Free downloadable Catholic coloring pages of the Virgin Mary.
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Like many of the prints in the Jones Collection, this work has a long and distinguished history. After its creation at the turn of the 16th century, it resided in six different collections before it entered...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! One of the most expressive religious images is the Man of Sorrows, which in its desolation, humility, and clarity summarizes the entirety of the Passion. It was first inspired by half-length Byzantine icons in Rome, which...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple is an early episode in the life of Jesus, describing His presentation at the Temple in Jerusalem, to be redeemed by the parents' sacrifice from His birth-state of...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The nativity of Jesus, nativity of Christ, birth of Christ or birth of Jesus is described in the biblical gospels of Luke and Matthew. The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea,...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The flight into Egypt is a story recounted in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 2:13–23) and in New Testament apocrypha. Soon after the visit by the Magi, an angel appeared to Joseph in a...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The story of the visitation comes from Luke Chapter 1:39–45: And Mary rising up in those days, went into the hill country with haste into a city of Juda. And she entered into the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The nativity of Jesus, nativity of Christ, birth of Christ or birth of Jesus is described in the biblical gospels of Luke and Matthew. The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea,...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Martin Schongauer engraved several variations of the Crucifixion, often inspired by fifteenth-century Netherlandish paintings of the same subject. Here, upon a realistic landscape, the exaggeratedly thin and emaciated body of Christ hangs on the cross.The...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This image shows Jesus leaving his mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary, after living with her for thirty years. According to tradition, for some years (no one is sure how many) Jesus took care of the Virgin...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The boundary between heaven and earth is obscured in this engraving as an angel descends to crown the Virgin with a simple diadem. Although she is plainly dressed and sits on a simple wooden bench, Dürer...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! According to The Gospel of James (or the Protoevangelium of James), Mary is presented as an extraordinary child destined for great things from the moment of her conception. Her parents, the wealthy Joachim and his wife...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Madonna and Child type is very prevalent in Christian iconography, divided into many traditional subtypes. Marian devotion rose to great importance after the Council of Ephesus in 431. The Theotokos iconography as it developed in...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! 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...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Dürer’s earliest engraving of the Virgin and Child theme features the Madonna seated on a grassy bench in an enclosed garden, a traditional subject alluding to her virginity. The divine presence of God the Father...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Assumption of Mary (name in full Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary) is, according to the beliefs of the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Churches, Oriental Orthodoxy, Church of the East, and some Lutheran and Anglo-Catholic...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Printed from four blocks in brown, this chiaroscuro woodcut shows the Virgin and Child flanked by the infant Saint John the Baptist and Saint Francis at right. Saint Catherine of Siena takes place on the left,...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Albrecht Dürer sometimes spelled in English as Durer (without an umlaut) or Duerer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe in...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This print depicting Christ’s birth belongs to one of the numerous print series that Albrecht Dürer produced on religious themes. Here, the artist focused on everyday details of the Virgin Mary’s life story to...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! In this lively woodcut, Dürer evokes the Coronation of the Virgin, the last event in the cycle of prayers known as the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary. She is about to be crowned Regina caeli, the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Dürer made four engravings of the Virgin and Child standing on a crescent moon. These devotional images link the Madonna with the pregnant woman of the apocalypse from chapter 12 of the Book of Revelation. The...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Like his earliest engraving of the subject, Dürer portrayed the Madonna and Child within an enclosed garden. In addition to the garden, which refers to Mary’s virginity, the artist included other elements that reference each...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Saint Barbara known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian Lebanese and Greek saint and martyr. Accounts place her in the 3rd century in Heliopolis Phoenicia, present-day Baalbek, Lebanon....
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According to apocryphal Christian and Islamic tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the canonical gospels. In writing, Anne's name and that of her husband Joachim come only from New Testament apocrypha, of...
