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Romanesque artists === •
Agnes II, Abbess of Quedlinburg, work includes miniatures and engravings; possibly Gothic period •
Master Francke, German Gothic painter and Dominican friar •
Giotto, Proto-Renaissance artist with many religious works; the best regarded perhaps is his
Cappella degli Scrovegni in the Arena Chapel
Renaissance to Rococo •
Juan de la Abadía, Spanish painter in the Spanish-Flemish style; did works in churches and hermitages •
Lambert-Sigisbert Adam,
Nicolas-Sébastien Adam, and
François Gaspard Adam, French sculptors and brothers; works include church sculptures •
Fra Guglielmo Agnelli, Italian sculptor, architect, and lay brother; among the more noted artists for the
Dominican Order •
Angelica Veronica Airola, Baroque painter of religious works; became a nun •
Francesco Albani, works include a
Baptism of Christ and frescoes for
Santa Maria della Pace •
Cherubino Alberti, director of the Vatican authorized
Accademia di San Luca who did work for chapels •
Mariotto Albertinelli, Florentine school painter known for his depiction of
The Visitation •
Balthasar Augustin Albrecht, Bavarian painter partly known for an altar piece depicting the
Assumption of Mary •
Matteo Perez d'Aleccio, reportedly worked with
Michelangelo on the
Sistine Chapel •
Martino Altomonte, works include
Maria Immaculata and
The Ascension of Mary •
Fra Angelico, member of the
Dominican Order and a
beatified person •
Antonio de Paz, sculptor noted for work in
Salamanca's churches and its cathedral •
Niccolò dell'Arca, works include
Candlestick-holding Angel in the
Arca di San Domenico •
Alberto Arnoldi, 14th-century Italian architect and sculptor; significant to
Florence Cathedral and the city's 14th-century art •
Cosmas Damian Asam, German late
Baroque/
Rococo painter and architect, who worked with his brother
Egid Quirin Asam in designing abbeys and churches of Germany •
Egid Quirin Asam, German sculptor and plasterer of late
Baroque/
Rococo churches and monasteries primarily in Bavaria during the
Counter-Reformation; his works include the high altar or figurative art in
Weltenburg Abbey, Braunau in Rohr abbey, St. Peter church in Sandizell, Asamkirche in Munich, Fürstenfeld abbey, and the
Freising Cathedral, among others •
Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary who did paintings for the Cathedral of
Avignon and was later honored by the
Qianlong Emperor •
Johann Baptist Babel, Swiss sculptor who did work for
Einsiedeln Abbey and the Cathedral of Saint
Ursus of Solothurn •
Giovanni Baglione, works include frescoes in the vault of the nave of the
Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore •
Roque Balduque, Flemish sculptor and maker of
altarpieces; known for works from after he settled in Spain •
Bartolommeo Bandinelli, did
bas-reliefs in the choir of the cathedral of Florence •
Barna da Siena, works include
Christ Bearing the Cross, with a Dominican Friar •
Federico Barocci, became a lay
Capuchin and
Counter-Reformation artist •
Fra Bartolomeo, member of a
Dominican Order; works include
The Vision of St Bernard •
Martino di Bartolomeo, fourteenth-century Italian painter and
manuscript illuminator; works include Marian art, church frescoes, altar-pieces, and choirbooks •
Pompeo Batoni, works include
Return of the Prodigal Son •
Giuseppe Bazzani, Italian
Rococo painter whose religious works include the altarpiece of ''St Romuald's Vision'' •
Gaspar Becerra, Spanish Renaissance sculptor and painter; much of his religious art has been destroyed by war •
Giovanni Bellini, did
Altarpiece with St Vincent Ferrar •
Johann-Georg Bendl,
Bohemian sculptor known for sculptures of saints and angels •
Johann Georg Bergmüller, religious works include
Allegory of the Catholic Church and Communion, drawings of
Thomas Aquinas, church frescoes •
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian
Baroque sculptor, architect, painter, impresario who served under six popes of Rome during the Counter-Reformation, inheriting the role of papal artist from his predecessor,
Michelangelo; he was considered the greatest expositor of Roman Baroque sculpture, renowned for creating, among others, the Baldacchino and Cathedra Petri in
St. Peter’s Basilica, the Jesuit church
Sant’ Andrea al Quirinale in Rome, and the
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa in
Santa Maria della Vittoria •
Alonso Berruguete, Spanish painter, sculptor, and architect noted for emotive sculptures depicting religious ecstasy or torment •
Trophime Bigot, did a variety of altar-pieces, a depiction of the
Assumption of the Virgin, depiction of
Judith Beheading Holofernes, and paintings of saints •
Fra Bonaventura Bisi, Franciscan friar who did religious works like
Holy Family, with St. John and St. Elisabeth •
Pedro Atanasio Bocanegra, did religious art at the cloister of Nuestra Senora de Gracia and the College of the Jesuits •
Krzysztof Boguszewski, Polish Baroque painter and priest •
Andrea Bolgi, did Saint
Helena statue in
St. Peter's Basilica •
Boetius à Bolswert, copper-plate engraver who did emblems for the devotional book
Pia Desideria and was a member of the Jesuit Sodality of Adult Bachelorhood •
Orazio Borgianni, did religious art in
San Silvestro in Capite,
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, and elsewhere •
Hieronymus Bosch, did
Christ Crowned with Thorns, which hangs in the San Lorenzo monastery at
El Escorial •
Sandro Botticelli,
Virgin and Child with an Angel and
The Mystical Nativity are among his religious works; is believed to have become strongly moralistic in later life •
