Historical Religious Scenes

A collection of classical frescoes and paintings depicting saints, biblical events, and medieval figures in rich, colorful artwork.

Tables Altar of Saint Vincent by Jaume Huguet (1412-1492) Catalan painter. Dated 15th Century

Saints Peter the Martyr and Thomas Aquinas Refute the Heretics, detail of the Active and Triumphant Church detail, fresco by Andrea Di Bonaiuto, Spanish Chapel in Santa Maria Novella Principal Dominican church in Florence, Italy Saints Peter the Martyr and Thomas Aquinas Refute the Heretics, detail of the Active and Triumphant Church detail, fresco by Andrea Di Bonaiuto, Spanish Chapel in Santa Maria Novella Principal Dominican church in Florence, Italy Copyright: xZoonar.com/ZvonimirxAtletix 20823503

LA MATANZA DE LOS INOCENTES - SIGLO XV. Author: GARCIA FERNANDEZ. Location: CONVENTO DE LAS URSULINAS, SALAMANCA, SPAIN.

Maestro de Lupiana / 'Christ before Pilate'. 1450 - 1460. Tempera on panel transferred to canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

The court of Mary of Anjou 1404 to 1463 wife of Charles VII. Her chaplain Robert Blondel presents her with the allegorical treatise of the Twelve Perils of Hell which he composed for her in 1455. Facsimile of minature from Twelve Perils of Hell

Receiving gifts by Dirk Bouts, oil on wood, 1464-1468, 1410/20-1475, Belgium, Leuven, St. Peter's Church, 88x71,3

ADORACION DE LAS RELIQUIAS DE SAN ILDEFONSO - DETALLE DEL RETABLO DE SAN ILDEFONSO - 1466. Author: FERNANDO GALLEGO. Location: CATEDRAL. Zamora. SPAIN.

Adoration of the Magi, predella to altarpiece

The Martyrdom of St Peter, Umbrian school, fresco, Basilica of St Dominic, Perugia, Umbria. Italy, 14th century.

Tables Altar of Saint Vincent by Jaume Huguet (1412-1492) Catalan painter. Dated 15th Century

Assembly of the Clergy with Pope Sixtus IV (elected August 1471), from the Triumph of Saint Thomas Aquinas (inv 104), detail

Shrine (Reliquary) of St Ursula, 1489. Gilded, painted wood. Hans Memling (1430/1440-1494) South Netherlandish painter. St Ursula (4th century) martyred by Huns at Cologne. Pilgrimage Christian Dog Fidelity Tent Archer

Predella panel showing the Presentation of the Infant Christ in the Temple and Christ among the Doctors c. 1427-30 Tempera and gold on panels

MTI1 - CANTIGA DE SANTA MARIA Nº80 - F118R-E - DE LOOR - VIRGEN INTERCESORA EN EL JUICIO DE LAS ALMAS - SIGLO XIII. Author: ALFONSO X EL SABIO (1221-1284). Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN. JESUS. CRISTO JUEZ. VIRGIN MARY. SAN JUAN EVANGELISTA Y APOSTOL.

Altarpiece of the Saints John by Master of Santa Coloma de Queralt. Dated 14th Century

Adoration of the Magi. Altar Retable Panel from the Augustinian Church in Krakow Haberschrack, Nicolaus (Fl. 1454 1481)

St Columba before Emperor Aurelian, detail from the Three Stories of Saint Columba, 14th century, by Giovanni Baronzio (active 1343-1345). Tempera on panel, 53x55 cm each compartment.

Absolon Stumme (active in Hamburg, 1486-1499). Scenes from the Life of the Virgin and the Childhood of Jesus. Wings of the Altarpiece of the Cathedral of Hamburg, 1499. Late Gothic. National Museum. Warsaw. Poland.

The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple. Dated: c. 1400/1405. Dimensions: painted surface: 44 × 32.3 cm (17 5/16 × 12 11/16 in.) overall: 45.7 × 33.8 × 0.6 cm (18 × 13 5/16 × 1/4 in.) framed: 48.2 x 36.8 x 4.1 cm (19 x 14 1/2 x 1 5/8 in.). Medium: tempera on poplar panel. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: ANDREA DI BARTOLO.

