Renaissance Christian Art Prints

The Renaissance, which flowered in Italy from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, transformed the way Christian stories were painted. Giotto's frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, completed around 1305, gave biblical figures new weight and human feeling. In Florence, Brunelleschi developed linear perspective, and Masaccio's Holy Trinity in Santa Maria Novella showed how convincingly painted space could frame a sacred scene.

The great names followed: Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper in Milan, Raphael's serene Madonnas and Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling. The style is marked by balanced compositions, soft natural light, believable anatomy and calm, dignified faces. Costly ultramarine blue, made from ground lapis lazuli, was often reserved for the robes of the Virgin Mary.

Renaissance art presents the Gospel as something that happened to real people in a real world, and that sense of grace made visible suits devotion beautifully. You can see outstanding examples at the National Gallery in London. Our Renaissance-style prints bring that warmth and harmony to homes, churches and gifts.