Historical Religious Art

A collection of intricate historical artworks featuring religious themes, depicting scenes from the Nativity, the life of Saint John the Baptist, and martyrdom, characterized by rich colors and detail

Aubusson 18th Century Tapestry Artist Unknown (French)

Detail of the Nativity, ca 1345, by Vitale da Bologna (ca 1309-ca 1361). Fresco of the Church of Santa Maria of Mezzaratta, detached during the 1950s and reconstructed at the National Gallery of Bologna.

Aubusson 18th Century Tapestry Artist Unknown (French)

Saint John the Baptist Entering the Wilderness 1455-1460 Italy. Giovanni di Paolo worked within the conservative artistic tradition of Siena, creating rich patterns and an intensely devotional mood in his paintings. Among his finest narrative works are these six panels, part of a series of twelve depicting the life of Saint John the Baptist, the kinsman and prophet of Christ. Other panels from the series are scattered in European and American collections; they may originally have formed the doors of a shrine housing a relic of the saint. In the first of the Art Instituteís panels, the young Baptist enters the wilderness to live as a hermit; later he foretells Christís role as redeemer, is imprisoned, and is finally martyred at the request of Salome, the step-daughter of King Herod.. Tempera on panel . Giovanni di Paolo

Slaying of St Peter, detail from the Stories of St Peter Martyr, 1460, fresco by Vincenzo Foppa (1427 or 1430-1516), Portinari Chapel, Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio, Milan. Italy, 15th century.

BATALLA DE CHIO - ANONIMO ARAGONES - 1492. Author: ANONIMO SIGLO XV. Location: COLEGIATA. Daroca. Saragossa Zaragoza. SPAIN.

Decoration of the Camera degli Sposi (Camera Picta), by Mantegna Andrea, 1465 - 1474, 15th Century, fresco and ""dry"" tempera. Italy, Lombardy, Mantua, Ducal Palace. Detail. Upper central lunette wreaths: festoons leaves fruit decoration colors curtains tree foliage trompe-l'oeil.

Diana fox hunting. unknown c. 1680-1700 Tapestry Dimensions: H 7'3" x W 9'3" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: French & Co. purchased from Judson Borglum 12/10/1912; sold to Trinity University 6/11/1964. SS 9643. French & Co. purchased from Jeffords W. N. 5/31/1918 note on SS saying transferred to consignment 9643 SS 4891. United States, Texas, San Antonio, Ruth Taylor Art Gallery. In forest, Diana with her hunting dogs, aims her bow at fox (center, foreground); cityscape (L of center, background) Borders missing. French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 4891 French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 9643

Painting titled 'The Abduction of Helen' by Zanobi Strozzi (1412-1468) an Italian painter and manuscript illuminator. Dated 15th Century

Triumph of peace, fresco by Felice Giani (1758-1823), Palace of the Spanish Embassy, Rome. Italy, 19th century.

Beheading of St Maurilius, by Karcher Giovanni, 1553, 16th Century, arazzo tessuto a Ferrara. Italy, Emilia Romagna, Ferrara, Cathedral Museum. Detail. Executioner sword blade mantle: cloak dress: robe: garment drapery: draping beard fillet grass leaves rocks dark: brown shades white creamy red light blue: azure green.

Knight riding white horse by anonymous artist, painting, Russia, Palekh, Museum of Palekh Russian Lacquer Art,

Farmers at work in the mountains, detail from the Month of June, panel taken from Cycle of the Months, by Master Venceslao, fresco, Tower Aquila, Buonconsiglio Castle, Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige. Italy, 14th-15th century.

Vanity Sounds the Horn and Ignorance Unleashes the Hounds Overconfidence, Rashness, and Desire (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag). Culture: South Netherlandish. Dimensions: Overall: 118 x 150in. (299.7 x 381cm). Date: ca. 1500-1525.This tapestry fragment is part of a series that symbolically represents man's life on earth as a stag hunt. Man is depicted here as "the fragile stag" at the upper left bounding through the woods. The stag is being hunted by Desire, Rashness, and Overconfidence, the hunting dogs set loose by Ignorance, portrayed as an elegantly dressed woman at the bottom center of the tapestry. Dominating the scene at the right is another courtly lady, Vanity, who sounds the hunting horn.The verses inscribed in French on the banderole above read in translation:"The dogs that she held leashed in the woods Dame Ignorance has set loose after the stag; they are Desire, Rashness, Overconfidence,Who, filled with worldly pleasure, make him take many a leap and crossing; and the

