Support Ars Sancta
Ars Sancta is free for everyone. If it has been useful to you, you can help keep it that way.
Why Ars Sancta Exists
✦Sacred Catholic art is a heritage that belongs to the Church and to everyone moved by it. Great paintings by artists such as Fra Angelico, El Greco, and Gerard David are in the public domain, yet they remain scattered across the databases of many museums, each organized in its own way.
Ars Sancta brings them together in one place, organized by saint, theme, and artist, with curated texts to help you understand what you are seeing. There are no subscriptions and no advertising.
How Your Support Helps
✦Every contribution directly funds the digital preservation, research, and technical infrastructure required to keep this sacred sanctuary open to the world:
Hosting and storage
Keeping ultra-high-resolution museum-grade images and the website online, fast, and free for everyone across the globe.
Research and writing
The dedicated curatorial time it takes to select paintings, study their theological and artistic stories, and translate metadata into English, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Development
Maintaining the website and the Ars Sancta Android app, ensuring privacy without trackers or ads, and building new contemplative features.
Other Ways to Help
✦Financial patronage is only one of the ways you can support our sacred mission. You can also help Ars Sancta flourish by:
- Share Ars Sancta with a parish, a religious community, a school, a teacher, or a friend who appreciates sacred art.
- Rate the app on Google Play to help more faithful souls and art lovers discover Catholic masterpieces.
- Send us a correction or suggest a painting: spot an attribution or dating error? Write to us at [email protected].
“Ars Sancta: sacred art, freely given, faithfully preserved.”