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God the Father turning the press and the Lamb of God at the chalice. Prayer book of 1515–1520. The image was first used c. 1108 as a typological prefiguration of the crucifixion of Jesus and appears as a paired subordinate image for a Crucifixion, in a painted ceiling in the "small monastery" ("Klein-Comburg", as opposed to the main one) at Comburg.
Images of Jesus tend to show ethnic characteristics similar to those of the culture in which the image has been created. Beliefs that certain images are historically authentic, or have acquired an authoritative status from Church tradition, remain powerful among some of the faithful, in Eastern Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, and Roman ...
In antiquity, the cross, i.e. the instrument of Christ's crucifixion (crux, stauros), was taken to be T-shaped, while the X-shape ("chiasmus") had different connotations.. There has been scholarly speculation on the development of the Christian cross, the letter Chi used to abbreviate the name of Christ, and the various pre-Christian symbolism associated with the chiasmus interpreted in terms ...
The Taking of Christ (Italian: Presa di Cristo nell'orto or Cattura di Cristo) is a painting, of the arrest of Jesus, by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Originally commissioned by the Roman nobleman Ciriaco Mattei in 1602, it is housed in the National Gallery of Ireland , Dublin .
The iconography of Jesus covers subjects in art that include Jesus and episodes from his life. For specific works, see the parent category Category:Jesus in art and its other sub-categories. Subcategories
Cardinal Albert of Brandenburg before Christ on the Cross; Christ Among the Doctors (Dürer) Christ Among the Doctors (Luini) Christ Among the Doctors (Veronese) Christ and Sinner; Christ and the Canaanite Woman (Carracci) Christ and the Canaanite Woman (Preti) Christ and the Penitent Sinners; Christ and the Samaritan Woman (de Troy)
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The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus of Nazareth by Warner Sallman (1892–1968). As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art , [ 1 ] it had been reproduced over half a billion times worldwide by the end of the 20th century. [ 2 ]