Items in Palestine

The Nativity (1504)

One of a number of pictures that Albrecht Dürer [Duerer] made of the Nativity, i.e. the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, a significant religious event to people of the Christian religion. The birth here t [...]

Keywords: christmas, religion, buildings, people

Places shown: Bethlehem; Palestine

Added: 2006-11-12

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The Virgin and Child

From MS. Roy. 2 A. XXII. 13th Century. The Virgin mary holds the baby Jesus in her arm. Incense burns in the background. Mary wears a dirk blue skirt with stars and an embroidered hem. She sits on a [...]

Keywords: people, religion, christmas, colour

Places shown: Bethlehem; Palestine

Added: 2006-11-03

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Ancient Representation of the Nativity

A picture for Christmas, taken from the entry for December 24th. “This introduction of the ox and the ass warming the infant in the crib with their breath, is a fanciful construction by catholic write [...]

Keywords: christmas, religion, astrology, animals, peoplechristmas

Places shown: Bethlehem; Judea; Palestine

Added: 2006-01-09

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Bethlehem.

Engraved expressly for the Christian Parlor Magazine. W.H. Battlett. A.L. Dick. “Bethlehem, the birth-place of David and our Saviour Jesus Christ, is a village in Palestine, a part of Syria, in the Pa [...]

Keywords: views, cities, people, camels, entrances, christmas

Places shown: Bethlehem; Damascus; Palestine

Added: 2006-01-17

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Jaffa

(p. 626). Historians belive that Jaffa is the only port in the world which can boast uninterrupted inhabitation throughout its entire existence. The Canaanites founded the city in the 18th Century BC [...]

Keywords: cities, water, boats, cityscapes

Places shown: Palestine

Added: 2006-01-03

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Jaffa

A version of the Jaffa picture cut down so you can use it as a desktop image (wallpaper, as Windows people say).

Keywords: cities, water, boats, backgrounds, wallpaper, cityscapes

Places shown: Palestine

Added: 2006-01-03

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Nativity of Christ [detail: crib scene]

This engraved drawing of the Nativity, that is, of the birth of Jesus Christ, appears beneath the atrological star chart for Jesus. The nativity scene shows Mary and Joseph, with the new-born baby boy [...]

Keywords: people, buildings, children, astrology, christmas

Places shown: Bethlehem; Palestine

Added: 2006-12-19

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Frontispiece: When He Comes He will Rule over the Whole World

“At last, [Hillel] said: “It is better to hope and to wait patiently for Him than to reckon the day of His coming. For if the reckoning is wrong, and He does not come, then men despair, and no longer [...]

Keywords: religion, people, children, bare feet, people, beards, scholars, interiors

Places shown: Jerusalem; Palestine

Added: 2007-05-17

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The Boy was the Joy of the Journey

“The Boy was the joy of the journey. His keen interest in all things seen and heard was like a refreshing spring of water to the older pilgrims, who had so often traveled the same road that they had f [...]

Keywords: children, paintings, people, bare feet, religion

Places shown: Palestine

Added: 2007-05-17

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The Angel Appears Unto Mary.

The Angel Appears Unto Mary.—Luke 1:35. Here the angel is a barefoot man with wings and a long robe, carrying I think an olive branch, and a dove flies overhead. Mary stands by a reading-stand. The p [...]

Keywords: christmas, religion, angels, people, wings, interiors

Places shown: Nazareth; Palestine

Added: 2007-12-13

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