le-desir-de-lautre:

Legend of Saint Ladislas (from the Anjou Legendarium)1330sTempera on parchment, 283 x 215 mm, Biblioteca Apostolica, Vatican
ghostribbons:

scarymansion: Adolphe La Lyre, Sainte Cécile, 1896.

what is more piteous than a naked corpse
janiesimpressions:

Edgar Maxence, St. Thérèse de Lisieux (detail), 1931

she has the vacant eyes of a fanatic
dutch-and-flemish-painters:

signorcasaubon:

Workshop of Joachim Patinir - Saint Jerome in a Rocky Landscape; National Gallery, London, England; c.1515 - 1524

Joachim Patinir, also called Patenier(c. 1480 – 5 October 1524), was a Flemish Northern Renaissance history and landscape painter from the area of modern Wallonia. He was probably the uncle of Herri met de Bles, his follower in establishing a distinct style of panoramic northern Renaissance landscapes.
artinframes:

Hans Thoma: Saint George
finethankyouandyou:

Fra Angelico (c. 1400-55)
Coronation of the Virgin (detail) c. 1434-1345.
Tempera on panel
213 cm × 211 cm (84 in × 83 in) Musée du Louvre, Paris
like-distant-thunder:

themagicfarawayttree:

Marianne Stokes~ St Elizabeth of Hungary Spinning for the Poor, 1895

Saints! Spinning saints!

her hair! her dress! perfection
foreverinbloom:

artdetails:


Carlo Crivelli,  Altar Triptych, right panel: St. Peter Martyr and St. Venetianus of Camerino (detail)


didn’t your mama ever tell you use both hands when carrying important items like, idk, entire medieval towns?? just because the city is fortified doesn’t mean it’ll survive a five foot drop
forgotten reliquary
diagnosednostalgia:

Ambrogio BergognoneDetail from Saint Peter Martyr and Kneeling Donor, c. 1490
Opaque  by  andbamnan