List of Roman Catholic Church artists

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This list of Catholic artists concerns artists known, at least in part, for their works of religious Roman Catholic art. It may also include artists whose position as a Roman Catholic priest or missionary was vital to their artistic works or development. Because of the title, it is preferred that at least some of their artwork be in or commissioned for Catholic churches, which includes Eastern Catholic Churches in communion with the Pope

Note that this is not a list of all artists who have ever been members of the Roman Catholic Church. Please do not add entries here without providing support for those artists having specifically Roman Catholic religious art among their works, or having Roman Catholicism as a major aspect in their careers as artists. Further, seeing as many to most Western European artists from the 5th century to the Protestant Reformation did at least some Catholic religious art, this list will supplement by linking to lists of artists of those eras rather than focusing on names of those eras.

Romanesque artists

Agnes II, Abbess of Quedlinburg, work includes miniatures and engravings; possibly Gothic period

Gothic artists

Duccio, Maestà (1308–11), his masterpiece was for Siena's cathedral

Master Francke, German Gothic painter and Dominican friar

Giotto, Proto-Renaissance artist with many religious works; the best regarded perhaps is his Cappella degli Scrovegni in the Arena Chapel

Renaissance to Rococo

Juan de la Abadía, Spanish painter in the Spanish-Flemish style; did works in churches and hermitages

Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, Nicolas-Sébastien Adam, and François Gaspard Adam, French sculptors and brothers; works include church sculptures

Fra Guglielmo Agnelli, Italian sculptor, architect, and lay brother; among the more noted artists for the Dominican Order

Angelica Veronica Airola, Baroque painter of religious works; became a nun

Francesco Albani, works include a Baptism of Christ and frescoes for Santa Maria della Pace

Cherubino Alberti, director of the Vatican authorized Accademia di San Luca who did work for chapels

Mariotto Albertinelli, Florentine school painter known for his depiction of The Visitation

Balthasar Augustin Albrecht, Bavarian painter partly known for an altar piece depicting the Assumption of Mary

Matteo Perez d'Aleccio, reportedly worked with Michelangelo on the Sistine Chapel

Martino Altomonte, works include Maria Immaculata and The Ascension of Mary

Fra Angelico, member of the Dominican Order and a beatified person

Antonio de Paz, sculptor noted for work in Salamanca's churches and its cathedral

Niccolò dell'Arca, works include Candlestick-holding Angel in the Arca di San Domenico

Alberto Arnoldi, 14th-century Italian architect and sculptor; significant to Florence Cathedral and the city's 14th-century art

Asam brothers, late Baroque/Rococo artists of churches and monasteries

Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary who did paintings for the Cathedral of Avignon and was later honored by the Qianlong Emperor

Johann Baptist Babel, Swiss sculptor who did work for Einsiedeln Abbey and the Cathedral of Saint Ursus of Solothurn

Giovanni Baglione, works include frescoes in the vault of the nave of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore

Roque Balduque, Flemish sculptor and maker of altarpieces; known for works from after he settled in Spain

Bartolommeo Bandinelli, did bas-reliefs in the choir of the cathedral of Florence

Barna da Siena, works include Christ Bearing the Cross, with a Dominican Friar

Federico Barocci, became a lay Capuchin and Counter-Reformation artist

Fra Bartolomeo, member of a Dominican Order; works include The Vision of St Bernard

Martino di Bartolomeo, fourteenth-century Italian painter and manuscript illuminator; works include Marian art, church frescoes, altar-pieces, and choirbooks

Pompeo Batoni, works include Return of the Prodigal Son

Giuseppe Bazzani, Italian Rococo painter whose religious works include the altarpiece of St Romuald's Vision

Gaspar Becerra, Spanish Renaissance sculptor and painter; much of his religious art has been destroyed by war

Giovanni Bellini, did Altarpiece with St Vincent Ferrar

Johann-Georg Bendl, Bohemian sculptor known for sculptures of saints and angels

Johann Georg Bergmüller, religious works include Allegory of the Catholic Church and Communion, drawings of Thomas Aquinas, church frescoes

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, did the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa in Santa Maria della Vittoria

Alonso Berruguete, Spanish painter, sculptor, and architect noted for emotive sculptures depicting religious ecstasy or torment

Trophime Bigot, did a variety of altar-pieces, a depiction of the Assumption of the Virgin, depiction of Judith Beheading Holofernes, and paintings of saints

Fra Bonaventura Bisi, Franciscan monk who did religious works like Holy Family, with St. John and St. Elisabeth

Pedro Atanasio Bocanegra, did religious art at the cloister of Nuestra Senora de Gracia and the College of the Jesuits

Krzysztof Boguszewski, Polish Baroque painter and priest

Andrea Bolgi, did Saint Helena statue in St. Peter's Basilica

Boetius à Bolswert, copper-plate engraver who did emblems for the devotional book Pia Desideria and was a member of the Jesuit Sodality of Adult Bachelorhood

Orazio Borgianni, did religious art in San Silvestro in Capite, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, and elsewhere

Hieronymus Bosch, did Christ Crowned with Thorns, which hangs in the San Lorenzo monastery at El Escorial

Sandro Botticelli, Madonna and Child with an Angel and The Mystical Nativity are among his religious works; is believed to have become strongly moralistic in later life

Francesco Botticini, largely known for Marian paintings, such as Assumption of the Virgin