July or Leo with courtiers outside manor house and peasants with scythes and rakes, fresco from Cycle of Months, c.1400, Buonconsiglio Castle

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898). Tribute from the city of Paris to Victor Hugo. Sketch for the town hall of Paris. oil on canvas. 1894. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. French writer, sketch, tribute, town hall, symbolism, city of Paris, 19th XIXth 19th 19th 19th 19th century, oil on canvas

Orpheus charming the animals with music, 1519, by Hans Leu the Younger (1490-1531), oil on canvas.

April or Aries with ploughing with oxen, women in garden and rabbits in forest fresco from Cycle of Months c.1400 Buonconsiglio Castle (detail)

Austria, Vienna, Illustration of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy (Purgatory, Song XIX) by Franz von Bayros, detail

Episode in the life of Jordain de Blaye, 15th century Arras tapestry, France.

Libera da Verona (1441-1526). Italian painter of the Renaissance. The Abduction of Europa, 1470. Louvre Museum. Paris. France. Author: Costa, Lorenzo, the Elder.

Detail from frescoes dating from 1540 on facade of the 14th century Town Hall Rathaus in Ulm, Baden_Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe

Illustration of the creation of humanity, the original sin, and expulsion from Paradise, depicted in a colored woodcut by Georg Lemberger in 1524.

Sidewall (possibly England); machine-printed on paper; 61 x 49.5 cm (24 x 19 1/2 in.)

Lovers in a Garden. Northern Netherlandish. Date: 1520-1530. Dimensions: Diameter: 23.8 cm (9 3/8 in.). Glass, vitreous paint, and silver stain. Origin: Netherlands. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Miniature with Francesco Petrarca, Laura de Noves and a minstrel (14th c.). Miniature Painting. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library.

Illustration by Arthur Rackham 1910 depicting, Ondine (Undine), a fairy-tale novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque; in which Undine, a water spirit, marries a knight named Huldebrand in order to gain a soul. It is an early German romance

Print, The Sense of Taste; Designed by François-Thomas Mondon (French, ca. 1709 - 1755); France; brush and watercolor on paper, mounted; 78.1 × 54.7 cm (30 3/4 × 21 9/16 in.)

fine arts, Matteo da Milano (active 1492 - 1523), miniature, Christ with Saint Peter and Saint Andrew, 15th century / 16th century, Strossmayer gallery, Zagreb, Croatia,

Master Francke / Birth of Christ /c.1424

Following the Stag's Trail (From Incidents in a Stag Hunt) ca. 1495-1515 South Netherlandish. Following the Stag's Trail (From Incidents in a Stag Hunt). South Netherlandish. ca. 1495-1515. Wool warp, wool wefts. Textiles-Tapestries

St George and the Dragon, by Karcher Giovanni, 1551 - 1553, 16th Century, arazzo tessuto a Ferrara. Italy, Emilia Romagna, Ferrara, Cathedral Museum. Detail. St George woman dragon horse lance: spear helmet plants drapery: draping building red bricks dark: brown shades yellow white light blue: azure red blue green.

Apocalyptic Landscape, Ludwig Meidner, 1913, Berlin Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Hercules SlayingAntaeus. Artist, attributed to: Matteo di Giovanni, Italian, Siena, ca. 1430 -1495/99 Artist, formerly attributed to: Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Italian, Florence, ca.1432-1498

Geometry, fresco by Francesco Primaticcio (1504-1570) in the Chambre des Arts (Art Gallery), Chateau d'Ancy-le-Franc, France.

Bernardino Luini, Cephalus Hiding the Jewels, c 1520 1522 Cephalus Hiding the Jewels

Vida de San Isidro, mosaico, siglo XVII. Museum: Casa Museu Duran i Sanpere, Cervera.

Adam sends Seth to plead with the Archangel Michael for the Oil of Mercy, Death of Adam, Legend of the True Cross, Fresco Cycle, Piero della Francesca, Bacci Chapel, Cappella Bacci, Cappella Maggiore, 1452-1466, Basilica of St Francis, Basilica di San Francesco, Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

Cassandra's Prediction, by Unknown, 41 - 62, 1st Century, painted stucco. Italy, Campania, Naples, National Archaeological Museum, from Pompeii. Whole artwork. Cassandra prophetess prophecy woman stair.

