File: RosaryStaAgata. jpg |" The Virgin Mary Giving the Rosary to St. Dominic and St. Catherine of Siena ," Church of Santa Agata in Trastevere, Rome ( Bottom of painting: the souls in Purgatory await the prayers of the faithful )

When the Tzu-Chi Foundation, a Taiwanese Buddhist organisation, noticed the similarity between this form of Guanyin and the Virgin Mary, the organisation commissioned a portrait of Guanyin and a baby that resembles the typical Roman Catholic Madonna and Child painting.

In this painting the young Leonardo presents the humanist face of the Virgin Mary, recognising humanity's role in God's incarnation.

In the painting Virgin and Child with St. Anne the composition again picks up the theme of figures in a landscape which Wasserman describes as " breathtakingly beautiful " and harkens back to the St Jerome picture with the figure set at an oblique angle.

It is thought that Leonardo never made a painting from it, the closest similarity being to The Virgin and Child with St. Anne in the Louvre.

Luke the Evangelist painting the first icon of the Virgin Mary.

* There is a painting depicting Christ and the Virgin by this painter in the Norton Art Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Probably it is the male patron who is represented to the left of the Virgin in the painting, while his wife is right of St. John the Evangelist.

In 1821 he finished a painting commissioned by a childhood friend, Monsieur de Pastoret, the Entry of Charles V into Paris ; de Pastoret also ordered a portrait of himself and a religious work ( Virgin with the Blue Veil ).

The painting shows the Annunciation to the shepherds, with the Virgin Mary and Christ above the burning bush.

It is a three-aisle late Gothic church, erected between 1466 and 1502, which boasts a late-Gothic painting entitled Madonna with a Roseor the Holy Virgin of Beautiful Lovefrom the 16th century.

The city is known for the famous Pauline monastery of Jasna Góra, which is the home of the Black Madonna painting ( Polish: Jasnogórski Cudowny obraz Najświętszej Maryi Panny Niepokalanie Poczętej ), a shrine to the Virgin Mary.

God the Father | Eternal Father painting the Virgin of Guadalupe.

In particular, Philip paid special devotions to a painting of the Nuestra Señora del Milagro, the Virgin of Miracles ; the painting was said to miraculously raise and lower its eyes in response to prayer.

The main altar has an oil painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe and the side chapel contains a sculpture of the virgin from 1850.

The name derives from the Italian term, also used in English, sacra conversazione for a similarly informal painting of the Virgin and Child with saints, a genre developed in the Renaissance.

The Virgin Mary in Andrea Mantegna's San Zeno Altarpiece ( Mantegna ) | San Zeno Altarpiece combines pseudo-Arabic halos and garment hems, with an Oriental carpets in Renaissance painting | Oriental carpet at her feet ( 1456 – 1459 ).

* The Holy Virgin Mary, a 1996 painting by Chris Ofilli

As was typical for Florentine painters, this was a painting about painting, and in it the Virgin of Soriano holds a miraculous and iconic painting of St Dominic.

In a particular scene between Delacroix and New York radio talk show host Imhotep Gary Byrd ( who plays himself ) discussing critics and art, Delacroix makes a reference to the controversy surrounding the Sensation exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 1999 where then-current Mayor Rudy Giuliani issued a lawsuit against British artist Chris Ofili's painting The Holy Virgin Mary.

Blood splatter covered the majority of the room, including a painting of the Virgin Mary.

A Black Madonna or Black Virgin is a statue or painting of Mary in which she is depicted with dark skin, especially those created in Europe in the medieval period or earlier.

This painting combines a portrait-like depiction of Bazille's cousin, Thérèse des Hours, who is seen from behind — and the sunlit landscape at which she gazes.

Helen of Troy ( painting ) | Helen of Troy by Evelyn de Morgan ( 1898, London ); Helen admiringly displays a lock of her hair, as she gazes into a mirror decorated with the nude Aphrodite.

Hanging over the bar was an oil painting of a nude Al had accepted from a student at the Corcoran Gallery who needed to eat and drink and was broke.

More often than not I have found easy excuse to leave my own work and stand at a respectable distance where I could watch this man transform raw nature into a composed, not imitative, painting.

It was all set up so there would be no dust anywhere and so that their children would color in the coloring room, paint in the painting room, play with blocks in the block house, and do all the other things in the proper rooms at exactly the right time.

I made plans for the afternoon -- doing the breakfast and luncheon dishes all at once, making the beds, and then maybe painting the kitchen.

In we're painting at our garage strong stress on at indicates that the job being done is not real painting but simply an effort at painting.

