The Prodigal Son in Art: 12 Paintings From the Departure to the Fatted Calf
Around 1635, Rembrandt painted himself in a tavern. He wears a plumed hat and a sword, he laughs over his…
Adoration of the Shepherds in 10 Luminous Paintings
The Adoration of the Shepherds is the moment in Saint Luke’s Gospel when the first visitors reach the newborn Christ….
10 Doubting Thomas Paintings, From Duccio to Carl Bloch
Doubting Thomas paintings capture one of the most human moments in the Gospels. When the risen Christ first appeared to…
Rembrandt’s Storm on the Sea of Galilee
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee is the only seascape Rembrandt ever painted, and one of the most dramatic…
Rembrandt’s Return of the Prodigal Son, His Last Word
The Return of the Prodigal Son is among the last and most moving works of Rembrandt, painted around 1668, near…
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…
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…
Rembrandt Paintings and the Sacred Light of the Dutch Golden Age
Rembrandt paintings give Christian art its most psychologically honest seventeenth century voice. Step into the great biblical canvases of the Dutch Golden Age master.
12 Baroque Christian Paintings by the Masters of Light and Shadow
Baroque Christian paintings transformed the language of sacred art more radically than any movement before or since. Between roughly 1600…
8 Ascension Paintings That Defined Christian Art Through the Centuries
Of all the subjects in the history of sacred art, ascension paintings occupy a place entirely their own. They ask…