Sacred Images
From Scripture, Legend & History
From Scripture, Legend & History
- Beham, The Expulsion from Paradise
- Sadeler, Jubal and His Musical Instruments
- Lodewyk , Hagar in the Wilderness
- Pencz, Lot and His Daughters
- Bos or Bossius, Jacob's Dream
- Tempesta , The Egyptians Drowning in the Red Sea
- Swanevelt , Balaam and the Ass
- van der Gouwen, Gideon's Battle with the Midianites
- van Leyden, David in Prayer
- Galle, Solomon Building the Temple
- Collaert, Solomon Bringing the Ark to the Temple
- Martin, The Dedication of the Temple
- Hollar, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
- Saenredam, The Prophet Ahijah Tearing His Cloak
- Hirschvogel, Elisha Raises the Son of the Shunemite Woman
- Collaert, The Triumph of Judith
- de Bruyn, Ezekiel's Vision
- de Bruyn, St. John the Baptist
- Maratta, The Visitation
- Sadeler, The Nativity
- Kirchner, The Journey of the Magi
- Goudt, The Flight into Egypt
- Mola, The Rest on the Flight into Egyp
- Callot, The Massacre of the Innocents
- Sadeler, The Temptation of Christ
- Altdorfer, Christ's Entry into Jerusalem
- Collaert, July, with The Parable of the Good Shepherd
- Graf, The Cursing of the Fig Tree
- Collaert, October, with The Parable of the Wicked Tenants
- Wechtlin, Christ Before Caiaphas
- Romano, Ecce Homo
- Bolswert, Christ Crowned with Thorns
- Corinth, Kreuztragung
- Ostendorfer, Christ on the Cross, with the Virgin and St. John
- Sadeler , Lamentation of Three Angels (Corpus Christi)
- Forain, La Rencontre sous la Voƻte (1re planche)
- Forain, La Fraction du Pain
- Camuccini, Thomas Touching the Wound of the Risen Christ
- Master AG, The Death of the Virgin
- Anonymous Italian,The Man of Sorrows, Half Length
- Puccinelli , The Sudarium
- Aldegrever, Madonna and Child Seated on a Grassy Bank
- Cranach, The Martyrdoms of the 12 Apostles
- Durer, The Patron Saints of Austria
- Novelli, Saint Francis and Saint Dominic in the Clouds
- Lesueur & de Caylus, The Virgin and Child Appearing
- der Leeuw , The Martyrdom of St. Catherine
- de Leu, Solitudo sive Vitae Foeminarum Anachoritarum
- Anonymous Flemish, Humilis Animus (The Humble Heart)
- van Somer, Sister Marie-Jeanne-des-Anges
- Forain. L'Imploration devant la Grotte, Lourdes
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13. Wenzel Hollar (1607-1677) after Hans Holbein II (1497/98-1543) Solomon and the Queen of Sheba |
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Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
Etching, 1642, Parthey 74, Pennington 74 ii/iii, 250 x 183 mm. Superb impression on laid paper with thread margins. The etching is after a miniature on vellum now in the collection at Windsor Castle. Solomon here bears an intentional facial resemblance to Henry VIII. Apart from its political reference, the biblical source for the image is I Kings 10, but the scriptural quotation on the print is from Wisdom 6 (a book that does not appear in the King James or many other versions of the bible): "A multitude of the wise is the health of the world and a wise king is the stability of the people." A particularly beautiful and interesting print.