Wedding Feast of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary and Louis of Thuringia in the Wartburg, inner left wing of an altarpiece made for the Grote Kerk in Dordrecht, Master of the St Elizabeth Panels, c. 1490 - c. 1495 painting Scenes from the life of Saint Elisabeth van Hungary. On the right in the foreground the engagement with Duke Lodewijk van Thüringen and Hessen in the garden. On the left the wedding meal on the Wartburg in which King Andreas, the father of the bride, and the mother of the groom participated. Three musicians with whistles and a trumpet music at the feast. In the background a landscape with castles and the buildings of a city. Elisabeth, accompanied by two servants Gutha and Isentrudis, promises her spiritual leader Koenraad of Marburg obedience and chastity. Inside of the left panel, is part of two panels, painted on either side with performances from the Life of Saint Elisabeth van Hungary (1207-31) and the Sint Elisabeth flood November 18, November 1421 (SK-A-3145/46 and

Pictures from the 1603 Gospel. In the vestry of the Ipatevskii Monastery. Prokudin-Gorskii, Sergei Mikhailovich, 1863-1944 photographer.

Retablo, procesión, siglo XV. Museum: Museu Diocesà i Comarcal, Lleida.

Panel from an altarpiece showing the Marriage of the Virgin c.1475-95 Oil on panel

Tarquinius Priscus. ca. 1475. History of the founder and fifth king of Rome according to the account of Livy. Central scene. Lucius Tarquinius is crowned King. At the bottom he oversees the construction of the wall and the sewers of the city. Possible manufacturing in Brussels. Silk a. Flemish art. Tapestry. SPAIN. CASTILE AND LEON. Zamora. Cathedral Museum.

King Henry VI of England is crowned as King of France in the 15th Century

The Gothic altarpiece of Santes Creus, 1407-1411. The Adoration of the Magi. Tempera, gold leaf and metal plate on wood. 4,6 x 5 m. They come from the high altar of the church of Santa Maria in the monastery of Santes Creus (Alt Camp). Museo Diocesano de Tarragona. Author: GENER, GUERAU / BORRASSÀ, LLUIS.

DESPOSORIOS DE LA VIRGEN (DETALLE DEL FRONTAL DE ENRIQUE IV CASTILLA). Location: MONASTERIO-INTERIOR. GUADALUPE. CACERES. SPAIN. HENRI IV OF CASTILE. VIRGIN MARY.

RETABLO DE VERDU-PRESENTACION DE JESUS. Author: FERRER JAUME II SIGLO XV. Location: MUSEO EPISCOPAL, VIC, BARCELONA, SPAIN.

Gothic art. 15th Century. Jaume Huguet (c. 1415-1492). Catalan painter. Altarpiece of the Saints Abdon and Senen. The martyrdom of the saints (1460-1461). Church of Saint Mary of Terrassa. Catalonia. Spain.

FERRER II, Jaume (15th century). Altarpiece from VerdÏ. 1432-1434. Panel of the Adoration of the Magi. Gothic art. Tempera on wood. SPAIN. CATALONIA. BARCELONA. Vic. Vic Episcopal Museum. Proc: SPAIN. CATALONIA. LLEIDA. VerdÏ. Parish Church of St. Mary.

The Mass of Saint Gregory. Date/Period: Before 1480. Painting. Oil and gold leaf on wood. Height: 1,680 mm (66.14 in); Width: 1,680 mm (66.14 in). Author: DIEGO DE LA CRUZ.

Jesus speaks with a Samaritan in Sychar, Samaria. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy.

Mary in the Temple, scene from Stories of the life of Mary, 1485, by the Master of the Stories of Mary in Aachen (active 15th century), oil on panel.

The sermon, 1530, attributed to Aert Claesz (1498-1564), panel, 133x96 cm.

DE PREDIS, Cristoforo (1440-1486). Stories of Saint Joachim, Saint Anne, Virgin Mary, Jesus, the Baptist and the End of the World. 1476. Jesus is led as a prisoner before the High Priest Annas, Pontifex of Caiaphas. Renaissance art. Quattrocento. Miniature Painting. ITALY. PIEDMONT. Turin. Royal Library.

