Items matching easter (results page 1)

The Good ShepherdBible Symbols (1908)

ernhard Plockhorst’s famous painting shows Jesus as a caucasian male (with a long straight nose), surrounded by sheep. He is barefoot, and carries a lamb, holding also a shepherd’s crook. He is protra [...]

Keywords: easter, religion, portraits, people, sheep, art, bare feet, purple, colour

Places shown: Palestine

Added: 2010-06-22

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Chi-rho symbol (Px) in red, black ad gold from front cover.Fabiola, or, the Church of the Catacombs (1887)

The Chi-Rho, or Chiro, symbol is a PX monogram from te first two letters of the Greek word for Christ. This gold and christian Px symbol is set in a gold circle surrounded with flowers on a black fiel [...]

Keywords: symbols, crosses, religion, christianity, colour, floriated borders, easter, geometric borders

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-12-08

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Ecce Ancilla Domini [Behold the blesséd Mary]Days With the Victorian Poets (1910)

This is that blessed Mary, pre-elect God’s Virgin. Gone is a great while, and she Dwelt young in Nazareth of Galilee, Unto God’s will she brought devout respect, Profound simplicity of intellect, And [...]

Keywords: religion, paintings, people, saints, mary, annunciation, biblical scenes, art, christianity, xmas, easter, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-23

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St. Simon Stylites, Hermit of the PillarHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(page 35)

Saint Simon, partly bald but with a long flowing beard, kneels barefoot on the top of a pillar and holds up a cross. He is wearing sackcloth.

Keywords: people, crosses, religion, bare feet, clouds, pillars, beards, easter, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-03-31

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Palm Sunday ProcessionHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

“Palm Sunday This is the first Sunday before Easter, and is sometimes called Passiom Sunday. It is denominated Palm Sunday, because on this day the Roman catholic church ordains boughs or branches of [...]

Keywords: religion, people, churches, processions, easterreligion, horses, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-03-16

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Sacred Monogram and Badges of the ApostlesAlphabets & Numbers of the Middle Ages (1845)

Sacred Monogram, and Badges of the Apostles, from a Volume entitled, Francisci Nigri de Arte Scribendi, Daventrie, 1495. I have made the four signs of the Apostles (the Gospel-writers) available as se [...]

Keywords: symbols, religion, spirit, monograms, christmas, easter, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-08-05

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Initial Letter M With Crucifixion SceneAlphabets & Numbers of the Middle Ages (1845)

This decorative initial capital letter “M” is made from the crucified Jesus, complete with a face at his feet probably meant to be a skull representing Golgatha, the name of the skull-shaped hill wher [...]

Keywords: initials, letterm, religion, easter, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-04-07

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934.—Gable Crosses.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Crosses from the gables at the ends of the roof of Salisbury Cathedral. There are three crosses in the picture, so I have marked it as being for Christmas, or for Epiphany or even Easter perhaps, beca [...]

Keywords: crosses, stonework, gothic architecture, carving, christmas, xmas, easter, religion, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Salisbury; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2012-12-01

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1048.—Border with EvangelistsNew Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

I think the two bearded men depicted here, each holding a pen and page, are Saint Matthew (with the angel) and Saint John (with the cross). This wood-engraving might be suitable for a place-card or ca [...]

Keywords: borders, cartouches, cartici, frames, people, beards, religion, crosses, christianity, evangelists, easter, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-07-28

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1054.—Border with Mary, Jesus and JosephNew Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

This frame, or cartouche, forms a decorative border around a rectangle for inserting type, such as a place-setting or perhaps an invitation to a Christening. On the left are Mary and Jesus; on the rig [...]

Keywords: mary, jesus, joseph, borders, frames, cartici, people, religion, christianity, christmas, easter, xmas, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-08-12

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Engraving: And Now When The Even Was ComeThe Four Gospels (1931)

The text, “And now when the even was come” is a quote from the Gospel of Mark, 15:42. The word Even here is short for Evening. In the wood engraving, a barefoot man climbs a ladder and another man (st [...]

Keywords: religion, easter, death, ladders, people, bare feet, typography, lettering, greyscale

Places shown: Jerusalem; Palestine

Added: 2012-04-08

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Specimen of the Würzburg Missal. Written about 1470 or 1480.The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

This full-page plate occurs next to the discussion on the invention of printing, and the dramatic effect it to reduce the power of the Church. The plate does not appear to be mentioned in the text. T [...]

Keywords: calligraphy, colour, christmas, easter, gothic letters, religion

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-03-07

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Chapter tailpiece, winged angel holding crossFabiola, or, the Church of the Catacombs (1887)

Engraving showing a woman with wings and a robe at the foot of a large cross, holding it up; the cross is framed in a gothic arch with vines and grapes surrounding it and two ears of wheat in the cent [...]

Keywords: ornaments, crosses, angels, wings, religion, christianity, easter, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-07-19

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Behold: Jesus taken down from the crossThe Four Gospels (1931)

A Biblical scene enclosed in a circular vine. Jesus, a well-known Jew from Palestine, was publicly humiliated and executed stark naked for crimes against the state; afterwards his supporters were perm [...]

Keywords: religion, easter, death, people, nudity, bare feet, vines, vignettes, biblical scenes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-03-29

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Engraving: Jesus King of the JewsThe Four Gospels (1931)

And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in [...]

Keywords: religion, easter, death, resurrection, christmas, people, lettering, typography, royalty, christianity, bible pictures, greyscale

Places shown: Jerusalem; Palestine

Added: 2014-12-01

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Jesus in the Garden of GethsemaneReligion in the Home (1913)

Matt. 26; 38,39 “Nor as I will, but as Thou wilt.” Here we see Jesus kneeling barefoot on a hill in the garden, confronting a winged angel who bears a cross. Three of Jesus’s apostles slumber in the [...]

Keywords: religion, jesus, doubt, people, bare feet, easter, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-02-04

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