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The Christ Child and the Infant John the Baptist with a Shell or The Holy Children with a Shell (Spanish - Los Niños de la concha) is a 1670-1675 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, now in the Prado Museum in Madrid. One of the artist's most popular works, it was widely reproduced in prints and on plates. [1]
S. St Francis (Francisco de Zurbarán) Saint Francis Adoring a Crucifix; Saint Francis Embracing Christ on the Cross; Saint Francis in Meditation (Caravaggio)
Catholic art has played a leading role in the history and development of Western art since at least the 4th century. The principal subject matter of Catholic art has been the life and times of Jesus Christ, along with people associated with him, including his disciples, the saints, and motifs from the Catholic Bible.
In churches of the Byzantine Rite, the Annunciation is typically depicted on the Holy Doors (decorative doorway leading from the nave into the sanctuary), and in the West the two figures are also found on different surfaces, in the outer panels of polyptychs that have an open and closed view, the doors of tabernacles, or simply on facing pages ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Catholic painting" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 ...
Mary, Untier of Knots or Mary, Undoer of Knots is the name of both a Marian devotion and a Baroque painting (German: Wallfahrtsbild or Gnadenbild) which represents that devotion. The painting by Johann Georg Melchior Schmidtner , of around 1700, is in the Catholic pilgrimage church of St. Peter am Perlach , otherwise known as the Perlach Church ...
Rembrandt's family was quite wealthy, his father was a miller, and his mother a baker's daughter. Although he later created many biblical works, Rembrandt was not raised in the church. His mother was a Roman Catholic, and father belonged to the Dutch Reformed Church. [3] However, there is no evidence that Rembrandt belonged to a church.