Fresco depicting Isis worship, from Ercolano, Naples province, Italy

Painting American.. Painting on velvet, 20 1/4 x 27 1/2 in. (51.4 x 69.8 cm). Decorative Arts

L.Cranach t.E./Fall from Grace/Expulsion

Shepherd, Cowherd and Goatherd meet on the plains of Arcadia; galleys ply the waters, flowers strew the meadows, and the music of the musette alarms a dog Date: circa 1500

Study for a Painted Frieze. Flaminio Allegrini; Italian, c. 1587-c. 1663. Date: 1625-1627. Dimensions: 145 x 256 mm. Pen and brown and gray ink, with brush and brown wash and red chalk wash, with traces of lead white (partially discolored), on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid card. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise. Date/Period: 1445. Painting. Tempera and gold on wood Tempera and gold on wood. Height: 464 mm (18.26 in); Width: 521 mm (20.51 in). Author: Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia).

Minerva chasing the vices from the garden of virtue (detail). Minerva, Roman goddess of wisdom, patroness of arts and trades. Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506). Louvre, Paris.

Window with the stoning of the elders, anonymous, c. 1525 - c. 1550 Window with the stoning of the elders. Low Countries glass. lead (metal).. silver stain Window with the stoning of the elders. Low Countries glass. lead (metal).. silver stain

St George and the Princess, by Antonio Pisano also known as Pisanello, 1433 - 1438, 15th Century, detached and torn fresco. Italy, Veneto, Verona, Sant'Anastasia Church, Pellegrini Chapel, formerly on the entry's arch. Detail. Episode on the right, St George meets the Princess, hanged men on the background and the foreigners, horse.

Nibelungenlied. 13th century. Anonymous german epic poem based on the legends of Siegfried and the people of the Nibelungs. First part. Chant XVI. Siegfried killed by Hagen while hunting. Engraving, 19th century. Colored.

Bliżej Kultury Publisher by A.E. Seemann in Leipzig, Bellini, Giovanni (1430 1516)

John Frederick Lewis, 1804-1876, British, A Sketch for `Foresters Stalking Deer', between 1824 and 1827. Oil over charcoal outline on panel.

'The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (II)', ca. 1483, Oil on panel, 82 cm x 138 cm, P02839. Author: SANDRO BOTTICELLI. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. NASTAGIO DEGLI HONESTI. ONESTI NASTAGIO DEGLI / NASTAGIO DEGLI ONESTI.

Apocalypse tapestry woven by Nicolas Bataille based on cartoons designed by Jean Bondol from Bruges depicting The Great Harlot, France 14th century.

Jesus Christ in Gethsemane garden, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Oil on wood, 1472-1553, Russia, Moscow, State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, 55x55

De sphaera, treatise on astrology, cristoforo de Predis, 1470

Brazil, Bahia, Salvador. Pelourinho (Old City) UNESCO. Historic church of St. Francis (San Francisco) c. 1708, built in Baroque style. Famous blue and white Portuguese tile. (Large format sizes available)

A Sketch for `Foresters Stalking Deer', John Frederick Lewis, 1804-1876, British, Formerly Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802-1873, British, between 1824 and 1827, Oil over charcoal outline on panel, Support (PTG): 5 7/8 x 8 inches (14.9 x 20.3 cm), deer, dogs (animals), forest, foresters, horse (animal), rifle, sporting art, sportsmen

Tapestry depicting "The Ball Game". Detail. It belongs to the series known as "Children Playing". After drawings by Giulio Romano (1499-1546). Mantua, Italy, ca. 1540. Wool, silk, gold and silver threads. Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. Lisbon, Portugal.

RAIMUNDI, Vicente (16th century). Antiphonary of Charles V. 1537. Santiago Matamoros fighting. Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library.

The Flight into Egypt by Maestro di Campli (active Mid of 16th cen.) / Musei Capitolini, Rome / Medieval art / Second Half of 14th cen. / Italy, School of Abruzzo / Tempera on panel / Bible / 50x53

EL PALACIO DE LOS VIRREYES - BIOMBO MEXICANO - SIGLO XVII - DETALLE DE LAS DAMAS - Conjunto nº 87022. Location: MUSEO DE AMERICA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Lupins. Folio 51v.

