Free to use stock images of antique Catholic items created hundreds of years ago such as: statues, holy books, chalices, crosses, and more.
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This statuette belongs to a group of terracotta sculptures representing David (from the OldTestament) and Saint John (from the New Testament) produced by a still unidentified Florentine artist and his studio in the late 1400s and...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Mother of God is seated on a lavishly carved, high-backed throne. Two angels hover above, drawing attention to the Christ child poised in her lap. Representations of the enthroned Virgin and Child have a long...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This elegant panel once served as the center of an ivory triptych. Set into an intricate architectural frame that recalls Gothic forms, the figures are carved in three-quarter relief, suggesting free-standing sculptures placed in niches. Below,...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This small-scale Byzantine icon depicts a half-length figure of the Virgin holding the Christ child. When the icon was mounted in its present frame by a German artist in the 14th century, it was considered to...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Elaborately carved from a section of an elephant’s tusk, this ivory pyx (Greek for "box") depicts a number of New Testament scenes, namely the Annunciation, Christ’s entry into Jerusalem, Christ raising Lazarus,...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The superimposed Greek letters chi and rho, the first two letters of Christ’s name, was a popular early Christian symbol. The monogram of Christ, or chrismon, is also a powerful symbol of imperial victory: it...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This is an eastern cross – a medieval patriarchal relic from Jerusalem guarded in this city, at first by the Order of the Temple and later by the Order of Santiago and owns a miracle narrative of...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Saint Helena (AD c. 246/48–330) was an Empress of the Roman Empire and mother of Roman emperor Constantine the Great. She was born outside of the noble classes, possibly in the Greek city of...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This is an eastern cross – a medieval patriarchal relic from Jerusalem guarded in this city, at first by the Order of the Temple and later by the Order of Santiago and owns a miracle narrative of...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This work is quite atypical for the period due to its physiognomy and composition: Christ's figure is stout in comparison to the slender, elongated figures more common at the time. This effect is compounded...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This narrative relief illustrates a scene from a popular thirteenth-century text that emphasized the humanity of Christ and the Virgin Mary. With the Christ child on her lap, Mary is approached by young Saint John the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! During the Renaissance, busts of Saint John the Baptist as a boy were commonly displayed in Florentine homes. Saint John’s fine and innocent face and curly hair embody the ideal of youthful beauty at that...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Saint Vincent de Paul (1581–1660) dedicated his life to helping the poorest of the poor in France, including abandoned and abused children. About a hundred years later, during the Enlightenment, when the French celebrated scientific...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This sculpture originally represented a philosopher or a god, and was transformed into St. Peter in the late 16th century by adding the expressive head, hands, and feet in gilt bronze, and a throne. An unknown...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Old Testament prophet Jonah is shown with his hands raised in prayer. It is unclear which moment of the biblical story of Jonah is depicted here. He may be praying in the belly of the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This chalice is likely from a Christian community in Syria and Palestine, probably forced to bury their church silver to hide it from the Persians or Arabs, who conquered their lands in the first half of...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The image of Saint Michael killing a dragon comes from the description of an epic battle between good and evil found in Revelation, the last book of the Christian Bible: “And war broke out in heaven;...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Tobias, a young Jewish man, has been sent by his blind father to retrieve money left with a relative. Accompanying him on the journey are his dog and a hired guide who, unbeknownst to him, is...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This exquisitely wrought religious pendant, a masterful combination of worldliness and spirituality, would have been worn on a chain around its owner's neck. The central scene depicts Christ's dead body being taken...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Longinus (/ˌlɒnˈdʒaɪnəs/) is the name given to the unnamed Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus with a lance and who in medieval and some modern Christian traditions is described as a convert to Christianity....
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This pyx shows Christ as Pantokrator (Ruler of the World), the Apostles, and the Virgin as a continuous frieze of figures seated in high-backed chairs with cushions. The tapered lip of the body of the pyx...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Surrounded by the deep blue, lapis lazuli background of the gold frame, the silver Virgin Mary, crowned as Queen of Heaven, projects from the background in an elegant swirl of drapery. She stands on a globe,...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! When he presented Jesus to the Jews demanding his Crucifixion, Pontius Pilate cried Ecce homo (Behold the man). The words Ecce Homo have come to signify a type of devotional image that depicts Jesus after the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Saint Joan of Arc lived in the 1400's during the Hundred Years' War. As a young girl—from 17–19 years-old—she played a major part in the war between two warring French...
