From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia List of Roman Catholic Church artists
List of Roman Catholic Church artists
This list of Catholic artists concerns artists known largely • Carlos Ayala, modern day Catholic Bronze Sculptor
or primarily for works of Roman Catholic religious art, and Church Artist.[1]
a subset of Christian art in general. It may also include • Giovanni Baglione, many of his works are in the
artists whose position as a Roman Catholic priest or mis- Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore
sionary was vital to their artistic works or development. • Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, St. Petronilla Altarpiece
Because of the title it is preferred that in least some of • Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Bas-reliefs in the choir of
their artwork be in Catholic churches. the cathedral of Florence.
Note that this is not a list of all artists who have ever • Fra Bartolommeo, member of a Dominican order did
been members of the Roman Catholic Church. Please do The Vision of St Bernard
not add entries here without providing support for those • Pompeo Batoni, Return of the Prodigal Son
artists having specifically Roman Catholic artistic themes • Giovanni Bellini, did Altarpiece with St Vincent Ferrar
in their art, or having Roman Catholicism as a major as- • Gian Lorenzo Bernini, did the Ecstasy of St Theresa
pect in their careers as artists. in Santa Maria della Vittoria.
• Jiao Bingzhen, painter who played a role in the
List Chinese Rites controversy
• Maurice Boitel, painter of evangelical scenes,
• Hieronymus Bosch, did The Haywain Triptych that
hangs in the San Lorenzo monastery at El Escorial.
• Sandro Botticelli, did Madonna and Child with an
Angel (Botticelli)
• Caravaggio, did The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew in
the San Luigi dei Francesi and other religious works.
• Annibale Carracci, Assumption of the Virgin in the
Santa Maria del Popolo.
• Giuseppe Castiglione, a member of the Society of
Jesus sent to China as a missionary. He also did wall
paintings in Jesuit churches in Portugal and
Macau.[2]
• Benvenuto Cellini, "Employed at the papal mint at
Rome during the papacy of Pope Clement VII and
later of Pope Paul III"
• Paul Cézanne, French Impressionist and devout
Catholic who said, "When I judge my art, I take my
painting and put it next to a God-made object like a
tree or flower." Highly sacramental.
• Il Cerano, did paintings of the Quadroni of St.
Charles.
Painting of St. Dominic by beatified artist Fra Angelico • Cimabue, crucifix at Basilica di Santa Croce di
Firenze.
• Cherubino Alberti, director of the Vatican • James Collinson, Convert and Pre-Raphaelite who did
authorized Accademia di San Luca who did work for Renunciation of St. Elizabeth of Hungary.
chapels. • Carlo Cornara, Jesuit who did work for the Basilica of
• Matteo Perez d’Aleccio, member of the Accademia di Sant’Ambrogio.
San Luca who did a fresco at the Sistine Chapel. • Jacques Courtois (Jesuit), "he painted, in the
• Fra Angelico, also a beatified person Cistercian monastery, the Miracle of the Loaves."
• Kiko Argüello, an initiator of the Neocatechumenal • Marie-Alain Couturier (Dominican friar), Stained
Way who has done church art. glass and sacred art in modern form.
• Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary who did • Salvador Dalí, created numerous large-scale religious
paintings for the Cathedral of Avignon and was later compositions starting in the late 1940s, around the
honored by the Qianlong Emperor. time of his repatriation in Spain.
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• Sylvia Daoust, did work for Mary, Queen of the World • Filippo Lippi, Carmelite who painted for a convent
Cathedral and most of her work is religious. chapel at Prato. This allegedly led to an affair which
• Fra Diamante, Carmelite friar who did religious led to his son Filippino Lippi.
frescoes at his convent. (Convent is the correct term • Filippino Lippi, his frescoes depicting the life of
for male friars’ house) Philip the Apostle are in the Basilica di Santa Maria
• Duccio, Maestà (1308–11), his masterpiece, was for Novella.
Siena’s cathedral. • Andrea Mantegna-The Lamentation over the Dead
• François Duquesnoy, Statues for St. Peter’s Basilica. Christ
• Albrecht Dürer, painter and polymath (friend of • Tommaso Masaccio, Virgin and Child with St. Anne
Philipp Melanchthon and sympathetic to • Michelangelo Buonarotti, Sistine Chapel work
Lutheranism, but most agree stayed Catholic.[3]) • Michelozzo, numerous statues of saints found at
• Czesław Dźwigaj, Monuments to Pope John Paul II. Basilicas in Italy.
• Thomasita Fessler, Nun who designed stained glass • Francesco Mochi, has sculptures in St. Peter’s
windows and founded the art department at Cardinal Basilica.
Stritch University. • Lorenzo Monaco, Camaldolese painter who did a
• Piero della Francesca, his The History of the True noted Predella.
