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  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: A rendering of the nativity with cherubs attending to the newborn Christ child. The artist of these engravings was the monogrammist HA
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    Description: Mary and Joseph present the infant Jesus and their offering in the Temple
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    Description: Mary, the future mother of Jesus, visits her pregnant kinswoman, Elizabeth
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    Description: The Holy Spirit descends on Jesus' followers at Pentecost
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    Description: Three women come to the tomb with their jars of ointment to anoint the body of Jesus for burial, only to find the stone at the door of the tomb rolled away and an angel inside. This woodcut illustrates Luther’s sermon on Mark 16, which identifies the three women as Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother...
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    Description: Taken from the printing of an early and very popular sermon by Luther on indulgences and grace, this woodcut shows Jesus being taken down from the cross by Mary the mother of Jesus, Joseph of Arimathea, and the Apostle John. This illustration is reminiscent of the “Man of Sorrows” image shown lat...
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    Description: This woodcut is taken from the title page of Johann von Staupitz’ tract on the love of God, written as a New Year’s greeting for some of the author’s friends and highly valued by Luther, who developed a close friendship with Staupitz. The woodcut depicts the Trinity, showing the crucified Jesus j...
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    Description: With the inscription “INRI” (“Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum “ = “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews”) at the head of the cross, this image shows Mary (the mother of Jesus) and Joseph of Arimathea taking the body of Jesus down from the cross
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    Description: Historiated title-page border. Attributed to Lucas Cranach, the Elder
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    Description: A rendering of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ with Mary and the beloved disciple looking on
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    Description: Appearing on the title page of this volume by the Jewish convert to Christianity, Johannes Pfefferkorn, this engraving of the crucifixion shows Jesus’ blood flowing from his wounds into a font. Mary the mother of Jesus shelters the faithful on the left, while the pope (note the triple tiara and t...
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    Description: As Mary prays, the archangel Gabriel appears and the Holy Spirit descends on her in the form of a dove
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    Description: Mary greets her kinswoman Elizabeth
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    Description: John sits with pen in hand and a book before him, an eagle stands nearby and a vision of the Madonna and child appears before him.
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    Description: This woodcut derives from Lucas Cranach, the Elder (1472-1553), and is taken from the last printed leaf of the third Wittenberg printing of On Good Works, one of Luther’s most important early treatises. It shows the Apostle John, Mary the mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and a group of three sold...
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    Description: This woodcut of the crucifixion of Jesus, with the Apostle John and Mary the mother of Jesus standing nearby, was included in a 1519 treatise by Luther on the worthy reception of the Eucharist. A skull is at the foot of the cross (alluding to the biblical references to Golgotha [the place of the ...
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    Description: The Virgin Mary stands in a garden with a church building in the background
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The Virgin Mary visits her kinswoman Elizabeth
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    Description: The three wise men greet the newborn Christ child in Bethlehem. The artist of these engravings was the monogrammist HA
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    Description: The angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she will be the mother of Jesus