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Religious Art - all of these definitions have been used at one time or another to define religious art. The most common definition is that religious art is that which depicts biblical themes. Such art abounds, particularly that done in earlier centuries; but it is still prominent today.

The next suggestion-that art is what religious artists do-saw its highest expression in the Renaissance when the church employed great artists who experimented with themes not only from biblical settings but from classical mythology as well. Often in history, "religious art" was what the church officially declared to be religious art. The most extreme example of this style is to be recalled in the Inquisition of the sixteenth century and in iconoclastic excesses right up to the present time.


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St John of Nepomuk - Ignazio Stella (see Stern Ignaz) - www.religious-art.org
St John of Nepomuk
Ignazio Stella (see Stern Ignaz)
St Roch In Front Of The Fraternita Dei Laici In Arezzo - Bartolomeo Della Gatta - www.religious-art.org
St Roch In Front Of The Fraternita Dei Laici In Arezzo
Bartolomeo Della Gatta
Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene 1581 - Lavinia Fontana - www.religious-art.org
Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene 1581
Lavinia Fontana
Resurrection (detail) 1450-60 - Dieric the Elder Bouts - www.religious-art.org
Resurrection (detail) 1450-60
Dieric the Elder Bouts
Abegg Triptych c. 1445 - Rogier van der Weyden - www.religious-art.org
Abegg Triptych c. 1445
Rogier van der Weyden
Fortitude 1435 - Paolo Uccello - www.religious-art.org
Fortitude 1435
Paolo Uccello
Adam   1 - Albrecht Durer - www.religious-art.org
Adam 1
Albrecht Durer
Annunciation c. 1383 - Manfredi de Battilor Bartolo Di Fredi Fredi - www.religious-art.org
Annunciation c. 1383
Manfredi de Battilor Bartolo Di Fredi Fredi
Pietà - Il Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi) - www.religious-art.org
Pietà
Il Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi)
Annunciation with Saints 1371 - Lorenzo Veneziano - www.religious-art.org
Annunciation with Saints 1371
Lorenzo Veneziano
Abraham 1502 - Filippino Lippi - www.religious-art.org
Abraham 1502
Filippino Lippi
Satan before the Lord around 1750 - Corrado Giaquinto - www.religious-art.org
Satan before the Lord around 1750
Corrado Giaquinto
Madonna and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist... - Andrea del Brescianino - www.religious-art.org
Madonna and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist...
Andrea del Brescianino
Raising of the Boy in Sessa 1310s - Giotto Di Bondone - www.religious-art.org
Raising of the Boy in Sessa 1310s
Giotto Di Bondone
Venus and Vulcan c. 1610 - Bartholomaeus Spranger - www.religious-art.org
Venus and Vulcan c. 1610
Bartholomaeus Spranger
The Old Church at Delft with the Tomb of Admiral Tromp... - Hendrick Van Vliet - www.religious-art.org
The Old Church at Delft with the Tomb of Admiral Tromp...
Hendrick Van Vliet
An Angel and a Devil Fighting for the Soul of a Child - Giacinto Gimignani - www.religious-art.org
An Angel and a Devil Fighting for the Soul of a Child
Giacinto Gimignani
Altarpiece of Calvary c. 1534 - Bernaert van Orley - www.religious-art.org
Altarpiece of Calvary c. 1534
Bernaert van Orley
St Michael Archangel (detail) - Vincenzo Foppa - www.religious-art.org
St Michael Archangel (detail)
Vincenzo Foppa
Queen Mary Psalter - English Miniaturist - www.religious-art.org
Queen Mary Psalter
English Miniaturist
The Archangel Michael Vanquishing the Devil - Antonio Maria Viani - www.religious-art.org
The Archangel Michael Vanquishing the Devil
Antonio Maria Viani
Dormition of the Virgin Mary - Marcin Czarny - www.religious-art.org
Dormition of the Virgin Mary
Marcin Czarny
A Kalmyk Lama, 1873 - Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin - www.religious-art.org
A Kalmyk Lama, 1873
Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin
Adoration of the Magi 1618-19 - Peter Paul Rubens - www.religious-art.org
Adoration of the Magi 1618-19
Peter Paul Rubens
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