List of Catholic artists

This list of Catholic artists concerns artists known, at least in part, for their works of religious Catholic art. It also includes artists whose position as a Roman Catholic priest or missionary was vital to their artistic works or development. It primarily features artists who did at least some of their artwork for Catholic churches, including Eastern Catholic Churches in communion with the Pope.

Note that this is not a list of all artists who have ever been members of the Catholic Church. Further, seeing as many to most Western European artists from the 5th century to the Protestant Reformation did at least some Catholic religious art, this list will supplement by linking to lists of artists of those eras rather than focusing on names of those eras.

List Romanesque artists

Agnes II, Abbess of Quedlinburg, work includes miniatures and engravings; possibly Gothic period

Gothic artists

Duccio, Maestà (1308–11), his masterpiece was for Siena's cathedral Master Francke, German Gothic painter and Dominican friar Giotto, Proto-Renaissance artist with many religious works; the best regarded perhaps is his Cappella degli Scrovegni in the Arena Chapel

Renaissance to Rococo

Juan de la Abadía, Spanish painter in the Spanish-Flemish style; did works in churches and hermitagesMuseo del Prado (Spanish) Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, Nicolas-Sébastien Adam, and François Gaspard Adam, French sculptors and brothers; works include church sculptures Fra Guglielmo Agnelli, Italian sculptor, architect, and lay brother; among the more noted artists for the Dominican OrderTuscan Sculptors by Charles Callahan Perkins, pgs 21-23 and 36 Angelica Veronica Airola, Baroque painter of religious works; became a nunWomen Artists in All Ages and Countries by Elizabeth Fries Ellet, pg 82 Francesco Albani, works include a Baptism of Christ and frescoes for Santa Maria della Pace Cherubino Alberti, director of the Vatican authorized Accademia di San Luca who did work for chapels Mariotto Albertinelli, Florentine school painter known for his depiction of The Visitation Balthasar Augustin Albrecht, Bavarian painter partly known for an altar piece depicting the Assumption of MarySite linked to the Bavarian State Library (German) Matteo Perez d'Aleccio, reportedly worked with Michelangelo on the Sistine ChapelThe Malta Independent Martino Altomonte, works include Maria Immaculata and The Ascension of MaryHans Aurenhammer (1965) Martino Altomonte. Herold, Vienna Fra Angelico, member of the Dominican Order and a beatified personMetropolitan Museum of Art Antonio de Paz, sculptor noted for work in Salamanca's churches and its cathedralRODRÍGUEZ G. DE CEBALLOS, Alfonso: Antonio y Andrés de Paz y la escultura de la primera mitad del siglo XVII en Salamanca, Boletín de Arte y Arqueología, Universidad de Valladolid, 1979, pp. 347–416. Niccolò dell'Arca, works include Candlestick-holding Angel in the Arca di San Domenico Alberto Arnoldi, 14th-century Italian architect and sculptor; significant to Florence Cathedral and the city's 14th-century art Cosmas Damian Asam, German late Baroque/Rococo painter and architect, who worked with his brother Egid Quirin Asam in designing abbeys and churches of Germany Egid Quirin Asam, German sculptor and plasterer of late Baroque/Rococo churches and monasteries primarily in Bavaria during the Counter-Reformation; his works include the high altar or figurative art in Weltenburg Abbey, Braunau in Rohr abbey, St. Peter church in Sandizell, Asamkirche in Munich, Fürstenfeld abbey, and the Freising Cathedral, among others European art of the eighteenth century by Daniela Tarabra, pgs 223-224 Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary who did paintings for the Cathedral of Avignon and was later honored by the Qianlong Emperor Johann Baptist Babel, Swiss sculptor who did work for Einsiedeln Abbey and the Cathedral of Saint Ursus of Solothurn Giovanni Baglione, works include frescoes in the vault of the nave of the Basilica di Santa Maria