Martyrdom of St. Thomas the Apostle, fresco by Circle of Andrea Castagno, Basilica of Santa Croce Basilica of the Holy Cross in Florence, Italy Martyrdom of St. Thomas the Apostle, fresco by Circle of Andrea Castagno, Basilica of Santa Croce Basilica of the Holy Cross in Florence, Italy Copyright: xZoonar.com/ZvonimirxAtletix 20149397

The coronation procession of Richard I in 1189. Depicted in the fifteenth-century Les Anciennes et Nouvelles Chroniques d'Angleterre. From The Island Race, a 20th century book that covers the history of the British Isles from the pre-Roman times to the Victorian era. Written by Sir Winston Churchill and abridged by Timothy Baker.

Alms of St Anthony Abbot, 1370-1380, by the Master of the Rinuccini Chapel (active 1350-1400), tempera on panel, 39x34 cm.

Johannes der Evangelist, der Drusiana auferweckt, Fresko von Filippino Lippi in der Strozzi-Kapelle der Dominikanerkirche Santa Maria Novella in Florenz, Italien Saint John the Evangelist Resurrecting Drusiana, fresco by Filippino Lippi in the Strozzi Chapel of the Santa Maria Novella Principal Dominican church in Florence, Italy Copyright: xZoonar.com/ZvonimirxAtletix 22610350

Gothic art. St. Emilian tables. It represents scenes from the life of St. Emilian and the Virgin. Late 14th century. Tempera. Inside of the right door of the altarpiece. Monastery of St. Emilian of Suso. La Rioja Museum. Logrono. Spain.

Ramon Solà II / Retablo de San Bartolomé de Cruïlles, siglo XV, procedente de la iglesia Santa Eulàlia de Cruïlles. Museum: Museu d'Art, Girona.

Life of St. Gregory the Great, Gregory finding by the people for election as pontiff, fresco by Dalmasio Iacopo of Scannabecchi, Santa Maria Novella Principal Dominican church in Florence, Italy Life of St. Gregory the Great, Gregory finding by the people for election as pontiff, fresco by Dalmasio Iacopo of Scannabecchi, Santa Maria Novella Principal Dominican church in Florence, Italy Copyright: xZoonar.com/ZvonimirxAtletix 20706116

King Solomon welcoming the Queen of Sheba. Bible I Kings10: 2. Chromolithograph after miniature in Breviary of Cardinal Grimani attributed to Memling. 15th century.

Crowning with Thorns. Altar Retable Panel from the Augustinian Church in Krakow Haberschrack, Nicolaus (Fl. 1454 1481)

LA VIRGEN Y LOS PRETENDIENTES. Author: PEDRO BERRUGUETE (1450-1504). Location: IGLESIA DE SANTA EULALIA. PAREDES DE NAVA. PALENCIA. SPAIN. VIRGIN MARY.

The Marriage of the Virgin, 1485-1490, fresco detail from Stories of the Virgin, by Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494). Tornabuoni Chapel or Main Chapel, Church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence. Italy, 15th century.

Ecce Homo.Ecce gay. The Saint Brigitta kneels in the standing Christ who is shown to the people by Pilatus. In the background the flogging and the thorn corant.

The sermon of St John of Capistrano in the city of L 'Aquila, scene from the right side panel of the Altarpiece with scenes from the life of St John of Capistrano, 1480-1485, by the Master of St John of Capistrano (active 15th century), tempera on board, 177x193 cm.

St Nicholas listening to the word of God, Life of St Nicholas of Tolentino, 1320-1325, fresco, originally attributed to the Master of Tolentino and latterly to Pietro da Rimini, Chapel of St Nicholas, Basilica of St Nicholas of Tolentino, Tolentino, Marche, Italy, 14th century.

Sp.Aretino /St.Benedict Exorcises Demons

The sermon, miniature from Decretum Gratiani, manuscript, Italy 14th Century.

Saint Francis Renouncing the World for the Cloister c. 1500 Oil on panel artist unknown

Libro de Horas de Luis de Orleans: Adoración de los Reyes R31. Museum: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE RUSIA SAN PETERS RUSIA.

Master Of Heiligenkreuz The Death of St Clare WGA14443 Painting; oil on panel; painted surface: 66.3 x 54 cm (26 1/8 x 21 1/4 in.) support: 67.5 x 55.3 cm (26 9/16 x 21 3/4 in.) framed: 85.7 x 74.3 x 5.7 cm (33 3/4 x 29 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.);

Adoration of the Magi. Stained glass window, Chapel of St.Leopold, Klosterneuburg. 14th cent. AUSTRIA.

