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An Egyptian Priest and ScribeMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

Scribes in ancient egypt seem to have been valued and inportant; a scribe was a high-ranking job, unlike in the Levant in the first century, when they were often slaves. The picture shows the bare-hea [...]

Keywords: art, paintings, priests, stairs, scribes, ancient egypt, religion, rituals, greyscale

Places shown: Egypt

Added: 2025-02-02

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Monseigneur Dabart, bishop of Périgueux and of Sarlat.La France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

A portrait of Nicolas-Joseph Dabert, who was bishop of Périgueux in Dordogne in France from 1863 to 1901. He wrote a number of books, of which a history of Saint Tomas of Villeneuve seems to have bee [...]

Keywords: priests, portraits, men, people, bishops, frames, borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-07-10

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Trop tard!La France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

A young man, barefoot and dressed in rags, is half-kneeling, his head i his hands, at a bench in front of an enclosed bed, on which sleeps, or perhaps is dead, an old man. A priest holding a book loo [...]

Keywords: death, people, bare feet, poverty, priests, men, interiors, beds, furniture, grief, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-10-31

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Fraile mendicante, en Venecia.El Mundo Ilustrado (1883)

A mendicant friar begging on the streets of Venice. The illustration accompanies an article about Venice. In it, we see a long narrow street, less than six feet wide, paved with flagstones. The buildi [...]

Keywords: street scenes, people, transactions, commerce, buying, paying, men, women, alleyways, priests, religion, christianity, mendicant priests, costumes, cities, greyscale

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2018-09-18

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Rudolph von Habsburg.Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858)

This engraving by Schultheiss is based on an oil painting by Moitz von Schwind, and depicts a scene about Rudolf von Habsburg (1218 – 1291), King of Germany. The story is that Rudolf, when he was stil [...]

Keywords: kings, royalty, servants, bare feet, forests, woods, trees, nighttime, priests, sacrament, the host, christianity, piety, bowing, kneeling, tobes, costumes, horses, people, knights, soldiers, greyscale

Places shown: Germany

Added: 2021-04-01

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Collection of alms at the funeral of don Álvaro de LunaModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band I (1895)

Almosensammlung bei der beerdigung von don Álvaro de Luna Collection of alms at the funeral of don Álvaro de Luna The picture shows a young man on one knee throwing a coin into a plate next to a bier; [...]

Keywords: death, skulls, funerals, grief, sadness, art, paintings, people, beards, priests, almsgiving, candles, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-12-19

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The Irmin Column in the Cathedral of HildesheimModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band VII (1893)

Die Irminsäule im Dom zu Hildesheim. Which is, in English, The Irmin Column in the Cathedral of Hildesheim, here decorated for Christmas. The column has candles surrounding a figure (Mary) with a halo [...]

Keywords: christmas, xmas, pillars, columns, priests, men, people, costumes, candles, candelabra, candlesticks, statuary, religion, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2024-12-24

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