List of Roman Catholic Church Artists - List

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• Cherubino Alberti, director of the Vatican authorized Accademia di San Luca who did work for chapels.
• Matteo Perez d'Aleccio, member of the Accademia di San Luca who did a fresco at the Sistine Chapel.
• Fra Angelico, also a beatified person
• Kiko Argüello, an initiator of the Neocatechumenal Way who has done church art.
• Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary who did paintings for the Cathedral of Avignon and was later honored by the Qianlong Emperor.
• Carlos Ayala, modern day Catholic Bronze Sculptor and Church Artist.
• Giovanni Baglione, many of his works are in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore
• Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, St. Petronilla Altarpiece
• Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Bas-reliefs in the choir of the cathedral of Florence.
• Fra Bartolommeo, member of a Dominican order did The Vision of St Bernard
• Pompeo Batoni, Return of the Prodigal Son
• Giovanni Bellini, did Altarpiece with St Vincent Ferrar
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini, did the Ecstasy of St Theresa in Santa Maria della Vittoria.
• Jiao Bingzhen, painter who played a role in the 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.
• 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.
• Cimabue, crucifix at Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze.
• John Collier, living, Convert, Sculptor of Catholic Memorial at Ground Zero New York City, www.hillstream.com
• James Collinson, Convert and Pre-Raphaelite who did Renunciation of St. Elizabeth of Hungary.
• William Congdon, After his conversion in 1959 he began his Crocefissi (Crucifixion), a series of abstract or minimalist influenced paintings concerning Christ's crucifixion.
• Carlo Cornara, Jesuit who did work for the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio.
• Jacques Courtois (Jesuit), "he painted, in the Cistercian monastery, the Miracle of the Loaves."
• Marie-Alain Couturier (Dominican friar), Stained glass and sacred art in modern form.
• Salvador Dalí, created numerous large-scale religious compositions starting in the late 1940s, around the time of his repatriation in Spain.
• Sylvia Daoust, did work for Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral and most of her work is religious.
• Fra Diamante, Carmelite friar who did religious frescoes at his convent. (Convent is the correct term for male friars' house)
• Duccio, Maestà (1308–11), his masterpiece, was for Siena's cathedral.
• François Duquesnoy, Statues for St. Peter's Basilica.
• Albrecht Dürer, painter and polymath (friend of Philipp Melanchthon and sympathetic to Lutheranism, but most agree stayed Catholic.)
• Czesław Dźwigaj, Monuments to Pope John Paul II.
• Thomasita Fessler, Nun who designed stained glass windows and founded the art department at Cardinal Stritch University.
• Piero della Francesca, his The History of the True Cross is in the Basilica of San Francesco in Arezzo.
• Antoni Gaudí, architect of Sagrada Família (there are efforts to have him beatified)
• Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Jesuit who worked on the ceiling of the Church of the Gesu.
• Felix Granda, priest, sculptor, metalsmith, craftsman, and founder of a renowned liturgical art workshop.
• Giotto di Bondone, many religious works with the best regarded perhaps being his Cappella degli Scrovegni in the "Arena Chapel."
• Lavinia Fontana, Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, (1579, Diocesan Seminary, Bologna)
• Tsuguharu Foujita, designer and fresco painter of Roman Catholic chapel on Mumm's estate, Reims, France
• Ernst Fuchs, A founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism who converted to Catholicism and did the cycle Mysteries of the Holy Rosary.
• Fede Galizia, altarpiece for Saint Maria Maddalena Church and paintings related to the Book of Judith. (primarily did still lifes)
• Geertgen tot Sint Jans, 15th century painter from the Low Countries
• Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes, Virgin Mary and Baby with Rosary, and work with Pope Urban VIII.
• James Gillick, Contemporary English painter of ecclesiastical works such as the altarpiece at St. Neots, Cambridgeshire and the reredos at SS Gregory & Augustine's, Summertown, Oxford.
• Felix Granda, Founded the liturgical art workshop Talleres de Arte.
• Joseph Hansom, English architect who worked on Arundel Cathedral.
• Maria Innocentia Hummel, Nun/artist
• Jean Jouvenet, "Magnificat" in the choir of Notre-Dame.