Francesco Botticini, largely known for Marian paintings, such as
Assumption of the Virgin •
Valentin de Boulogne, did
The Martyrdom of Martinian and Processus and altarpieces for the
Holy See •
Dieric Bouts, like many
Early Netherlandish painters he did much religious work, such as
The Entombment •
Andrea Bregno, Italian Early
Renaissance sculptor and architect who did religious sculptures and work on
papal tombs •
Charles Le Brun, French Baroque painter whose religious works include
The Sleep of Jesus and ''L'Assomption de la Vierge'' •
Filippo Brunelleschi, designer of the dome of the
Florence Cathedral •
Hannequin de Bruselas, Flemish architect and sculptor who worked as general contractor for Toledo Cathedral. •
Miguel Cabrera, given access to
Our Lady of Guadalupe for copies, wrote about the image in
Maravilla Americana, and did religious themes •
Guglielmo Caccia and
Orsola Maddalena Caccia, father and daughter known for religious art •
Melchiorre Cafà, Maltese sculptor active in Rome; works include
Martyrdom of Saint Eustace,
Virgin of the Rosary, and
Ecstasy of Saint Catherine •
Girolamo Campagna, Northern Italian sculptor who did sculptures of saints and work on altars •
José Campeche, early Puerto Rican painter; although he also did portraits, his religious work is the most abundant of his known production •
Bernardino Campi, works include
Immaculée Conception •
Robert Campin, like many
Early Netherlandish painters, he did much religious art •
Alonso Cano, Spanish painter, architect, and sculptor known for religious art; also known for generosity, fierce temperament, and
antisemitism •
Battistello Caracciolo or "Battistello", Italian
caravaggisti whose works include a depiction of the
Liberation of Saint Peter for
Pio Monte della Misericordia and the
Immaculate Conception for the
Santa Maria della Stella in Naples •
Caravaggio, religious work includes
The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew in the
San Luigi dei Francesi •
Carlo Carlone,
Italian Rococo artist active in Germany whose works include
The Glorification of Saints Felix and Adauctus for the church of
San Felice del Benaco •
Fra Carnevale, member of the
Dominican Order; works include
Christ on the Cross •
The Carracci, relatives who all did at least some religious art •
Juan Carreño de Miranda, noted as a court painter; also did works for convents and churches •
Jaume Cascalls, 14th-century Catalan sculptor linked to works at the
Church of St. Mary,
Poblet Monastery,
Santa Maria de Ripoll,
Girona Cathedral, and others •
Giuseppe Castiglione, sent to
China as a missionary; also did wall paintings in Jesuit churches in
Portugal and
Macau •
Catherine of Bologna, Italian nun, saint, and non-professional artist •
Pasquale Cati, known for a depiction of the
Matryrdom of Saint Lawrence and a depiction of the
Council of Trent •
Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, sculptor who did restoration work for the Vatican and became a
Knight of the Golden Spur •
Benvenuto Cellini, employed at the papal mint at
Rome during the papacy of
Pope Clement VII and later of
Pope Paul III •
Giuseppe Cesari, a favorite of
Pope Clement VIII, his patron; partly known for religious art for churches •
Petrus Christus, works include
Portrait of a Carthusian •
Agostino Ciampelli, trained in the studio of
Santi di Tito; works include
The Martyrdom of St. Clement I, Pope •
Cimabue, works include a
crucifix at
Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze •
Matteo Civitali, noted sculptor and architect who built a chapel that the
Holy Face of Lucca is in •
Hendrick de Clerck,
Flemish Baroque painter who did an altarpiece •
Joos van Cleve, works include
Man with the Rosary and
Triptych of Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Andrew •
Giulio Clovio, Italian/Croatian Renaissance painter of
Farnese Hours; works include
The Towneley Lectionary •
Claudio Coello,
Spanish Baroque painter of Portuguese ancestry; worked at the court of
Charles II and did much religious art •
Niccolò Antonio Colantonio, largely known for the
Delivery of the Franciscan Rule and works for churches •
Sebastiano Conca, works include
Christ at the Garden of Gesthemane,
The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist •
Bartolomeo Coriolano, engraver whose major works include
St Jerome in Meditation Before a Crucifix,
Herodias with the Head of the Baptist, and
The Virgin, with the Infant Sleeping; his daughter
Theresa Maria Coriolano was also an engraver of religious works •
Carlo Cornara, Jesuit who did work for the
Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio •
Antonio da Correggio, works include
Adoration of the Magi,
Martyrdom of Four Saints,
Assumption of the Virgin, and
Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine •
Pietro da Cortona, Italian Baroque painter and architect who did church ceiling frescoes and church architecture •
Manoel da Costa Ataíde, Brazilian
Baroque painter known for painting the ceiling of the
Church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Ouro Preto •
Jacques Courtois (Jesuit), painted, in the
Cistercian monastery, the
Miracle of the Loaves •
Wouter Crabeth I and
Wouter Crabeth II, grandfather and grandson whose works include Catholic religious art •
Caspar de Crayer,
Flemish Baroque painter; works include
Martyrdom of St Blaise and
Centurion and Christ •
Il Cerano, did paintings of the
Quadroni of St. Charles •
Carlo Crivelli, Italian Renaissance painter •
Baldassare Croce, directed the
Accademia di San Luca and did a "Passion cycle" for a basilica •
Szymon Czechowicz, painted
The Entombment, pieces depicting St.
