Religious Illustrations and Figures

Historical illustrations depicting famous religious figures, knights, and saints from medieval times, showcasing detailed craftsmanship in woodcut and engraving styles.

'A Turkish Gentleman', 19th century. Artist: Unknown
'A Turkish Gentleman', 19th century. Artist: Unknown
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Enoch, Enoch, Methuselah, outdoors, kneeling, looking up to God, landscape, jar, fire, mountain, Bible, Old Testament, First Book of Moses, chapter 5, verse 22, historical illustration 1850
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Gaius Julius Caesar, 100 BC 44 BC Julius Caesar, The History of Ancient Rome, Roman Empire, Italy, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19...
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St James the Apostle (St James the Great) Patron saint of Spain. Horse's trappings show scallop shells, the saint's symbol. Woodcut
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Engraving depicting the Madman Bartholomew from Petroio (1488-1527) an Italian hermit and preacher. Dated 16th Century
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Engraving of Skanderbeg (1405-1468) a 15th-century Albanian nobleman. Dated 15th Century
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Bacsi is Anglicized spelling of the Mongolian word for "teacher." Here we see a teacher at the time of Marco Polo from Tibet.
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Monk at work on a manuscript in the corner of a scriptorium. Engraving after 15th century manuscript
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Symbolic picture church, religion, culture, Bible, decorated chalice, sword, Christian faith, hand, symbols, history, historical illustration 1882
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Steward and serving men, 15th century, (1910). Artist: Unknown
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Illustration of Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador who crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513 and the first European reach the Pacific from the New World viewed from the side set inside oval shape done in retro woodcut style. . Vasco Nunez de Balboa Conquistador Woodcut
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ST DENIS Octave Tassaert (1800-1874). St Denis. Charcoal and white rehaught on cream paper, nineteenth century.
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SAN JERONIMO - SIGLO XVII - BARROCO ESPAÑOL - FOTOGRAFIA EN BLANCO Y NEGRO - AÑOS 60.
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Darius I, the Great, 549, 486 BC BC, Great King of the Persians 522, 486 BC Depicted with retinue, umbrella-bearer and fly-whisk on an alt Persian relief, woodcut, Iran, Asia
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BEATO FRAY DIEGO JOSE DE CADIZ - GRABADO SIGLO XIX. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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St. Fiacre. Irish hermit monk born in 7th century. Patron of gardeners. Nineteenth century colored engraving.
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men suits and woman in Little Boukhaire, Chinese Turkestan, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1845.
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Faust Necromancer and Astrologer Stock Montage, Inc.
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Frontispiece to his book Super libros de generatione et corruptione, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas von Aquin, Tommaso d'Aquino, c.1225 - 1274, Italian Dominican friar and priest, philosopher, theologian, and a jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, digitally edited
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WILLIAM PRICE Welsh druid and eccentric, enthusiast for cremation ; tried for cremating his son, acquitted ; had another son in his 80s. Date: 1804 - 1893
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Ibrahim Effendi Kavusi, 1522, 1592, Sheikh of the Howling Dervishes Ibrahim Effendi Kavusi, Sheikh of the Howling Dervishes, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century
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Wooden servant from Bavaria, Germany, 1887, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, Europe
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travel geography Russia religion Kamtchatka Itelmens good god engraving from Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709 - 1746) ""Description of the land of Kamtchatka"" Frankfurt Leipzig 1774 Asia Siberia natives Kamchadals chital Vitus Bering Second Kamtchatka Expedition 1741 1742,
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Druids making human sacrifice to their gods, based on report by Julius Caesar. Druids, the priests, teachers and judges of Celts suppressed by Romans c50 AD. Woodcut 1832. Wicker Man.
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Roger Bacon. The Franciscan friar and English philosopher and alchemist Roger Bacon, also known as doctor Mirabilis, 1214-1294 doing an experiment. Engraving 1617 in Symbola Aureae Mensae Duodecim Nationum, by Michael Mayer.
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'When we forget him may god forget us', 6th November 1817. Artist: T Sotheran
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Saint Matthew writing his gospel, accompanied by an angel. Engraving by F. Vernon, 1851, after L. Kupelwieser after Fra Angelico.