Valentin de Boulogne, did The Martyrdom of Martinian and Processus and altarpieces for the Holy See

Dieric Bouts, like many Early Netherlandish painters he did much religious work, such as The Entombment

Andrea Bregno, Italian Early Renaissance sculptor and architect who did religious sculptures and work on papal tombs

Charles Le Brun, French Baroque painter whose religious works include The Sleep of Jesus and L'Assomption de la Vierge

Filippo Brunelleschi, designer of the dome of the Florence Cathedral

Miguel Cabrera, given access to Our Lady of Guadalupe for copies, wrote about the image in Maravilla Americana, and did religious themes

Guglielmo Caccia and Orsola Maddalena Caccia, father and daughter known for religious art

Melchiorre Cafà, Maltese sculptor active in Rome; works include Martyrdom of Saint Eustace, Virgin of the Rosary, and Ecstasy of Saint Catherine

Girolamo Campagna, Northern Italian sculptor who did sculptures of saints and work on altars

José Campeche, early Puerto Rican painter; although he also did portraits, his religious work is the most abundant of his known production

Bernardino Campi, works include Immaculée Conception

Robert Campin, like many Early Netherlandish painters, he did much religious art

Alonzo Cano, Spanish painter, architect, and sculptor known for religious art; also known for generosity, fierce temperament, and antisemitism

Battistello Caracciolo or "Battistello", Italian caravaggisti whose works include a depiction of the Liberation of Saint Peter for Pio Monte della Misericordia and the Immaculate Conception for the Santa Maria della Stella in Naples

Caravaggio, religious work includes The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew in the San Luigi dei Francesi

Carlo Carlone, Italian Rococo artist active in Germany whose works include The Glorification of Saints Felix and Adauctus for the church of San Felice del Benaco

Fra Carnevale, member of the Dominican Order; works include Christ on the Cross

The Carracci, relatives who all did at least some religious art

Juan Carreño de Miranda, noted as a court painter; also did works for convents and churches

Jaume Cascalls, 14th-century Catalan sculptor linked to works at the Church of St. Mary, Poblet Monastery, Santa Maria de Ripoll, Girona Cathedral, and others

Giuseppe Castiglione, sent to China as a missionary; also did wall paintings in Jesuit churches in Portugal and Macau

Catherine of Bologna, Italian nun, saint, and non-professional artist

Pasquale Cati, known for a depiction of the Matryrdom of Saint Lawrence and a depiction of the Council of Trent

Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, sculptor who did restoration work for the Vatican and became a Knight of the Golden Spur

Benvenuto Cellini, employed at the papal mint at Rome during the papacy of Pope Clement VII and later of Pope Paul III

Giuseppe Cesari, a favorite of Pope Clement VIII, his patron; partly known for religious art for churches

Petrus Christus, works include Portrait of a Carthusian

Agostino Ciampelli, trained in the studio of Santi di Tito; works include The Martyrdom of St. Clement I, Pope

Cimabue, works include a crucifix at Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze

Matteo Civitali, noted sculptor and architect who built a chapel that the Holy Face of Lucca is in

Hendrick de Clerck, Flemish Baroque painter who did an altarpiece

Joos van Cleve, works include Man with the Rosary and Triptych of Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Andrew

Giulio Clovio, Italian/Croatian Renaissance painter of Farnese Hours; works include The Towneley Lectionary

Claudio Coello, Spanish Baroque painter of Portuguese ancestry; worked at the court of Charles II and did much religious art

Niccolò Antonio Colantonio, largely known for the Delivery of the Franciscan Rule and works for churches

Sebastiano Conca, works include Christ at the Garden of Gesthemane, The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Bartolomeo Coriolano, engraver whose major works include St Jerome in Meditation Before a Crucifix, Herodias with the Head of the Baptist, and The Virgin, with the Infant Sleeping; his daughter Theresa Maria Coriolano was also an engraver of religious works

Carlo Cornara, Jesuit who did work for the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio

Antonio da Correggio, works include Adoration of the Magi, Martyrdom of Four Saints, Assumption of the Virgin, and Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine

Pietro da Cortona, Italian Baroque painter and architect who did church ceiling frescoes and church architecture

Manoel da Costa Ataíde, Brazilian Baroque painter known for painting the ceiling of the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Ouro Preto

Jacques Courtois (Jesuit), painted, in the Cistercian monastery, the Miracle of the Loaves

Wouter Crabeth I and Wouter Crabeth II, grandfather and grandson whose works include Catholic religious art

Caspar de Crayer, Flemish Baroque painter; works include Martyrdom of St Blaise and Centurion and Christ

Il Cerano, did paintings of the Quadroni of St. Charles

Carlo Crivelli, Italian Renaissance painter

Baldassare Croce, directed the Accademia di San Luca and did a "Passion cycle" for a basilica

Szymon Czechowicz, painted The Entombment, pieces depicting St. Stanislaus of Szczepanów, and works for churches

Baccio D'Agnolo, Italian wood-carver, sculptor, and architect whose works include the campanile of the church of Santo Spirito, Florence

Lluís Dalmau, 15th-century Catalan painter; works include Virgin of the Consellers

Fra Diamante, Carmelite friar who assisted Filippo Lippi and did religious frescoes at his convent

