1.   As Jesus, Ted Neeley looks like he stepped out of a velveteen religious painting, spread his arms and found himself surrounded by a passel of screeching cats.

2.   But its emotion is only faintly echoed in the deliberately flattened stage images, drawn from religious paintings.

3.   By this time, the monarchy had been restored, and was busy ordering religious paintings to replace those destroyed during the Revolution.

4.   Delacroix might very well be the last artist to paint convincing religious paintings.

5.   During the Renaissance, Twitchell noted, churches displayed religious paintings of a heaven brimming with luxury goods that peasants could not dream of affording in this life.

6.   For example, in Utrecht, which remained largely Roman Catholic, a tradition of religious paintings was kept alive by painters who had studied Caravaggio in Rome.

7.   He had stolen an altar from a convent in California along with religious paintings, statues and vestments from several Catholic and Anglican churches in Arizona and California.

8.   He had the accepting, sacrificial look of Christ in a religious painting.

9.   Her intense and unquestioning faith seems to suffuse her many religious paintings.

10.   In a dramatic gesture, this room of religious paintings is succeeded by a red-walled chamber devoted to Satanism.