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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 Modern Times main Christian painters were, among a long list, [[Nicolas Poussin]], [[Francisco de Zurbarán]], [[Anthony van Dyck]], [[Bartolomé Esteban Murillo]], [[Cristóbal de Villalpando]], [[Miguel Cabrera]] and [[Salvador Dalí]].  

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]

 

In Modern Times main Christian painters were, among a long list, [[Nicolas Poussin]], [[Francisco de Zurbarán]], [[Anthony van Dyck]], [[Bartolomé Esteban Murillo]], [[Cristóbal de Villalpando]], [[Miguel Cabrera]] and [[Salvador Dalí]].  

[[File:Hoffman Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane.jpg|thumb|'''Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane''' by Heinrich Hofmann.]]

[[File:Hoffman Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane.jpg|thumb|'''Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane''' by Heinrich Hofmann.]]