Pencil drawing by Francesco Rosaspina after a painting by Giacomo Francia (Raibolini), from the Wellcome Collection. The border measures 26 x 18.7 cm.
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, with black chalk, heightened with lead white (partly discolored), on tan laid paper, laid down on gray wove paper.
Daniel Hopfer I’s visionary image depicts the Virgin sobbing before Christ’s betrayal, scourging, and crucifixion. Knowing her son will die a gruesome death, she feels physical pain at his departure.
Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash, heightened with lead white (oxidized), on blue laid paper, tipped onto cream laid paper
Etching in black on off-white laid paper
French. Etching on paper.
In this scene (Luke 19: 1-10), Jesus Christ passes through Jericho and notices a wealthy, but diminutive, devotee who has climbed a sycamore tree (drawn here with recognizable seed pods) in order to see him better.
Germany, early 16th Century. Medium: Woodcut
Pen and brown and black ink, brush and black, brown, and red-brown wash, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink.
Wood engraving drawn by Gustave Doré, engraved by J. Gauchard Brunier. Printed in: Heilige Schrift 1867 by Stuttgarter Druck- und Verlagshaus Eduard Hallberger.
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown and black and gray wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
Lithograph in black on light gray China paper laid down on ivory wove paper.
Etching by Claude Vignon from the series The Miracles of Jesus Christ, made in France about 1638-1643, showing Christ delivering the possessed.
The saint was previously identified as possibly Saint Ignatius of Loyola, but does not resemble portraits of Ignatius Left and above, allegories of the Holy Trinity, with lettering "Tres sunt qui dant testimonium in terra, et hi tres unum sunt" and "Tres sunt qui dant testimonium in coelo, et hi…
Black chalk drawing of the Crucifixion by the French artist Jean François Millet. The sheet measures 13.9 x 9.9 cm.
Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy.
Finally, in the Whirlwind of the mystical ecstasy, the true God is manifest. He is Jesus, the Divine Imagination, and the Forgiveness of Sins: the only God whom Blake recognized. He is in a cruciform position and his right foot is forward. He descends below the cloud-barriers which normally...
The Virgin Mary sits on a stone bench. A halo of light around her head cuts through the shadows of the space. She looks tired and pensive as she cradles the baby Jesus in her lap. Any new parents can recognize the exhaustion and the weight of responsibility. She rests...
Annibale made this brutal depiction of Christ crowned with thorns shortly after suffering a catastrophic mental breakdown, from which he never fully recovered. No longer able to cope with large-scale painting commissions, he devoted himself almost exclusively to drawings and prints. In this period, his works are affecting and...
The book of Matthew relates the story of a miracle witnessed by three of Jesus’s disciples. They saw him “transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light.” Suddenly the prophets Moses and Elijah appeared and spoke with Jesus. Then,...
Some of Domenico Tiepolo’s drawings series dealt with specifically identifiable subjects, including the baptism of Jesus Christ. Though the story of John baptizing Jesus appears in three of the New Testament gospels, the details of the accounts are scant, leaving artists great latitude in depicting this event. Domenico responded...
Shepherds have arrived in the stable in Bethlehem to see the newborn savior king, Jesus. Yet, Annibale has placed a massive wooden post in the foreground to emphasize the division between their earthly space and the miraculous space occupied by the radiant baby, his haloed parents and two angels. Though...
Figuring Jesus would be worn down after 40 days and 40 nights of fasting, Satan tempts him three times (Matthew 4:1-11). Eagle-eyed viewers will find all three narrated here: Satan taunts Jesus to turn stones into bread to satisfy his hunger, plunge off a temple and be...
This plate from Israhel van Meckenem’s “Passion” series, illustrating Christ’s trials and triumph, incorporates three events. According to the Gospel of John, after Jesus’s arrest, he was first taken to the powerful politician Annas, for questioning. At left, the disciple Peter has been apprehended, but he raises...
