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Details: This image depicts stoning of Matthias by two bare-chested men. On the left a Roman soldier. Right behind a man in toga is giving directions. In the background is the city of Jerusalem. The Cuypers-Stoltzenberg studio was a Dutch company in Roermond (1852-1947), specialized in making sculpture and furniture...
Details: Kenyon Cox was a painter, illustrator, muralist, writer, and teacher from the United States. Cox was an early and influential instructor at the Art Students League of New York. He created the League's logo, which has the motto Nulla Dies Sine Linea (No Day Without a Line)...
Details: The distinctive gold steeple of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church has been a well-known landmark to residents of New Orleans for many years. 🙏🏽This image is in the public domain. Free Download 48729784687_a59d29f711_o.jpg 8 MB download-circle Please Subscribe or Donate to Help Keep This Site...
Details: James the Great, also known as James the Son of Zebedee, Saint James the Great, Saint James the Greater, Saint James the Elder, or Saint Jacob, was one of Jesus' Twelve Apostles and the first to be martyred, according to the New Testament. Saint James is the patron...
Details: The artist captures the display of splendour at court while combining realism in the detailing with religious symbols and typological references. The solemn earnestness of his figures and the carefully depiction of the human face are characteristic of his work. While the Annunciation scene provides a view of a...
Details: The Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica of the Nativity of Saint Mary, also known as Milan Cathedral, is the cathedral church of Milan, Lombardy, Italy. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Milan, currently Archbishop Mario Delpini, and is dedicated to the Nativity of St Mary. The cathedral took nearly six...
Details: Luke the Evangelist is one of the Four Evangelists, the four traditionally attributed authors of the canonical gospels. The Early Church Fathers attributed to him authorship of both the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, implying that Luke contributed more than a quarter of the text...
Details: According to the New Testament, Jude was one of Jesus' Twelve Apostles. He is commonly identified as Thaddeus, but he is also known as Judas Thaddaeus, Jude Thaddaeus, Jude of James, or Lebbaeus. He is sometimes confused with Jesus' brother Jude, but he is distinct from Judas...
Details: Many Catholics and Christians around the world remember Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, which marks the beginning of Holy Week. This day is also on the Sunday before Easter Sunday. 🙏🏽This image is in the public domain. Free Download 49943002343_ec55acaa73_o.jpg 917 KB download-circle...
Details: James the Great, also known as James the Son of Zebedee, Saint James the Great, Saint James the Greater, Saint James the Elder, or Saint Jacob, was one of Jesus' Twelve Apostles and the first to be martyred, according to the New Testament. Saint James is the patron...
Details: The Christian tradition holds that the women who came to Jesus' tomb on the third day after his crucifixion discovered it empty. The story is told in all four canonical gospels, but they differ little beyond a basic outline. However, oral traditions predate the gospels and Paul'...
Details: A monstrance, also known as an ostensorium (or an ostensory), is a vessel used in Roman Catholic churches to display some object of piety, such as the consecrated Eucharistic host during Eucharistic adoration or Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, on an altar. It is also used as a reliquary...
Details: Ludolph BĂĽsinck (c.1600-1669) was a German painter and wood engraver who was born in the 1590s in Hann. MĂĽnden. Between 1623 and 1630, he worked in Paris, where he created the first chiaoscuro woodcuts in France. His name is also spelled "Buesinck."Â Saint Peter was one...
Details: Sir Anthony van Dyck (22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque painter who rose to prominence in England after achieving success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy. Saint Peter was one of Jesus Christ's Twelve Apostles and one of the early Church's...
Details: St. Benedict’s Parish started as a mission Chapel of the Church of St. Gregory the Great, Virginia Beach, Virginia. The Chapel was established by virtue of Pope John Paul II’s motu proprio, Ecclesia Dei, under the aegis of the Most Rev. Walter F. Sullivan, DD, then Bishop...
Details: Annibale Carracci (November 3, 1560 – July 15, 1609) was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome. Along with his brother and cousin, Annibale was one of the progenitors, if not founders of a leading strand of the Baroque style, borrowing from styles from both...
Details: When Nicolás EnrĂquez painted this copy of the Virigin of Guadalupe in 1773, it was the most widely venerated sacred image in New Spain. Here, the miraculous image is encircled by four scenes that attest to its divine origin. They record the Virgin’s three appearances to the Indian...
Details: Byzantine art includes work created from the fourth century to the fifteenth century and encompassing parts of the Italian peninsula, the eastern edge of the Slavic world, the Middle East, and North Africa. The Emperor Constantine adopted Christianity and in 330 moved his capital from Rome to Constantinople (modern-day...
Details: Luke 18:15–17 states: And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is...
Details: The early days of the church were a time of phenomenal growth and apostolic miracles. In Acts 5:15-16 we read, “People brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as...
Details: These plaques were probably originally placed at the end of the arms of a processional cross. They are decorated in an enameling technique called basse-taille in which colorful translucent enamel pastes are fused over an engraved and chased silver plaque. Source 🙏🏽This image is in the public domain. Free...
Details: The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph. The subject became popular in art from the 1490s on, but veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the first bishop of New France, who...
Details: The liberation of the apostle Peter is an event described in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 12 in which the apostle Peter is rescued from prison by an angel. Although described in a short textual passage, the tale has given rise to theological discussions and has been the...
Details: Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence is an early sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It depicts the saint at the moment of his martyrdom, being burnt alive on a gridiron. According to Bernini's biographer, Filippo Baldinucci, the sculpture was completed when Bernini was 15 years old,...