Saint John the Baptist retiring to the Desert (Predella Panel) by Giovanni di Paolo (ca 1403-1482)/ National Gallery, London/ 1454/ Italy, School of Siena/ Tempera on panel/ Renaissance/ 30,5x49/ Bible

Monteleone di Fermo (Italia, Marche - provincia di Fermo) chiesa della Misericordia. Orfeo Presutti, Il Giudizio Universale, affresco (parete sinistra), XVI secolo. Particolare

Panel depicting the Forge of Vulcan, the Victor Casini (active between 1570 and 1571). Studiolo (small study) of Francesco I, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Italy, 16th century.

Kurkin, Alexander Michailovich (*1946) Museum of Palekh Russian Lacquer Art, Palekh Tempera on varnished Applied Arts Russia, School of Palekh Mythology, Allegory and Literature

The Drowning of Britomartis from Scenes from the Story of Diana. Artist: Related to engravings by Étienne Delaune (French, Orléans 1518/19-1583 Strasbourg). Culture: French, probably Paris. Designer: Probably designed by Jean Cousin the Elder (French, Souci () ca. 1490-ca. 1560 Paris ()). Dimensions: H. 183 x W. 114 inches (464.8 x 289.6 cm). Maker: Possibly woven in the workshop directed by Pierre Blasse the Younger (French, active 1540-60); Possibly woven in the workshop directed by Jacques Langlois (French, active 1540-60). Date: 1547-59.This tapestry is from a set depicting scenes from the story of Diana probably made for the château of Anet, about forty miles west of Paris, which was the chief residence of Henry II's mistress, Diane de Poitiers. She herself, born in 1499, was named after the goddess, a sign that the Renaissance, with its emulation of classical antiquity, had come to France.The inscription in French verse on the upper border of the tapestry tells the story depicted

BOTTICELLI, Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi, also called Sandro (1445-1510). The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti: The Disembowelment of the Woman Pursued. 1468. This panel together with the other two develop Boccaccio's Decamerone, the eighth story of the fifth journey. 2nd painting. Renaissance art. Quattrocento. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Prado Museum.

Henri LEROLLE. Genius of letters, sketch for the town hall of Paris. Oil on canvas, 1897-1898. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. Sketch, 19th XIXth XIX 19th 19th 19th century

Hunt of the Calydonian Boar ca. 1509 Pinturicchio One of twenty-two panels (14.114.1-.22) forming the ceiling from the Palace of Pandolfo Petrucci, called Il Magnifico, Siena. The general distribution and partition of the ceiling appears to derive from that of a vaulted and painted ceiling in Nero's Golden House in Rome. Many of the individual figures also seem to derive from antique works of art- especially sarcophagi.. Hunt of the Calydonian Boar. Pinturicchio (Italian, Perugia 1454-1513 Siena). Italian, Umbria. ca. 1509. Fresco, transferred to canvas and attached to wood panels. Paintings-Decorative

Hell with demons punishing the greedy, detail from The Last Judgement, 1431, by Giovanni da Fiesole known as Fra Angelico (1400-ca 1455), tempera on wood, 105x210 cm.

Martyrdom of St Sebastian, 1535, by Girolamo Genga (1467-1551), board, 98x83 cm.

The siege of Padua in 1503, ca. 1570, fresco, Hall of the Rossis' Deeds, Rocca dei Rossi, San Secondo Parmense, Emilia-Romagna. Italy, 16th century.

Gothic art. Spain. 15th century. Bernat Martorell. Altarpiece of the Transfiguration. Detail of a street in Barcelona. Ca.1445-1452. Tempera on wood. Catalonia. Spain.

Medieval city, detail from The Adoration of the Magi, 1423, by Gentile da Fabriano (1370-1427), tempera on wood, 173x228 cm.

Woman prisoner of a Dragon, detail from St George and the Dragon, by Paolo Uccello (1397-1475), oil on canvas.

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Bernardino Luini, Cephalus and the Nymphs, Italian, c. 1480-1532, c. 1520-1522, fresco

Torment of the damned. Miniature. 15th century. France. Tresor de Sapience. Castle of Chantilly. France.

The figure of the leader, detail from Guidoriccio Da Fogliano at the siege of Montemassi, 1330, attributed to Simone Martini (1283-1344), fresco, 340x968 cm. Palazzo Publico, Siena.