MaggioreVaticanThe Art Institute of Chicago Roque Balduque, Flemish sculptor and maker of altarpieces; known for works from after he settled in SpainA. Moreno Mendoza, E. Pareja López, M.J. Sanz Serrano, and E. Valdivieso, Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, Ed. Galve, Seville 1993. .The Way of St James by Alison Raju, pg 291 Bartolommeo Bandinelli, did bas-reliefs in the choir of the cathedral of Florence Barna da Siena, works include Christ Bearing the Cross, with a Dominican FriarCecchi, Emilio, Sienese Painters of the Trecento, London, F. Warne, 1931.Painting in Florence and Siena After the Black Death by Millard Meiss Federico Barocci, became a lay Capuchin and Counter-Reformation artistLisot, Elizabeth A. (2009). Passion, Penance and Mystical Union: Early Modern Catholic Polemics in the Religious Paintings of Federico Barocci, excerpt from Univ. of Texas, Dallas, Ph.D. Dissertation.Federico Barocci: allure and devotion in late Renaissance painting by Stuart Lingo Fra Bartolomeo, member of a Dominican Order; works include The Vision of St BernardPainting in Renaissance Florence, 1500-1550 by David Franklin Martino di Bartolomeo, fourteenth-century Italian painter and manuscript illuminator; works include Marian art, church frescoes, altar-pieces, and choirbooksItalian Paintings by Federico Zeri and Elizabeth E. Gardner, pg 33-35 Pompeo Batoni, works include Return of the Prodigal SonPompeo Batoni by Bowron, Edgar Peters, and Peter Björn Kerber Giuseppe Bazzani, Italian Rococo painter whose religious works include the altarpiece of St Romuald's VisionDiocesan Museum of Mantua (In Italian) Some Unpublished Paintings by Giuseppe Bazzani, Chiara Perina The Art Bulletin (1964); p 227-231. Gaspar Becerra, Spanish Renaissance sculptor and painter; much of his religious art has been destroyed by warPedro Rubiales, Gaspar Becerra y Los Pintores Españoles en Roma, 1527-1600 by Gonzalo Redín Michaus (Spanish) Giovanni Bellini, did Altarpiece with St Vincent FerrarFranciscans and Preaching: Every Miracle from the Beginning of the World ... edited by Timothy Johnson, pg 463 Johann-Georg Bendl, Bohemian sculptor known for sculptures of saints and angelsCourt, Cloister, and City by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, pg 359Prague Panoramas by Cynthia Paces, pgs 59, 62, and 90 Johann Georg Bergmüller, religious works include Allegory of the Catholic Church and Communion, drawings of Thomas Aquinas, church frescoesEpple, Alois (ed.) (1988). Johann Georg Bergmüller, 1688–1762. Zur 300. Wiederkehr seines Geburtsjahres. Ausstellung im Schloß Türkheim. Weißenhorn: A.H. Konrad. .Philadelphia Museum of Art Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian Baroque sculptor, architect, painter, impresario who served under six popes of Rome during the Counter-Reformation, inheriting the role of papal artist from his predecessor, Michelangelo; he was considered the greatest expositor of Roman Baroque sculpture, renowned for creating, among others, the Baldacchino and Cathedra Petri in St. Peter’s Basilica, the Jesuit church Sant’ Andrea al Quirinale in Rome, and the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa in Santa Maria della VittoriaWeb Gallery of Art Alonso Berruguete, Spanish painter, sculptor, and architect noted for emotive sculptures depicting religious ecstasy or tormentAlonso Berruguete: a Re-examination of the Polychrome Lunettes Adorning the Archbishop's Choir Stall in the Cathedral of Toledo by Karen Leslie Silberman (University of Maryland, 1976) Trophime Bigot, did a variety of altar-pieces, a depiction of the Assumption of the Virgin, depiction of Judith Beheading Holofernes, and paintings of saintsBoyer, Jean, "The One and Only Trophime Bigot", The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 130, No. 1022 (May, 1988), pp. 355-357, JSTOR Fra Bonaventura Bisi, Franciscan friar who did religious works like Holy Family, with St. John and St. Elisabeth Pedro Atanasio Bocanegra, did religious art at the cloister of Nuestra Senora de Gracia and