Historical Religious Drama

Artistic interpretations of historical religious narratives, showcasing characters in dramatic or emotional moments, with a focus on narrative storytelling.

The Bishop and Death. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour. 14 x 20.6cm.
The Bishop and Death. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour. 14 x 20.6cm.
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The Prophet of Saint Paul's reading a woman's palm. The woman's black servant stands at her side. Date: 17th century
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Salem Witch Trials. Women accused of witchcraft brought before the Salem magistrates for examination in 1692.
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An Eminent Gathering Francesco Brunery (19th C.-20th C. Italian) Oil on canvas Christie's Images, London, England
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The Franciscan friars of the Convento of Santa Maria de la Rabida give bread and water to Christopher Columbus and his son Diego - 19th century- 1858 - oil on canvas. Author: ANTONIO CABRAL BEJARANO (1788-1861). Location: MONASTERIO DE LA RABIDA. PALOS DE LA FRONTERA. Huelva. SPAIN. MARCHENA FRAY ANTONIO. CRISTOBAL COLON (1451/1506).
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Saint CATHERINE LabourZ, 1806-76, Sister of Mercy, Paris, at her first communion, after Lauren Ford
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religion christianity glergymen catholic priest Anointing of the Sick painting ex-voto Upper Bavaria 18.5.1879 oil on wood Catholic Rectory Irschenberg,
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Leo XIII (1810-1903). Italian Pope (1878-1903), named Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci. Rome. Leo XIII directs a phonograph message to the American Catholic people on the occasion of his jubilee. Engraving by Rico. The Spanish and American Illustration. Colored.
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Bartolomeo Pinelli, La Compagnia dei sacconi al Colosseo (Penitents Praying at Altars in the Colosseum), 1829 La Compagnia dei sacconi al Colosseo (Penitents Praying at Altars in the Colosseum)
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A young man and an old woman in a simple interior sit praying before dinner. On the table is a steaming bowl of food. On a plate is a herring., Prayer Before Dinner, print maker: Dirk Jurriaan Sluyter, (mentioned on object), after: Jozef Israëls, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1821 - 1886, paper, etching, engraving, h 578 mm × w 740 mm
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The alchemists' laboratory, by Pietro Longhi (1701-1785).
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Edward Dodwell (1767 - 13 May 1832) was an Irish painter, traveller and a writer on archaeology. Dodwell travelled from 1801 to 1806 in Greece (at the time a part of the Ottoman Empire), and spent the rest of his life for the most part in Italy, at Naples, and Rome. A Dervish (from Persian درویش, Darvīsh via Turkish, Somali: Daraawiish, Arabic: دولة الدراويش‎) is someone treading a Sufi Muslim ascetic path or 'Tariqah', known (notionally) for their extreme poverty and austerity, similar to mendicant friars in Christianity or Hindu/Buddhist/Jain sadhus. The whirling dance or Sufi whirling that is proverbially associated with Dervishes is best known in the West by the practices of the Mevlevi order in Turkey, and is part of a formal ceremony known as the Sama. It is, however, also practiced by other orders. The Sama is only one of the many Sufi ceremonies performed to try to reach religious ecstasy (majdhb, fana). The name Mevlevi comes from the Persian poet, Rumi who was a Dervish himse
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Queen Anne of Brittany, Court of the Ladies, 1509 Queen Anne of Brittany, Court of the Ladies, 1509 Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21664842
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NACIMIENTO DE JESUS. Author: FRANCESCA LLOPIS Y PLANAS (1956-). Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Norway, Bergen, colour print of the telling of old Norwegian Tales
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Leyden, Lucas van, Northern Netherlands, Passe, Crispijn van de (I), Four Evangelists, Evangelist Lucas, verso - handwritten in brown ink, The Evangelist Luke in his study. Under the writing table lies his attribute the winged ox., print, prints, verso - stamped, height 205 mm, width 135 mm, 1564 - 1637, print maker, printmaker, 1574 - 1637, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1494-06 - 1533-08
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LA CARIDAD CON LAS ALMAS DEL PURGATORIO. Author: BARTOLOME ESTEBAN MURILLO. Location: HOPITAL DE LA CHARITE. Sevilla. Seville. SPAIN.
