11.   Images like these are, in essence, secular versions of religious painting, visionary in the way that absolutist political art can be.

12.   Inside, its walls are covered in paintings, brocades and thangkas - a special style of religious painting done by monks.

13.   Netherlandish still life was born of religious paintings, which frequently included fruit as metaphors for Nature.

14.   Part of the pretense, the biographer said, was a series of religious paintings.

15.   Religious painting enjoyed an especially high status.

16.   The earliest frames, from the Renaissance, were merely protective edges for religious paintings and were extensions of the painting.

17.   The Santo family says that a light-colored oil mysteriously appears in their house, dripping from statues and religious paintings.

18.   The tiled hallways were much more interesting, filled with dark antique furniture, religious paintings and, downstairs, a large, old-fashioned birdcage filled with parakeets.

19.   There she studied and collected Tibetan and Nepalese carpets, religious paintings called thangkas, bronzes and other arts.

20.   He also painted highly detailed nudes, including depictions of himself and his two wives, but figures in his religious paintings are usually clothed.