Stanislaus of Szczepanów, and works for churches •
Baccio D'Agnolo, Italian wood-carver, sculptor, and architect whose works include the campanile of the church of
Santo Spirito, Florence •
Lluís Dalmau, 15th-century Catalan painter; works include
Virgin of the Consellers •
Fra Diamante,
Carmelite friar who assisted
Filippo Lippi and did religious frescoes at his convent •
Jacopo di Mino del Pellicciaio, did a painting of the
Coronation of the Virgin and aided
Bartolo di Fredi on
Siena Cathedral •
Lovro Dobričević, 15th-century Croatian painter of altarpieces and church paintings •
Marco d'Oggiono, pupil of
Leonardo da Vinci; did frescoes for
Santa Maria della Pace and others •
Carlo Dolci, did paintings of saints and Biblical figures; also known for personal piety •
Domenichino, religious art includes his
Saint John the Evangelist and
Adoration of the Shepherds, •
Donatello, Italian Renaissance sculptor whose religious artworks include
Saint Mark,
The Feast of Herod, and
Judith and Holofernes •
François Duquesnoy, did statues for
St. Peter's Basilica •
Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa,
Valencian
Baroque painter; works include
:es:El milagro del Cristo del Rescate and
:es:Comunión de la Magdalena •
Fernando Estévez, Canarian known for the copy of the
Virgin of Candelaria •
Gentile da Fabriano, Italian painter whose best known works, like
Adoration of the Magi, are religious •
Nicolás Factor, Spanish Renaissance painter and beatified person •
Cosimo Fanzago, Neapolitan Baroque architect and sculptor; religious works include churches and altars •
Garcia Fernandes,
Portuguese Renaissance painter of altarpieces and church art •
Gregorio Fernández, Castilian school sculptor for altarpieces and "
pasos procesionales" •
Gaudenzio Ferrari, Renaissance painter and sculptor whose works were exclusively, or at least primarily, religious in nature •
Ercole Ferrata, Italian Baroque sculptor whose works include
The Death of St. Agnes and
Angel with a Cross •
Domenico Fetti, works include several of a religious nature, though much of his religious art was for private devotions •
Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer, "house sculptor" for
Salem Abbey •
Juan de Flandes,
Early Netherlandish painter active in Spain who concentrated on religious work after 1504 •
Bertholet Flemalle, works include
Adoration of the Magi for the
sacristy of a church of the
Augustinians •
Lavinia Fontana, did
Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, (1579, Diocesan Seminary,
Bologna) and work for
Pope Paul V •
Damià Forment or "Damian Forment", Spanish Renaissance sculptor known for cathedral work •
Jean Fouquet, religious works include the
Pieta of Nouans in the Church of
Nouans-les-Fontaines •
Piero della Francesca, religious works include
The History of the True Cross, in the
Basilica of San Francesco in
Arezzo, and
The Baptism of Christ •
Bartolo di Fredi, works include an altarpiece in the
Siena Cathedral and
Presentation of Mary in the Temple •
Agnolo Gaddi, religious works include a painting of the
Coronation of the Virgin and frescoes in the choir of the
Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence •
Fede Galizia, works include an altarpiece for Saint Maria Maddalena Church and paintings related to the
Book of Judith; primarily did still lifes •
Bartolomeo della Gatta, Italian
Camaldolese monk who did frescoes on the walls of the
Sistine Chapel; later became an abbot •
Bernardino Gatti, also called "il Sojaro"; did several religious works in
Parma and
Cremona, including an
Assumption of Virgin for the
Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Steccata •
Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Jesuit noted for
Triumph of the Name of Jesus on the ceiling of the
Church of the Gesù •
Geertgen tot Sint Jans, 15th-century painter from the Low Countries; works include
Nativity at Night •
Artemisia Gentileschi, works include
Judith Beheading Holofernes,
Virgin Mary and Baby with Rosary, and work with
Pope Urban VIII •
Antonio Gherardi, Italian Baroque painter, architect, and
stuccoist who did work for many churches •
Lorenzo Ghiberti, sculptor known for the north and east doors of the
Florence Baptistery; the
Gates of Paradise, and depictions of saints •
Simone Ghini, Italian Renaissance sculptor who did work for popes •
Domenico Ghirlandaio, work includes
Vocation of the Apostles •
Caterina Ginnasi, encouraged her uncle,
Cardinal Domenico Ginnasi, to build a convent and did religious art for churches •
Hugo van der Goes, joined the
Congregation of Windesheim; many of
his works are religious art •
Nuno Gonçalves, forerunner of the
Portuguese Renaissance; largely known for the
Saint Vincent Panels •
Benozzo Gozzoli, work includes frescoes in the
Magi Chapel and paintings of saints and Mother Mary •
Matthias Grünewald, German Catholic religious artist •
Guercino,
The Burial of St. Petronilla •
Ignaz Günther,
Bavarian
Rococo sculptor and
woodcarver best remembered for his work in churches •
Matthäus Günther, German Baroque/Rococo artist who did frescoes for many churches and monasteries •
Francisco Herrera the Elder and
Francisco Herrera the Younger,
Spanish Golden Age father and son who both did noted church paintings •
Adriaen Isenbrandt, works include a depiction of the
Mass of Saint Gregory and a
triptych with the
Assumption of Mary •
Jan Janssens,
Flemish Baroque painter and
Ghent Caravaggisti whose works conformed to the
Counter-Reformation •
André Jean, member of the Dominican Order partly known for paintings depicting scenes in the
New Testament •
Jean Jouvenet,
Magnificat in the choir of Notre-Dame •
Martin Knoller, Austrian/Italian who painted frescoes for
Neresheim Abbey,
Ettal Abbey, and other abbeys, as well as altarpieces •
Adam Kraft, known for work in cathedrals and churches •
Giovanni Lanfranco, Italian Baroque painter who did much religious art and was honored by the
Accademia di San Luca •
Georges de La Tour, French Baroque painter whose works include
Magdalen with the Smoking Flame •
Francesco Laurana,
Dalmatian/
Italian sculptor and
medallist whose religious art includes statues of saints and Mary •
Tommaso Laureti, Noted work in
Santa Susanna and a fresco series on a post-
Council of Trent triumphalist theme for
Pope Gregory XIII •
Bernardo de Legarda,
Quito School sculptor noted for Marian sculptures •
Pierre Le Gros the Younger, sculptor of
Religion Overthrowing Heresy and Hatred in
