Historical Religious Altars

Vintage photographs of ornate altars and tombs in churches across Europe, featuring intricate architectural details and religious figures.

Altar of the Sant'ignazio in Rome, Italy, Anonymous, 1851 - 1900 photograph Rome cardboard. paper albumen print altar Sant'Ignazio di Loyola

CRACOW the Church of Holy Church, the Dominicans the Myszkowski chapel the interior with the altar of St. Dominic de Guzmán Lever, Zygmunt (1862 1929)

Kruiswegstation 14 in the Cologne Dom (the burial of Christ). Part of travel album with photos of Germany, Switzerland, the Suez Canal and Dutch East Indies.

Westminster Abbey. Tombs in Choir.. George Washington Wilson (Scottish, 1823 - 1893)

Napoli Chiesa S. Chiara Tomba del Re Roberto. Giorgio Sommer, photographer (Italian, born Germany, 1834 - 1914) 1870-1890 Elaborate tomb monument. The top tier is a statue of an important person seated on a throne, flanked by paintings and carved curtains. Below this is the deceased lying on a funeral bier, attended by several figures and accompanied by angels holding back curtains. Underneath are several statues, each in their own niche. (Verso) upper right, in pencil: "+1343" illegible

Altar of the Sant'ignazio in Rome, Italy, Anonymous, 1851 - 1900 photograph Rome cardboard. paper albumen print altar Sant'Ignazio di Loyola

Grave monument for Pietro Mocenigo, Doge of Venice (1474-1476) and Admiraal, in the S. Zanipolo (S. Giovanni e Paolo), Venice manufactured by Pietro Tullio and Antonio Lombardo ('No. 138. Venezia. Monumento del Doge Mocenigo. Monumento del Doge Mocenigo In SS. Gio. E Paolo '). The grave monument right in front of the front.

Sepulcher by Donato de Grasis in the church of San Francesco in Potenza.

12/31/1919. Villaescusa del Haro. One of the Best Altarpieces of pure flowery Gothic style that Exists in the Province.

Praal grave for Engelbrecht I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, Johanna van Polanen, Johan IV, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, and Maria van Loon-Heinsberg in the Grote Kerk in Breda, Anonymous (Monumentenzorg) (Attributed to), 1890-1920 photograph Big church photographic support. cardboard albumen print grave-building, monumental tomb. interior of church Big church

Otto Schmidt (1849-1920, as a photographer): St. Zyprian, Sarntheim

Stefan Batory's tombstone; Dietrich, Fryderyk Krzysztof (1779-1847), Stachowicz, Michał (1768-1825); 1824 (1824-00-00-1824-00-00);

The grave of the Dutch Pope Adriaan VI in the church / Santa Maria Dell 'Anima in Rome.

Tomb of Charles Martel and others. Unknown

Napoli Chiesa S. Angelo a Nilo Tomba di Brancaccio. Giorgio Sommer, photographer (Italian, born Germany, 1834 - 1914) 1870-1890 Full view of a grand tomb monument, with full size angels standing over the deceased, holding curtains. The casket is held on the shoulders of three robed figures. The whole thing is framed by an arch with carved curtains and two fluted corinthian columns. (Verso) upper center, in pencil: "1427" underlined

Cathedral (now Catholic parish church), Kulmsee: Interior view (from: sketch and photo album 20)

Input burial cellar. View in a church with a woman with jug and two soldiers at the entrance of a burial cellar.

Lazio Roma Rome S. Maria in Vallicella50. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Views of 16th church's facade by Fausto Rughesi(1605). Views of interior nave, altars, sacristy, and collection in private rooms. Extensive coverage of frescoes and paintings. Three views of an embroidery with a depiction of the Assumption of the Virgin. General Notes: Views of Oratorio dei Filippini are filed separately, but retain H-numbers within this monument's numerical sequence. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Antwerp, Maes, Joseph, Alsemberg, Chaire, XVe Siècle, Pulpit in the Church of Our Lady in Alsemberg, recto - stamped, photomechanical print, page, photos, photographically illustrated books, CHAIRE de vérité, recto - printed, CHAIRES. PL.2., JJvY, height 341 mm, width 235 mm, photographer, 1881 - 1889, paper, collotype, photoprint, photolithography, Belgian, 1838 - 1908, cliché maker, Work conception

