Founder of western monasticism posters & prints

The Prayer, The Miracle of the Sieve and the Departure for Subiaco, Ambrogio da Fossano

Virgin and Child with St. Benedict French School

St. Francis in Ecstasy and St. Benedict with an Angel Musician, 1620 Guercino

St. Anthony Abbot c.1295 Giotto di Bondone

Sanctity: 'St Francis in Meditation' Anonymous

The Monastery of St. George and Cape Fiolente, looking west William Simpson

Initial C Excised from a Choral Book: St. Anthony with Antonite Friars, c. 1400-1440 Unknown

Monastery, Paro Lincoln Seligman

Sala Regalis cum Curia West-monasterÿ, vulgo Westminster haal, 1647 Wenceslaus Hollar

John Wesley, 18th century English non-conformist preacher W Holl

The Founding of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov

The Monastery of San Pedro, 1879 Frederic Edwin Church

John Wilkins, 17th century English cleric and astronomer Unknown

Mount Athos and the Monastery of Stavroniketes, 1857 Edward Lear

Portrait of Jose de Siguenza, prior and librarian of the monastery of San Lorenzo, 1602 Spanish School

Saint Anthony Leaving His Monastery Master of the Osservanza

Portrait of Yinyuan Longqi, 1676 Unknown

The monastery of Jasna Gora, Czestochowa, under siege by Swedish forces in 1655 Gabriel Bodenehr

St Ignatius of Loyola Anonymous

Kykkos Monastery Mural, Cyprus Cypriot Cypriot

The Temptation of Saint Anthony Jan Wellens de Cock

Kykkos Monastery Mural, Cyprus Cypriot Cypriot

Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556). Priest since 1537. Founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). Anonymous

Monastery of S. Spirito d'Ocre, Fossa, L'Aquila, Abruzzo Anonymous

Four Seated Masters, c. 1450 Unknown

Madonna and Child, Kykkos Monastery, Cyprus Cypriot Cypriot

Monastery Garden in Snow Carl Friedrich Lessing

Monastery of S. Spirito d'Ocre, Fossa, L'Aquila, Abruzzo Anonymous

Monastery of S. Spirito d'Ocre, Fossa, L'Aquila, Abruzzo Anonymous

St. Francis of Assisi Nicolas Bazin

Monastery of S. Spirito d'Ocre, Fossa, L'Aquila, Abruzzo Anonymous

Monastery of S. Spirito d'Ocre, Fossa, L'Aquila, Abruzzo Anonymous

Monastery, Portugal, 1960 Anonymous

Saint James of Borovichi, Wonderworker of Novgorod with the Valday Iversky Monastery, Early 19th cen Russian icon

St. Bernardino of Siena El Greco

Kykkos Monastery Mural, Cyprus Cypriot Cypriot