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Foreigners enjoy themselves during a banquet, Utagawa Yoshikazu, 1860 print Middle leaf of triptych. paper visiting; receiving guests; elegant company. celebration meal, feast, banquet. human races; peoples; nationalities
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1500s 1536 DAWN OF THE REFORMATION AN OLDER MARTIN LUTHER SPEAKING TO MONKS AND PILGRIMS
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Studies on Torture, Spanish Inquisition, The Spanish Inquisition was a council to combat heresy, authorised by a papal bull in 1478 and established by King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella of the Crown, in 1480, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.
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Reading the Scriptures.
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Mode, Kleidung in Deutschland, Bürgertracht von 1560-1580, von links, eine Handwerkerin aus Danzig, eine Magd aus Danzig, eine angesehene Bürgerin aus...
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Northern Netherlands, Image of a Chinese Idol, Chinese idol at an altar, 1607, Image of a Chinese goddess in a temple on Nan'ao, Chinese goddess in a temple on Nan'ao, on the island of Lamao (Lamma) on the way to Canton, July 1607. At the top right in a cartouche the view of the sea. Part of the illustrations in the report of the expedition by Cornelis Matelief de Jonge for the VOC to the East Indies and China, 1605-1608, No. 9., print, prent, nieuwsprent, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 150 mm, width 205 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1644 - 1646, second quarter 17th century, paper, papier, etching, etsen
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Prayer before dinner by Fritz von Uhde, oil on canvas, 1885, 1848-1911, Germany, Berlin, Staatliche Museen, 130x165
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Death of a patient. Angels and demons waiting for your soul. "Le Tresor da Sapience". 15th century. Chateau of Chantilly. France.
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Egyptian Scene (possibly Moses and Zipporah) 1865-80 Erastus Salisbury Field American. Egyptian Scene (possibly Moses and Zipporah) 10879
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Last Communion, Weir, Robert, 1852.
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John Calvin (1509-1564). French theologian and reformer. Last moments of Calvin. Engraving, 1882. Colored.
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Three Women in Church 1882 Wilhelm Maria Hubertus Leibl (1844-1900 German)
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Monks drinking wine in a monastery, Wine tasting, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Monks drinking wine in a monastery, Wine tasting, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original
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Saint Augustine of Hippo Saint Augustine of Hippo Copyright: xZoonar.com/ZvonimirxAtleticx 2055629
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Prayer for eating. A young man and an old woman in a simple interior sitting in praying for the food. On the table is a steaming bowl with food. There is a herring on a plate.
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Piety, by Cornelis Kruseman, 1823, Dutch painting, oil on canvas. A group of people praying at a Marian shrine along a path in a forest, includes a woman kneeling with a rosary. Knapsack on a stick suggest the group are pilgrims. (BSLOC_2016_1_26)
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Prayer for meals.
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The wonder of bees, by an unknown artist, oil on canvas, Convent of the Shrine of St Rita of Cascia, Cascia, Umbria. Italy, 18th century.
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The Feast of the Kings, with the extended family at the table, 1869, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century master, exact original date not known, Europe
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Ivan the Terrible & Son;I. Repin 1885
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Old Woman Saying Grace, Known as The Prayer without End’, Nicolaes Maes, c. 1656
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The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in America, 1620. After a work by Charles Lucy.
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Isidoro Lozano / 'Mariana de Pineda saying goodbye to the lay sisters of Santa María Egipciaca, in whose sanctuary she was imprisoned before going to the chapel'. 1862. Oil on canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.
