Saint Paul in ArtImages of the Apostle to the Gentiles

Reverend John Arthur Orr, MA, MDiv, PhBPastor, Saint Thérèse Catholic Church

Clinton, TennesseeAD2008

This is a collection of forty-four (44) images of Saint Paul. The images are presented in five (5)different mediums: paintings (30); sculptures (6); altarpieces/triptychs (4); illuminations (2);woodcuts (1). The various images are drawn from the works of thirty-seven (37) artists.

Nineteen (19) images depict Saint Paul in glory, one way or another. Twelve (12) images depictSaint Paul in his ministry. Nine (9) images depict the conversion of Saint Paul. Seven (7) imagesdepict Saint Paul’s martyrdom.

Thirty-eight (38) times Saint Paul is shown wearing a beard. Twenty-five (25) times Saint Paul isdepicted with a sword, sometimes as persecutor of the Church, before his conversion, otherwiseas symbol of his martyrdom. Anachronistically, Saint Paul is represented with a book twenty-two(22) times while he is depicted with a scroll only four (4) times. Seventeen (17) times Saint Paulis depicted with other Saints. Fourteen (14) of the depictions are of Saint Paul in old age whilenine (9) show him as a younger man. While Sacred Scripture is silent on the matter there are six(6) depictions of a Damascus Road Horse.

Saint Paul is depicted ten (10) times with Saint Peter, eight (8) times with the Lord Jesus, four (4)times with the Virgin Mary, three (3) times with Barnabas, twice with Saint Francis and once eachwith Saint Mark and Saint Leo the Great.

Forty-two (42) passages of Sacred Scripture are depicted, variously:

Regarding Saint Paul writing in his own hand: 1 Corinthians 16:21; Galatains 6:11; Colossians4:18; 2 Thessalonians 3:17; Philemon 1:19.

Regarding Saint Paul as a letter writer: 1 Corinthians 4:14, 37; 2 Corinthians 1:43; 2:9; 9:1;13:10; Galatains 1:20; Philippians 3:1; 1 Thessalonians 5:1; 2 Thessalonians 3:17; 1Timothy 3:14

Regarding Saint Paul’s preaching in Ephesus: Acts 18:18-21; 19:1,26,35; 20:16; 1 Corinthians15:32; 16:8; Ephesians 1:1; 1 Timothy 1:3; 2 Timothy 1:18; 4:12

Regarding Saint Paul in Lystra: Acts 14:6-7; 16:1-5; 27:1-5; 2 Timothy 3:11Regarding Saint Paul conversing with Saint Peter: Galatains 1:18; 2:9, 11Regarding Saint Paul’s Conversion: Acts 9:2-18; 22:6-16Regarding Saint Paul’s Ecstasy: 2 Corinthians 12:1-4; Colossians 2:5Regarding Saint Paul Preaching in Athens: Acts 17:15-18:1Regarding Saint Paul recovering his sight: Acts 9:10-18Regarding Saint Paul healing the Cripple at Lystra: Acts 14:8-10Regarding Saint Paul and Barnabas not being Mercury and Jupiter: Acts 14:7-18

Hopefully, this collection will allow those who refer to it to better appreciate Saint Paul during hisJubilee year and beyond.

Blessed Fra Angelico. Conversion of Saint Paul (1430) Mueso di San Marco, Florence.Giovanni Bellini. Pesaro Altarpiece (1471-1474) Musei Civici, Pesaro.Domenico Beccafumi. Saint Paul Enthroned** (1515) Museo dell’Opera della

Metropolitana,Siena.Nicolaes Berchem. Paul and Barnabas at Lystra (1650) Musee d’Art, Saint-Etienne.Peter Bruegel the Elder. The Conversion of Saint Paul* (1567) Kunsthistorisches Museum,

Vienna.Michelangelo Buonarroti. Saint Paul from the Piccolomini Altar* (1503-1504) Duomo, Siena.Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The Conversion of Saint Paul** (1600) Odescalchi Balbi

Collection, Rome.Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The Conversion on the Way to Damascus (1600) Cerasi

Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome.Karel Dujardin. Saint Paul Healing the Cripple at Lystra (1663) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.Albrecht Durer. The Four Holy Men (Mark and Paul) (1526) Alte Pinakothek, Munich.Cristofano Gherardi. Conversion of Saint Paul (1555) Museo Diocesano, Cortona.Giotto di Bondone. The Stefaneschi Triptych: Martyrdom of Saint Paul (1330) Pinacoteca,

Vatican.El Greco. Saint Paul the Apostle* (1610-1614) Museo de El Greco, Toledo.El Greco. The Apostles Peter and Paul (1592) The Hermitage, Saint Petersburg.Juan Antonio Frias y Escalante (+1669). The Conversion of Saint Paul Mueso Cerralbo, Madrid.Eustach le Sueur (+1655). Saint Paul Preaching in Ephesus.*Filippino Lippi. Saint Paul Visits Saint Peter in Prison (1481-1482) Cappella Brancacci, Santa

Maria del Carmine, Florence.Master of the Getty Epistles. Saint Paul** (1520-1530).Pierre Etienne Monnot. Saint Paul (1708-1718) San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome.Giovanni Paolo Pannini. Ruins with Saint Paul Preaching (1735) Museo del Prado, Madrid.Giovanni Paolo Pannini. Apostle Paul Preaching on the Ruins (1744) The Hermitage, St.

Petersburg.Giuseppe Antonio Petrini (+1759). The Beheading of Saint Paul.**Marco Pino (+1583). Saint Paul the Apostle.*Nicolas Poussin. The Apotheosis (Ecstasy) of Saint Paul* (1649-1650) Musee de Louvre, Paris.Raffaello Sanzio. The Meeting between Leo the Great and Atila (1514) Stanza di Eliodoro,

Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican.Raffaello Sanzio. Saint Paul Preaching in Athens (at the Areopagus)* (1515) Victoria and

Albert Museum, London.Jean Restout II. Ananias Restoring the Sight of Saint Paul (1719) Musee de Louvre, Paris.Guido Reni (+1642). Saints Peter and Paul.* Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.Antoniazzo Romano. Madonna Enthroned with the Infant Christ and Saints Paul and Francis

(1487) Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, RomePeter Rubens (+1640). The Conversion of Saint Paul.*Peter Rubens (+1640). Saint Paul.*Andrei Rublev. Saint Paul** (1400) Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.Saint Paul Being Led Toward Martydom.*Saint Paul of Tarsus: Rabi, Tentmaker, Missionary, Reading Book, Swords in hand.*

Giovanni Serodine (+1631). The Meeting Between Peter and Paul on their Way toMartyrdom.**

Sebastiano Torrigiani. Saint Paul (1585) Basilica di San Pietro, Vatican.Nicolas Tournier (+1638). Saint Paul.*Nikolaos Tsafouris. Triptych with Saints Peter and Paul* (1490). :: Cretan School. The

Apostles Peter and Paul.**Rembrandt Van Rijn. Apostle Paul (1635) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.Rembrandt Van Rijn. Saint Paul at his Writing Desk (1629-1630) Germanisches

Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg.Rembrandt Van Rijn (+1669). Saint Paul in Prison.*Diego Velazquez (+1660). Saint Paul.*Saint Paul Outside the Walls. (Photo by Bearded Seraph on Flickr)Saint Paul at Saint Paul Outside the Walls, Rome.

(The * denotes that the image is available from art.com; the ** indicates that the image is found inbooks from the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; further images are from the Web Gallery of Artwga.hu)

Giorgi, Rosa. Saints in Art. Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003, 289-294.Tradigo, Alfredo. Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul

Getty Museum, 2006, 267-268.

Blessed Fra Angelico. Conversion of Saint Paul (1430) Mueso di San Marco, Florence.

Giovanni Bellini. Pesaro Altarpiece (1471-1474) Musei Civici, Pesaro.

Domenico Beccafumi. Saint Paul Enthroned** (1515) Museo dell’Opera della Metropolitana,Siena.