Church of the Gesù and other religious art •
Diego de Leyva, primarily produced religious art after retiring to a
Carthusian monastery •
Filippo Lippi,
Carmelite who painted for a convent chapel at Prato; this led to an affair with Lucrezia Buti and to a son,
Filippino Lippi •
Filippino Lippi, his frescoes depicting the life of
Philip the Apostle are in the
Basilica di Santa Maria Novella •
Alejandro de Loarte, painted a
Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes (1622) for the Mission Friars; also did paintings of saints •
Barbara Longhi, her devotional art is said to reflect the
Counter-Reformation •
Gregório Lopes, Portuguese painter, primarily a religious artist •
Ambrogio Lorenzetti and
Pietro Lorenzetti, brothers whose works include
Presentation at the Temple and
Madonna dei Tramonti •
Claude Lorrain, although best known for
landscape painting, also did religious art; his work is said to be influenced by the worldview of the
Counter-Reformation •
Lorenzo Lotto, became a Franciscan lay brother; religious art includes
Recanati Annunciation and
Recanati Polyptych •
Bernardino Luini, a
Leonardeschi; religious works include depictions of Mother Mary •
Benedetto da Maiano and
Giuliano da Maiano, Italian brothers who did a variety of religious sculpture and architecture •
Juan Bautista Maíno, Spanish
Baroque painter and Dominican friar who did work for the church of San Pedro Mártir among others •
Jean Malouel, early Dutch painter of much religious art •
Andrea Mantegna,
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ •
Carlo Maratta, works include
Immaculate Conception; knighted in 1704 by
Pope Clement XI •
Juan Martínez Montañés, many of his works are religious in nature, as is common to the
Sevillian school of sculpture •
Simone Martini, died in the service of the Papal court at Avignon in 1344 •
Masaccio, works include
Virgin and Child with St. Anne •
Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Austrian
Rococo painter who did ecclesiastical themes for many churches, including a
Piarist Church in Vienna •
Guido Mazzoni, Italian Renaissance sculptor noted for a depiction of the
Lamentation of Christ (
Compianta) •
Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, called "Il Morazzone"; has works in the
Quadroni of St. Charles and painted altarpieces for many churches in Northern Italy •
Hans Memling,
Early Netherlandish artist; works include
The Last Judgment and
St. Ursula Shrine •
Lippo Memmi, painter of
Annunciation with St. Margaret and St. Ansanus •
Pedro de Mena, Spanish sculptor for convents and cathedrals •
Anton Raphael Mengs, Bohemian Neoclassical painter; after converting, painted religious works including
The Glory of Saint Eusebius •
Juan de Mesa, creator of several of the effigies that are used in the procession during the
Holy Week in Seville •
Antonello da Messina, works include
Annunciation and
Crucifixion •
Domenico di Michelino, primarily Biblical and religious scenes •
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian High
Renaissance painter, architect, sculptor under the patronage of the popes of Rome during the reconstruction of
St. Peter’s Basilica, from the
Renaissance towards the early
Counter-Reformation era; renowned for painting, among others, the Last Judgment and the
Sistine Chapel ceiling •
Michelozzo, did numerous statues of saints found at basilicas in Italy •
Jan Miel, painted in the Roman church of Santa Maria dell'Anima for the chapel of San Lamberto and did other church art •
Josef Ignaz Mildorfer, Austrian who primarily painted religious-themed altarpieces and frescoes on subjects like the
Pentecost and the
Assumption of Mary •
Francesco Mochi, statue of
Saint Veronica in
St. Peter's Basilica •
Gabriel Móger,
Mallorcan who did work on
retables and
altarpieces by the churches of Mallorca •
Lorenzo Monaco,
Camaldolese painter who did a noted
Predella •
Pierre-Étienne Monnot, French Baroque sculptor who did work for the
Archbasilica of St. John Lateran and the
Santa Maria della Vittoria •
Baccio and
Raffaello da Montelupo, father and son whose work includes sculptures of saints and angels, made during the Italian Renaissance •
Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli,
Servite friar and sculptor who did a marble altarpiece of the
Annunciation of Mary •
Luis de Morales, Spanish painter of primarily religious subjects •
Giovanni Maria Morlaiter, did most of the sculptures in
Santa Maria del Rosario, a
Dominican Order church •
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, best known for his Roman Catholic religious works •
Girolamo Muziano, works include
Resurrection of Lazarus led a team which did works on Church history •
Tommaso Napoli,
Sicilian Baroque architect of cathedrals and a member of the
Dominican Order •
Nicolau Nasoni, Italian architect and artist active in Portugal who did work for the
Porto Cathedral, built the
Clérigos Church, and did work for other churches •
Juan Fernández Navarrete, deaf Spanish painter noted for his depictions of the
Baptism of Christ,
The Nativity, and Abraham •
Pieter Neeffs I,
Pieter Neeffs II, and
Ludovicus Neefs,
Flemish Baroque painters noted for depicting church interiors •
Plautilla Nelli, nun and religious artist •
Balthasar Neumann, German
Rococo architect and military artillery engineer, renowned for designing the
Würzburg Residence, the Gößweinstein Basilica of the Holy Trinity and the
Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (Vierzehnheiligen) in Franconia, Germany among others •
Giovanni Niccolo, Jesuit in Japan, known for works of
Salvator Mundi and
The Madonna •
Dello di Niccolò Delli, Italian sculptor known for the apse cycle in the
Old Cathedral, Salamanca •
Josefa de Óbidos, one of the leading women
Baroque painters; also did altarpieces •
Vincenzo Onofri,
Bolognese Renaissance sculptor of altars and a bust of
Albertus Magnus, known for
terracotta •
Gilles-Marie Oppenordt, French designer and architect whose works include the chapel of St. John the Baptist in
Amiens Cathedral •
Bartolomé Ordóñez,
Spanish Renaissance sculptor who did work for churches and tombs •
Lorenzo Ottoni, best known for
Counter-Reformation religious sculpture •
Francisco Pacheco, painter who taught
Diego Velázquez and felt artists' role was to "instill piety and to lead people to God" •
Antonio Palomino, art writer and biographer who did a fresco for the sacristy of the