Triptych of the Annunciation, & the Prophets David & Isaiah ca. 1500 Master of the Orleans Triptych (active 1500-1520 French) Enamel (Limoges) Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Rood screen balustrade, Elisabeth legend, St., Saint, Saint

Infanticide of Bethlehem 1315/20 Giotto (ca.1266-1337 Italian) Fresco Church of San Francesco, Assisi, Italy

Sermon of the apostle Petrus; Remissionem Peccatorum; Apostolic creed. Illustration of the tenth belief item (the forgiveness of sins) of the apostolic creed. The Apostle Petrus appeals to a crowd of believers about the forgiveness of sins. A light appears in the air: the Holy Spirit drops on all listeners. Believers are baptized in the background. Above the show a reference to the Bible text in hand. 10: 43-44. Under the show two Bible texts and the tenth belief item from the apostolic creed in Latin. This print is part of an album.

Painting titled 'the Spanish Birth of the Virgin' by the workshop of Pedro García de Benabarre (1445-1485) Gothic Hispano-Flemish painter, active in Aragon, Catalonia. Dated 15th Century

DE PREDIS, Cristoforo (1440-1486). Stories of Saint Joachim, Saint Anne, Virgin Mary, Jesus, the Baptist and the End of the World. 1476. Jesus before an adulterous woman writes on the ground of the temple: Who has never sinned throw the first stone, and then tells to her: go and don't sin again. Renaissance art. Quattrocento. Miniature Painting. ITALY. PIEDMONT. Turin. Royal Library.

The Kiss of Judas, miniature from the Book of Prayers by Jeanne de Laval, manuscript, France 15th Century.

La resurrección de Drusiana. Date/Period: Ca. 1475. Painting. Oil on panel. Height: 189 cm (74.4 in); Width: 122 cm (48 in). Author: MAESTRO DE SAN NICOLAS.

Death of St Stanislaus, 1490. Hungary 15th century.

CAMINO DEL CALVARIO - SIGLO XV - ESCUELA HISPANOFLAMENCA. Author: FERNANDO GALLEGO. Location: CATEDRAL-MUSEO DIOCESANO. SALAMANCA. SPAIN. JESUS.

Last Supper, 15th century tapestry, manufacture of the Middle Rhine region.

DE PREDIS, Cristoforo (1440-1486). Stories of Saint Joachim, Saint Anne, Virgin Mary, Jesus, the Baptist and the End of the World. 1476. Jesus tales five breads and two fishes and gives them to 500 people telling: be satisfied. Renaissance art. Quattrocento. Miniature Painting. ITALY. PIEDMONT. Turin. Royal Library.

The funeral procession of King Philip of Valois, King of France, in 1350. Coloured lithograph, 1845.

Painting depicting scenes from the life of Pope Sylvester I. Dated 4th Century

A young mother´s retinue. Parisien costumes at end of 14th century. 19th century copy of miniature from latin Terence owned by King Charles VI

Ascent to Calvary fresco, perhaps by Spinello Aretino, Sacristy, Rinuccini Chapel, Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

Announcement to the shepherds, miniature from a Latin Book of Hours, manuscript C 1761 folio, The Netherlands, beginning 16th Century.

Ramon Destorrents/ Misal de Santa Eulalia, Siglo XV. Archivo de la Catedral.

Panel with the Angel Appearing to Zacharias (from a Retable depicting Saint John the Baptist and scenes from his life) 1464-1507 Domingo Ram Spanish Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, appears in an elaborate costume with pendant bells and pomegranates. Recent scholarship has shown that these indicate his role as the High Priest, whose unique privilege it is to enter the Holy of Holies of the Temple in Jerusalem on Yom Kippur. Around his leg is a rope held by another priest, whose job it would be to extract the high priest's body if he died as a result of not properly carrying out his sacred duties.. Panel with the Angel Appearing to Zacharias (from a Retable depicting Saint John the Baptist and scenes from his life) 470921

St Dominic and stories of his life, by an unknown artist of the Campana school (13th century), oil on panel. Detail.

Christ before Caiaphas, detail from the Episodes from Christ's Passion and Resurrection, the reverse surface of the Maesta' of Duccio Altarpiece in the Cathedral of Siena, 1308-1311, by Duccio di Buoninsegna (ca 1255 - pre-1319), tempera on panel.