Cross is in the Basilica of San Francesco in Arezzo. • Antonio Moscheni. Jesuit painter known for
• Antoni Gaudí, architect of Sagrada Família (there are decorating St. Aloysius College (Mangalore).
efforts to have him beatified) • Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, "He is best known for his
• Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Jesuit who worked on the Roman Catholic religious works."
ceiling of the Church of the Gesu. • Giovanni Niccolo. Jesuit in Japan known for works of
• Felix Granda, priest, sculptor, metalsmith, craftsman, Salvator Mundi and The Madonna.
and founder of a renowned liturgical art workshop. • Guido Nincheri, artists for Catholic churches in
• Giotto di Bondone, many religious works with the Canada. Pope Pius XI named him Knight-Commander
best regarded perhaps being his Cappella degli of the Order of Saint-Sylvester.[7]
Scrovegni in the "Arena Chapel."[4] • Baldassare Peruzzi, ceiling decorations at the
• Lavinia Fontana, Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, Vatican, an altar at Siena, etc.
(1579, Diocesan Seminary, Bologna) • Francis Petre, Catholic architect of cathedrals in New
• Tsuguharu Foujita, designer and fresco painter of Zealand.
Roman Catholic chapel on Mumm’s estate, Reims, • Edith Pfau, Nun known for the works Risen Christ,
France Stations of the Cross, Madonna and Child and others.
• Ernst Fuchs, A founder of the Vienna School of • Sebastiano del Piombo, Raising of Lazarus, and the
Fantastic Realism who converted to Catholicism and altarpiece for Chigi Chapel.
did the cycle Mysteries of the Holy Rosary. • Pinturicchio, worked with several Popes and did
• Fede Galizia, altarpiece for Saint Maria Maddalena frescoes for the Cathedral of Siena.
Church and paintings related to the Book of Judith. • Antonio del Pollaiuolo, St. Sebastian and work at the
(primarily did still lifes) Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze.
• Geertgen tot Sint Jans, 15th century painter from the • Andrea Pozzo, Jesuit brother known for the ceiling of
Low Countries Sant’Ignazio.
• Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes, • Augustus Pugin, Catholic convert did interior of
Virgin Mary and Baby with Rosary, and work with Pope Saint Chad’s Cathedral.
Urban VIII. • Ignác Raab, Czech Jesuit who did notable paintings of
• James Gillick, Contemporary English painter of saints.
ecclesiastical works such as the altarpiece at St. • Raphael, Transfiguration which is now housed in the
Neots, Cambridgeshire and the reredos at SS Gregory Pinacoteca Vaticana of Vatican City.
& Augustine’s, Summertown, Oxford. • Ivan Ranger, Monastic noted for paintings in
• Felix Granda, Founded the liturgical art workshop churches, chapels, and monasteries.
Talleres de Arte. • Antoniazzo Romano, Decoration of the Vatican
• Joseph Hansom, English architect who worked on Palace and frescoes in Santa Maria sopra Minerva
Arundel Cathedral. • Georges Rouault, noted for paintings of Christ.
• Maria Innocentia Hummel, Nun/artist • Peter Paul Rubens, Catholic convert, has works in
• Jean Jouvenet, "Magnificat" in the choir of Notre- Saint Bavo Cathedral and Onze-Lieve-
Dame.[5] Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp.
• William Kurelek, convert from Orthodoxy noted for • Stanislaw Samostrzelnik, Polish painter of frescos in
paintings of Christ.[6] Catholic churches.
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• Jacopo Sansovino, the statue Madonna del Parto in the • Titian, most represented artist in the Basilica di
Sant’Agostino (Rome). Santa Maria della Salute, was at the Council of Trent
• Andrea del Sarto, paintings for the Basilica della • Santi di Tito, Vision of Saint Thomas Aquinas
Santissima Annunziata di Firenze. • Paolo Uccello, Nun-Saint with Two Children, Life of the
• Martin Schongauer, an engraver, "His subjects are Holy Fathers, etc.
always religious" Christi Geburt, Maria im Rosenhag, • Hubert van Eyck, worked on Ghent Altarpiece
etc. • Jan van Eyck, also worked on the Ghent Altarpiece
• Johann Paul Schor, worked on Duomo di Siena • Domenico Veneziano, St. Lucy Altarpiece
• Domingo Antonio de Sequeira, Descent from the Cross • Paolo Veronese, The Adoration of the Magi on the
and works at the convent of Laveinas. ceiling of the Capella del Rosario
• Gino Severini, associated with Futurism (art) he was • Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper
honored by the Accademia di San Luca for church • Marcos Zapata, like many of the Cuzco School his
mosaics.[1] works dealt with religious subjects.
• Luca Signorelli, "His masterpiece is considered to be • Federico Zuccari, Pauline chapel of the Vatican and
his fresco of the Last Judgment (1499) in Orvieto The Last Judgement
Cathedral." • Francisco Zurbarán, The great altarpiece of St.
• Etsuro Sotoo, sculptor with Sagrada Família Thomas Aquinas and paintings of Carthusians
• Mary Stanisia, Member of the School Sisters of Notre
Dame who did paintings for the Roman Catholic
Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend.
See also
• Giovanni Strazza’s Veiled Virgin, a sculpture by • List of Roman Catholics
Strazza delivered to Bishop John T. Mullock
• Bernardo Strozzi, A Capuchin for several years he did
Christ Giving the Keys of Heaven to St. Peter.
References
• Tintoretto, contributed Marriage at Cana to the [1] http://www.en.cortonaguide.com/
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