Lazio Viterbo Ronciglione S. Maria della Pace2. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Post-medieval: Architecture, sculpture, ceiling and wall painting, crucifix, tabernacle. This church was started in 1581 and has been attributed to Vignola or Rainaldi. In the center of the main altar is a depiction of the Madonna of Peace, a fresco of the Viterbese school, dating to the 15th century. To each side of this central fresco are frescoes of S. Augustine and S. Bartholomew from the 17th century. Along the same wall as the altar are two more paintings, one, representing the Apparition of the Madonna to S. Francis of Sales by Sebastiano Conca, and the "Madonna del Suffragio", from the 18th century. A fresco of the Madonna of the Rosary is placed in a side altar, dating from the 16th century. In another side altar is placed a wooden crucifix of the 15th century, with an 18th century addition of the Madonna Addolorata at the foot of the cross. A Renaissance tabernacle inserted into the wall, attributed to Sans

Chapel in the Dom van Keulen, Anonymous, 1870 - 1890 cabinet photograph Cologne paper. cardboard albumen print parts of church interior: chapel Dom of Cologne

XIIIe Station. Jésus est remis entre les mains de sa mère. Cet autel est construit sur le rocher où se tenait la vierge marie pendant le crucifiement de son fils. 1860 or later Louis de Clercq French. XIIIe Station. Jésus est remis entre les mains de sa mère. Cet autel est construit sur le rocher où se tenait la vierge marie pendant le crucifiement de son fils. 679905

The altar of the Archbishop of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the church of o.o. Bernardines in Warsaw unknown

Vienna Peterskirche interior, Brothers Kohn KG B, producer

Eakhout choir bench in the Sint-Katharinakerk in Hoogstraten, Belgium, Anonymous, c. 1882 - in or before 1887 photomechanical print Sint-Katharina Kantwerp paper collotype / photolithography bench. parts of church interior: choir Sint-katharinakerk

Church Interior, Adolf Carel Nunnink, After Johannes Bosboom, 1847 - 1865 print Figures in a church. The Hague paper interior of church

Image of John the Baptist in an Italian church; San Giovanni di Garrodi Genovese in Carignano. Part of photo album with recordings of sights in Italian cities and works of art.

Halvation stone in the holy grave church in Jerusalem; S 29. Salvation stone. Sacred grave church. Jerusalem .. The photo is part of the photo series collected by Richard Polak from Israel, Palestine and Syria.

Picture of a grieving man with a beard, Anonymous.

Oak pulpit in the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedral in Antwerp, Belgium, designed by Michel van der Voort, Anonymous, c. 1882 - in or before 1887 photomechanical print Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraalantwerp paper collotype / photolithography pulpit, ambo, chancel Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedral

Chapel in the Wartburg in Eisenach; That Kapelle Auf der Wartburg. Part of album with 38 photos of a journey through the Harz.

Praal grave of Willem I, Prince of Orange. Front view of the praise of Willem I, Prince of Orange, in the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft.

Image of a grieving man with a beard.This may be a picture of the holy hieronymus here. Part of Family Album Dutch East Indies.

Photograph of the pulpit inside the cemetery church in Kuttenberg, captured by Andreas Groll on albumin paper in 1856, showing architectural details and interior design.

Copper Johann, St. Paulus-Dom in Münster (without dat.): Wood paneling in the chapter hall. Photo on cardboard, 32.9 x 23.9 cm (including scan edges) Kupfer Johann : St. Paulus-Dom, Münster

Interior of a church in Delft, Huib van Hove BZ, after Bartholomeus Johannes van Hove, 1824 - in or before 1867 print There are a few figures in the middle. One of them is drawing. On the left a pulpit. Numbered at the top right: No. 6. Rotterdam paper interior of church. drawing. pulpit, ambo, chancel Delft

Salamanca, Sepulcro de Francisco Sánchez de Palencia en la Catedral Vieja.

View of stained glass windows of the Église Saint-Germain d'Argentan, J.A.G. de Leur (Possibly), 1850 - 1900 photograph Argentan photographic support. cardboard albumen print carrying of the cross: Christ bearing the cross, alone or with the help of others (e.g. Simon the Cyrenian) Argentan

Tomb in the cathedral of Lichfield, Anonymous, c. 1860 - c. 1870 photograph Part of English family album with photos of people, travel, cricket and artworks. paper. photographic support albumen print interior of church. grave-building, monumental tomb. piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture (+ sculpture) Lichfield

Dębno Podhalańskie Wooden Church of Saint Michael Archangel Patron of Wall Decorations unknown

Photograph of painting: `St. Simeon Stylites`, painting on a wing of the triptych of St. John the Merciful from the beginning of the 16th century at the Church of St. Catherine in Cracow. Krieger, Ignacy (Kraków ; zakład fotograficzny ; 1860-1926), photo studio

The Founder's Tomb, Church of Saint Bartholomew the Great 1903 United States. Etching on paper . Joseph Pennell

Interior of a church.

