Create your own bespoke print of El Greco’s Christ driving the Traders from the Temple from our collection. About this painting Christ driving the Traders from the Temple, about 1600 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1895 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

John the Baptist is shown in his camel-skin garment & carrying a reed cross. He was a few months older than Jesus. The two are often shown as youths, prior to the moment when John baptised Jesus in the River Jordan. The painting is a late work of Guido Reni. He had treated the subject once before in a larger full-length painting now in the church of the Gerolamini in Naples (about 1612). ...

Christ is shown holding the banner of the Resurrection. He is surrounded by choirs of angels; Saint Michael is identifiable at the left of the third row on the right. This, along with four other panels showing respectively, ' The Virgin Mary with the Apostles & Other Saints', ' The Forerunners of Christ with Saints & Martyrs', ' The Dominican Blessed' & another panel of ' The Dominican Blessed', formed the predella, or lower section, of the high altarpiece of San Domenico at Fiesole, near Florence. This was the church of Fra Angelico's own Dominican friary. The predella shows the most elaborate depiction of the Court of Heaven in the Collection. Christ stands in the centre surrounded by angels, saints & martyrs. The church of San Domenico was dedicated in 1435, & Fra Angelico's picture was probably in place on the high altar by that time. The main panel was modified by Lorenzo di Credi around 1501. This & the painted pilaster are still in the church. ...

Create your own bespoke print of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s Christ healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda from our collection. About this painting Christ healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda, 1667-70 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1950 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

Create your own bespoke print of Diego Velázquez’s Kitchen Scene with Christ in the House of Martha & Mary from our collection. About this painting Kitchen Scene with Christ in the House of Martha & Mary, probably 1618 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1892 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

This scene is not described in the Bible, but formed part of medieval devotional literature. Christ looks out at the viewer, inviting the meditation on His suffering which such literature usually invited. The picture appears to have formed the central part ...

Delacroix painted this subject several times throughout his career. One version showing Christ between the two thieves was exhibited at the Salon of 1835 (Musee Municipal des Beaux-Arts, Vanne). Another version of 1846, closely related to this painting, w ...

The pallor of the Virgin Mary, the gesture of Saint John clutching his cloak & the yearning posture of the kneeling Magdalen express the agony of their grief. Attention is concentrated on the carefully rendered form of the dying Christ. At the same time ...

This altarpiece shows scenes from the life of Christ. At the left at the top: ' Agony in the Garden'; At the left at the bottom: the ' Way to Calvary'. In the centre: ' Christ on the Cross with the Virgin & two Holy Women, Saints John & Francis'. At the right at the top: ' The Resurrection'; at the right at the bottom, ' Mourning over the Dead Christ'. The central pediment has a relief of 'yhs' (a monogram for Christ) within a sun, under a crown. The altarpiece was probably painted for the Franciscan convent of S. Chiara, Aquila. ...

In the New Testament, ' Ecce Homo' (Behold the Man) were the words used by Pilate when he presented Christ to the people before the Crucifixion (John 19: 2-5). The inclusion of the Virgin Mary swooning in the foreground is not mentioned in the Gospels & is not usually represented in this scene. The turbaned Pilate seems to derive from the print of the same subject in Dürer's engraved ' Passion'. X-ray photographs show many changes made during the execution of this painting, particularly around the Virgin's face. ...