their expressive features and weighty three dimensionality make their sorrow over Jesus’s death palpably human, while the golden space that they inhabit reinforces their sanctified status. Netherlandish devotional scenes sought...