New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome and Firefox. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome Add to Firefox

Myth & Religion in Painting

10,336 works

Featured

Filters

Color

Shape

Century

Standing saint in pink and red robes holding a book, against a gold arched background with a faint halo.

Saint Cosma

Giovanni di Pietro Falloppi, 1450

Christ in grey robe raises a whip in a Gothic temple, driving money-changers out as coins scatter across the floor.

Christ Driving the Money-changers from the Temple

Quinten Metsys, 1520

Painting of the Virgin and Child flanked by John the Baptist with a cross staff and Saint Lucy holding a palm and dish.

The Virgin and Child with John the Baptist and St. Lucia

Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano

Painting of Moses raising his staff before a rock as a crowd of people in colourful robes gathers to drink.

Moses Striking the Rock

Nicolas Poussin, 1649

Painting of two haloed young boys clasping hands by a fountain in a rocky landscape, with two figures and deer nearby.

The Meeting of the Young Christ and the Young St. John

Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1480

Painting of Saint Dominic holding a crozier and open book, with a lily and a dog at his feet, on a gold background.

Saint Dominic de Guzmán

Pedro Berruguete, 1493

Painting of a armored knight on a brown horse spearing a dragon, with onlookers behind an arch.

Saint Georges delivering Saint Margaret

Maerten de Vos, 1590

Painting of bound, crowned Christ beside a richly dressed man raising his hand, with a younger onlooker at left.

Christ Shown to the People (Ecce Homo)

Titian, 1570

Oil painting of Christ gesturing to a seated tax collector at a table covered in a red cloth, surrounded by onlookers in 17th

The Calling of Saint Matthew

Juan de Pareja, 1661

Standing bearded man with halo holding a book and key against a gold patterned background, wearing a red robe and dark mantle

Saint Peter

Juan de Juanes, 1534

Painting of a woman in white and gold led by an elderly man as a warrior gestures toward a tent, with horses and a ship nearb

Briseis returned to Achilles by Nestor

Peter Paul Rubens, 1630

Recumbent Christ lies on white cloth with two angels behind him, a crown of thorns at lower right, dark landscape.

Recumbent Christ

Francisco Camilo, 1634

Angel kneeling to present a white lily to a kneeling woman in a dark green mantle, with cherubs and a dove above.

The Annunciation

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1650

Nude young man with raised arm and red drape against a dark wooded landscape at sunset, painted in 1798.

Saint Sebastian

Gottlieb Schick, 1798

Painting of a sunlit old street with gabled houses, red roofs and a church tower behind them.

The Stoelstraatje and the tower of the Saint Paul's Church

Henri François Schaefels, 1869

Gilded predella panel with five scenes, the risen Christ at center flanked by soldiers, clergy, an archer and saints.

Predella with the Resurrection of Christ

Miguel Ximénez, 1475

Painting of the Crucifixion with Christ centered, grieving figures kneeling below, armored soldiers and two thieves on crosse

The Crucifixion

Martín Bernat, 1480

Painting of the Crucifixion: Christ on the cross, grieving women at left, a mounted rider and armored soldier at right, skull

Crucifixion of Christ

Juan de Flandes, 1509

Painting of a haloed friar in white habit being silenced by an executioner, with a soldier and crowd, angels above.

Martyrdom of Saint Raymond Nonnatus

Vincenzo Carducci, 1550

Painting of the risen Christ with a halo and red cloak holding a cross, while two sleeping soldiers lie below.

The Resurrection of Christ

Luis de Morales, 1566

Painting of a haloed rider on a rearing white horse raising a sword over fallen turbaned warriors in a battle scene.

The Apostle Saint James or Saint James the Moor Slayer

Francisco Camilo, 1649

Seated figure in red drapery raising a hand, with a skull, serpent and apple at his feet and cloudy sky behind.

Landscape with Diana and Actaeon (Ovid, Metamorphoses, III, 193)

Michiel Coxie, 1566

Painting of a penitent woman with long hair, hands clasped in prayer, beside a skull and crucifix on a dark background.

The penitent Saint Mary Magdalene

Frančišek Karel Remb, 1710

Soldiers in armor gamble at a stone table while an old man and a woman confront them in a dark interior scene.

The Denial of Saint Peter

Nicolas Tournier, 1625

Painting of a half-nude bearded saint with a halo reading a large open book beside a crucifix in a dark cave.

The penitent Saint Jerome

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1650

Manuscript page with a painted night scene of soldiers arresting Christ, surrounded by gold and floral borders and Latin text

Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Betrayal of Christ

Maître François, c. 1470-85

Painting of Venus and a faun with a goat among playing putti beneath a large tree in a wooded landscape.

Venus, Faun and Putti

Nicolas Poussin, 1631

Painting of bearded Christ with gold halo, dark background, gold patterned border and red mantle.

Christ the Saviour

Paolo da San Leocadio, 1482

Painting of two women embracing under a tree with cupids, a red drape, an eagle and hunting dogs, by Jacob de Wit, 1727.

Jupiter, vermomd als Diana, verleidt de nimf Callisto

Jacob de Wit, 1727

Painting of a disguised shepherd approaching a seated woman in blue as an eagle flies above, with putti and sheep nearby.

Jupiter, vermomd als herder, verleidt Mnemosyne, godin van het geheugen

Jacob de Wit, 1727