The Calm Sacred Paintings of Hans Memling
Hans Memling paintings give late medieval Bruges its calmest devotional voice. Step into the altarpieces and Madonnas of the great Flemish 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.
Hans Memling paintings give late medieval Bruges its calmest devotional voice. Step into the altarpieces and Madonnas of the great Flemish master.
Anthony van Dyck paintings reveal the silvery saints and Christs behind the court painter of Charles I. Step into his finest religious works.
Diego Velázquez paintings hide a hushed Christ behind the royal portraits. Step into the religious masterworks of Philip IV’s principal painter.
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo paintings give Spanish Baroque art its warmest voice. Step into the Madonnas and child Christs of Sevillian devotion.
Francisco de Zurbarán paintings give the Spanish Baroque its most sculptural quiet. Step inside the monks and saints of his Sevillian cloisters.
Eustache Le Sueur paintings give French Catholic art its calmest classical voice. Meet the painter once called the French Raphael.
Fernando Gallego paintings preserve Castile’s most striking medieval altarpiece, now reassembled at the University of Arizona Museum of Art.
Dieric Bouts paintings hold the quietest faith in early Flemish art. Step inside the silver-lit altarpieces of medieval Leuven.
The forgotten religious side of Alexandre Cabanel paintings, from his fallen angel to the saints of the French Second Empire Salon.
Step inside the sacred world of Albrecht Dürer paintings, where Catholic devotion meets the most precise eye of the Northern Renaissance.