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Thematic Biblical Artwork

Dramatic scenes from the Bible in warm, muted tones, depicting pivotal moments such as the Annunciation and the Adoration of the Shepherds.

Adoration of the Shepherds by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, (1571-1610), Italy, Messina, Museum Nazionale, 1608

Annunciation to the Shepherds, fresco by Taddeo Gaddi 1295-1366, Baroncelli Chapel in the Basilica di Santa Croce Basilica of the Holy Cross - famous Franciscan church in Florence, Italy Annunciation to the Shepherds, fresco by Taddeo Gaddi 1295-1366, Baroncelli Chapel in the Basilica di Santa Croce Basilica of the Holy Cross - famous Franciscan church in Florence, Italy Copyright: xZoonar.com/ZvonimirxAtletix 20144186

The Annunciation by El Greco, (1541-1614), Spain, Madrid, Museo del Prado

The Denial of St. Peter, by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1660, Dutch painting, oil on canvas. Countering the accusation of the maid of Caiaphas, Peter denies he is a disciple of Jesus, who has been arrested and (at right) looks back as he is taken away by soldiers (BSLOC_2016_3_18)

The Denial of St Peter, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, 1660

Adoration of the Shepherds by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, (1571-1610), Italy, Messina, Museum Nazionale, 1608

Aeneas and the Sibyl, Unknown artist, nineteenth century, Formerly John Martin, 1789-1854, British, ca. 1800, Oil on canvas, Support (PTG): 40 3/8 x 55 1/4 inches (102.6 x 140.3 cm), Aeneas' visit to the underworld, allegory, battle, cave, Classical, costume, dead, death, fire, group portrait, hell, hero, initiation, legend, light, men, mythology, nudes, religious and mythological subject, sibyl, souls, the arrival of Aeneas at Cumae, where they consult Deiphobe, the Cumaean Sibyl, who foretells of Aeneas' wars in Latium, underworld, wisdom, women, Styx river

Italy - Latium Region - Subiaco, province of Rome. Church at convent of Santa Scolastica. Chapel of the Angels. Angels rout demons, 1426 fresco

The Damned / Memling Altar / 1471/73

ANTIGUO RETABLO DE LA IGLESIA. Location: Monasterio de sobrado de los Monjes. SOBRADO. A CORUÑA. SPAIN.

Birth of Christ 1520 Hans Baldung Grien (1484/85-1545 German) Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

CAPILLA DE SANTIAGO - SAN FRANCISCO - SIGLO XVII - BARROCO ESPAÑOL. Author: MATEO CEREZO. Location: CATEDRAL-INTERIOR. BURGOS. SPAIN. SAN FRANCISCO DE ASIS.

Arrest of Christ. unknown, painter

Titian and Workshop, Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, c 1553 1555 Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos

Matthias Grünewald / 'Inssenheim Altar: Resurrection and Annunciation', 1515. Museum: MUSEE D'UNTERLINDEN, Colmar, France. JESUS. VIRGIN MARY.

Wieskirche in Bavaria Germany An image of the famous Wieskirche in Bavaria Germany Copyright: xZoonar.com/magannx 3538961

Appearance of Christ to his Disciples, Guidobono, Bartolomeo (1654-1709)

The Last Judgement 1471-1473 Hans Memling (ca.1433-1494 Netherlandish) Oil on wood Museum Pomorskie, Danzig, Poland

GREECE, Northeastern Aegean Islands, LESVOS (Mytilini), Sigri: Westernmost port on Lesvos, Harbor Chapel, Cross and Iconastasis

The merciful Samaritan Daniel Thielen 1623-1711 The merciful Samaritan Daniel Thielen 1623-1711

Angels, Saints and Bishops, detail from The Glory in Heaven, 1746, by Johann Jakob Zeiller (1708-1783), fresco in the dome of the church of Ettal Abbey, Bavaria, Germany, 18th century.

Painting of Belshazzar's Feast by Rembrandt dated 1636

The Disciples of Jesus Baptizing James J. Tissot (1839-1902/ French)

Days of Mourning by Jan Voerman (1857-1941); (1857-1941) depicts morning prayers at a house of mourning. In the first seven days of mourning (shivah) the immediate family of the deceased remains at home. Friends and relatives come to their house to commiserate.

ANGELES PROCESIONALES - SIGLO XVII - BARROCO ESPAÑOL. Author: FRANCISCO DE ZURBARAN. Location: CONVENTO DE SANTA CLARA. CARMONA. Seville. SPAIN.

