Religious Artworks and Scenes

Illustrations depicting significant religious themes and historical figures, ranging from biblical narratives to scenes of cultural interplay, in various artistic styles.

A Chinese 'opium palace' for wealthy smokers in San Francisco Date: 1882
A Chinese 'opium palace' for wealthy smokers in San Francisco Date: 1882
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The 1906 caption reads: Dante, the greatest of Italian poets, is the forerunner of the Rennaissance - the wonderful movement that began modern life and thought and art. Our picture shows him, however, from the simply human side of his private life. He has turned away from the soothing tenderness of the fair damsels around him, and broods over his memories of the one woman he had so deeply loved. He found consolation in making her name immortal, though she was dead. She is the heroine of his grandest poem. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was an Italian poet and the author of the Divine Comedy, a
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The Birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ (La nativité de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). The Birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ (La nativité de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ), 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 5 5/8 x 6 3/4 in. (14.3 x 17.1 cm). Paying his usual rigorous attention to researching the settings for his interpretation of the narrative, Tissot places the episode of Jesus birth in one of the caves in the mountains in and around Bethlehem, a departure from visual tradition, which often locates the Nativity in a stable. Unable to find rooms in the town, Mary and Joseph take shelter here. In his commentary, Tissot explains the presence of animals who gaze upon the newborn Jesus by noting that shepherds often used these caves on cold evenings. Although Tissot spurned the art-historical convention of the halo in his depictions of the Holy Family and the apostles, he endows the infant Christ with a glow that illuminates the
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Scene from the biblical story, Moses as a baby is found by the pharaoh's daughter in a reed basket on the Nile, authentic reproduction of a school mural, historical, around 1900
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Druze woman from Israel, historical illustration, circa 1886
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Egyptian mummies, Egypt, death, burial, ornamentation, embalming, hieroglyphics, upper social class, treatment, well preserved, remains, Bible, Old Testament, First Book of Moses, chapter 50, verse 2, historical illustration 1850, Africa
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A Germanic tribal family 4th century AD
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David Praying in the Night James Tissot (1836-1902 French) Jewish Museum, New York, USA
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Vendor of bangles on the forecourt of the Church of the Resurrection in Jerusalem, historical engraving, 1883
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bag of goodies
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Untitled Nativity., 1920, United Kingdom, by Randolph Schwabe, Lund Humphries & Co. Ltd., Richard Crashaw. Bequest of P Martin Hill, 2007.
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Human sacrifice in ancient Germany. Engraving, 1882 of "Germania". Color.
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The prophet Ezra praying. Old Testament. Antique digitally colored Biblical illustration by Gustave Doré (1832-1883)
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The witch of Endor conjures up the ghost of Samuel at the request of Saul, who lies petrified on the ground. Engraving by W. Raddon, 1811, after B. West.
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An older male "reads" the position of sticks to divine the future, while others look on. The sticks are known as runes.
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Illustration depicting a man at the grave of his long-dead wife. Dated 19th Century
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The Mothers of Jerusalem in Jesus Time
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A Tibetan Fortune Teller, circa 1899
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The holy place. Print shows, at center, a priest putting incense into a censer on The Altar of Incense, a large portable stand with carrying rods on two sides, a small censer sits on the floor nearby. On the left is The Golden Candlestick and on the right is The Table of Showbread. A large curtain hangs in the background. The central scene is a printed flap, which can be raised to display an underlying scene of the Holy of Holies with a priest kneeling to the left of the Ark of the Covenant.
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Emperor and his chancellor. A clip from a German magazine unknown
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A rather moralistic illustration entitled: 'Cleanliness is next to Godliness' Date: 1857