Jacopo di Mino del Pellicciaio, did a painting of the Coronation of the Virgin and aided Bartolo di Fredi on Siena Cathedral

Lovro Dobričević, 15th-century Croatian painter of altarpieces and church paintings

Marco d'Oggiono, pupil of Leonardo da Vinci; did frescoes for Santa Maria della Pace and others

Carlo Dolci, did paintings of saints and Biblical figures; also known for personal piety

Domenichino, religious art includes his Saint John the Evangelist and Adoration of the Shepherds,

Donatello, Italian Renaissance sculptor whose religious artworks include Saint Mark, The Feast of Herod, and Judith and Holofernes

François Duquesnoy, did statues for St. Peter's Basilica

Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa, Valencian Baroque painter; works include es:El milagro del Cristo del Rescate and es:Comunión de la Magdalena

Fernando Estévez, Canarian known for the copy of the Virgin of Candelaria

Gentile da Fabriano, Italian painter whose best known works, like Adoration of the Magi, are religious

Nicolás Factor, Spanish Renaissance painter and beatified person

Cosimo Fanzago, Neapolitan Baroque architect and sculptor; religious works include churches and altars

Garcia Fernandes, Portuguese Renaissance painter of altarpieces and church art

Gregorio Fernández, Castilian school sculptor for altarpieces and "pasos procesionales"

Gaudenzio Ferrari, Renaissance painter and sculptor whose works were exclusively, or at least primarily, religious in nature

Ercole Ferrata, Italian Baroque sculptor whose works include The Death of St. Agnes and Angel with a Cross

Domenico Fetti, works include several of a religious nature, though much of his religious art was for private devotions

Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer, "house sculptor" for Salem Abbey

Juan de Flandes, Early Netherlandish painter active in Spain who concentrated on religious work after 1504

Bertholet Flemalle, works include Adoration of the Magi for the sacristy of a church of the Augustinians

Lavinia Fontana, did Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, (1579, Diocesan Seminary, Bologna) and work for Pope Paul V

Damià Forment or "Damian Forment", Spanish Renaissance sculptor known for cathedral work

Jean Fouquet, religious works include the Pieta of Nouans in the Church of Nouans-les-Fontaines

Piero della Francesca, religious works include The History of the True Cross, in the Basilica of San Francesco in Arezzo, and The Baptism of Christ

Bartolo di Fredi, works include an altarpiece in the Siena Cathedral and Presentation of Mary in the Temple

Agnolo Gaddi, religious works include a painting of the Coronation of the Virgin and frescoes in the choir of the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence

Fede Galizia, works include an altarpiece for Saint Maria Maddalena Church and paintings related to the Book of Judith; primarily did still lifes

Bartolomeo della Gatta, Italian Camaldolese monk who did frescoes on the walls of the Sistine Chapel; later became an abbot

Bernardino Gatti, also called "il Sojaro"; did several religious works in Parma and Cremona, including an Assumption of Virgin for the Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Steccata

Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Jesuit noted for Triumph of the Name of Jesus on the ceiling of the Church of the Gesù

Geertgen tot Sint Jans, 15th-century painter from the Low Countries; works include Nativity at Night

Artemisia Gentileschi, works include Judith Beheading Holofernes, Virgin Mary and Baby with Rosary, and work with Pope Urban VIII

Antonio Gherardi, Italian Baroque painter, architect, and stuccoist who did work for many churches

Lorenzo Ghiberti, sculptor known for the north and east doors of the Florence Baptistery; the Gates of Paradise, and depictions of saints

Simone Ghini, Italian Renaissance sculptor who did work for popes

Domenico Ghirlandaio, work includes Vocation of the Apostles

Caterina Ginnasi, encouraged her uncle, Cardinal Domenico Ginnasi, to build a convent and did religious art for churches

Hugo van der Goes, joined the Congregation of Windesheim; many of his works are religious art

Nuno Gonçalves, forerunner of the Portuguese Renaissance; largely known for the Saint Vincent Panels

Benozzo Gozzoli, work includes frescoes in the Magi Chapel and paintings of saints and Mother Mary

Matthias Grünewald, German Catholic religious artist

Guercino, The Burial of St. Petronilla

Ignaz Günther, Bavarian Rococo sculptor and woodcarver best remembered for his work in churches

Matthäus Günther, German Baroque/Rococo artist who did frescoes for many churches and monasteries

Francisco Herrera the Elder and Francisco Herrera the Younger, Spanish Golden Age father and son who both did noted church paintings

Adriaen Isenbrandt, works include a depiction of the Mass of Saint Gregory and a triptych with the Assumption of Mary

Jan Janssens, Flemish Baroque painter and Ghent Caravaggisti whose works conformed to the Counter-Reformation

André Jean, member of the Dominican Order partly known for paintings depicting scenes in the New Testament

Jean Jouvenet, Magnificat in the choir of Notre-Dame

Martin Knoller, Austrian/Italian who painted frescoes for Neresheim Abbey, Ettal Abbey, and other abbeys, as well as altarpieces

Adam Kraft, known for work in cathedrals and churches

Giovanni Lanfranco, Italian Baroque painter who did much religious art and was honored by the Accademia di San Luca

Georges de La Tour, French Baroque painter whose works include Magdalen with the Smoking Flame

Francesco Laurana, Dalmatian/Italian sculptor and medallist whose religious art includes statues of saints and Mary