Rider on horseback, naked woman, floral decor, mural, glazed tiles, Golestan Palace or Golestan Palace, Tehran, Iran, Asia

Krefeld, Sollbrüggen House (music school), manor house by Adolph von Vagedes 1830, hall on the upper floor with paintings by Benjamin and Jakob Orth, detail of ceiling painting

Biblical scene, Bible, The Creation of Eve, God created Eve from a rib of Adam after he let Adam fall into a deep sleep, illustration, reproduction from a 19th-century model. Authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of submission unknown, historical

ARTE RENACIMIENTO. ESPAÑA. ESTANDARTE. Pintado sobre tela de lino. Anónimo. Fechado hacia el 1570. Conocida como "Gavarra de Tamarit". Procede de la Iglesia parroquial de Tamarit. Detalle. Museo Diocesano de Tarragona. Cataluña.

St. Michael fighting the Dragon. Apocalypse of Albrecht Durer. 1498.

Biblische Szene, Bibel, Die Erbsünde, ein christliches Konzept, das einen Zustand der Trennung von Gott beschreibt, in den jeder Mensch als Nachfahre Adams und Evas hineingeboren wird. Sie wird nicht als persönliche Schuld, sondern als eine Veranlagung zu Selbstsucht und innerer Unordnung verstanden, die von Generation zu Generation weitergegeben wird, Illustration, Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert. Authentisch, Datei restauriert für optimale Verwendnung, genaues Datum der Vorlage unbekannt, Historisch Original sin

Fishing, illuminated letter P from a 1481 manuscript of Pliny the Elder's De Naturalis Historia

A 1524 colored woodcut by Georg Lemberger depicting Samson defeating a thousand men and the source miracle from the Luther Bible, illustrating Judges 15:15-19 and Old Testament heroic episodes.

PINTURA DE BULBENA.S.XIX. OLEO (COLECCIÓN PARTICULAR).

Struggle between Chastity and Lust, Pietro Perugino, (ca.1450-1523 Italian), Oil on canvas

Also known as the Endymion mural of the Lyric Poetry series by Henry O. Walker. Library of Congress building Washington DC

Susanna and the Elders, by Martini Francesco di Giorgio, 1458, 15th Century, tempera on panel. Italy: Tuscany: Siena: National Gallery of Art: inv. n. 275. Whole artwork. Susanna female nude bath old men hedge house red columns

The Triumph of Death, by Bruegel Pieter the Elder, 16th Century, 1562, oil on board, cm 117 x 162

Roman fresco depicting God Dionysus with a bunch of grapes. In the background, Mount Vesuvius. 62-79 AD. House of the Centennial, Pompeii. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.

Town on island in lake, from Adoration of the Magi, tripytch, c.1495 (with donors Scheyven and Patron saints Peter Agnes and Joseph) (detail)

Austria, Vienna, Illustration of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy (Hell, Song XIX) by Franz von Bayros, detail

The Rest on the Flight to Egypt Albrecht Altdorfer (ca.1480-1538/German)

This 1880s illustration shows a fresco uncovered at Pompeii of Orpheus charming the animals with his lyre playing. In Greek mythology, Orpheus was a famed Thracian bard whose lyre music charmed even the wildest of animals and even plants, trees, and rocks (as seen here). The son of the Muse Calliope, he married the nymph Eurydice after taking part in the Argonaut expedition. According to Greek mythology, after a snake killed her, Orpheus went to Hades (the Underworld) to fetch her. Charmed by his music, the gods freed her, but on the condition that he not look at her until he reached the upper

The Golden Age by Cranach, Lucas, the Elder (1472-1553) / Alte Pinakothek, Munich / ca 1530 / Germany / Tempera and oil on wood / Mythology, Allegory and Literature / 73,5x103,5 / Renaissance

Cupid and Psyche - Palace Green Murals - Cupid Flying away from Psyche, 1881. By Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Walter Crane. A scene from William Morris' 'The Earthly Paradise'. .

CODEX TRUJILLO DEL PERU - BOOK II E 132 - WEST INDIAN KIDS PLAYING THE BALL WITH HOOKS - WATERCOLOR - 18TH CENTURY. Author: MARTINEZ COMPAÑON BALTASAR. Location: PALACIO REAL-BIBLIOTECA. MADRID. SPAIN.

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