Calvary Inscribed in lower right with possibly the Hebrew letters Reish and Het., John Martin, 1789-1854, British

Giving Thanks, artist unknown, Oil on wood panel, (17th C), USA, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, David David Gallery

SAINT ANTHONY THE ABBOT IN THE WILDERNESS, by Osservanza Master, 1435, Italian Renaissance painting. The hermit Saint Anthony Abbot in a desert landscape with animals, which symbolize the devil's temptations (BSLOC_2017_16_65)

The Resurrection (La Résurrection) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). The Resurrection (La Résurrection), 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 12 13/16 x 8 5/16 in. (32.5 x 21.1 cm). Emerging out of a tomb sealed with a large stone and guarded by watchmen, Jesus miraculously rises from the dead. His face shines forth and the wounds on his head, hands, feet, and chest glow bright white. The guards shook and became as dead men,” Matthew says, at the sight of the risen Jesus, falling backwards in abject terror. Glowing more brilliantly than the guards’ lanterns, an angel visible just inside the tomb at right will later reassure Mary Magdalene and the other holy women that Jesus has risen. The angel is accompanied by others of his brilliant company, who are seated in an inner chamber of the tomb. European Art 1886-1894

Angel of the Lord visited the shepherds and informed them of Jesus' birth, altarpiece in the church of Saint Matthew in Stitar, Croatia

Adoration of the Shepherds James Tissot (1836-1902 French)

Hell, from Heaven and Hell, 15th century Bolognese School, from Church of St Petronius, Bologna, Italy (detail)

DETALLE DE LA CUPULA DE LA ERMITA DE SAN ANTONIO DE LA FLORIDA - MILAGRO DE SAN ANTONIO DE PADUA - FRESCO PINTADO EN 1798. Author: FRANCISCO DE GOYA. Location: Ermita de san Antonio de la Florida. MADRID. SPAIN.

Abruzzo, L'Aquila, Pescocostanzo, Basilica, Italy, 20th century, photo, photography, Europe

Necromancer or Witch of Endor, a character in the 1st Book of Samuel in the Bible. Saul, the first king of Israel, he was looking for a woman who had a spirit of divination, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the time

Annunciation by by El Greco, 1596-1600, Spain, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado Museum

Nativity, Lourdes, Hautes Pyrenees, France, Europe

Gustave Doré (1832-1883). "The Valley of Tears". Oil on canvas. 1883. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 143990-14 Bible, Catholic, Stations of the Cross, Chretian, Chretian, Lames, Light, New Testament, Crying, Porter, Psalm, Biblical Scene, Bacca Vallee, Vallee of tears

'Saint Anthony the Abbot and Saint Paul, the First Hermit' (detail), ca. 1634, Oil on canvas, P01169. Author: DIEGO VELAZQUEZ (1599-1660). Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. Anthony the Great. SAN PABLO ERMITAÑO.

Rumilly church. Wall painting. Angels and Holy Spirit. France.

Saint Onuphrius, Master of the Darmstadt Passion, 1460,

My Tho cathedral. Way of the cross. Station 13. Jesus is taken down from the cross. My Tho. Vietnam.

Martha James Tissot (1836-1902 French)

Sculpture in Lakshman temple, Rishikesh : Ganga vatarana (Shiva receiving the Ganges from the heaven) . India. (Rishikesh, Uttarhakand, India)

Moses on the Mountain During the Battle James Tissot (1836-1902 French) Jewish Museum, New York City

Nativity, bas-relief on the choir with Stories from the Life of Christ, by Jean Ravy (died 1345 ca), Notre-Dame Cathedral (12th-14th century), Paris (Unesco World Heritage List, 1991), Ile-de-France, France.

Victor Masson (1849-1917). Illustration of "Odes et Ballades", Ballad XIV, "La Ronde du Sabbath". Black feather and ink, blur, brown and gray wash, gum arabic. Around 1868. Paris, house of Victor Hugo. 74625-17 Religious building, cathedral, Christianity, moonlight, bare body, dance, Demon, Drawing, Religious Edifice, Church, Woman, Fenetre, Illustration, Interior, Light, Monastere, Nudite, Odes and Ballades, Littress work, Poe Light, round, sabbath, sorciere, mixed technique, interior view, 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th century

Holy Family in the Carpentry Shop Gerrit van Honthorst (1590-1656 Dutch)

Antoni and Marià Riera; Lluis Bonifàs / "Nacimiento de Jesús en el pesebre" (Birth of Jesus in the manger), 1691-1694, Altarpiece of the Roser, Basilica of Santa María de Mataró.