Tommaso Laureti,nNoted work in Santa Susanna and a fresco series on a post-Council of Trent triumphalist theme for Pope Gregory XIII

Bernardo de Legarda, Quito School sculptor noted for Marian sculptures

Pierre Le Gros the Younger, sculptor of Religion Overthrowing Heresy and Hatred in Church of the Gesù and other religious art

Diego de Leyva, primarily produced religious art after retiring to a Carthusian monastery

Filippo Lippi, Carmelite who painted for a convent chapel at Prato; this led to an affair with Lucrezia Buti and to a son, Filippino Lippi

Filippino Lippi, his frescoes depicting the life of Philip the Apostle are in the Basilica di Santa Maria Novella

Alexandro Loarte, painted a Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes (1622) for the Mission Friars; also did paintings of saints

Barbara Longhi, her devotional art is said to reflect the Counter-Reformation

Gregório Lopes, Portuguese painter, primarily a religious artist

Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Pietro Lorenzetti, brothers whose works include Presentation at the Temple and Madonna dei Tramonti

Claude Lorrain, although best known for landscape painting, also did religious art; his work is said to be influenced by the worldview of the Counter-Reformation

Lorenzo Lotto, became a Franciscan lay brother; religious art includes Recanati Annunciation and Recanati Polyptych

Bernardino Luini, a Leonardeschi; religious works include depictions of Mother Mary

Benedetto da Maiano and Giuliano da Maiano, Italian brothers who did a variety of religious sculpture and architecture

Juan Bautista Maíno, Spanish Baroque painter and Dominican friar who did work for the church of San Pedro Mártir among others

Jean Malouel, early Dutch painter of much religious art

Andrea Mantegna, The Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Carlo Maratta, works include Immaculate Conception; knighted in 1704 by Pope Clement XI

Juan Martínez Montañés, many of his works are religious in nature, as is common to the Sevillian school of sculpture

Simone Martini, died in the service of the Papal court at Avignon in 1344

Masaccio, works include Virgin and Child with St. Anne

Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Austrian Rococo painter who did ecclesiastical themes for many churches, including a Piarist Church in Vienna

Guido Mazzoni, Italian Renaissance sculptor noted for a depiction of the Lamentation of Christ (Compianta)

Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, called "Il Morazzone"; has works in the Quadroni of St. Charles and painted altarpieces for many churches in Northern Italy

Hans Memling, Early Netherlandish artist; works include The Last Judgment and St. Ursula Shrine

Lippo Memmi, painter of Annunciation with St. Margaret and St. Ansanus

Pedro de Mena, Spanish sculptor for convents and cathedrals

Anton Raphael Mengs, Bohemian Neoclassical painter; after converting, painted religious works including The Glory of Saint Eusebius

Juan de Mesa, creator of several of the effigies that are used in the procession during the Holy Week in Seville

Antonello da Messina, works include Annunciation and Crucifixion

Domenico di Michelino, primarily Biblical and religious scenes

Michelangelo, painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling

Michelozzo, did numerous statues of saints found at basilicas in Italy

Jan Miel, painted in the Roman church of Santa Maria dell'Anima for the chapel of San Lamberto and did other church art

Josef Ignaz Mildorfer, Austrian who primarily painted religious-themed altarpieces and frescoes on subjects like the Pentecost and the Assumption of Mary

Francesco Mochi, statue of Saint Veronica in St. Peter's Basilica

Gabriel Móger, Majorcan who did work on retables and altarpieces by the churches of Majorca

Lorenzo Monaco, Camaldolese painter who did a noted Predella

Pierre-Étienne Monnot, French Baroque sculptor who did work for the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran and the Santa Maria della Vittoria

Baccio and Raffaello da Montelupo, father and son whose work includes sculptures of saints and angels, made during the Italian Renaissance

Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli, Servite friar and sculptor who did a marble altarpiece of the Annunciation of Mary

Luis de Morales, Spanish painter of primarily religious subjects

Giovanni Maria Morlaiter, did most of the sculptures in Santa Maria del Rosario, a Dominican Order church

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, best known for his Roman Catholic religious works

Girolamo Muziano, works include Resurrection of Lazarus led a team which did works on Church history

Tommaso Napoli, Sicilian Baroque architect of cathedrals and a member of the Dominican Order

Nicolau Nasoni, Italian architect and artist active in Portugal who did work for the Porto Cathedral, built the Clérigos Church, and did work for other churches

Juan Fernández Navarrete, deaf Spanish painter noted for his depictions of the Baptism of Christ, The Nativity, and Abraham

Pieter Neeffs I, Pieter Neeffs II, and Ludovicus Neefs, Flemish Baroque painters noted for depicting church interiors

Plautilla Nelli, nun and religious artist

Giovanni Niccolo, Jesuit in Japan, known for works of Salvator Mundi and The Madonna

Dello di Niccolò Delli, Italian sculptor known for the apse cycle in the Old Cathedral, Salamanca

Josefa de Óbidos, one of the leading women Baroque painters; also did altarpieces

Vincenzo Onofri, Bolognese Renaissance sculptor of altars and a bust of Albertus Magnus, known for terracotta

Gilles-Marie Oppenordt, French designer and architect whose works include the chapel of St. John the Baptist in Amiens Cathedral

Bartolomé Ordóñez, Spanish Renaissance sculptor who did work for churches and tombs

