Category Archives: Religious

St. Luke the Evangelist Painting the Virgin and Child

DescriptionEnglish: St. Luke the Evangelist painting the Virgin and Child, with his symbol the ox lying at his feet
Date1885
SourceAdapted from the masthead of Revue de l’Art chrétien (https://archive.org/details/revuedelartchr1885lill/page/n11/mode/2up)
AuthorAnonymous
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Judas Iscariot

Description
English: Judas Iscariot about to hang himself, by Abraham Bloemaert
Date
Source Les principes du dessein, ou, Methode courte et facile pour aprendre cet art en peu de tems (https://archive.org/details/gri_33125010679211/page/n179/mode/2up)
Author Abraham Bloemaert, painter; Willem Swanenburg, engraver

Reprinted in a drawing method from 1746.

Liturgies That Won’t Burn

Description
English: Roman and Mozarabic liturgies unharmed by the fire: an engraving from a Mexican edition of the Mozarabic rite
Date
Source Missa Gothica, seu, Mozarabica, et Officium itidem Gothicum (https://archive.org/details/missagothicaseum00cath/page/n13/mode/2up)
Author Jphus. Nava

Latin banners read: “Both books cast into the fire”; “The Roman leaps out of the fire”; “The Gothic unharmed under the flames.”