Granada Charterhouse; became a priest after his wife's death •
Giovanni di Paolo,
Sienese School painter known for somewhat dreamlike religious art, such as
Miracle of St. Nicholas of Tolentino •
Parmigianino, works include
Circumcision of Jesus,
Vision of Saint Jerome, and
Madonna with the Long Neck •
Pietro Perugino, did
Moses Leaving to Egypt,
Baptism of Christ, and
Delivery of the Keys at the Sistine Chapel •
Baldassare Peruzzi, did ceiling decorations at the Vatican, and an altar at Siena •
Francesco Pesellino, work includes a
predella •
Georg Petel, German sculptor; works include wood and ivory crucifixes, and a carved figure of
Saint Christopher •
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian Baroque/Rococo painter; works include
The Glory of St. Dominic and
Assumption of The Virgin •
Isabella Piccini, Catholic nun and engraver •
Anton Pichler,
Giovanni Pichler, and
Luigi Pichler, family of gem engravers who did work for popes •
Sano di Pietro, like many in the Sienese School, many of his works are religious in nature •
Anton Pilgram, Austrian/German sculptor and architect who worked on cathedrals and altars •
Pinturicchio, worked with several Popes and did frescoes for the Piccolomini Library adjoining
Siena Cathedral •
Sebastiano del Piombo,
The Raising of Lazarus, and the altarpiece for
Chigi Chapel •
Pietro del Po,
Giacomo del Po, and
Teresa del Po, a father and two of his children who were members of the
Accademia di San Luca and did religious art •
Tobias Pock,
Austrian/
Swabian noted for
Coronation of Virgin Mary and many paintings of saints found in churches •
Antonio del Pollaiuolo and
Piero del Pollaiuolo, brothers whose works include the
Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian and work at the
Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze •
Pontormo, works include
Annunciation,
Madonna with Child and Saints,
The Deposition from the Cross and
St. Quentin •
Nicolas Poussin, Baroque/Classical painter; works include
Seven Sacraments •
Andrea Pozzo, Jesuit brother known for the ceiling of
Sant'Ignazio Church in Rome •
Mattia Preti, Italian Baroque artist who did religious works in Naples and also in Malta, specifically
St. John's Co-Cathedral •
Scipione Pulzone, portrait artist whose religious works include
Mater Divinae Providentiae,
Our Lady of the Assumption, and
Christ on the Cross with Saints •
Enguerrand Quarton, 15th-century French artist of many religious paintings, including a rendition of the
Coronation of the Virgin •
Jacopo della Quercia, Italian Renaissance sculptor of altarpieces, statues of saints, and statues of Mother Mary •
Diego Quispe Tito,
Cuzco School painter of
Virgin of Carmel Saving Souls in Purgatory and scenes of Christ •
Ignác Raab, Czech Jesuit who did notable paintings of saints •
Raffaellino del Colle, several works of Marian art •
Antonio Raggi, Baroque sculptor from
Ticino whose works include
Death of Saint Cecilia,
Baptism of Christ, and
Angel with the Column •
Ivan Ranger, monastic noted for paintings in churches, chapels, and monasteries •
Raphael,
Transfiguration is one of his religious works and is housed in the Pinacoteca Vaticana of
Vatican City •
Guido Reni - Italian
Baroque painter of frescoes like ''St Dominic's Glory
and paintings such as Assumption of Mary'' •
Francisco Ribalta, Spanish Baroque painter •
Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish/Neapolitan associated to
Tenebrism; partly noted for depictions of martyrdom found in Neapolitan churches •
Ricardo do Pilar, German/Brazilian monk whose paintings include
Apparition of Our Lady to St. Bernard •
Sebastiano Ricci, did a variety of works for
Popes and did altarpieces •
Giuliano da Rimini, known for altarpieces, a rendition of the
Coronation of the Virgin, and possibly part of a
Rimini school of painting •
Jacopo Ripanda, known for frescoes in churches and Vatican palaces •
Juan Rizi, Spanish Baroque painter who did paintings of saints; was made an archbishop by
Pope Clement X •
Francesco Robba, Venetian Baroque sculptor and architect; did work for churches in
Slovenia and
Croatia •
Luca della Robbia, sculptor whose works include
The Nativity, circa 1460, and
Madonna and Child, circa 1475 •
Pedro Roldán and
Luisa Roldán, father and daughter who both did religious sculpture linked to the
Sevillian school of sculpture •
Antoniazzo Romano, Decoration of the
Vatican Palace and frescoes in
Santa Maria sopra Minerva •
Paolo Romano, early Renaissance sculptor who worked for Popes and did a notable sculpture of
Saint Paul •
Cosimo Rosselli, works include
Last Supper and
Descent from Mount Sinai •
Antonio and
Bernardo Rossellino, brothers who did religious works for churches •
Angelo de Rossi, did sculptures for Popes; is linked to the
Accademia di San Luca •
Peter Paul Rubens, Catholic convert; Flemish painter of Northern
Baroque who produced numerous artworks of the
Counter-Reformation and served under the patronage of the Habsburg rulers of Spain and Flanders; renowned for his works, among others, in
Saint Bavo Cathedral and the
Cathedral of Our Lady (Antwerp) •
Camillo Rusconi, Italian late-Baroque sculptor whose masterpieces are said to be four sculptures of apostles (
Matthew,
James the Great,
Andrew, and
John) •
Guillem Sagrera, Catalan sculptor and architect from
Mallorca; director of the works of the
Perpignan Cathedral and others •
Ventura Salimbeni, Sienese School artist whose works include
Disputa of the Eucharist; became a Knight of the Golden Spur for his work in the Basilica of San Pietro •
Francisco Salzillo, Spanish Baroque sculptor who did work for a
Capuchin monastery in the
Region of Murcia and churches in the area •
Stanisław Samostrzelnik, Polish painter of frescoes in Catholic churches •
Juan Sánchez Cotán, although best known for
Bodegónes, he was a prolific religious painter and entered a
Carthusian monastery •
Andrea Sansovino,
High Renaissance sculptor who did work for the
Genoa Cathedral, the
Santa Maria in Aracoeli, and the
Basilica of Sant'Agostino •
Jacopo Sansovino, the statue
Madonna del Parto in the
Basilica of Sant'Agostino; student of Andrea Sansovino •
Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao,
Cuzco School painter of
A Franciscan Allegory of the Immaculate Virgin; supervised paintings of the
Corpus Christi procession •
Carlo Saraceni,
Caravaggisti whose religious art includes an altarpiece in the Roman church of
San Lorenzo in Lucina •
Andrea del Sarto, work includes paintings for the