Lorenzo Ottoni, best known for Counter-Reformation religious sculpture

Francisco Pacheco, painter who taught Diego Velázquez and felt artists' role was to "instill piety and to lead people to God"

Antonio Palomino, art writer and biographer who did a fresco for the sacristy of the Granada Charterhouse; became a priest after his wife's death

Giovanni di Paolo, Sienese School painter known for somewhat dreamlike religious art, such as Miracle of St. Nicholas of Tolentino

Parmigianino, works include Circumcision of Jesus, Vision of Saint Jerome, and Madonna with the Long Neck

Pietro Perugino, did Moses Leaving to Egypt, Baptism of Christ, and Delivery of the Keys at the Sistine Chapel

Baldassare Peruzzi, did ceiling decorations at the Vatican, and an altar at Siena

Francesco Pesellino, work includes a predella

Georg Petel, German sculptor; works include wood and ivory crucifixes, and a carved figure of Saint Christopher

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian Baroque/Rococo painter; works include The Glory of St. Dominic and Assumption of The Virgin

Anton Pichler, Giovanni Pichler, and Luigi Pichler, family of gem engravers who did work for popes

Sano di Pietro, like many in the Sienese School, many of his works are religious in nature

Anton Pilgram, Austrian/German sculptor and architect who worked on cathedrals and altars

Pinturicchio, worked with several Popes and did frescoes for the Piccolomini Library adjoining Siena Cathedral

Sebastiano del Piombo, The Raising of Lazarus, and the altarpiece for Chigi Chapel

Pietro del Po, Giacomo del Po, and Teresa del Po, a father and two of his children who were members of the Accademia di San Luca and did religious art

Tobias Pock, Austrian/Swabian noted for Coronation of Virgin Mary and many paintings of saints found in churches

Antonio del Pollaiolo and Piero del Pollaiolo, brothers whose works include the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian and work at the Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze

Pontormo, works include Annunciation, Madonna with Child and Saints, The Deposition from the Cross and St. Quentin

Nicolas Poussin, Baroque/Classical painter; works include Seven Sacraments

Andrea Pozzo, Jesuit brother known for the ceiling of Sant'Ignazio Church in Rome

Mattia Preti, Italian Baroque artist who did religious works in Naples and also in Malta, specifically St. John's Co-Cathedral

Scipione Pulzone, portrait artist whose religious works include Mater Divinae Providentiae, Our Lady of the Assumption, and Christ on the Cross with Saints

Enguerrand Quarton, 15th-century French artist of many religious paintings, including a rendition of the Coronation of the Virgin

Jacopo della Quercia, Italian Renaissance sculptor of altarpieces, statues of saints, and statues of Mother Mary

Diego Quispe Tito, Cuzco School painter of Virgin of Carmel Saving Souls in Purgatory and scenes of Christ

Ignác Raab, Czech Jesuit who did notable paintings of saints

Raffaellino del Colle, several works of Marian art

Antonio Raggi, Baroque sculptor from Ticino whose works include Death of Saint Cecilia, Baptism of Christ, and Angel with the Column

Ivan Ranger, monastic noted for paintings in churches, chapels, and monasteries

Raphael, Transfiguration is one of his religious works and is housed in the Pinacoteca Vaticana of Vatican City

Guido Reni - Italian Baroque painter of frescoes like St Dominic's Glory and paintings such as Assumption of Mary

Francisco Ribalta, Spanish Baroque painter

Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish/Neapolitan associated to Tenebrism; partly noted for depictions of martyrdom found in Neapolitan churches

Ricardo do Pilar, German/Brazilian monk whose paintings include Apparition of Our Lady to St. Bernard

Sebastiano Ricci, did a variety of works for Popes and did altarpieces

Giuliano da Rimini, known for altarpieces, a rendition of the Coronation of the Virgin, and possibly part of a Rimini school of painting

Jacopo Ripanda, known for frescoes in churches and Vatican palaces

Juan Rizi, Spanish Baroque painter who did paintings of saints; was made an Archbishop by Pope Clement X

Francesco Robba, Venetian Baroque sculptor and architect; did work for churches in Slovenia and Croatia

Luca della Robbia, sculptor whose works include The Nativity, circa 1460, and Madonna and Child, circa 1475

Pedro Roldán and Luisa Roldán, father and daughter who both did religious sculpture linked to the Sevillian school of sculpture

Antoniazzo Romano, Decoration of the Vatican Palace and frescoes in Santa Maria sopra Minerva

Paolo Romano, early Renaissance sculptor who worked for Popes and did a notable sculpture of Saint Paul

Cosimo Rosselli, works include Last Supper and Descent from Mount Sinai

Antonio and Bernardo Rossellino, brothers who did religious works for churches

Angelo de Rossi, did sculptures for Popes; is linked to the Accademia di San Luca

Peter Paul Rubens, Catholic convert; has works in Saint Bavo Cathedral and the Cathedral of Our Lady (Antwerp)

Camillo Rusconi, Italian late-Baroque sculptor whose masterpieces are said to be four sculptures of apostles (Matthew, James the Great, Andrew, and John)

Guillem Sagrera, Catalan sculptor and architect from Majorca; director of the works of the Perpignan Cathedral and others

Ventura Salimbeni, Sienese School artist whose works include Disputa of the Eucharist; became a Knight of the Golden Spur for his work in the Basilica of San Pietro

