Founder of monasticism posters & prints

St. Anthony Abbot c.1295 Giotto di Bondone

Virgin and Child with St. Benedict French School

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

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

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

Saint Hugh founder of the first Carthusian monastery, 1629 Daniele Crespi

Sanctity: 'St Francis in Meditation' Anonymous

The Founding of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov

A Scene of Monastic Life, 1850 George Cattermole

Monastic Life in England: Complaint Before the Prior Anonymous

Monastic Life in England: Distant View of the Abbey Anonymous

Helena Blavatsky, Russian author and founder of Theosophy, 1889 Anonymous

Author and founder of Theosophy Helena Blavatsky, 1860s Anonymous

St. Romuald, founder of the Carthusian Monastery in Camaldoli, detail Italian School

A Scene of Monastic Life: Preaching in the Church George Cattermole

Thomas Aquinas, c. 1473-1475 Anonymous

St Nicola, stories of life of St Eldrad and St Nicholas, St Eldrado turned towards St James of Compostela Byzantine

Saint Anthony the Abbot Tormented by Demons Joan Desí

John Wilkins, 17th century English cleric and astronomer Unknown

Portrait of Matteo Ricci Italian missionary, founder of the Jesuit mission in China Italian School

Portrait of Yinyuan Longqi, 1676 Unknown

View of the complex of the Sacred Monastery of the God-Trodden Mount Sinai Byzantine School

Kykkos Monastery Mural, Cyprus Cypriot Cypriot

Madonna and Child, Kykkos Monastery, Cyprus Cypriot Cypriot

Saint Francis of Assisi Raphael

Jean Duvergier de Hauranne Abbot of Saint-Cyran, c.1646-48 Philippe de Champaigne

Monastic consecration of Saint Abraham of Rostov. Fresco of the Church of Saint John The Apostle in Anonymous

Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna in the monastic habit, 1914 Anonymous

Kykkos Monastery Mural, Cyprus Cypriot Cypriot

Bust of John Colet who founded St Paul's School in 1512 Anonymous

Monastic consecration of Tsar Vasili Ivanovich Shuisky, 1610 (From Illustrated Karamzin), 1836 Boris Artemyevich Chorikov

The Temptation of Saint Anthony Jan Wellens de Cock

Monastery, Paro Lincoln Seligman

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

Saint Anthony of Padua, 1529 Girolamo Romanino

Letter of the Solovetsky monks refusing the new service books (June 8, 1658), 1658 Historical Document