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Category Archives: Religious paintings
The Holy Family paintings by Joos van Cleve
The artist I am featuring today is the early Netherlandish painter Joos van der Beke, better known as Joos van Cleve because he is thought to have been born in the Lower Rhine region of Kleve, possibly the Rhine-river town … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Blog, Dutch painters, Joos van Cleve, Religious paintings
Tagged Art, Art Blog, Art History, Death of the Virgin by Joos van Cleve, Dutch painters, Joos van Cleve, Religious painting, The High Altarpiece in the Kalkar church of St Nicholai by Jan Joest, The Holy Family by Joos van Cleve
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Virgin and Child with Saints by Rogier van der Weyden
Do you like jigsaw puzzles? Do you like a mystery? I hope so as today my featured paintings are just part of an artistic and mysterious jigsaw puzzle. I will be looking at the three remaining pieces of an original … Continue reading
Vincent van Gogh, the Copyist. Part 2 – Delacroix’s Pietà
In my last blog I looked at how Vincent van Gogh had copied three Japanese woodcut prints and had incorporated his own inimitable style to his versions. In my blog today I want to look at the versions he painted … Continue reading
The Resurrection by Piero della Francesca
For today’s blog I am staying with Italian Renaissance art and looking at a work by, some say, the greatest Early Renaissance painter, Piero della Francesca. This is the second time I have featured this artist in one of my … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art display, Italian artists, Piero della Francesca, Religious paintings, Renaissance Painters
Tagged Art, Art Blog, Art History, Borgo San Sepolcro, Italian Painters, Piero della Francesca, Religious painting, Renaissance painters, Resurrection paintings, Sansepolcro, The Resurrection by Piero della Francesca
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The Transfiguration by Raphael
In my last blog I looked at The Raising of Lazarus by Sebastiano del Piombo and talked about how this and a painting by Raphael, entitled Transfiguration, had been commissioned in 1517 by Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici as a high … Continue reading
The Raising of Lazarus by Sebastiano del Piombo
My next two blogs feature paintings by two different artists, commissioned almost at the same time by the same person, one of which is often looked upon as the greatest painting ever. My featured artist today is Sebastiano Luciani, who … Continue reading
The Melun Diptych by Jean Fouquet
In my last blog I looked at an altarpiece by Michael Pacher and discussed terms such as diptych, triptych and polyptych, which all referred to panel paintings which were hinged together. Although we looked at a triptych altarpiece this form … Continue reading
The Altarpiece of the Church Fathers by Michael Pacher
For My Daily Art Display today I am going to look at an altarpiece by the fifteenth century Austrian painter and sculptor Michael Pacher. As far as I can remember, I have only presented one other altarpiece in my blog … Continue reading
What Our Lord Saw from the Cross by James Tissot
My blog today is the first of a two part look at the life and art work of Jacques-Joseph Tissot, later to be known as James Tissot. In this first part I will look at his life and a religious … Continue reading
Jacob and Rachel by William Dyce
The first time I featured a painting by William Dyce was over twelve months ago (My Daily Art Display, May 14th 2011) when I looked at his painting Pegwell Bay, or to give it its full and bizarre title, Pegwell … Continue reading