Francisco Salzillo, Spanish Baroque sculptor who did work for a Capuchin monastery in the Region of Murcia and churches in the area

Stanisław Samostrzelnik, Polish painter of frescoes in Catholic churches

Juan Sánchez Cotán, although best known for Bodegónes, he was a prolific religious painter and entered a Carthusian monastery

Andrea Sansovino, High Renaissance sculptor who did work for the Genoa Cathedral, the Santa Maria in Aracoeli, and the Basilica of Sant'Agostino

Jacopo Sansovino, the statue Madonna del Parto in the Basilica of Sant'Agostino; student of Andrea Sansovino

Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao, Cuzco School painter of A Franciscan Allegory of the Immaculate Virgin; supervised paintings of the Corpus Christi procession

Carlo Saraceni, Caravaggisti whose religious art includes an altarpiece in the Roman church of San Lorenzo in Lucina

Andrea del Sarto, work includes paintings for the Santissima Annunziata, Florence

Sassetta, like much of the Sienese School, he did religious art, including the Mystic Marriage of St. Francis

Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato, work includes paintings of Mother Mary

Christoph Thomas Scheffler, Jesuit who did portraits of Jesuit astronomers and frescoes in St. Paulinus' and other churches

Martin Johann Schmidt, Austrian Baroque/Rococo painter who primarily painted devotional images

Martin Schongauer, engraver mostly known for religious works such as Christi Geburt and Maria im Rosenhag

Johann Paul Schor, worked on the Siena Cathedral

Gerard Seghers, Flemish Baroque painter and Caravaggisti whose works include an Adoration of the Magi in the Church of Our Lady, Bruges

Giacomo Serpotta, stuccoist from Palermo who did a great deal of his work for churches

Luca Signorelli, his masterpiece is considered to be his fresco of the Last Judgment (1499) in Orvieto Cathedral

Diego Siloe, a founding figure in the Granadan school of sculpture and a church architect

Gherardo Silvani, Italian architect and sculptor of the Baroque who did much work on the San Gaetano, Florence

Elisabetta Sirani, works include a painting in the Basilica di San Marino and an Assumption of the Virgin

Michael Sittow, Estonian trained in the Early Netherlandish painting style; did a mix of small devotional art and portraits

Claus Sluter, Dutch/French Renaissance Northern Renaissance sculptor noted for the Well of Moses

Leonello Spada, Caravaggisti whose paintings include St Dominic Burning the Books of the Heretics in the Basilica of San Domenico

Massimo Stanzione, Italian Baroque painter whose religious works include a depiction of The Assumption of the Virgin and one of Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Johann Baptist Straub and Philipp Jakob Straub, Baroque sculptors who did much church art

Bernardo Strozzi, a Capuchin for several years; works include Christ Giving the Keys of Heaven to St. Peter

Pierre Subleyras, religious art includes Saint John of Ávila and Marriage of St Catherine

Giovanni Francesco Susini, Florentine Mannerist sculptor who did some religious art

Carpoforo Tencalla, Swiss-Italian Baroque painter who did work in several churches and monasteries

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, religious works include Pope St. Clement Adoring the Trinity, Institution of the Rosary, and The Immaculate Conception

Tintoretto, contributed Marriage at Cana to the Santa Maria della Salute

Benvenuto Tisi, sometimes called "Il Garofalo"; a great deal of his works are religious

Titian, the most represented artist in the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute; was at the Council of Trent

Santi di Tito, works include Vision of Saint Thomas Aquinas and Annunciation

Luis Tristán, Spanish Baroque painter; one of his most important paintings is an altar image in the church of Yepes

Paul Troger, did frescoes for several abbeys and also Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius in St. Ignatius’ church in Győr, Hungary

Paolo Uccello, works include Saint George and the Dragon, Nun-Saint with Two Children, and Life of the Holy Fathers

Andrea Vaccaro, Tenebrist style painter known for paintings of saints

Juan de Valdés Leal, works include The Assumption of the Virgin and Virgin of the Immaculate Conception with Sts Andrew and John the Baptist

Hubert van Eyck, worked on Ghent Altarpiece

Jan van Eyck, works include Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele, and work on the Ghent Altarpiece

Luis de Vargas, Spanish painter, influenced by Mannerism; painted altarpieces and other religious works in Seville; reportedly quite devout

Giorgio Vasari, An Allegory of the Immaculate Conception; a Knight of the Golden Spur; perhaps better known as a biographer

Gregorio Vasquez de Arce y Ceballos, most of his work is religious in nature

Juan Bautista Vázquez the Elder and Juan Bautista Vázquez the Younger, both sculpted Catholic religious art as did most in the Sevillian school of sculpture

Vecchietta, religious art in the Cappella del Sacro Chiodo and in varied churches

Diego Velázquez, portrait artist whose religious works include Christ in the House of Martha and Mary and Temptation of St. Thomas

Domenico Veneziano, Santa Lucia de' Magnoli Altarpiece

Giuseppe Vermiglio, Caravaggisti whose works are believed to include The Incredulity of St. Thomas, Crowning with Thorns / Mocking of Christ and Saint Jerome

Paolo Veronese, The Adoration of the Magi on the ceiling of the Capella del Rosario and The Wedding at Cana for San Giorgio Monastery

Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper at Santa Maria delle Grazie is perhaps his most famous religious work

Daniele da Volterra, known for his painting Descent from the Cross in the Trinità dei Monti and for being hired to cover the genitals in Michelangelo's The Last Judgment

Simon Vouet, works include Saint Jerome, The Conversion of the Magdalen, and The Virgin and Child

Johann Peter Alexander Wagner, Rococo sculptor of Stations of the Cross, a crucifix, and other religious art

Rogier van der Weyden, early Netherlandish painter of many works of religious art

Wu Li, Chinese landscape painter, poet, and member of the Society of Jesus

Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina, Spanish Renaissance art whose works were often religious

Francisco Tito Yupanqui, known for Marian statues such as Virgin of Copacabana; there is an effort to have him beatified

Marcos Zapata, like many of the Cuzco School, his works dealt with religious subjects

Juan Zariñena, primarily religious painter from Valencia

Johann Jakob Zeiller, Austrian known for religious frescoes like those at Aldersbach Abbey in Fürstenzell and the Ettal Abbey

Januarius Zick, German architect and painter of the Late Baroque who did art for various monasteries and churches

Giuseppe Zimbalo, Leccesi architect and sculptor; did the façade of the Basilica of Santa Croce

Dominikus Zimmermann and Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German brothers who did church architecture, stucco, and painting

Francisco de Zurbarán, works include the great altarpiece of St. Thomas Aquinas, Immaculate Conception, and paintings of Carthusians

Federico Zuccari, Pauline chapel of the Vatican and The Last Judgment inside the dome of the Florence Cathedral

19th century to present

Kiko Argüello, an initiator of the Neocatechumenal Way who has done church art

Ephraim Francis Baldwin, designed St. Leo's Church and won a Benemerenti medal for his work on The Catholic University of America

Cajetan J. B. Baumann, Franciscan friar and church architect

Ade Bethune, liturgical artist linked to the Catholic Worker Movement

Jean-Baptiste Bethune, called by some the "Pugin of Belgium"; founder of the Catholic Gild de St. Thomas et de St. Luc

Gilbert Blount, English Catholic architect of St Mary Magdalen's Church in Brighton

Giuseppe Calì, Maltese painter who did paintings for many churches

Antonio Castillo Lastrucci, Andalusian sculptor known for religious works in the Cathedral of St Mary of the Assumption in Ceuta, around Seville, and elsewhere

Eduardo Castrillo, Filipino sculptor noted partly for religious art including a depiction of Saint Pedro Calungsod

Paul Cézanne, Post-Impressionist whose early works include some religious art such as Christ in Limbo

Albert Chmielowski, saint; founder of the Albertine Brothers, who did art, such as a depiction of Ecce homo, before taking up the religious life and serving the poor

Antonio Ciseri, nineteenth-century religious artist originally from Ticino; works include Ecce Homo and The Transport of Christ to the Sepulcher

Philip Lindsey Clark, works include a Stations of the Cross sculpture; after 1930 "all his RA exhibits were of religious and often specifically Catholic subjects;" became a Carmelite Tertiary

John Collier, convert, sculptor of Catholic memorial at Ground Zero in New York City

James Collinson

William Congdon, after his conversion in 1959 he began his Crocefissi (Crucifixion) series

João Zeferino da Costa, Brazilian painter of panels in the Candelária Church

Marie-Alain Couturier (Dominican friar), stained glass and sacred art in modern form

Luigi Crosio, painted the Refugium Peccatorum Madonna

Salvador Dalí, created numerous large-scale religious compositions starting around the time of his repatriation in Spain

Sylvia Daoust, did work for Mary, Queen of the World, Cathedral; most of her work is religious

Anne Davidson, known for secular sculpture; religious works include Saint Margaret of Scotland and Resurrection; belonged to the Society of Catholic Artists

Maurice Denis, artist linked to Les Nabis; afterward he joined a third order and did religious art

Jan Henryk de Rosen, convert with works displayed at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and elsewhere

Melchior Paul von Deschwanden, 19th-century Swiss painter primarily known for Catholic religious art

Czesław Dźwigaj, monuments to Pope John Paul II

Joseph-Hugues Fabisch, famous for The Virgin of Lourdes, which caused controversy as St. Bernadette Soubirous did not approve

Thomasita Fessler, nun who designed stained glass windows and founded the art department at Cardinal Stritch University

Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, works include St. Clare Healing the Blind and other art for churches

Arthur Fleischmann, works include sculptures of popes and a Tryptych of the Holy Rosary for Westminster Cathedral

Moira Forsyth, stained glass artist; former President of the Society of Catholic Artists; works appear in Catholic and Anglican churches

Tsuguharu Foujita, designer and fresco painter of Foujita Chapel on Mumm's estate, Reims, France

Michael Sigismund Frank, glass painter and Catholic artist

Ernst Fuchs, a founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism; converted to Catholicism; did the cycle Mysteries of the Holy Rosary

Yasutake Funakoshi, Japanese convert who did sculptures of the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan and was honored by a Pope

Antoni Gaudí, architect of Sagrada Família (there are efforts to have him beatified)

Gregory Gerrer, Benedictine priest; did a portrait of Pope Pius X; co-founded the Association of Oklahoma Artists

James Gillick, contemporary English painter of ecclesiastical works such as the altarpiece at St. Neots, Cambridgeshire and the reredos at SS Gregory and Augustine's