The Fountain of Life. Epitaph for Father Clemenssoen, Master of the Prague Fountain of Life (active ca 1511)

Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, Umbria, Italy. Upper church. The legend of Saint Francis, attributed to Giotto. Death of the Knight of Celano.

Christ drives the merchants from the Temple, panel from the Stories of Christ, St Wolfgang Altarpiece, 1479-1481, by Michael Pacher (died 1498), panel. Church of St Wolfgang, Austria.

VIRGEN DE LA MISERICORDIA DET. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Retablo de San Pedro de la iglesia de Púbol, 1437. Escena del Juicio ante de Nerón. Temple sobre tabla. Museu d'Art de Girona.Girona. Author: Bernat Martorell.

Martyrdom of Saint Manente

Dispute between two knights at a tourney. During a tournament for the Emperor, tthe two knights attacked eath other. The champion of the Immaculate Conception disarms his adversary and makes him confess his error. From a miniature in Jean Marots Chants royaux, 16th century manuscript. Dispute entre deux chevaliers sur lImmaculee Conception. Chromolithograph from Paul Lacroixs La Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a lEpoque de la Renaissance, Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Paris, 1873.

Catholic Christianity, martyrdom of St. Placidus, a student of St. Benedic of Nursia, Umbrian School, fresco, ornately decorated mural from the 15th Century, St. Benedict's Abbey, Monastery of San Benedetto, Sacro Speco, Sacred Grotto, Subiaco, Lazio, Italy, Southern Europe, Europe

Cristofor de Predis (1440-1486). Italian miniaturist. Miniature depicting Saint Peter is taken prisoner before the Hight Priest Annas. Codex de Predis, 1476. Royal Library. Turin. Italy.

Oratorio dei disciplini, clusone, Italy

Dressing an oblate at the hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena, cover of a register of gifts and alms of the 15th century.

Morning entrance of byzantine empress to tomb of her ancestors by Vasili Sergeevich Smirnov, oil on canvas, 1884, 1858-1890, Russia, Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery, 20x20

The beheading of St James, painted by an unknown 15th century Catalan artist.

Belforte del Chienti (Italia, Marche - provincia di Macerata), chiesa di Sant'Eustachio. Giovanni Boccati, Polittico, XV secolo. (dettaglio laterale destro ordine superiore, San Eleuterio), 1468

The Calling of Saint Anthony, Aertgen Claesz van Leyden, c. 1530

KERBEKE Johann(1410-1491) The Flagellation Of Christ Tempera on wood 93x65 State Pushkin Museum of Fane Arts Moscow

Colorful Veit Stoss Triptych, St. Mary's Basilica, Krakow, Poland. Stoss carved triptych from 1477 to 1489. Depicts assumption of Virgin Mary and apostles

The Jews Passover. Facsimile of a miniature from a missel of the fifteenth century ornamented with painting of the school of Ven Eyck.

The Fissiraga Tomb. Antonio Fissiraga presented to the Virgin Mary by St Francis and a bishop-saint, by Master of the Fissiraga Tomb, 1318, 14th Century, fresco. Italy: Lombardy: Lodi: San Francesco Church. Whole artwork. Madonna Virgin Mary Infant Jesus/Christ Child/Baby Jesus/Child Jesus Saints man church model egg chain palace tower portico/porch baldachin

Arbre des Batailles (c. 1382-87) Benedictine prior by Honore_ Bonet (1340-1410). Miniature, 15th century. Three gentlemen presenting the manuscript to Louis of Luxembourg. Conde Museum. Chantilly. France.

Torment of Saint Lucy Altichiero (14th C./Italian) Oratory of San Giorgio, Padua, Italy

The disciples in the cenacle, prepared by order of Jesus. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy.

Jaume Ferrer II / Detalle del Retablo de la Virgen de los Ediles, 1445-1455. Paeria de Lleida.

The Seven Works of Mercy, Master of Alkmaar, 1504 painting The seven works of mercy. 1: The food of the hungry. A woman stands in the door of her home with a basket with loaves that are handed out to man on arms and crackling. Christ is between the hungry. In the background a beggar with a lute. Part of a series of seven paintings with performances of the seven works of mercy. panel. oil paint (paint) feeding the hungry, 'esuriens cibatur' ~ one of the (seven) Acts of Mercy

The end of the world and the Last Judgment. In heaven you will hear the voices of the crowd shouting, Hallelujah, Hallelujah ... and the righteous will be called to the banquet. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy.

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