Religious Narratives in Art

Dramatic paintings portraying biblical scenes, featuring strong emotions, dynamic compositions, and rich color palettes, typical of Baroque artistry.

The Lamentation over Christ by Dyck, Sir Anthonis, van (1599-1641) Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao ca 1637-1640 Oil on canvas 156,5x257 Flanders Baroque Bible Painting
The Lamentation over Christ by Dyck, Sir Anthonis, van (1599-1641) Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao ca 1637-1640 Oil on canvas 156,5x257 Flanders Baroque Bible Painting
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St Sebastian' (dc288) Christian martyr Roman soldier and Captain of the Praeterian Guard. Executed under Emperor Diocletian. School of Giovanni Domenico Cerrini, called Cavaliere Perugino (1609-1681). Oil on canvas. Private collection.
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Angel from the Annunciation to the Virgin. Dating: 1560 - 1585. Measurements: h 115 cm × w 93 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Jacopo Tintoretto.
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Desdemona at her Father's Feet Desdemone aux Pieds de son Pere 1852 Eugene Delacroix 1798-1863/French Muse St. Denis, Rheims
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A Grotesque Accouchement', oil on canvas, Italy, 17th century. Thought to have been painted by Pietro Muttoni.
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Bust of a Man (Saint Matthias). Artist: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, Venice 1682-1754 Venice). Dimensions: 17 1/2 × 14 3/4 in. (44.5 × 37.5 cm). Date: ca. 1715-20.This bust-length depiction of a bearded man with an axe may be identified as Matthias, the last of the apostles, chosen to take the place of Judas after his betrayal of Christ. Piazzetta, one of the defining figures of eighteenth-century Italian art, made several series of apostles, drawn and painted, to which this painting may have belonged. These had considerable influence through engravings by Marco Pitteri, which the French artist Fragonard admired in a print shop in Venice in 1774. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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ActiveMuseum 0002924.jpg / Bartolomeo Tolomei in the middle of the victims of the black plague in Sienna in 1348 25/10/2013 - / XIVth century Collection / Active Museum
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Pietro Bellotti, Medea rejuvenates Aeson (Medea ringiovanisce Esone), 17th Century, oil on canvas
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Juan Correa de Vivar / 'The Descent from the Cross', Middle 16th century, Spanish School, Panel, 123 cm x 92 cm, P00692. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.
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Le Faux Pas (The Mistaken Advance) by Watteau, Jean Antoine (1684-1721) / Louvre, Paris / 1717 / France / Oil on canvas / Genre / 50x41 / Rococo
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Luca Giordano (born 18 October 1634, died 3 January 1705), called Fa Presto, Italian painter and etcher of the Baroque period, The Flagellation, Painting, Reproduction of the painting in its original state, Work of art, Historical, A man is bound and whipped by several others in a gloomy, claustrophobic scene
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The Ladies of Hastings, Henry Fuseli, 1798-1800,
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Rembrandt, Die Kreuzaufrichtung - -
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Family against the background of the park; Lubieniecki, Teodor (1654-1718); before 1700 (1673-00-00-1699-00-00);Morawiński, Jan (1907-1949), fountains, Dutch painting, portraits against the background of the landscape, portraits of Portrait Historié, purchase (provenance)
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Saint John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness - Anton Raphael Mengs
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Esther fainting before Ahasuerus, Troy, Jean-François de (1679-1752)
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The Procuress, Dirck van Baburen (copy after), after 1623 painting Group of three people: on the right a coupler, in the middle a young man with a coin and on the left a smiling young woman with a lute. canvas. oil paint (paint) brothel. whore, prostitute. procuress
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Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, by Pedro de Orrente, oil on canvas, cathedral of the Assumption, Valencia, Spain, 17th century.
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Lentiai: Reproduction of a Titian. .
