TASTE AND SEE THE LORD IS GOOD!
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ART THAT TEACHES
Early religious art not only paid homage to events and saints, it also had a purpose, that of visual aids. The masterpiece was not meant to be worshipped like an idol but to give a visual reminder and to teach a people who could not read or did not have access to the media as we do today. 
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GIVING VISUAL GLORY TO GOD
The paintings below are only a sampling of the fine religious arts available to us today. As a liturgical artist for over 50 years, it has been very important to honor and  support the truly beautiful works of art over the poor religious art on the market today. We choose to give visual glory to God.

THE ROSARY IN ART
The tradition of using the rosary or prayer beads in art became popular during the periods shown below. The rosary was used in portrait art to show the character and faith of many famous men and women.  It also was a symbolic precursor of the coming life of Christ when shown with the Virgin and Child. 
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With special thanks to Wikipedia for their beautiful collection of fine art.
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LOTTO   -   RAPHAEL   -   DA VINCI
BONAVENTURA   -   RAPHAEL   -   MURILLO
   ORLEY   -   MISSION STATEMENT

LORENZO LOTTO
(born c. 1480, Venice [Italy] — died 1556, Loreto, Papal States) was a Northern Italian painter. He worked in several cities other than Venice and developed an idiosyncratic style. He was primarily a religious painter painting mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits. . His late Renaissance-style work exhibits a preference for opulent colours and a faculty for narrative painting. Toward the end of his life (1554), he became a lay brother at the Santa Casa in Loreto.   Visit Britannica.com.

LEONARDO di ser PIETRO da VINCI
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci  (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination".  He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. 

RAFFAELLO SANZIO da URBINO
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520), better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

BERNAERD VAN ORLEY
Bernard van Orley (Brussels, between 1487 and 1491 – Brussels, 6 January 1541), also called Barend van Orley, Bernaert van Orley or Barend van Brussel, was a significant Flemish Northern Renaissance painter and draughtsman, and also a leading designer of tapestries and stained glass. He is counted among a group of painters belonging to the Romanism school of painting, who has not been given enough attention by the general public. (for more information, see wiki)

BARTOLOME ESTEBAN PEREZ  MURILLO
Bartolomé Esteban Perez Murillo (December 31, 1617 (baptized) – April 3, 1682) was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children. These lively, realist portraits of flower girls, street urchins, and beggars constitute an extensive and appealing record of the everyday life of his times. (for more information, see wiki)