We have gathered seven of them, each a complete world of public-domain masterpieces — from the gold grounds of the early Renaissance to the deep night of the Baroque. The world turns week by week; the same mystery, seen through different centuries, is one of the quiet joys of praying with us.
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The Rosary
The painted worlds
Every day we pray with a painting for each mystery — and the paintings of a given week all come from one world: one era, one hand of light, so a week never mixes five centuries in five arches.
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Late Gothic & Early Renaissance
1384–1550
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The Renaissance
1480–1565
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High Renaissance
1504–1609
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Mannerism
1518–1657
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The Baroque
1530–1825
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Rococo & Neoclassicism
1605–1851
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The Nineteenth Century
1703–1907
Pray with today’s world — and watch it change through the year.
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Pray it with the book
The Rosary in Twenty Paintings
Praying the mysteries with the masters of the early Renaissance.