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Oedipus and Antigone, 1809
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Mathematician and young woman by Bernardo Strozzi, oil on canvas , 1581-1644, School of Genoa, Russia, Kaluga, Regional Art Museum, 92x129
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Detail, Les Romains de la Decadence (The Romans of the Decadence), 1847
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The Lamentation Christ. About 1610/11. (Peter Paul Rubens 1577 Siegen-1640 Antwerp)
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The Sleeping Reapers; Les Moissonneurs Endormis. Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875). Oil on canvas. Painted circa 1847-48. 45.7 x 38.1cm.
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Semiramis, Rossellino, Antonio, 1624.
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Martyrdom by Pavel Semyonovich Sorokin, Oil on canvas, 1852, circa 1830-1886, Russia, Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery, 179, 5x225,
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Last Supper, by Roverio Bartolomeo known as il Genovesino,
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Feder and brush drawing by Hubert Maurer depicting the Mercy of the Samaritan, executed in gray wash with white highlights on greenish paper, showing figures and gestures.
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Bernard Palissy with family at work by Mihaly Zichy, Watercolor, Gouache on Paper, 1868, 1827-1906, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Hermitage, 41,6x35
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La caridad romana Roman Charity. Date/Period: 1873. Painting. Oil on canvas Oil on canvas. Height: 2,440 mm (96.06 in); Width: 1,730 mm (68.11 in). Author: Luis Monroy.
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'The Annunciation'. Netherlands, 1580s. Dimensions: 29,5x39 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Michel van Coxie.
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An odalisque (Turkish: Odalik) was a female slave in an Ottoman seraglio. She was an assistant or apprentice to the concubines and wives, and she might rise in status to become one of them. Most odalisques were part of the Imperial Harem, that is, the household of the sultan. Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (26 April 1798 - 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement.
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Seven Works of Mercy, by Merisi Michelangelo known as Caravaggio, 1606 - 1607, 17th Century, oil on canvas. Italy, Campania, Naples, Pio Monte della Misericordia Church. Detail. Face of the young gentleman in profile on the left with plumed hat and cloak: mantle.
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Caravaggio / 'The Calling of Saint Matthew (detail)', 1599/1600, Oil on canvas, 322 x 340 cm. Museum: Iglesia de San Luigi dei Francesi, Roma, ITALIA. SAN MATEO.
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The Death of Atala, heroine of French author Chateaubriand
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Juan Antonio de Frías y Escalante / 'Andromeda', Late 17th century, Spanish School, Canvas, 78 cm x 64 cm, P00195. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.
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Saint John as Youth, Sarto, Andreo del
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St John the Baptist, ca 1523, by Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530), oil on wood, 94x68 cm.
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Woman Bathing in a Stream 1654 Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-1669 Dutch) Oil on wood panel National Gallery, London, England
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Antonio de Pereda / 'The Knight's Dream', 1655, Oil on canvas, 217 x 152 cm. Museum: REAL ACADEMIA DE BELLAS ARTES DE SAN FERNANDO, MADRID, SPAIN.
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St Jerome. Dating: 1500 - 1520. Measurements: h 77.5 cm × w 116 cm; d 8 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Bernardino da Brescia (attributed to). Giovanni Antonio da Brescia (rejected attribution).
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The Temptation of Saint Anthony, Craesbeeck, Joos van (1605/06-ca 1660)
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Moses on Mount Sinai, ca 1655, by Jacques de Letin (1597-1661), oil on canvas, 210x232 cm.
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St Jerome, by Merisi Michelangelo known as Caravaggio, 1605, 17th Century, oil on canvas. Italy, Lazio, Rome, Borghese Gallery. Detail. Saint St Jerome red mantle: cloak beard books skull table.
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AVIONES NEGROS - 1937. Author: HORACIO FERRER. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID.
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fine arts, Rubens, Peter Paul (1577 - 1640), painting, ""Vulcan is forging Jupiter's weapons"", Prado, Madrid,
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Francisco de Zurbarán / 'Death of Hercules', 1634, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, 136 cm x 167 cm, P01250. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.
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The Supper at Emmaus. Artist: Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) (Spanish, Seville 1599-1660 Madrid). Dimensions: 48 1/2 x 52 1/4 in. (123.2 x 132.7 cm). Date: 1622-23.The picture may have been painted in Seville, where Velázquez was trained, or in Madrid, where he moved in 1623. The realism of the figures, the strong dramatic light, and the attention to still-life details recall the work of Caravaggio, which Velázquez would have known in Seville through copies. Christ is shown at the moment when he is recognized by two disciples following his resurrection, as "he took bread, blessed and broke it, and handed it to them.". Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Workshop Of Mattia Preti (Taverna, 1613-La Valleta, 1699). The Martyrdom of Saint Januarius (ca. 1685). Oil on canvas. 153 x 200 cm. Museum: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
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Head of a guillotined man (Le guillotine), by Jean-Louis Theodore Gericault (1791-1824), oil on canvas, 40x49 cm.
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'The Triumph of Bacchus, or the Drinkers' (detail), 1628-1629, Oil on canvas, P01170. Author: DIEGO VELAZQUEZ (1599-1660). Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.
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The Musicians. Artist: Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (Italian, Milan or Caravaggio 1571-1610 Porto Ercole). Dimensions: 36 1/4 x 46 5/8 in. (92.1 x 118.4 cm). Date: 1597.Although described by contemporaries as "a music piece," this picture presents an allegory of music in terms of a contemporary performance; Cupid's presence signals its allegorical intention. The costumes have a vaguely classical look and Caravaggio included his self-portrait in the second boy from the right. Trained in Lombardy, Caravaggio initially made his reputation in Rome with paintings of half-length figures, such as this one, which was painted for his first great patron, Cardinal Francesco del Monte. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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The Francesco St Jerome Palma Giovane painted circa 1590
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Massacre of the Innocents, by Reni Guido, 1611, 17th Century, oil on canvas. Italy: Emilia Romagna: Bologna: National Gallery of Ar. Detail. Faces of the woman fleeing on the right and of her child
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The death of Count Josselyn de Montmorency, 1825 (detail)
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Black, cut frame, partially gilded, c. 1400 - c. 1950 Cut list of black panels on the rules and styles and gilded acanthusbld motifs on the corners. The list has a Renversé profile. Italy wood (plant material) cutting / gilding
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The Musicians' Brawl by La Tour, Georges, de (1583-1652) / J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles / c. 1625-1630 / France / Oil on canvas / Genre / 85,7x141 / Baroque
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Study for "William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River". Date: (c. 1908). oil on fiberboard. Museum: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN.
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Conversion of Saul by Michelangelo Caravaggio, oil on canvas, 1600-1601, 1571-1610, Roman School, Italy, Rome, Santa Maria del Popolo, 230x175
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Rubens / Nymph and Satyr
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The Tribute Money by Manfredi, Bartolomeo (1587-1622) Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence c. 1615 Oil on canvas 130x191 Italy, Roman School Baroque Bible Painting
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Théodore Géricault on His Deathbed. Charles Emile Callande de Champmartin; French, 1797-1883. Date: 1824. Dimensions: 17 15/16 × 21 7/8 in. (45.6 × 55.6 cm). Oil on canvas. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.
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Illustration with Saint Jerome by Theodoor van Thulden, oil on wood, 1606-1669, Russia, Tambov, Regional Art Gallery, 22, 2x29, 5
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The Death of Giovanni Maria Visconti (1412), by Pogliaghi Ludovico, 1889, 19th Century, oil on canvas. Italy: Lombardy: Milan: Brera Art Gallery: in deposito dall' Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. Whole artwork. Giovanni Maria Visconti corpse killed dagger sword woman flowers roses petals shield/cuirass terror churchyard Milan San Gottardo church
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Portrait of Marco Antonio Savelli, 1543-1547, by Giovanni Battista Moroni (ca 1525-1578), oil on canvas, 137x112 cm.