the College of the JesuitsEuropean Drawings 3 edited by J. Paul Getty Museum et alia, pg 250 Krzysztof Boguszewski, Polish Baroque painter and priestThe Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art, pg 456Baroque in Poland by Mariusz Karpowicz, pgs 20 and 286 Andrea Bolgi, did Saint Helena statue in St. Peter's BasilicaSt. Peter's Basilica site Boetius à Bolswert, copper-plate engraver who did emblems for the devotional book Pia Desideria and was a member of the Jesuit Sodality of Adult BachelorhoodThe Jesuit Series, Part 3 edited by Peter Maurice Daly and G. Richard Dimler, pg 131Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.Giovanni Careri, Bernini:Flights of Love, the Art of Devotion, translated by Linda Lappin (University of Chicago 1995), p. 53.Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c. 1450 – 1700 (1949–) Orazio Borgianni, did religious art in San Silvestro in Capite, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, and elsewhereA Concise History of the Catholic Church by Thomas Bokenkotter, pg 246The Age of Caravaggio edited by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)European Art of the Seventeenth Century by Rosa Giorgi, pgs 176, 256, and 324 Hieronymus Bosch, did Christ Crowned with Thorns, which hangs in the San Lorenzo monastery at El EscorialScholars Resource Sandro Botticelli, Virgin and Child with an Angel and The Mystical Nativity are among his religious works; is believed to have become strongly moralistic in later lifeStudies in the Religious Paintings of Sandro Botticelli by Andrew Charles Blume Francesco Botticini, largely known for Marian paintings, such as Assumption of the VirginItalian Paintings by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, pgs 125-127Getty Valentin de Boulogne, did The Martyrdom of Martinian and Processus and altarpieces for the Holy SeeThe Oxford Dictionary of Art edited by Ian Chilvers, pg 723Seventeenth-century Art and Architecture by Ann Sutherland Harris, pg 263 Dieric Bouts, like many Early Netherlandish painters he did much religious work, such as The EntombmentBomford, David; Roy, Ashok; Smith, Alistair. "The Techniques of Dieric Bouts: Two Paintings Contrasted". The National Gallery Technical Bulletin. Volume 10, No 1, January 1986. 39–57Borchert, Till-Holger. "Collecting Early Netherlandish Paintings in Europe and the United States". in Ridderbos, Bernhard, Van Buren, Anne, Van Veen, Henk (eds). Early Netherlandish Paintings: Rediscovery, Reception and Research. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005 Andrea Bregno, Italian Early Renaissance sculptor and architect who did religious sculptures and work on papal tombsThe Vatican Collections by Metropolitan Museum of Art, pgs 42-43Renaissance Sculpture of Rome with Special Reference to Andrea Bregno by Sterling Adolph Callisen Charles Le Brun, French Baroque painter whose religious works include The Sleep of Jesus and L'Assomption de la ViergeMichel Gareau, Charles LeBrun First Painter To King Louis XIV, Abrams NY, 1992 Filippo Brunelleschi, designer of the dome of the Florence Cathedral Hannequin de Bruselas, Flemish architect and sculptor who worked as general contractor for Toledo Cathedral. Miguel Cabrera, given access to Our Lady of Guadalupe for copies, wrote about the image in Maravilla Americana, and did religious themesHamnett, Brian R. A concise history of Mexico. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pg 97El pintor Miguel Cabrera.; Abelardo Carrillo y Gariel; México, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 1966. Guglielmo Caccia15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art edited by Jacob Bean, pg 143Guglielmo Caccia detto il Moncalvo , a short biography taken from Alberto Cottino, Guglielmo Caccia detto il Moncalvo - Un pittore del '600, 1997. and Orsola Maddalena Caccia,Nuns by Silvia Evangelisti, pg 218Italian women artists by Jordana Pomeroy and the National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.), pgs 214-219 father and daughter known for religious art