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Georges Darboy (1813-1871). Catholic priest, bishop of Nancy, archbishop of Paris and ecclesiastical writer. During the Paris Commune was arrested on 4 April 1871, confined in Mazas Prison and executed on 24 May by the revolutionaries. Archbishop of Paris' dungeon. Portrait. Engraving by Ribas. "Historia de la Guerra de Francia y Prusia" (History of the War between France and Prussia). Volume II. Published in Barcelona, 1871.
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Old woman praying, ca 1656, by Nicolas Maes (1634-1693), oil on canvas, 134x113 cm.
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Scene from the biblical story, The term Last Oiling in Christian tradition refers to the sacrament, which is now officially known as the Anointing of the Sick, authentic reproduction of a school mural, historical, around 1900
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Tired out (Mother Watched). Presentation entitled 'Tired awakens'. In addition to a cradle in which a sleeping child is falling asleep next to a cradle. Left at the crib a cat, right on a table behind the woman burns a candle.
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Colonial Indian images our magistrate s wife India Copyright: xJehangirxSorabjee/DinodiaxPhotox
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1890s LA FOI THE FAITH TABLEAU PAINTING OF AILING WOMAN WITH ROSARY ATTENDED BY PRAYING NUNS BY ARTIST CECILE WENTWORTH
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Some Have Entertained Angels Unawares Edward Clifford (1844-1907 British)
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Benedict XIV & Cardinal Gonzaga;1749
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Death Under Inspection, Skeletons
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Alexander I talking to monk by Moisei Lvovich Maimon, Color lithograph, 1904, 1860-after 1919, Private Collection
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EXVOTOS. Location: ERMITA DE LA VIRGEN SALUD-ROMERIA 1978. BARBATONA. Guadalajara. SPAIN.
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Kleidung, Mode der Mönchsorden im Mittelalter, von links, Karmeliter in Ausgehkleidung, Kartäusermönch in Ausgehtracht, Kartäusermönch in Hauskleidung...
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The Order of St. Stanisława, armchairs, curtains, wig (iconogr.), Portraits of bishops, representative portraits, portraits in an armchair, message (provenance), laurel wreaths
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Jan Kochanowski at Czarnolas Reading The Translation of the Psalms Uzczkiewicz, W Adys AW (1828 1900)
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theologians in a discussion / Theologen in einer Diskussion, Historisch, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.
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A Group of Women at Mass, Sir David Wilkie, 1785-1841, British, undated, Watercolor with black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 7 5/8 x 6 inches (19.4 x 15.2 cm), Catholicism, church, dresses, genre subject, headpieces, kneeling, mass, prayer, praying, religious and mythological subject, stained glass, women
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France, Rheims, Voltaire Welcoming Franklin and his nephew
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Gypsy who used to wash his hands in molten lead.
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The prayer for the deceased, Diederik Franciscus Jamin, 1864
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France. Paris 6th district. Avenue de l'Observatoire. Faculty of pharmacy. Stained-glass window representing the chemist Lavoisier (1743-1794) in his laboratory
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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Italian astronomer, mathematician and physicist. On 22 June 1633, Galileo was forced to abjure his doctrine before an inquisitorial tribunal, under the mandate of Pope Urban VIII. The trial was held at the Dominican convent of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. Chromolithography. Historia Universal, by Cesar Cantu. Volume VIII. Published in Barcelona, 1886.
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Pope Pius XI (1857-1939). Reigned form 1922-1939. Engraving. Colored.
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Savonarola nega l'assoluzione a Lorenzo il Magnifico.
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Middle Ages. Inquisition. Interrogations, confessions and torture. Heretical behaviour of Catholic adherents or converts. Colored engraving. Iconographic Enclyclopaedia of science, Literature and Art. 19th century. Author: HENRY WINKLES. Johan George Heck.
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InChurch. Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897
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EXVOTOS. Location: ERMITA DE LA VIRGEN SALUD-ROMERIA 1978. BARBATONA. Guadalajara. SPAIN.
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Procession of the Cross in the Kursk Region (Detail) 1880/83 Il'ja Efimovic Repin (1844-1930 Russian) Oil on canvas Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia