Religious art depicts scenes, figures and symbols from Christian and other faith traditions, made originally for churches, chapels and private devotion rather than for a gallery wall. It dominated European painting from the medieval period through the Renaissance, when artists such as Giotto, Fra Angelico and later Raphael painted altarpieces, Madonnas and scenes from the life of Christ and the saints. Printed devotional images, often cheap woodcuts or engravings of a single saint or scene, circulated far more widely than paintings and formed their own popular tradition alongside them. A pre 1930 archive under this heading includes altarpiece studies, devotional prints, biblical illustrations and church decoration recorded in reproduction.
Religion Wall Art spans 90 public-domain artworks in the Archive Lane archive.
Religious art depicts scenes, figures and symbols from Christian and other faith traditions, made originally for churches, chapels and private devotion rather than for a gallery wall. It dominated European painting from the medieval period through the Renaissance, when artists such as Giotto, Fra Angelico and later Raphael painted altarpieces, Madonnas and scenes from the life of Christ and the saints. Printed devotional images, often cheap woodcuts or engravings of a single saint or scene, circulated far more widely than paintings and formed their own popular tradition alongside them. A pre 1930 archive under this heading includes altarpiece studies, devotional prints, biblical illustrations and church decoration recorded in reproduction.
The most represented artists here are Anonymous (447), Jacques Callot (157), Albrecht Dürer (150).
By movement: Baroque (4,428), Renaissance (2,840), Romanticism (1,176).
By orientation: 5,219 landscape, 10,557 portrait, 830 square.
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