Tabernakel van Steen in the Sint-Martinus Basilica in Halle, Belgium, Anonymous, c. 1882 - in or before 1887 photomechanical print Sint-Martinus Basiliek paper collotype / photolithography tabernacle ~ altar Sint-Martinus Basilica

Interior of the Holy Grave in the Rotunda of the Holy Grafkerk in Jerusalem, Félix Bonfils, 1867 - 1885 photograph This photo is part of an album. Jerusalem paper albumen print interior of church Holy grave church

Stanza di Eliodoro in the Vatican, c. 1875 - c. 1900 photograph Vaticaan Room of ElioDoro cardboard. photographic support albumen print palace. Heliodorus in the temple, attacked by a man (or angel) on horseback and two other men (or angels) (2 Maccabees 3:7-35). Peter in prison ~ martyrdom and death of Peter Vaticaan Room of ElioDoro

, Dr, -signaz -Seipel -Platz - Jesuitenkirche - Interior view - side chapel, Bruno Reiffenstein -, photographer

Unknown photographer, lamp (Kandelaber) in a church (without date): View. Photo on cardboard, 41.6 x 31.6 cm (including scan edges) unbek. Künstler : Lampe (Kandelaber) in einer Kirche

Mass in a church, Johannes Bosboom, 1827 - 1891 print Under the pulpit there is a community on wooden benches. In the middle is the spiritual at a table. print maker: Netherlandsafter own design by: Netherlandsprinter: The Hague paper interior of church. Protestant service. the congregation

Preekgestoelte in Het the Budge of Pisa, Giorgio Sommer (attributed to), after Nicola Pisano, 1857 - 1914 photograph Pisa paper. cardboard albumen print pulpit, ambo, chancel Bond

Marble baptismal font in the Winchester cathedral, 1900 photograph Part of Reisalbum with photos of sights in England and France. Winchester paper. photographic support baptismal font Winchester

Photograph of the grille of the Holy Blood Chapel in Stams Monastery captured by Albert Edler von Obermayer on matt albumin paper with platinum tone mounted on a box box in 1906.

Tomb in the cemetery (theAnnaberg. Tomb meal on d. Cemetery ("the youngest court")

Baxter's Pulpit; S. Howard (British, active Kidderminster, England 1860s); about 1865; Albumen silver print

Notre-Dame, Stalles. Eugène Atget, photographer (French, 1857 - 1927) 1905 Interior of cathedral, choir stalls Inscription: Title and negative number 5055 inscribed verso print.

Interior view of unidentified church including altar , Churches, Alexandre Benois Collection

Alberti Leon Battista (1404-1472), San Francesco, Rimini (without dat.): 1st chapel to the right, pillar base with black elephants (heraldry symbol of the Malatestas). Photo, 37.9 x 23.5 cm (including scan edges)

12/31/1928. Burial of an uncle of Fray Luis de León in the collegiate church of Belmonte (Cuenca).

The coat of arms of the Montelupich family in the culmination of the tombstone in the church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Krakow Krieger, Ignacy (1820 1889)

Jacobi, CH, Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of San Marco, Ongania, Ferdinand, Tomb in the San Marco in Venice, recto - printed, This print is part of a cover with 58 prints on 50 sheets., photomechanical print, photographs, photographically illustrated books, 276, O.2, O.2., height 397 mm, width 311 mm, photographer, 1880 - 1885, paper, papier, collotype, cliché maker

Altar Iglesia Balneario. Author: Jose María Aguilar. Salvador Páramo.

Church of St. Clare - Merloto Family Tomb. Giorgio Sommer (Italian, born Germany, 1834 - 1914)

Grave monument of Bishop Guy of Avesnes in the Dom van Utrecht, c. 1875 - c. 1900 photograph Dom Van Utrecht cardboard. photographic support grave, tomb. parts of church interior Dom Van Utrecht

Emil O. Jellink, A Gothic Tomb, c. 1920s, bromoil transfer print.