Santissima Annunziata, Florence •
Sassetta, like much of the Sienese School, he did religious art, including the
Mystic Marriage of St. Francis •
Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato, work includes paintings of Mother Mary •
Christoph Thomas Scheffler, Jesuit who did portraits of Jesuit astronomers and frescoes in
St. Paulinus' and other churches •
Martin Johann Schmidt, Austrian
Baroque/
Rococo painter who primarily painted devotional images •
Martin Schongauer, engraver mostly known for religious works such as
Christi Geburt and
Maria im Rosenhag •
Johann Paul Schor, worked on the
Siena Cathedral •
Gerard Seghers,
Flemish Baroque painter and
Caravaggisti whose works include an
Adoration of the Magi in the
Church of Our Lady, Bruges •
Giacomo Serpotta,
stuccoist from
Palermo who did a great deal of his work for churches •
Luca Signorelli, his masterpiece is considered to be his fresco of the Last Judgment (1499) in Orvieto Cathedral •
Diego Siloe, a founding figure in the
Granadan school of sculpture and a church architect •
Gherardo Silvani, Italian architect and sculptor of the
Baroque who did much work on the
San Gaetano, Florence •
Elisabetta Sirani, works include a painting in the
Basilica di San Marino and an
Assumption of the Virgin •
Michael Sittow, Estonian trained in the
Early Netherlandish painting style; did a mix of small devotional art and portraits •
Claus Sluter, Dutch/French Renaissance
Northern Renaissance sculptor noted for the
Well of Moses •
Leonello Spada,
Caravaggisti whose paintings include
St Dominic Burning the Books of the Heretics in the
Basilica of San Domenico •
Massimo Stanzione, Italian Baroque painter whose religious works include a depiction of
The Assumption of the Virgin and one of
Judith with the Head of Holofernes •
Johann Baptist Straub and
Philipp Jakob Straub, Baroque sculptors who did much church art •
Bernardo Strozzi, a Capuchin for several years; works include
Christ Giving the Keys of Heaven to St. Peter •
Pierre Subleyras, religious art includes
Saint John of Ávila and
Marriage of St Catherine •
Giovanni Francesco Susini,
Florentine Mannerist sculptor who did some religious art •
Carpoforo Tencalla, Swiss-Italian Baroque painter who did work in several churches and monasteries •
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, religious works include
Pope St. Clement Adoring the Trinity,
Institution of the Rosary, and
The Immaculate Conception •
Tintoretto, Venetian painter, who worked on Church commission for artworks; contributed
Marriage at Cana to the
Santa Maria della Salute •
Benvenuto Tisi, sometimes called "Il Garofalo"; a great deal of his works are religious •
Titian, the most represented artist in the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute; served the Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V from the
Renaissance to the
Counter-Reformation era; was at the
Council of Trent •
Santi di Tito, works include
Vision of Saint Thomas Aquinas and
Annunciation •
Luis Tristán, Spanish
Baroque painter; one of his most important paintings is an altar image in the church of
Yepes •
Paul Troger, did frescoes for several abbeys and also
Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius in St. Ignatius’ church in
Győr, Hungary •
Paolo Uccello, works include
Saint George and the Dragon,
Nun-Saint with Two Children, and
Life of the Holy Fathers •
Andrea Vaccaro,
Tenebrist style painter known for paintings of saints •
Juan de Valdés Leal, works include
The Assumption of the Virgin and
Virgin of the Immaculate Conception with Sts Andrew and John the Baptist •
Hubert van Eyck, worked on
Ghent Altarpiece •
Jan van Eyck, works include
Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele, and work on the Ghent Altarpiece •
Luis de Vargas, Spanish painter, influenced by
Mannerism; painted altarpieces and other religious works in
Seville; reportedly quite devout •
Giorgio Vasari,
An Allegory of the Immaculate Conception; a
Knight of the Golden Spur; perhaps better known as a biographer •
Gregorio Vasquez de Arce y Ceballos, most of his work is religious in nature •
Juan Bautista Vázquez the Elder and
Juan Bautista Vázquez the Younger, both sculpted Catholic religious art as did most in the
Sevillian school of sculpture •
Vecchietta, religious art in the Cappella del Sacro Chiodo and in varied churches •
Diego Velázquez, portrait artist whose religious works include
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary and
Temptation of St. Thomas •
Domenico Veneziano, ''
Santa Lucia de' Magnoli Altarpiece'' •
Giuseppe Vermiglio,
Caravaggisti whose works are believed to include
The Incredulity of St. Thomas,
Crowning with Thorns / Mocking of Christ and
Saint Jerome •
Paolo Veronese,
The Adoration of the Magi on the ceiling of the Capella del Rosario and
The Wedding at Cana for
San Giorgio Monastery at
Santa Maria delle Grazie is perhaps his most famous religious work •
Daniele da Volterra, known for his painting
Descent from the Cross in the
Trinità dei Monti and for being hired to cover the genitals in Michelangelo's
The Last Judgment •
Simon Vouet, works include
Saint Jerome,
The Conversion of the Magdalen, and
The Virgin and Child •
Johann Peter Alexander Wagner,
Rococo sculptor of
Stations of the Cross, a crucifix, and other religious art •
Rogier van der Weyden, early Netherlandish painter of
many works of religious art •
Wu Li, Chinese landscape painter, poet, and member of the
Society of Jesus •
Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina, Spanish Renaissance art whose works were often religious •
Francisco Tito Yupanqui, known for Marian statues such as
Virgin of Copacabana; there is an effort to have him beatified •
Marcos Zapata, like many of the
Cuzco School, his works dealt with religious subjects •
Juan Zariñena, primarily religious painter from
Valencia •
Johann Jakob Zeiller, Austrian known for religious frescoes like those at
Aldersbach Abbey in
Fürstenzell and the
Ettal Abbey •
Januarius Zick, German architect and painter of the Late
Baroque who did art for various monasteries and churches •
Giuseppe Zimbalo,
Leccesi architect and sculptor; did the façade of the
Basilica of Santa Croce •
Dominikus Zimmermann and
Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German brothers who did church architecture,
stucco, and painting •
Francisco de Zurbarán, works include the great altarpiece of St.
