Carlo Crivelli: Strange Beauty and Gothic Sacred Paintings
Carlo Crivelli paintings occupy a world apart from the mainstream Italian Renaissance. Born in Venice around 1435, he spent most…
Christian art is the visual tradition of the Christian faith, spanning nearly two thousand years, from the frescoes of the catacombs and the golden mosaics of Byzantium to the masterpieces of the Renaissance and Baroque and the devotional images of today. The guides below trace that story across its greatest works.
The life of Christ: the Nativity, Baptism, Sermon on the Mount, Last Supper, Crucifixion and Resurrection, plus Jesus walking on water, the Wedding at Cana, Doubting Thomas and the Good Shepherd.
Scripture and the Old Testament: the most famous biblical paintings and scenes such as David and Goliath.
By era and style: medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and modern Christian painting.
The Virgin, saints and angels: Virgin Mary paintings, the Black Madonna, female saints in art and the archangels.
Devotion and the masters: from the Sacred Heart to Raphael’s Madonnas and Giotto. Browse it all in our galleries.
Carlo Crivelli paintings occupy a world apart from the mainstream Italian Renaissance. Born in Venice around 1435, he spent most…
Luca Signorelli paintings stand at one of the most significant crossroads of the Italian Renaissance. Born around 1445–1450 in Cortona,…
Andrea del Verrocchio paintings are relatively few, he was primarily a sculptor and goldsmith, and painting occupied only a part…
Domenico Ghirlandaio paintings are the most vivid record we have of what it looked like to be a prosperous Florentine…
Giulio Romano paintings occupy a fascinating place between the High Renaissance and Mannerism. Born Giulio Pippi in Rome around 1499,…
Antonello da Messina paintings hold a singular place in the history of Italian art because of what he brought together….
Gentile Bellini paintings offer a window onto the extraordinary cultural position Venice held in the fifteenth century: a city that…
Sebastiano del Piombo paintings occupy a unique position in the history of the Italian Renaissance because they stand at the…
Il Sodoma paintings offer some of the most graceful and emotionally affecting sacred imagery of the Italian Renaissance. Born Giovanni…
Sandro Botticelli paintings occupy a singular place in the history of Western art because they combine intellectual ambition with a…