Biblical Themes in Art

Various depictions of biblical narratives including Christ before the people, death confronting an abbot, and stories from saints illustrated in historical engravings.

The fourth avatar (incarnation) of the Hindu god Vishnu, in which he manifests as a man-lion hybrid. Date: 1737
The fourth avatar (incarnation) of the Hindu god Vishnu, in which he manifests as a man-lion hybrid. Date: 1737
161 assets in this story
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BAVO COSERUS CLEER BONDEM, laid out. Pastor Bavo Costerus Cleerbique is laid out. At his foot end a crucifix and two burning candles. In the clouds above him an angel appears with a palm branch and a laurel wreath.
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. God Brahma presented as a naked man. He is the personification of the creative aspect of divine Hindu Trinity or Trimurti. His body parts are numbered 1-14 and represent different 'worlds'. At the top right numbered: 99.
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Love rituals. Leaf with four consecutive rituals with which the love wanted to explain. Above: a man puts a torch. The man in conversation with his mistress. Below: the man keeps the torch above the head of his mistress. The mistress is blowing the torch. Under the performances a caption in French.
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This 15th-century woodcut shows Mary with the child Jesus seated on a crescent moon, highlighting symbolic attributes, gestures, and devotional composition.
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Azteca Empire. Sacrifice to the good Tezcatilipoca. Picture of the fol. 84v 'Libro de las Ceremonias' (Book of Ceremonies, mss. 218). Aztec art. Miniature Painting. ITALY. TUSCANY. Florence. Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (Laurentian Library).
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A flowering plant or flower that would have emerged on the grave of martyrs of Gorcum. Catholics also called 'martyr flowers' or 'flowers of the new patriarchs'.
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Egyptian sacrificial priest and another priest with harp. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's "Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages" (1796).
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CODICE TRUJILLO DEL PERU - TOMO II E 154 - DANZA DE PURAP - ACUARELA - SIGLO XVIII. Author: MARTINEZ COMPAÑON BALTASAR. Location: PALACIO REAL-BIBLIOTECA. MADRID. SPAIN.
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. The Holy Hieronymus is kneeling in a cave and reads a book. There are a skull and a crucifix for him. Behind him the lion. A four-line caption in Latin in the margin.
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Medal with an emblem and the names of the Princes of the Home Orange-Nassau .. design of a round of medal with, in five concentric circles, the names of the Princes of Orange-Nassau and their government years, starting at Prince Raymond V and ending At Prince Willem III of Orange. In the middle of the medal an emblem in which a queen kneels for a king and an angel. The emblem bears like motto: "Nunc Dea Juncta Quirino".
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Arabian man on horseback, seated woman from Jeddah, and Berber man with long tobacco pipe at top. Wolof woman holding a pumpkin, and family from Loango (Congo) with fish catch, yarn, children. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind," Augsburg, 1804. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist known as the German Buffon.
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Sleeping child with hourglass and four skulls; Morsome AEQVAT. The Motto Mors Omnia AEQVAT on this small prayer means that everyone is equal in death.
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"Anglo Saxon woman in summer clothes (39), and Anglo Saxon woman in travel clothes or winter clothes (40).". "Strutt thought that the garments seen in Fig. 40 were travel clothes. The sleeves are very long and cover the hands to the ends of the fingers.". "One can tell the veil from the mantle by the colour (38, 39, 40). While there are many cases when they are both the same colour and appear, at first glance, to be a single garment, when one pays attention, one can see the difference." . Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's "Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages" (1796).
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Native American making an offering at a shrine to the Powhatan god Okeus (Okee) in Virginia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1837.
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Indians in North America, Hermaphrodites, Native American hermaphrodites carry the sick and the dead, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a period original
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Child in Skeleton of Death, 1628 print A child is in the skeleton of death. She stands with folded hands in prayer among the ribs in the cavity of the chest. The print is part of an album. paper Death as skeleton. hiding, hiding oneself. one person praying
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Father Muylaert and Mater Bille blots; Farmers. Print from a series of 36 prints with heads of farmers and farmers.
