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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the last of six illustrating the blessing of a cemetery. The bishop makes the sign of the cross with the thurible before the center wooden cross -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the last of four illustrating the consecration of a portable altar (or possibly a side altar). The bishop makes the sign of the cross in the middle and the four corners of the new altar with his right hand using holy oil -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the last of nine illustrating the consecration of an altar, when this is not part of the ceremony for the dedication of a church. The bishop blesses the ornaments and accoutrements of the altar, including altar cloths, candle holders and other vessels -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This engraving is the sixth of nine illustrating the consecration of an altar, when this is not part of the ceremony for the dedication of a church. The bishop takes two vessels, one containing holy oil and one the chrism blessed each year during Holy Week, and pours them onto the altar -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus is crucified as Mary and John look on -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Apostle John makes the sign of blessing, as he holds a cup with serpent. The monogram of the artist, Virgil Solis (1514-1562), is in the clouds at the upper right. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library 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 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus Christ is brought down from the cross. The "INRI" inscription is visable over his head; the crown of thorns is left on the crossbeam on the right; and a ladder is used for the process. Jesus' disciples look on, and Joseph of Arimathea stands at the foot of the cross. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Crucifixion. Jesus Christ is laid out on the cross by soldiers who drive the nails into his body, as Jesus' mother and disciples look on. The nails and other instruments are in the foreground and the "INRI" inscription ready to be affixed to the cross. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus Christ with the crown of thorns on his head and a guard at either side appears at a window. Soldiers stand outside, where a cross has been prepared -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As some Israelites have been bitten by serpents and lie stricken on the ground, others are gathered before their tents and so look for protection unto the bronze serpent that Moses has raised -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus collapses under the weight of the cross, is helped by Simon of Cyrene, and is surrounded by a crowd and armed guards -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A rendering of the crucifixion with Mary and the beloved disciple looking on. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Crucifixion. Mary the mother of Jesus and the Apostle John flank the cross of Jesus Christ; Jerusalem is in the background and the inscription "INRI" is above Jesus' head. All three figures have haloes. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Having broken down the gate of Hell/Hades, Jesus proclaims salvation to those within. The demonic beasts of the netherworld threaten him from above and below. This was to have occurred between Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This image of the crucifixion shows Martin Luther kneeling on the right, and Frederick the Wise, the Elector of Saxony, on the left, an arrangement that often appeared in later editions of the reformer's works -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Here Jesus teaches his disciples of his impending death, indicated by the three crosses in the background at the upper left. The woodcut illustrated Luther’s sermon on John 12 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Illustrating a Roman Catholic catechism, this wood-cut shows the administration of the Eucharist in both kinds, a practice that continued among some German Catholics into the second half of the sixteenth century. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Historiated title-page border with the Luther Rose, attributed to the 'Master of Jacob's Ladder,' the so-called 'Lemberger-Double'