Low angle view of the statues of Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ, St.-Remy-De-Provence, France

'Pilgrims before the Throne', c1910. Creator: Unknown.

Eternal Father with open arms, detail from the dome fresco by Isidoro Bianchi (1581-1662), 1623-1634, after its restoration, Church of Santa Maria dei Ghirli, Campione d'Italia, Lombardy. Italy, 17th century.

Depiction of the Mount of Olives, chalice scene with Jesus and angel, St. Anton Catholic Church, Kempten, Allgaeu, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Vlad II (1393-1447), known as Vlad Dracul ("Vlad the Dragon"). Voivode (duke) of Wallachia. Scene of the impalement. Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler is watching the operation from a table, having his lunch and drinking wine. Germanic Illustration. Colored engraving.

Frederick I Barbarossa (1122-1190). Holy Roman Emperor. Two Thousand years of history of Germany, Juan Scherr, 1882.

Church of the Blessed Saviour, Tsarevets, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, Interior painting

Saint Humphrey (Onuphrius), c. 1660, Salvator Rosa, Italian, (Naples), 1615-1673, 77 1/2 x 46 3/4 in. (196.85 x 118.75 cm) (canvas), Oil on canvas, Italy, 17th century, This brooding, wild-looking man is identified by some scholars as Saint Onuphrius, a Christian hermit who spent sixty years alone in the Egyptian wilderness, praying and meditating. Onuphrius is commonly depicted as an elderly, almost disturbed man deep in contemplation, covered by his unkempt hair and beard, and clothed usually in leaves rather than fur.

Temple of adinatha, an ancient Jain temple in Sanganer, Rajasthan; made of red stone. The idol of principal deity of this temple, Lord Rishabha (Adinatha), the first Tirthankara circa 1031 AD

The Crucifixion (Part of the triptych) by Roerich, Sviatoslav Nikolayevich (1904-1993)/ State Oriental Art Museum, Moscow/ 1939-1942/ Russia/ Tempera on canvas/ Modern/ 153x92/ Genre

Christ of the Sacred Heart (Le Christ au Sacre Coeur) 1895 Odilon Redon 1840-1916/French Musee du Louvre, Paris

The Chasm in the Rock of Calvary James Tissot (1836-1902 French)

14th Stations of the Cross, Jesus is laid in the tomb and covered in incense, stained-glass window in the church of St. John the Baptist in Rijeka, Croatia

Italy, Lazio, Rome, Northern Rome, Piazza del Popolo, church of Santa Maria del Popolo, Chigi Chapel mosaic.

Jesus Ministered to by Angels James Tissot (1836-1902 French)

Scene from the biblical story, Daniel in the lion's den, well-known biblical story in which the prophet Daniel is slandered by envious court officials and thrown into a pit with hungry lions as punishment for continuing to pray to his god, authentic reproduction of a school mural, historical, around 1900

The Ramayana is a story as old as time and - at least in the Indian subcontinent and across much of Southeast Asia - of unparalleled popularity. More than two thousand three hundred years ago the scholar-poet Valmiki sat down to write his definitive epic of love and war. The poem Valmiki composed is styled the Ramayana, or 'Romance of Rama' in Sanskrit. In its present form, the Sanskrit version consists of some 24,000 couplets divided into seven books. The Ramakien is the Thai version of this epic and has an important influence on Thai literature, art and drama. It is regarded as the National Epic of Thailand. Wat Phra Kaew (Temple of the Emerald Buddha); full official name Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram is regarded as the most sacred Buddhist temple in Thailand. It is located within the precincts of the Grand Palace. The Grand Palace served as the official residence of the Kings of Thailand from the 18th century onwards. Construction of the Palace began in 1782, during the reign of Ki

The Pharisee and the Publican.The parable of the Pharisee and the tollenaar, presented in three scenes. In the middle, the Pharisee kneel for the altar, left the haughty Pharisee with a devil leaves the temple, right the tollenaar leaves the temple with an angel. The canvas is part of a series of parables painted for the Lutheran church in Leiden (see also NRS. SK-A-2958 and SK-A-2960).

SPAIN - La Huerta de Murcia (district) - MURCIA. Murcia (capital); Iglesia de Jesús que alberga los pasos de Semana Santa del escultor Francisco Salzillo; "El prendimiento"

Zechariah / Jan Provost

Song Vinh Church. Stained glass. Sacrament of The Eucharist, or Holy Communion. Vietnam.

