Subject
Monk
Monk is a subject in art. The gallery holds 77 works in this subject in art, including works by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Edouard Manet and Rembrandt.
A monk (; from Greek: μοναχός, monachos, 'single, solitary', via Latin: monachus) is a man who is a member of a religious order and lives in a monastery. A monk usually lives his life in prayer and contemplation.
Key artists
Works
The Temptation of Christ
Portrait of an Olivetan Monk
Madonna and Child with Saints and Donors
Cutting the Stone
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釈迦三尊十六善神像|Shaka (Shakyamuni), the Historical Buddha, with Two Attendant Bodhisattvas and Sixteen Benevolent Deities
Portrait of a Carthusian
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The Missionary's Adventures
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拾遺古徳伝絵断簡|Illustrated Biography of Hōnen (Shūikotokūden-e)
Portrait of a Monk in Prayer
Portrait d'un moine (Monk's Portrait)
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慈恩大師像|Portrait of Jion Daishi (Guiji)
The Last Communion of Saint Jerome
A Benedictine Monk
衿羯羅童子像 |Kongara-doji
伝春日基光筆 玄奘三蔵像|Portrait of Xuanzang (Genjō) with Attendant
蓮生法師図|Monk Renshō Riding His Horse Backwards
風外慧薫筆 指月布袋図|Hotei Pointing at the Moon
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Portrait of an Ecclesiastic
St. Francis Kneeling before Christ on the Cross
狩野内膳筆 沢庵宗彭賛 政黄牛・郁山主図|Zheng Huangniu and Yushanzhu
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Monks in the Cloister of the Church of Gesù e Maria, Rome
達磨図 (Daruma zu)|Bodhidharma (Daruma)
明 傳仇英 十六羅漢圖 卷|The Sixteen Luohans
元 佚名 玉谿思珉題贊 對月圖 軸|Reading a Sutra by Moonlight
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芦葉達磨図 (Royō Daruma zu)|Bodhidharma Crossing the Yangzi River on a Reed
Bodhidharma
Section of Jin'o-ji Engi Emaki (Konin Shonin E-den)
Dramatic Scene with Monks in a Crypt
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Sant'Ambrogio Altarpiece
Titus as a Monk
The Cloisters of the Franciscan Monastery Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome
The Legend of the Danish Flag (the Dannebrog) Falling from the Heavens during the Battle of Lyndanise in Estonia in 1219
The Market Square in Bruges
Looting of a village
Mary with the Child, St. Barbara and a Carthusian Monk
Praying Monk (Monk at his Devotions)
The Investiture of Saint Clare: the Saint receiving the clothes of her Order from Saint Francis
Garden in a Monastery
Head of a Franciscan Monk
Four Franciscan Monks
Saint Antony raising a Man from the Dead
Portrait of an unknown Alexian friar (?-?)
Portrait of a Monk
Portret van een monnik
Pleurants
Sitting Monk, Reading
Processie in Verona
Monks at Supper
Landscape with Monks
Landscape with Camaldolite monks praying at a road-side shrine
Monk Reading
Monk in Prayer
Portrait of Bishop Benjamin Szymański
Capuchin Monk
Wild Duck Kōan
Saint Patrice
Deoksewi, 153rd of the 500 Nahans (Arhats)
Monk Begging on Behalf of His Monastery
Gheorghe Doja
Bodhidharma Crossing the Yangzi on a Reed
風俗六玉川|A Young Komuso
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The Monk