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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]

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]].  

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".

[[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.]]