church art
Stained glass, frescoes
Church art encompasses visual works created for Christian religious spaces—paintings, sculptures, stained glass, icons, altarpieces, and architectural decoration.
The category spans Byzantine mosaics to Renaissance frescoes to contemporary installations.
Church art serves devotional purposes, illustrating sacred narratives for worship and contemplation: The church art includes a stunning 14th-century crucifix.
- apsesVaulted church recesses
- rose windowsCircular ornate church glazing
- iconPictorial screen symbol
- bell towersStructures housing large chimes
- holy trinityEssential three-part foundation
cross · mosaic · relief · altar · baptismal font · triptych · angel · Stations of the Cross · cloisters · retable · pietà · fresco · Sistine Chapel · polyptych · statue · mural · tapestry · Madonna and Child
- religious printsholy cards, prayer cards, holy images, sacred imagery, biblical scenes
- Renaissance artMichelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Titian
- Gothic artgothic architecture, pointed arches, rose windows, tracery, flying buttresses
- iconographysymbol, symbols, halo, halos, nimbus
- Latin American ReligionCatholic schools, Catholic festivals, patron saints, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Holy Week
- medieval arttapestry, ivory carvings, Book of Kells, fresco, Lindisfarne Gospels
church artcommercial art
Visual work for profit
civic art · street art · pop art · folk art · decorative art
church articonoclasm
Attacking revered traditions