El Cristo de las Cruces by Francisco Moyen, Oil on canvas, 1720-1761, Bolivia, Potosi, Santa Teresa Convent Museum, 154, 3x114

Merodach (the Biblical Hebrew name for the Mesopotamian deity Marduk, the patron god of Babylon) advances against Tiamat,

In Ictu Oculi, by Juan de Valdes Leal, 1672, Hospital of the Santa Caridad, seville, Andalucia, Spain, Europe

NACIMIENTO-REYES MAGOS-FIGURAS NAPOLITANAS S XVIII. Location: MUSEE D'ARTS DECORATIFS. MADRID. SPAIN.

China, Henan Province, Dengfeng, Statue of Bodhidharma, founder, Shaolin Temple, Song Shan, near Zhengzhou.

Santa Maria in Aracoeli basilica, Rome, Italy. Nativity scene.

Interior view, light and shadow on a memorial painting for Provost Dr Lorenz Tucher by the Dürer pupil Hans Süß von Kulmbach, Tucher epitaph, St Sebald, St. Sebaldus Church, Nuremberg, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Jesus before Pilate for the First Time James Tissot (1836-1902/French)

'St Francis of Assisi Praying'. Holland. Dimensions: 74x56 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Adriaen Cornelisz. van Linschoten.

Native Americans fighting with each other

Spanish school. The Eternal Father. El Padre eterno. Sevilla, Fine Arts museum. Author: FRANCISCO DE ZURBARAN. Location: MUSEO DE BELLAS ARTES-CONVENTO DE LA MERCED CALZAD. Sevilla. Seville. SPAIN. DIOS PADRE. PADRE ETERNO. DIOS.

St. Nicolas, St. Nicolas de Veroce church, Haute Savoie, France, Europe

Infant Christ, from The Adoration of the Shepherds (detail)

Depiction of the Mount of Olives, chalice scene with Jesus and angel, St. Anton Catholic Church, Kempten, Allgaeu, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

The frescoed ceiling of the Karlskirche St. Charles church. Vienna Austria

Joan of Arc being burnt at the stake

The Angel Puts Fire on the Altar of Gideon James Tissot (1836-1902 French) Jewish Museum, New York City

Lord krishna holding govardhan parvat painting on wall, uttar pradesh, india, asia, Copyright: xArunxMishra/DinodiaxPhotox

Nebucgadrezzar is sprawled at the bottom of a stairway, and the cause of his dream is a huge angel with a sword drawn.

Church of the Intercession (1743, 1761), interior, view of nebo (sky, or painted ceiling), Liadiny, Russia 1998..

The crucifixion by Maarten Jacobsz van Heemskerck, oil on canvas , between 1545 and 1550, 1498-1574, Russia, St. Petersburg , State Hermitage, 101x58, 5

El Greco (1541-1614). Cretan painter. The Disrobing of Christ (El Expolio), 1580-1600. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary.

'Christian at the gate', c1910. Creator: Unknown.

Taira no Tadamori Captures the Priest of Midō. Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japan, 1847-1915). Japan, 1877. Prints; woodblocks. Triptych; color woodblock prints

Church of Santissima Annunziata del Vastato, Interior, Genoa, Liguria, Italy, Europe

c 1927, Advertising Art, Hawaiian Tourism Bureau, Hawaii, Hula dancer and Alii royalty

Good Friday Morning: Jesus in Prison (Le matin Vendredi Saint: Jésus en prison) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). Good Friday Morning: Jesus in Prison (Le matin Vendredi Saint: Jésus en prison), 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 17 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (44.5 x 12.1 cm). In a subject that he characterizes as rarely, if ever, treated,” Tissot paints Jesus in prison—bound to a stone post, his hands chained but upraised in prayer. The artist notes the white light shining down, a further indication of the early hour on Good Friday. While Jesus prays, his guards, wearing armor, slump over in pre-dawn slumber. Dressed in a brown garment, Jesus has been stripped of the glowing white robe associated with his ministry. Now, as Tissot notes in the accompanying text, he wears just the seamless cloak that he has worn since his youth. This garment, first seen in The Youth of Jesus, was woven by the Virgin and, according to legend, grew as he did. Archaeologically rig

Italy, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Stresa. Chiesa di San Vittore, Isola Superiore O Dei Pescatori.

Song Vinh Church. Stained glass. Satan in Hell - The devil is a demon living in the hellish underworld of Catholic religions. Vietnam.

The Annunciation - Leonardo da Vinci, circa 1472

The Last Supper Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674 French)

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