It is curious that at its best, the work of this school of painting -- Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Willem De-Kooning, and the rest -- resembles nothing so much as the passage painting of quite unimpressive painters: the mother-of-pearl shimmer in the background of a Henry McFee, itself a formula derived from Renoir ; ;

When Charlie came up from the beach for his four-o'clock pill, the whole establishment ( gaudy enough when seen through mist and fog ) looked like a floodlit modern painting -- great blocks of dizzy color, punctuated at regular intervals by the glaring white of five community refrigerators.

* Andy Warhol makes a digital painting of Debbie Harry at the Commodore Amiga product launch press conference in 1985

Peter I interrogates Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich at Peterhof, history painting by Nikolai Ge, 1871, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

19th century painting on display at Versailles, Yvelines | Versailles depicting Adhemar of Le Puy ( in red to left of Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse ).

The artist for whom he showed particular sympathy and regard in London was Benjamin Haydon, who might at the time be counted the sole representative of historical painting there, and whom he especially honored for his championship of the then recently transported to England and ignorantly depreciated by polite connoisseurs Parthenon's marbles.

In Italy, he returned to painting, at first producing a series of works executed in tempera on linen.

In this painting, Altdorfer places a large tree that is cut off by the margins at the center of the landscape, making it the central axis and focus within the piece.

Cuyp probably first encountered a painting by van Goyen in 1640 when van Goyen was, as Stephen Reiss points out “ at the height of powers .” This is noticeable in the comparison between two of Cuyp ’ s landscape paintings inscribed 1639 where no properly formed style is apparent and the landscape backgrounds he painted two years later for two of his father ’ s group portraits that are distinctly van Goyenesque.

Since the conclusion of Calvin and Hobbes, Watterson has taken up painting, at one point drawing landscapes of the woods with his father.

Saint Boniface ( c 680 – 750 ), Pope Gregory I ( c 540 – 604, r. 590 – 604 ), Adalbert of Egmond ( 8th century ), and priest Jeroen van Noordwijk, depicted in a 1529 painting by Jan Joostsz van Hillegom, currently on display at the Frans Hals Museum.

One young girl told me how her mother removed a wart from her finger by soaking a copper penny in vinegar for three days and then painting the finger with the liquid several times.

Mrs. Monmouth thought of him as her discovery, and she paid two to three hundred dollars for a painting.

Up on a dune, he saw a girl, all by herself, sitting on a camp stool before an easel and absorbed in her painting.

The older artist instructed Berthe and her sister in painting and introduced them to other artists and teachers.

Summer holidays were spent in Scotland and in the English Lake District where Beatrix developed a love of the natural world which was the subject of her painting from an early age.

First drawn to fungi because of their colours and evanescence in nature and her delight in painting them, her interest deepened after meeting Charles McIntosh, a revered naturalist and mycologist during a summer holiday in Perthshire in 1892.

After leaving the Academy, the 24-year-old Beaux decided to try her hand at porcelain painting and she enrolled in a course at the National Art Training School.

When her friend Margaret Bush-Brown insisted that Les Derniers was good enough to be exhibited at the famed Paris Salon, Beaux relented and sent the painting abroad in the care of her friend, who managed to get the painting into the exhibition.

She tried applying the plein-air painting techniques used by the Impressionists to her own landscapes and portraiture, with little success.

Her European training did influence her palette, however, and she adopted more white and paler coloration in her oil painting, particularly in depicting female subjects, an approach favored by Sargent as well.

" Her portraits Fanny Travis Cochran, Dorothea and Francesca, and Ernesta and her Little Brother, are fine examples of her skill in painting children ; Ernesta with Nurse, one of a series of essays in luminous white, was a highly original composition, seemingly without precedent.

* Diana and her Nymphs painting

She attended Loreto Community School in Milford, County Donegal and then moved away to attend college wanting to become a classical pianist, continuing her studies in music and also studying watercolour painting.

Using his favorite model in his last painting of her, a fellow painter, Victorine Meurent, also the model for Olympia and the Luncheon on the Grass, sits before an iron fence holding a sleeping puppy and an open book in her lap.

In 1907, she began her collection with the painting Train in a Landscape by Paul Gabriël.

The writer Dean Swinford, ( whose concept of irrealism was described at length in the section " Irrealism in Literature "), wrote that the artist Remedios Varos, in her painting The Juggler, " creates a personal allegorical system which relies on the predetermined symbols of Christian and classical iconography.

In the 1971 film Harold and Maude, Maude shows Harold her painting titled " The Rape of Rome ," which includes Leda and the Swan in the bottom right corner.