The Catholic Paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger
Hans Holbein the Younger paintings hide a deep Catholic faith behind the famous court portraits. Step into the German master’s sacred panels of Basel.
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.
Hans Holbein the Younger paintings hide a deep Catholic faith behind the famous court portraits. Step into the German master’s sacred panels of Basel.
Hans Multscher paintings show late Gothic Swabia absorbing the new Flemish realism. Step into the Wurzach Altarpiece of the great Ulm master.
Hugo van der Goes paintings carry the deepest emotional intensity of the early Netherlandish school. Step into the altarpieces of the great Ghent master.
Jan van Eyck paintings invented the entire Western language of oil painting. Step into the Madonnas, Crucifixions, and the Ghent Altarpiece of the founding Flemish master.
Simon Vouet paintings introduced the Italian Baroque to seventeenth century France. Step into the altarpieces of the great founding voice of French religious painting.
Stefan Lochner paintings give late Gothic Cologne its supreme gold-ground voice. Step into the great Dombild Altarpiece and the Marian panels of the Rhineland master.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau paintings give French Catholic Belle Époque devotion its most polished voice. Step into the Madonnas and angels of the great Salon master.
Matthias Grünewald paintings give the German Renaissance its most visionary Christ. Step into the Isenheim Altarpiece and the great upper Rhine Crucifixions.
El Greco paintings still feel otherworldly four centuries later. Step into the elongated Christs and saints of his mystical Toledo.
Georges de La Tour paintings light a single candle in the darkness. Step into the rediscovered Catholic masterworks of seventeenth century Lorraine.