Thomas Aquinas,
Immaculate Conception, and paintings of
Carthusians •
Federico Zuccari, Pauline chapel of the Vatican and
The Last Judgment inside the dome of the
Florence Cathedral Nineteenth century to present •
Ephraim Francis Baldwin, designed
St. Leo's Church and won a
Benemerenti medal for his work on
The Catholic University of America •
Cajetan J. B. Baumann, Franciscan friar and church architect •
Ade Bethune, liturgical artist linked to the
Catholic Worker Movement •
Jean-Baptiste Bethune, called by some the "
Pugin of
Belgium"; founder of the Catholic
Gild de St. Thomas et de St. Luc •
Gilbert R. Blount, English Catholic architect of
St Mary Magdalen's Church in Brighton •
Giuseppe Calì, Maltese painter who did paintings for many churches •
Antonio Castillo Lastrucci, Andalusian sculptor known for religious works in the
Cathedral of St Mary of the Assumption in Ceuta, around
Seville, and elsewhere •
Eduardo Castrillo, Filipino sculptor noted partly for religious art including a depiction of Saint
Pedro Calungsod •
Paul Cézanne,
Post-Impressionist whose early works include some religious art such as
Christ in Limbo •
Albert Chmielowski, saint; founder of the
Albertine Brothers, who did art, such as a depiction of
Ecce homo, before taking up the religious life and serving the poor •
Antonio Ciseri, nineteenth-century religious artist originally from
Ticino; works include
Ecce Homo and
The Transport of Christ to the Sepulcher •
Philip Lindsey Clark, works include a
Stations of the Cross sculpture; after 1930 "all his RA exhibits were of religious and often specifically Catholic subjects;" became a Carmelite Tertiary •
John Collier, convert, sculptor of Catholic memorial at Ground Zero in New York City was a convert and
Pre-Raphaelite. This is his 1878 depiction of the
Holy Family. •
James Collinson •
William Congdon, after his conversion in 1959 he began his
Crocefissi (Crucifixion) series •
Jean-Georges Cornélius, French religious painter •
João Zeferino da Costa, Brazilian painter of panels in the
Candelária Church •
Marie-Alain Couturier (Dominican friar), stained glass and sacred art in modern form •
Luigi Crosio, painted the
Refugium Peccatorum Madonna •
Salvador Dalí, created numerous large-scale religious compositions starting around the time of his repatriation in Spain •
Sylvia Daoust, did work for
Mary, Queen of the World, Cathedral; most of her work is religious •
Henry Darger,
outsider artist, writer, and illustrator from
Chicago, US •
Anne Davidson, known for secular sculpture; religious works include
Saint Margaret of Scotland and
Resurrection; belonged to the Society of Catholic Artists •
Maurice Denis, artist linked to
Les Nabis; afterward he joined a
third order and did religious art •
Jan Henryk de Rosen, convert with works displayed at the
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and elsewhere •
Melchior Paul von Deschwanden, 19th-century Swiss painter primarily known for Catholic religious art •
Czesław Dźwigaj, monuments to
Pope John Paul II •
Joseph-Hugues Fabisch, famous for
The Virgin of Lourdes, which caused controversy as St.
