Caravaggio’s Conversion of Saint Paul: Struck by Light
The Conversion of Saint Paul is one of the boldest religious paintings of the Baroque, made by Caravaggio around 1600…
Caravaggio’s Crucifixion of Saint Peter: Upside Down
The Crucifixion of Saint Peter is one of the most unflinching religious paintings of the Baroque, made by Caravaggio in…
Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, Artemisia Gentileschi’s Bold Saint
Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy is one of the most intense and intimate religious paintings of the Italian Baroque, made by…
Georges de La Tour’s Magdalen with the Smoking Flame: A Candlelit Soul
The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame is one of the most haunting nocturnes of the French Baroque, painted by Georges…
Rembrandt’s Head of Christ: A Human Face of God
Head of Christ is a small, deeply human image of Jesus, painted by Rembrandt around 1648. It is not a…
Guido Reni’s Massacre of the Innocents: Beauty in Horror
Massacre of the Innocents is one of the most admired and most disturbing religious paintings of the Italian Baroque, made…
Christ Crucified, Velazquez’s Quiet Masterpiece
Christ Crucified is the most famous religious painting in Spain, made by Diego Velazquez in 1632. It shows Christ alone…
The Raising of Lazarus, Rembrandt’s Drama of Light
The Raising of Lazarus is a dramatic early masterpiece by Rembrandt, painted around 1630 to 1632, when he was still…
Saint Serapion, Zurbaran’s Silent Sacrifice
Saint Serapion is one of the quietest and most powerful images of martyrdom in Western art, painted by the Spanish…
Alonso Cano, the Spanish Michelangelo of Paintings
Alonso Cano paintings carry the silvery hush of Granada and the quiet devotion that earned him the nickname of the Spanish Michelangelo.