• William Kurelek, convert from Orthodoxy noted for paintings of Christ.
• Filippo Lippi, Carmelite who painted for a convent chapel at Prato. This allegedly led to an affair which led to his son Filippino Lippi.
• Filippino Lippi, his frescoes depicting the life of Philip the Apostle are in the Basilica di Santa Maria Novella.
• Andrea Mantegna-The Lamentation over the Dead Christ
• Tommaso Masaccio, Virgin and Child with St. Anne
• Michelangelo Buonarotti, Sistine Chapel work
• Michelozzo, numerous statues of saints found at Basilicas in Italy.
• Francesco Mochi, has sculptures in St. Peter's Basilica.
• Lorenzo Monaco, Camaldolese painter who did a noted Predella.
• Antonio Moscheni. Jesuit painter known for decorating St. Aloysius College (Mangalore).
• Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, "He is best known for his Roman Catholic religious works."
• Giovanni Niccolo. Jesuit in Japan known for works of Salvator Mundi and The Madonna.
• Guido Nincheri, artists for Catholic churches in Canada. Pope Pius XI named him Knight-Commander of the Order of Saint-Sylvester.
• Baldassare Peruzzi, ceiling decorations at the Vatican, an altar at Siena, etc.
• Francis Petre, Catholic architect of cathedrals in New Zealand.
• Edith Pfau, Nun known for the works Risen Christ, Stations of the Cross, Madonna and Child and others.
• Sebastiano del Piombo, Raising of Lazarus, and the altarpiece for Chigi Chapel.
• Pinturicchio, worked with several Popes and did frescoes for the Cathedral of Siena.
• Antonio del Pollaiuolo, St. Sebastian and work at the Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze.
• Andrea Pozzo, Jesuit brother known for the ceiling of Sant'Ignazio.
• Augustus Pugin, Catholic convert did interior of Saint Chad's Cathedral.
• Ignác Raab, Czech Jesuit who did notable paintings of saints.
• Raphael, Transfiguration which is now housed in the Pinacoteca Vaticana of Vatican City.
• Ivan Ranger, Monastic noted for paintings in churches, chapels, and monasteries.
• Antoniazzo Romano, Decoration of the Vatican Palace and frescoes in Santa Maria sopra Minerva
• Georges Rouault, noted for paintings of Christ.
• Peter Paul Rubens, Catholic convert, has works in Saint Bavo Cathedral and Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp.
• Stanislaw Samostrzelnik, Polish painter of frescos in Catholic churches.
• Jacopo Sansovino, the statue Madonna del Parto in the Sant'Agostino (Rome).
• Andrea del Sarto, paintings for the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata di Firenze.
• Martin Schongauer, an engraver, "His subjects are always religious" Christi Geburt, Maria im Rosenhag, etc.
• Johann Paul Schor, worked on Duomo di Siena
• Domingo Antonio de Sequeira, Descent from the Cross and works at the convent of Laveinas.
• Gino Severini, associated with Futurism (art) he was honored by the Accademia di San Luca for church mosaics.
• Luca Signorelli, "His masterpiece is considered to be his fresco of the Last Judgment (1499) in Orvieto Cathedral."
• 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's Veiled Virgin, a sculpture by 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.
• Tintoretto, contributed Marriage at Cana to the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute.
• Titian, most represented artist in the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, was at the Council of Trent
• Santi di Tito, Vision of Saint Thomas Aquinas
• Paolo Uccello, Nun-Saint with Two Children, Life of the Holy Fathers, etc.
• Hubert van Eyck, worked on Ghent Altarpiece
• Jan van Eyck, also worked on the Ghent Altarpiece
• Domenico Veneziano, St. Lucy Altarpiece
• Paolo Veronese, The Adoration of the Magi on the ceiling of the Capella del Rosario
• Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper
• Marcos Zapata, like many of the Cuzco School his works dealt with religious subjects.
• Federico Zuccari, Pauline chapel of the Vatican and The Last Judgement
• Francisco Zurbarán, The great altarpiece of St. Thomas Aquinas and paintings of Carthusians