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Religious Ceremony of the People of Guinea in Honor of their Deity, Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, Engraving, 1723-1743
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Study magazine with load carriers, dancers and women with baskets on the head. Leaf 4 recto from a booklet of 10 blades from a sketchbook.
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Historia Antigua. Grecia. Entierro de un héroe en una pira funeraria. Grabado alemán de 1863.
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Death comes to the Abbess From Der Todten Tanz or The Dance of Death published Basel 1843
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The sinner; Speclvm Peccatoris. A naked man is sitting on a chair that balances on two above the helse well tense ropes. His body is pierced with four swords, where tablets with inscriptions. Above his head, the sword depends on the last judgment. In the margin a caption in Latin.
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Dance of death: death and the abbot. Coloured etching and letterpress after J.-A. Chovin after the Basel dance of death.
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Saint Helen. Engraving.
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France, Rheims Hamlet before the body of Polonius
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Sankt Georgenberg, Austria: the reliquary of the sacred blood of Jesus. Line engraving by J.A. Fridrich, 17--.
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Two carriers of cinnamon bundles, Esaias Boursse, 1662 Outside, in an unevenly sloping terrain are two men. Both wear a carrying bat (pingo) over their shoulder. Of the bale of cinnamon bark rolled on the front and back, only those are drawn at the front. The men belong to the Singalese profession of cinnamon peelers of the caste of the chalias or salagama. The peeled inner bark of the cinnamon tree was curled up during drying and then stabbed into pipes - the men wear them bundled on their pingolat. The man on the left carries a hip rug (veshti, lungi) above the knee, sunculated in a Singalese way and stabbed at the waist; The upper body is uncovered. The man on the right is dressed in a hip rug (veshti, lungi) above the knee, converted in a Singalese way and stabbed at the waist; The upper body is uncovered. On his left shoulder, a long bearing stick (pingo) rests on the front of which a bundle of cinnamon bark hangs. Blad 99 from a sketchbook with 117 sheets. Sri Lanka paper. ink b
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A colored pen drawing from 1420-1430 depicting Job being tempted or tormented by Satan, illustrating a biblical narrative.
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Child murder in Betlehem, bottom left. Fragment of the child murder in Betlehem. Desperate mothers try to protect their children against the soldiers of Herod. In the margin a twelve-line caption, in two columns, in Dutch.
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Guerrier Iroquois, An Indian or Iroquois man scalps another. Cultural artefacts include tattoos, scalps on a tree, powder horn, musket or rifle, feathered headdress, knife, hatchet or tomahawk, ornaments and beaded pouch with bandolier, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original of the period
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Anti-Religion Propaganda Poster, Bezbozhnik u Stanka Magazine, Illustration by Mikhail Cheremnykh, Russia, 1920's
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Coptic, Armenian and Chinese Alphabet, Jan Luyken, 1690 print Print at the top left numbered: 49. Amsterdam paper etching letters, alphabet, script
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Huitzilopochtli, Aztec god of the war, lord of the sun and fire, who held equal place at the top of the Aztec pantheon with Tlaloc the Rain God. From Allain Manesson Mallet
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TAROT : 13 LA MORT (Death) Date: 17th century
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Vostochnye sibirskie narody: Chukotskaia baba v obyknovennoi odezhde. Eastern Siberian peoples, Chukotsk woman in typical attire.. Georgi, Johann Gottlieb (1738-1802). text. Illustrations. 1799. Rare Book Division. Russia, Ethnology , Russia, People
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Top: Chinese men seeking alms by threatening to kill themselves by self-mutilation, one (left) kneeling to hit his head against a rock, and the other (right) with burning herbs on his head; below, a monk being whipped as a punishment for promiscuity. Engraving by C. Du Bosc after B. Picart after J. Nieuhof.
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Three Chinese Buddhist priests worshipping at a shrine. Ink drawing, China, 18--
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Clay working during colonial period by Fra Bernardino de Sahagun from The Code of Florence ""Historia general de las cosas de Nueva Espana"" in Spanish and Nahuatl, facsimile, 16th century
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Reliquaries of Saint Patrick. Pen and ink drawing by Sandys, 1856.