Dooopvest in Sint-JanskatHatraal te 'S-hertogenousBoke, Antonius GODEFIDUS SCHOOL, 1865 photograph the Bosch paper. cardboard albumen print baptismal font Sint-Janskathedral

Umbria Perugia Trevi Chiesa della Madonna delle Lacrime2. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Views of the plain exterior focus on the sculpted portal. The spacious, white-walled interior is filled with various altarpieces and tomb monuments of the Valenti family (Romolo, Filiberto, Cardinal Erminio). The following subjects and saints figure in the altarpieces: S. Ubaldo, Ss. Battista and Antonio di Padova, S. Agostino, St. Francis, St. Joseph, St. Peter, St. Paul, Jonah, David, sibyls, prophets, the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Betrothal of the Virgin, the Flight into Egypt, the Visitation, a Madonna and Child that shed tears of blood in 1485 (now adorned with necklaces), the Deposition, the Resurrection, and various other saints and angels. Other views include a holy water font, walnut-wood benches, a marble crucifix and a Coiugali tomb. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to

Praal grave of Eugenius van Savoye, Pierre Lamarque, 1726 - 1766 print The Praalgraf of Eugène-François, Prince of Savoy, in the Stephansdom in Vienna. The grave is decorated with columns and a canopy with flags, weapons of smoking vessels and sitting and standing figures. On both sides, columns with smoking vessels, flags and lions flank the grave. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving grave-building, monumental tomb Stephansdom

Notre Dame, Dinant , Cathedrals, Interiors, Crucifixes, Altars. Sir David Young Cameron (1865-1945). Prints

Interior of the Remigius Church in Duiven, Anonymous (Monumentenzorg) (Attributed to), 1905 photograph Pigeon photographic support. cardboard albumen print interior of church Pigeon

Mosaic in the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe in Ravenna, representing Saint Severus, c. 1875 - c. 1900 photograph Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe cardboard. photographic support albumen print interior of church. art (+ mosaic making). the weaver Severus, bishop of Ravenna; possible attributes: dove, weaver's loom and tools Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe

The Reredos. John Harrington (British, active 1860s - 1870s)

Frescoes in the crucifix of the Dom of Bressanone, Italy, Otto Schmidt, c. 1888 - in or before 1893 photomechanical print This print is part of a cover with twenty prints, two text magazines and a title page. BressanoneviennAPUBLISHER: Vienna paper interior of church. picture, painting Bressanone

Image of the sleeping Ariadne and two candlesticks in the Vatican museums; Roma - Museo Vaticano, Arianna, e Candeabri .. Part of photo album with recordings of churches, images and antique buildings in Rome.

De Katafalk founded in the Sint Gudula (plate III lower half), 1622, 1623 print The Katafalk or Chapelle Ardente founded in the Sint Gudula church in Brussels (bottom half). With titles in Latin, Spanish, French and Dutch. Plate III in the series of the funeral of Archhertog Albrecht of Austria in Brussels on March 12, 1622. Southern Netherlands paper etching Cortege, funeral procession. Catafalque 'Castle of Pain' (~ Public Funeral) Sint-Michiel and Sint-Goedelekathedral

Church interior with two figures and organ, Johannes Bosboom, 1827 - 1891 print The man has taken his hat. A girl walks next to him and a chandelier hangs above them. They walk in the direction of an organ. print maker: Netherlandsafter own design by: Netherlandsprinter: The Hague paper interior of church. adult man (+ back view). girl (child between toddler and youth) (+ back view). church organ

Augustijnenkerk "De Ster" in Amsterdam, Petrus Augustus Beretta, 1815 - 1866 print Three figures are kneeling in the interior of the church with their faces to the altar. The two women and the man have been seen on the back. print maker: Netherlandsprinter: Amsterdampublisher: Amsterdam paper interior of church. (public) prayer. altar Amsterdam

Church interior with speaking chair, Johannes Bosboom, 1827 - 1891 print There is a spiritual on the speaking chair, under a large roof. This includes audience, consisting of men, women and children. In the front, a man with a hat over sight is probably pulled to sleep. print maker: Netherlandsafter design by: Netherlandsprinter: The Hague paper. pulpit, ambo, chancel. parts of church interior. sermon ~ Holy Mass. sleeping in chair

Pulpit in the Grote Kerk in Dordrecht, c. 1875 - c. 1900 photograph Large or Our Lady Church cardboard. photographic support albumen print pulpit, ambo, chancel. interior of church Large or Our Lady Church

