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  • Descent of the Spirit on Pentecost

    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: On Pentecost the Holy Spirit appears in the form of a dove and a flame appears above the heads of Jesus' disciples

  • The Last Judgment

    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This depiction of the last judgment adorned the title-page of Otto Brunfels' (1488-1534) work on the "Christian Regimen"." He had been a Carthusian monk and later a physician in Bern

  • Printer's Device of Heinrich Petri

    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The printer’s device of Heinrich Petri (1508-1579) is based on that of his father, Adam Petri, and involves a wordplay on the family name (petrus = stone). Adam, Heinrich, and Sebastian Petri used altogether 27 different printer's devices, and 18 of these were variants of the design illustrated ...

  • The Last Battle

    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The angels and armies of God defeat the armies of the beast in the heavens, and the beast is thrown into the lake of fire.

  • The Destruction of Babylon

    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The city of Babylon burns, as one angel throws a millstone into the sea and another rejoices in midair. Merchants standing nearby are griefstricken.

  • The Seventh Seal

    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The seventh seal. Angels with trumpets are at the altar before God. Thunder, lightning, earthquakes, hail, and fire afflict the earth, and ships are destroyed.

  • The Destruction of Nadab and Abihu

    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The priests Nadab and Abihu are destroyed by fire from God.

  • Moses at Sinai

    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: With Israel in the background near their tents, Moses is shown before the luminous face of God, emerging from clouds, lightening, and fire on Mount Sinai.

  • Sodom and Gomorrah

    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: As Lot is led away from Sodom and Gomorrah by two angels, his two daughters trailing behind, the pillar of salt that once was his wife is visible on the road at a distanceand and fire rains from heaven on the cities

  • The Firery Furnace

    Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are visible in the fiery furnace, while the two soldiers who placed them there are consumed with fire, and two men (Nebuchadnezzar and an advisor) stand by discussing what they see.