The Sacred Heart of Jesus in Art
Pompeo Batoni, Sacred Heart of Jesus, 1767, oil on copper, Il Gesù, Rome
Blessed month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus!
Would you like to honor the Sacred Heart of Jesus by looking at, praying with, or printing images of His Sacred Heart for you home or work, but do not want to expose yourself to ai-generated or digitally-painted kitsch images that are the common result of an image search online? I was asked by a parishioner at my church to help her with this problem; she said that she wanted to find an image of a real painting of the Sacred Heart of Jesus but she was not at all sure how to find one. I promised to help her by putting together this gallery of real and attributed and historical works of art connected to this devotion.
Martin von Feuerstein, The Sacred Heart of Christ
Miguel Cabrera, The Sacred Heart of Jesus, c. 1756, oil on copper, Fundación Cultural Daniel Liebsohn, A. C., Mexico City
Engraving illustrated in Joseph Gallifet’s book De Cultu Sacrosanct Dei ac Domini Nostri Jesu Christ (Rome, 1726), which was well-known in Mexico.
José de Páez, Sacred Heart of Jesus with Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Saint Louis Gonzaga
Miguel Cabrera, Allegory of the Holy Eucharist
Andrés López, The Sacred Heart of Jesus, 1797, oil on copper, Museo Nacional del Virreinato, INAH, Secretaría de Cultura, Tepotzotlán, Mexico
Jose Maria Ibarraran y Ponce, Sacred Heart
The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, stained glass window in St. Andrew Church in Sag Harborg
Sacred Heart of Jesus, stained glass window in Iglesia del Sagrado Corazon (Church of the Sacred Heart), Cordoba, Spain
The Altar of the Sacred Heart mosaic, South side of the Pier of St Veronica, St. Peter’s Basilica. The painting for the mosaic was by Carlo Muccioli in 1919-20.