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== Brief history of Christian paintings==

== Brief history of Christian paintings==

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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]

In Modern Times main Christian painters were, among a long list, [[El Greco]], [[Nicolas Poussin]], [[Francisco de Zurbarán]], [[Anthony van Dyck]], [[Bartolomé Esteban Murillo]], [[Cristóbal de Villalpando]], [[Miguel Cabrera]] and [[Salvador Dalí]]. ''One who succeeds in arousing emotion is [[Eugene Delacroix]], whose "Christ on Mt. Olivet" (1827), "Descent from the Cross" (1834), "Good Samaritan" at Mantua, "Christ Stilling the Tempest" (1849), and especially his Chapel of the Angels in the church of St. Sulpice (19th century), are examples of immortal passion and poetry.'' [[Ibidem]] Delacroix painted fourteen versions of the story "Christ Asleep during the Tempest while crossing the Lake of Gennesaret".

In Modern Times main Christian painters were, among a long list, [[El Greco]], [[Nicolas Poussin]], [[Francisco de Zurbarán]], [[Anthony van Dyck]], [[Bartolomé Esteban Murillo]], [[Cristóbal de Villalpando]], [[Miguel Cabrera]] and [[Salvador Dalí]]. ''One who succeeds in arousing emotion is [[Eugene Delacroix]], whose "Christ on Mt. Olivet" (1827), "Descent from the Cross" (1834), "Good Samaritan" at Mantua, "Christ Stilling the Tempest" (1849), and especially his Chapel of the Angels in the church of St. Sulpice (19th century), are examples of immortal passion and poetry.'' [[Ibidem]] Delacroix painted fourteen versions of the story "Christ Asleep during the Tempest while crossing the Lake of Gennesaret".

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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.

== See also ==

== See also ==

[[File:Herran El cofrade de San Miguel.jpg|thumb|'''El cofrade de San Miguel''' by [[Saturnino Herrán]].]]

[[File:Herran El cofrade de San Miguel.jpg|thumb|'''El cofrade de San Miguel''' by [[Saturnino Herrán]].]]

*[[Painting Galleries]]

*[[Painting Galleries]]

*[[Famous Bible paintings]]

*[[Famous Bible paintings]]

*[[Virgin Mary gallery]]

*[[Virgin Mary gallery]]

*[[Christian art]]

*[[Christian art]]

*[http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/copticpainting.htm Coptic Christian Paintings]

*[http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/copticpainting.htm Coptic Christian Paintings]

[[File:Crucifixion coptic painting.jpg|thumb|left|Crucifixion, Coptic painting.]]

[[File:Crucifixion coptic painting.jpg|thumb|left|'''Crucifixion''', Coptic painting.]]

 

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