The Lord is my shepherd has shaped Christian art for eighteen centuries. Follow Psalm 23 from the Roman catacombs to Ravenna, the medieval psalters, and the great devotional painters.
The Holy Trinity by Masaccio is one of the most important paintings of the early Renaissance, famous as the first…
Christ of Saint John of the Cross is one of the most famous religious paintings of the twentieth century, made…
The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables is the most celebrated of the many versions of this subject painted by Bartolome…
The Calling of Saint Matthew is one of the great paintings of the Baroque, made by Caravaggio at the very…
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee is the only seascape Rembrandt ever painted, and one of the most dramatic…
The Merode Altarpiece, also called the Annunciation Triptych, is one of the founding works of Early Netherlandish painting, made by…
The Return of the Prodigal Son is among the last and most moving works of Rembrandt, painted around 1668, near…
Pieta is one of the most moving religious paintings of the nineteenth century, made by the French master William-Adolphe Bouguereau…
The Isenheim Altarpiece is the masterpiece of Matthias Grunewald, one of the most powerful and disturbing works of the Northern…