Petrus Christus Paintings and the Silent Beauty of Flemish Art
Petrus Christus paintings carry the Van Eyck tradition through the mid-fifteenth century Bruges school. Step into the calm Marian devotional panels of the great Bruges master.
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.
Petrus Christus paintings carry the Van Eyck tradition through the mid-fifteenth century Bruges school. Step into the calm Marian devotional panels of the great Bruges master.
Philippe de Champaigne paintings give French Catholic devotion its most austere Jansenist voice. Step into the Port-Royal altarpieces of the great Brussels-born master.
Quentin Matsys paintings carry the Flemish tradition from Bruges into early sixteenth century Antwerp. Step into the great Joiners’ Altarpiece and his Marian diptychs.
Peter Paul Rubens paintings give Catholic Baroque its most muscular voice. Step into the great Antwerp altarpieces of the supreme Flemish master.
Rembrandt paintings give Christian art its most psychologically honest seventeenth century voice. Step into the great biblical canvases of the Dutch Golden Age master.
Robert Campin paintings stand at the founding moment of European oil painting. Step into the great Mérode Altarpiece and the Tournai workshop of the early Flemish master.
Rogier van der Weyden paintings give early Flemish religious art its most emotionally intense voice. Step into the great Beaune Last Judgment and Brussels altarpieces.
Sebastiano Conca paintings give the Italian late Baroque its warmest Roman voice. Step into the Vatican and Roman altarpieces of the favourite painter of Pope Clement XI.
Antonio Ciseri paintings still grip viewers today, from the great Ecce Homo of Florence to his Lourdes Madonna and Sacred Heart altarpieces.
Hieronymus Bosch paintings are the strangest sacred world in Western art. Step into the triptychs, hermit saints, and Passion panels of the master of ‘s-Hertogenbosch.