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Engravings from the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection
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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The triumphant Christ stands outside the tomb, having conquered death. The artist’s monogram A-W is set at the lower right -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: In the clouds are four heads blowing the four winds away, as an angel flies overhead with a T square, and below are angels with swords. One angel with pen in hand draws a cross on the foreheads of humans, thus marking/sealing the 144,000. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving illustrates a rite performed after the death of certain people in public positions of authority such as cardinals, bishops and rulers. Five bishops stand around the bier, one at each corner and one at the head. Acolytes stand at the feet of the dead bishop with the processional c... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the second of three illustrating the public expulsion of penitents from the community of the church on Ash Wednesday. After blessing it with holy water, the bishop places a hairshirt onto the penitents -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the last of three illustrating the public expulsion of penitents from the community of the church on Ash Wednesday. After listening to a sermon by the bishop on the expulsion of Adam from paradise, the exemplar for their own expulsion, the penitents--wearing hairshirts, carryin... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the first of three illustrating the public expulsion of penitents from the community of the church on Ash Wednesday. These are people who have committed grave crimes and on whom a solemn penance has been imposed. They come before the bishop dressed in poor clothing, barefoot a... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving illustrates the reception of a travelling legate by the bishop of a locality -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Luther Rose served as the reformer's signet -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Evangelist Luke, with halo overhead and his attribute the ox to the left, sits at his writing desk and writes his gospel account.