Bernadette Soubirous did not approve •
Thomasita Fessler, nun who designed stained glass windows and founded the art department at
Cardinal Stritch University •
Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, works include
St. Clare Healing the Blind and other art for churches •
Arthur Fleischmann, works include sculptures of popes and a
Tryptych of the Holy Rosary for
Westminster Cathedral •
Moira Forsyth, stained glass artist; former President of the Society of Catholic Artists; works appear in Catholic and Anglican churches •
Tsuguharu Foujita, designer and fresco painter of
Foujita Chapel on
Mumm's estate,
Reims,
France •
Michael Sigismund Frank, glass painter and Catholic artist •
Ernst Fuchs, a founder of the
Vienna School of Fantastic Realism; converted to Catholicism; did the cycle
Mysteries of the Holy Rosary •
Yasutake Funakoshi, Japanese convert who did sculptures of the
Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan and was honored by a Pope •
Antoni Gaudí, architect of
Sagrada Família (there are efforts to have him
beatified) •
Gregory Gerrer, Benedictine priest; did a portrait of
Pope Pius X; co-founded the Association of Oklahoma Artists •
James Gillick, contemporary English painter of ecclesiastical works such as the altarpiece at St. Neots, Cambridgeshire and the reredos at SS Gregory and Augustine's •
George Goldie, specialized in Catholic churches, including
St. Ignatius Church, Wishaw •
Matthias Laurenz Gräff, Austrian artist of the 21st century, also paints religious and religious-historical themes such as the life of Jesus Christ, themes from the Holy Bible and of the genres Vanitas and Memento mori •
Félix Granda, priest, sculptor, metalsmith, craftsman, and founder of the liturgical art workshop Talleres de Arte •
Matthew Ellison Hadfield, English architect noted for
Gothic Revival churches like
Salford Cathedral and
St Vincent's Church in Sheffield •
Joseph Hansom, English architect who worked on
Arundel Cathedral and other Catholic churches •
William Laurel Harris, convert who did murals for the
Paulist Fathers •
John Rogers Herbert, his conversion is significant to his artistic history; most of his post-conversion art is religious •
John Hogan, Irish sculptor of
The Dead Christ •
Evie Hone, spent time in an Anglican convent; after converting to Catholicism she did stained glass works for Catholic churches •
Maria Innocentia Hummel, nun and artist known for figurines, but whose suffering under Nazi rule lead her to do the work
The Stations of the Cross •
Mary Concepta Lynch (1874 – 1939), was an Irish nun and skilled calligrapher, decorated Dominican Oratory in Dublin. •
Berthold Imhoff,
Knight of St. Gregory the Great known for his religious murals and paintings •
Franz Ittenbach, German artist and member of the
Nazarene movement •
Louis Janmot, French religious painter and poet 's painting
The Nun, c. 1915-1920 •
Gwen John, Welsh artist; after converting, did religious art for a convent •
David Jones, convert whose works include
Sanctus Christus de Capel-y-ffin; better known as a poet •
Patrick Keely, architect of numerous churches such as
St. Mary's Church Complex •
Jano Köhler, Czech painter, decorated sacral buildings with frescoes and sgraffiti •
Adam Kossowski, former gulag inmate and a religious artist who joined the Guild of Catholic Artists and Craftsmen in 1944 •
William Kurelek, convert from Orthodoxy noted for paintings of Christ •
Desiderius Lenz,
Jan Verkade, and
Gabriel Wuger, Benedictines belonging to the largely religious
Beuron Art School •
Leandro Locsin, architect of the
Church of the Holy Sacrifice •
Maurice Loriaux, founder of Santa Fé Studios of Church Art; ecclesiologist •
Fred McCarthy,
Secular Franciscan Order member best known as the cartoonist of
Brother Jupiter; also did religious paintings •
Charles Donagh Maginnis, Catholic church architect •
Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg, German-Dutch convert whose works include church interiors and religious sculpture •
Ivan Meštrović, Croatian religious sculptor; works include
St. Jerome the Priest •
Rudolf Moroder-Lenèrt, painter; did primarily religious sculpture, including a
Stations of the Cross for the Church of St. Ann in
Silesia and a sculpture of St.
Elizabeth of Hungary for the
Exposition Universelle in 1900 •
Antonio Moscheni, Jesuit painter known for painting at the chapel;
St. Aloysius College (Mangalore) •
Esther Newport, member of the
Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods; founded the
Catholic Art Association •
Guido Nincheri, artist for Catholic churches in Canada;
Pope Pius XI named him Knight-Commander of the Order of Saint-Sylvester •
Erik Olson, Swedish convert; painted a
triptych in 1977 for the Vatican Museum in Rome •
Francis Petre, Catholic architect of cathedrals in
New Zealand •
Edith Pfau, nun known for the works
Risen Christ,
Stations of the Cross and
Madonna and Child •
Jože Plečnik,
Slovene architect who built
Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord •
Alois Plum, praised by Cardinal
Karl Lehmann for his church art •
Thomas Henry Poole, British-born architect of
St. Catherine of Genoa's Church and other churches in the
New York City area •
Augustus Pugin, Catholic convert and noted architect; did the interior of
St Chad's Cathedral in Birmingham; designed
Erdington Abbey •
E. W. Pugin and
Peter Paul Pugin, sons of Augustus and church architects in their own right •
Luis Ramacciotti, known for a sculpture of
Christ in
La Cumbre, Argentina •
Georges Rouault, noted for paintings of Christ; a friend to Catholic philosopher
Jacques Maritain •
Tito Sarrocchi, did façades for the
Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence •
Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, convert; like many others in the
Nazarene movement, produced Catholic art •
Steven Schloeder, contemporary architect, theologian, and author •
Francis C. Schroen, Jesuit brother and church architect •
Alexander Maximilian Seitz, did paintings of Christ and saints •
Gino Severini, associated with
Futurism and did church mosaics •
Joseph Sibbel, German/American sculptor; works include
Stations of the Cross,
Doctor of the Church, and a marble statue representing
Purgatory •
Etsuro Sotoo, sculptor with
Sagrada Família •
Mary Stanisia, member of the
School Sisters of Notre Dame who did paintings for the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend • Giovanni Strazza, known for
The Veiled Virgin, which was delivered to Bishop
John T. Mullock •
Imogen Stuart, contemporary convert known for a monument to
Pope John Paul II at
St Patrick's College, Maynooth and works at
Mary Immaculate College •
Jan Styka, Polish artist known in part for his large depiction of the
Crucifixion of Jesus •
Pietro Tenerani, works include a relief of the
Descent from the Cross and a colossal statue of St.
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori; commissioned for the
Tomb of Pope Pius VIII •
Włodzimierz Tetmajer, Polish artist; specialized in religious themes; has works in
Our Lady of the Angels’ Basilica •
James Tissot, after a reconversion he did works like
Crucifixion, seen from the Cross, which were part of a series called
The Life of Jesus Christ •
Jean Baptiste van Eycken, Belgian painter of works for the
Église de la Chapelle •
Adrian Wewer,
Franciscan friar and architect of churches, seminaries, friaries, and convents •
Paul Woodroffe, book illustrator and stained glass artist for chapels and churches •
Mihaela Adelgundis Černic, Slovenian artist,
School sister of Notre Dame and teacher of art and painting; painted a lot of religious paintings ==See also==