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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41. Antonio Puccinelli (1822-1897) The Sudarium (Vera Effigies Sacri Vultus Domini Nostri Jesu Christi) |
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The Sudarium (Vera Effigies Sacri Vultus Domini Nostri Jesu Christi)
Etching and engraving printed on linen, ca. 330 x 245 mm. Fine impression with margins outside the presumed platemark (the impress does not show up on fabric); slight rubbing in a few places, old glue and a hole outside the image, but otherwise in fine condition. This 19th-century religious conceit was obviously done on linen not for the quality of the printing surface, but clearly to offer an additional resemblance to the original, preserved as a holy relic in St. Peter's. The legend of Veronica (vera - icon, true image) who wiped the sweat from Christ's face with her linen veil as he passed her house on the way to calvary and found the image of his features impressed on the cloth, is not in the bible but appears to have arisen in the early 15th century. In a different form it appears in Voragine's The Golden Legend.