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Tombs of the Virginian kings, c1734. Artist: Bernard Picart
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A cleric saws through a wooden platform on which are draped the 'Magna Charta' and the 'Bill of Rights' in front of a mill bearing political issues on the wind blades. Engraving.
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Two Sinhalese Men With Balles of Cinnamon, Esaias Boursss, 1662 There are two men along the road outside. Both wear a carrying stitch (pingo) over their shoulder to and behind a bale of rolled -up cinnamon bark. They belong to the professional group of cinnamon peelers (chalias or salagama). The man on the left is bald. He carries a hip rug (Veshti, Lungi) above the knee, converted in a Singalese way and stabbed at the waist; The upper body is uncovered. He holds the carrying bat (pingo) on his right shoulder with his right hand. The rear bale cinnamon is partly hiding in the back. The man on the right is dressed in a hip rug (veshti, lungi) above the knee, converted in a Singalese way and stabbed in the waist; The upper body is uncovered. He has short curly hair, a mustache and short beard. On the left shoulder is the carrying bat (pingo) on which a bundle bark hangs in front and behind a bundle of cinnamon bark. Leaf 34 from a sketchbook with 117 sheets. Sri Lanka paper. ink brush A
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. Leaf with four performances of Indian ascets that perform religious rituals. Under every performance a caption in French.
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Effigy of a Norman knight in armour from Danbury church, 13th century. Carved wooden monument of a man in suit of chain-mail armour of coif, hauberk and hose, with sleeveless surcoat. His right hand reaching for his sword. Possibly a Saint Clere or Sinclair family Templar Knight. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and Middle Ages, Vienna, 1802.
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Chinese peasants using a device with bucket and weight to irrigate the land. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1843.
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Table of the Show Breads, Jan Luyken, 1683 print Amsterdam paper etching table of the showbread in the Tabernacle ~ Jewish religion
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Pictorial cards bearing the symbols of each of the four suits. Stipple engraving.
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China/Germany: Adam Schall (1592 - 1666), German Jesuit and astronomer, Director of the Imperial Observatory to the Qing Emperor Shunzhi (r. 1643 - 1661), Athanasius Kircher, 1667
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Angel with attributes of hermit; Kluizenaars; Sacra Eremus Ascetriarum.
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Maffet Ledger: Three Indians ca. 1874-81 Southern and Northern Cheyenne. Maffet Ledger: Three Indians 766404
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Book of the Dead on papyrus, the priest Iahmes ploughing and harvesting in the Afterlife
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Dutch caricature from the late 16th Century, The Papal Pyramid, the Pope as the Antichrist, satirical depiction of the church hierarchy
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Lucifer eating Judas Iscariot. Opere of Dante. Printed by Bernardino Stagnino, Italy, 16th century, 1512. Author: Bernardino Stagino.
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Muhammad Akbar 'urf Muhammad, Copy undated: appearance of paper, handwriting, ink, etc. suggests a date of ca. 18th century.
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Engraving depicting the Aztec Sun God Huitzilopochtli. Dated 17th century
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Jakob blesses Ephraim and Manasse, Hans Holbein (II), 1538 print Jakob blesses Ephraim and Manasse, the sons of Joseph. In the margin above the image is the text Genesis XLVIII. paper Jacob blesses Manasseh and Ephraim with arms uncrossed
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Gielis van Ledenberg, a supporter of Oldenbarnevelt, is condemned to death for his religious views : he commits suicide, so they hang him in his coffin. Date: 15 May 1619
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Engraving depicting the Aztec Sun God Huitzilopochtli. Dated 17th century
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Satan rebaptizing young sorcerers. 17th century. Engraving, Color.
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Natives lives: How Indians cook fish, 1585, engraving from Admiranda Narratio (the discourse of the marvelous) by Theodore De Bry, North America 16th Century.
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The Punishment of the Swing - The Man is suspended by his shoulders and ankles in a very painful situation - A stick of bamboo is used to alleviate a little suffering and extract a confession - The Punishments of China, circa 1800