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[[File:Byzantine Icon.jpg|thumb|120px|The Crucifixion, 14th century.]]

[[File:Byzantine Icon.jpg|thumb|120px|'''The Crucifixion''', 14th century.]]

[[File:Veronese Baptism of Christ.jpg|thumb|left|[[Paolo Veronese]], Baptism of Christ.]]

[[File:Veronese Baptism of Christ.jpg|thumb|left|[[Paolo Veronese]], '''Baptism of Christ'''.]]

During the [[Middle Ages]] and the [[Renaissance]], The Roman [[Catholic Church]] and The [[Orthodox Church]] supported the production of sacred [[art]]; outstanding painters were [[Giotto di Bondone]], [[Hans Memling]], [[Pietro Perugino]], [[Albrecht Dürer]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]], [[Michelangelo]], and [[Raphael]]. In the Medieval painting ''it was the Byzantines who determined how to depict human figures... the driving concern of the Byzantine style is the awe-inspiring presentation of holy figures, and to this end they are portrayed in hieratic (stiff and formal) postures, halo-crowned and serene of expression'' [http://essentialhumanities.net/paint3.html] The Renaissance; "The fact is that at no period was religious  artistry so fruitful; no other has bequeathed to us so many altarpieces, oratory  pictures, Madonnas and saints. It was the age of countless pictures for pious confraternities, and it is quite probable that the artist, who was so often a member of the confraternity, infused something of his heart into his work." [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11395a.htm]

During the [[Middle Ages]] and the [[Renaissance]], The Roman [[Catholic Church]] and The [[Orthodox Church]] supported the production of sacred [[art]]; outstanding painters were [[Giotto di Bondone]], [[Hans Memling]], [[Pietro Perugino]], [[Albrecht Dürer]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]], [[Michelangelo]], and [[Raphael]]. In the Medieval painting ''it was the Byzantines who determined how to depict human figures... the driving concern of the Byzantine style is the awe-inspiring presentation of holy figures, and to this end they are portrayed in hieratic (stiff and formal) postures, halo-crowned and serene of expression'' [http://essentialhumanities.net/paint3.html] The Renaissance; "The fact is that at no period was religious  artistry so fruitful; no other has bequeathed to us so many altarpieces, oratory  pictures, Madonnas and saints. It was the age of countless pictures for pious confraternities, and it is quite probable that the artist, who was so often a member of the confraternity, infused something of his heart into his work." [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11395a.htm]

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File:Delacroix Christ on the lake Genezareth.jpg|Delacroix, Christ on the lake Genezareth.

File:Delacroix Christ on the lake Genezareth.jpg|Delacroix, '''Christ on the lake Genezareth'''.

File:Delacroix The Good Samaritan 1849.jpg|Delacroix, The Good Samaritan.

File:Delacroix The Good Samaritan 1849.jpg|Delacroix, '''The Good Samaritan'''.

File:Delacroix St Michael.jpg|Delacroix, St. Michael Defeats the Devil, in the Chapel of Angels.

File:Delacroix St Michael.jpg|Delacroix, '''St. Michael Defeats the Devil, in the Chapel of Angels'''.

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'''The Head of Christ''' by Warner Sallman, 1941.

'''The Head of Christ''' by Warner Sallman, 1941.

== Petite Gallery of Christian paintings==

== Petite Gallery of Christian paintings==