Paris, Guérinet, Armand, Nancy, Royer & Cie., Baptismal chapel in the Basilique Saint-Epvre in Nancy, recto - printed, This print is part of a cover with 103 prints on 101 sheets and a title page., photomechanical print, photographs, photographically illustrated books, Basilique Saint-Epvre, Chapelle des fonts baptismaux, height 298 mm, width 401 mm, photographer, 1891 - 1896, paper, papier, collotype, clichémaker, Publication (Event), Publication, French, publisher

Temple of the 300 Buddha's Canton; Temple in canton with 300 Buddha statues. Temple with 300 Buddha images in canton. Part of the foto album from Dolph Kessler with recordings he made during his stay in England and on a world trip that he undertook to Dutch-India, Japan, China and the United States as a secretary of Henri Deterding (director of Royal Oil), between 1906 and 1908.

Saint-Isaac, Paroi Laterale de la Grande Iconostase; Pierre-Ambrose Richebourg (French, 1830 - 1876); Saint Petersburg, Russia; 1859; Albumen silver print

st, Petersplatz - Peterskirche - interior view - look into the choir against high altar, Bruno Reiffenstein -, photographer

Church Portal with Mosaic of Christ Enthroned in Majesty 1880s Unknown. Church Portal with Mosaic of Christ Enthroned in Majesty 262994

Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, Ossuary of the Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini in Rome, photograph, photo, page, photos, photographic illustrated books, height 80 mm, width 121 mm, photographer, 1870 - 1880, photographic paper, photo paper, gelatin silver print, developing gelatin silver print

Fürstengruft in the cathedralFreiberg. Fürstengruft in the cathedral

Malvern - Priory Church - Tomb in the Chancel.. Francis Bedford (English, 1815/1816 - 1894)

Cathedral - Voral, ZachariasMeissen. Cathedral - Voral, Zacharias

Cathédrale de Reims (Porch ofGod). Artist: Charles Marville, French, 1813-1879

Burial monument on the Camposanto in Genoa, c. 1875 photograph This photo is part of an album. Knee paper albumen print grave-building, monumental tomb Monumental cemetery of Staglieno

Choir in the Dutch Reformed Church in Eemnes, 1900 photograph Eemnes cardboard. photographic support albumen print interior of church. rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis Eemnes

Confessional in the Basilique Saint-EPVRE in Nancy, Anonymous, c. 1891 - In or Before 1896 photomechanical print This print is part of a cover with 103 prints on 101 sheets and a title page. NancyPublisher: Paris paper collotype interior of church. confessional ~ part of the confession Saint-Epvre basilica

Interior view of the Joan of Arc Church near Domremy, France. Photo taken on August 15, 1918, by Sgt. Rode. The image shows the altar area of the church. The photograph was passed by the A.E.P. censor but its issuance date is unknown. Notes state it belongs to the series 22647. Creix.

Vilnius. Church In. Micha A, the tombstone of Krzysztof Sapieha; Zdanowscy, Edmund and Boles; 1930s (1930-00-00-1939-00-00);

Beauchamp Chapel. Warwick; British; about 1865; Albumen silver print

Interior of the prayer room in the iemitsu Temple in Nikko, Japan, c. 1890 - In or Before 1903 photograph This photo is part of an album. Nikko paper. photographic support albumen print temple, shrine ~ Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism. interior of the house Nikko

Feltre, Friedhof. .

Chapel of Sint-Helena in the Holy Grafkerk, Jerusalem, c. 1867 - c. 1877 photograph Part of a group of photos collected by photographer Richard Polak on travel. This photo was exhibited together with other photos collected on his journeys at the Rotterdamsche Kunstkring (1895), Arti and Amicitiae in Amsterdam (1897-1898) And Societeit 't Collegie in Kampen (Date for the time being unknown). Jerusalem paper. cardboard albumen print parts of church interior: chapel Holy grave church

Part. Jasna Góra. The basilica of the cross and the birth of the mother - the sight of the nave towards the presbytery; Trzci Ski, Stanis Aw (1867-1939); Not after 1896 (1890-00-00-1896-00-00);

Barcelona, Table with liturgical objects and carpets, recto - printed, photomechanical print, page, photographs, photographically illustrated books, Pl 29, height 148 mm, width 109 mm, maker, producer, 1880 - 1881, paper, papier, collotype

Chapel in a church in Kleef, Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's -Gravesande, 1851 - 1902 print Kerkinterieur. paper parts of church interior: chapel Cleves

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