George Goldie, specialized in Catholic churches, including St. Ignatius Church, Wishaw

Félix Granda, priest, sculptor, metalsmith, craftsman, and founder of the liturgical art workshop Talleres de Arte

Matthew Ellison Hadfield, English architect noted for Gothic Revival churches like Salford Cathedral and St Vincent's Church in Sheffield

Joseph Hansom, English architect who worked on Arundel Cathedral and other Catholic churches

William Laurel Harris, convert who did murals for the Paulist Fathers

John Rogers Herbert, his conversion is significant to his artistic history; most of his post-conversion art is religious

John Hogan, Irish sculptor of The Dead Christ

Evie Hone, spent time in an Anglican convent; after converting to Catholicism she did stained glass works for Catholic churches

Maria Innocentia Hummel, nun and artist known for figurines, but whose suffering under Nazi rule lead her to do the work The Stations of the Cross

Berthold Imhoff, Knight of St. Gregory the Great known for his religious murals and paintings

Franz Ittenbach, German artist and member of the Nazarene movement

Louis Janmot, French religious painter and poet

Gwen John, Welsh artist; after converting, did religious art for a convent

David Jones, convert whose works include Sanctus Christus de Capel-y-ffin; better known as a poet

Patrick Keely, architect of numerous churches such as St. Mary's Church Complex

Adam Kossowski, former gulag inmate and a religious artist who joined the Guild of Catholic Artists and Craftsmen in 1944

William Kurelek, convert from Orthodoxy noted for paintings of Christ

Desiderius Lenz, Jan Verkade, and Gabriel Wuger, Benedictines belonging to the largely religious Beuron Art School

Leandro Locsin, architect of the Church of the Holy Sacrifice

Maurice Loriaux, founder of Santa Fé Studios of Church Art; ecclesiologist

Fred McCarthy, Secular Franciscan Order member best known as the cartoonist of Brother Jupiter; also did religious paintings

Charles Donagh Maginnis, Catholic church architect

Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg, German-Dutch convert whose works include church interiors and religious sculpture

Ivan Meštrović, Croatian religious sculptor; works include St. Jerome the Priest

Rudolf Moroder-Lenèrt, painter; did primarily religious sculpture, including a Stations of the Cross for the Church of St. Ann in Silesia and a sculpture of St. Elizabeth of Hungary for the Exposition Universelle in 1900

Rosemarie Morris, OP, bronze sculptor

Antonio Moscheni, Jesuit painter known for painting at the chapel; St. Aloysius College (Mangalore)

Esther Newport, member of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods; founded the Catholic Art Association

Guido Nincheri, artist for Catholic churches in Canada; Pope Pius XI named him Knight-Commander of the Order of Saint-Sylvester

Erik Olson, Swedish convert; painted a triptych in 1977 for the Vatican Museum in Rome

Francis Petre, Catholic architect of cathedrals in New Zealand

Edith Pfau, nun known for the works Risen Christ, Stations of the Cross and Madonna and Child

Jože Plečnik, Slovene architect who built Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord

Alois Plum, praised by Cardinal Karl Lehmann for his church art

Thomas Henry Poole, British-born architect of St. Catherine of Genoa's Church and other churches in the New York City area

Augustus Pugin, Catholic convert and noted architect; did the interior of St Chad's Cathedral in Birmingham; designed Erdington Abbey

E. W. Pugin and Peter Paul Pugin, sons of Augustus and church architects in their own right

Luis Ramacciotti, known for a sculpture of Christ in La Cumbre, Argentina

Georges Rouault, noted for paintings of Christ; a friend to Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain

Tito Sarrocchi, did façades for the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence

Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, convert; like many others in the Nazarene movement, produced Catholic art

Steven Schloeder, contemporary architect, theologian, and author

Francis C. Schroen, Jesuit brother and church architect

Alexander Maximilian Seitz, did paintings of Christ and saints

Gino Severini, associated with Futurism and did church mosaics

Joseph Sibbel, German/American sculptor; works include Stations of the Cross, Doctor of the Church, and a marble statue representing Purgatory

Etsuro Sotoo, sculptor with Sagrada Família

Mary Stanisia, member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame who did paintings for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend

Giovanni Strazza, known for The Veiled Virgin, which was delivered to Bishop John T. Mullock

Imogen Stuart, contemporary convert known for a monument to Pope John Paul II at St Patrick's College, Maynooth and works at Mary Immaculate College

Jan Styka, Polish artist known in part for his large depiction of the Crucifixion of Jesus

Pietro Tenerani, works include a relief of the Descent from the Cross and a colossal statue of St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori; commissioned for the Tomb of Pope Pius VIII

Włodzimierz Tetmajer, Polish artist; specialized in religious themes; has works in Our Lady of the Angels’ Basilica

James Tissot, after a reconversion he did works like Crucifixion, seen from the Cross, which were part of a series called The Life of Jesus Christ

Jean Baptiste van Eycken, Belgian painter of works for the Église de la Chapelle

Adrian Wewer, Franciscan monk and architect of churches, seminaries, friaries, and convents

Paul Woodroffe, book illustrator and stained glass artist for chapels and churches

References

List of Roman Catholic Church artists Wikipedia

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Romanesque artists

Gothic artists

Renaissance to Rococo

19th century to present

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