Nicolaes Berchem. Paul and Barnabas at Lystra (1650) Musee d’Art, Saint-Etienne.

Peter Bruegel the Elder. The Conversion of Saint Paul* (1567) Kunsthistorisches Museum,Vienna.

Michelangelo Buonarroti. Saint Paul from the Piccolomini Altar* (1503-1504) Duomo, Siena.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The Conversion of Saint Paul** (1600) Odescalchi Balbi Collection, Rome.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The Conversion on the Way to Damascus (1600) Cerasi Chapel, Santa Mariadel Popolo, Rome.

Karel Dujardin. Saint Paul Healing the Cripple at Lystra (1663) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Albrecht Durer. The Four Holy Men (Mark and Paul) (1526) Alte Pinakothek, Munich.

Cristofano Gherardi. Conversion of Saint Paul (1555) Museo Diocesano, Cortona.

Giotto di Bondone. The Stefaneschi Triptych: Martyrdom of Saint Paul (1330) Pinacoteca, Vatican.

El Greco. Saint Paul the Apostle* (1610-1614) Museo de El Greco, Toledo.

El Greco. The Apostles Peter and Paul (1592) The Hermitage, Saint Petersburg.

Juan Antonio Frias y Escalante (+1669). The Conversion of Saint Paul Mueso Cerralbo, Madrid.

Eustach le Sueur (+1655). Saint Paul Preaching in Ephesus.*

Filippino Lippi. Saint Paul Visits Saint Peter in Prison (1481-1482) Cappella Brancacci, Santa Maria del Carmine,Florence.

Master of the Getty Epistles. Saint Paul** (1520-1530).

Pierre Etienne Monnot. Saint Paul (1708-1718) San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome.

Giovanni Paolo Pannini. Ruins with Saint Paul Preaching (1735) Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Giovanni Paolo Pannini. Apostle Paul Preaching on the Ruins (1744) The Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Giuseppe Antonio Petrini (+1759). The Beheading of Saint Paul.**

Marco Pino (+1583). Saint Paul the Apostle.*

Nicolas Poussin. The Apotheosis (Ecstasy) of Saint Paul* (1649-1650) Musee de Louvre, Paris.

Raffaello Sanzio. The Meeting between Leo the Great and Atila (1514) Stanza di Eliodoro, Palazzi Pontifici,Vatican.

Raffaello Sanzio. Saint Paul Preaching in Athens (at the Areopagus)* (1515) Victoria and Albert Museum,London.

Jean Restout II. Ananias Restoring the Sight of Saint Paul (1719) Musee de Louvre, Paris.

Guido Reni (+1642). Saints Peter and Paul.* Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.

Antoniazzo Romano. Madonna Enthroned with the Infant Christ and Saints Paul and Francis (1487) GalleriaNazionale d’Arte Antica, Rome

Peter Rubens (+1640). The Conversion of Saint Paul.*

Peter Rubens (+1640). Saint Paul.*

Andrei Rublev. Saint Paul** (1400) Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Saint Paul Being Led Toward Martydom.*

Saint Paul of Tarsus: Rabi, Tentmaker, Missionary, Reading Book, Swords in hand.*

Giovanni Serodine (+1631). The Meeting Between Peter and Paul on their Way to Martyrdom.**

Sebastiano Torrigiani. Saint Paul (1585) Basilica di San Pietro, Vatican.

Nicolas Tournier (+1638). Saint Paul.*

Nikolaos Tsafouris. Triptych with Saints Peter and Paul* (1490). :: Cretan School. The Apostles Peter and Paul.**

Rembrandt Van Rijn. Apostle Paul (1635) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Rembrandt Van Rijn. Saint Paul at his Writing Desk (1629-1630) Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg.

Rembrandt Van Rijn (+1669). Saint Paul in Prison.*

Diego Velazquez (+1660). Saint Paul.*

Saint Paul Outside the Walls. (Photo by Bearded Seraph on Flickr)

Saint Paul at Saint Paul Outside the Walls, Rome.