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The Dresden Triptych (or Virgin and Child with St. Michael and St. Catherine and a Donor, or Triptych of the Virgin and Child) is a very small hinged-triptych altarpiece by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck. It consists of five individual panel paintings: a central inner panel, and two double-sided wings.
[Michael] is always represented by the ecclesiastical Byzantine painters as a young warrior of surpassing beauty, standing on the body of an old dead man, with wings expanded, and holding a flaming sword in his right, and a pair of scales in his left hand, in order to show that with the first he took his soul, and with the second he weighs the ...
Master of Delft (born c. 1470) (Art UK): Christ presented to the People: left-hand panel (Art UK), The Crucifixion: central panel (Art UK), The Deposition: right hand panel (Art UK) Master of the Female Half-Lengths (1530–1540) (Art UK): A Female Head (Art UK), Saint Christopher carrying the Infant Christ (Art UK), Saint John on Patmos (Art ...
On the right-hand side of the Ecce homo, a relief depicts Nosseni's three wives in a kneeling position. On the left, the first wife Elisabeth Unruh, who died in 1579, is depicted in profile. She wears a death shroud and looks upwards, her hands folded in prayer.Nosseni's second wife, Christiane Hanitsch, who died in 1606, is depicted in the center.
Praying Hands (German: Betende Hände), also known as Study of the Hands of an Apostle (Studie zu den Händen eines Apostels), is a pen-and-ink drawing by the German printmaker, painter and theorist Albrecht Dürer. The work is today stored at the Albertina museum in Vienna, Austria.
Female carrying a palm branch and a sword, a dove hovering above [citation needed] Columba of Rieti: Dominican tertiary receiving the Eucharist from a hand reaching down from heaven; Dominican tertiary with a dove, lily, and book, or a wreath of roses, cross, lily, and a rosary [citation needed] Columba of Sens
Saint Michael is often portrayed in art with scales. [12] This role of Saint Michael was depicted by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel . In this depiction, angels hold up two books: the smaller book held by Saint Michael records the names of the blessed, while the larger book is a list of the damned.
In all a half-length male patron is represented on the left wing, with the tell-tale motif of hands folded in prayer. The Virgin and Child are always positioned on the right, reflecting the Christian reverence for the right hand side as the "place of honour" alongside the divine.