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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus shares the Passover supper with his disciples. The head of John is laid on Jesus' chest; Judas with the money bag sits across the table -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: John measures the Temple with a measuring rod, and before him is a beast (wearing the papal tiarra) and two, robed human figures. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The seventh angel appears amidst clouds with a luminous face and legs as pillars, and John kneels before him with a book in hand. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library 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. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: John's vision of the four horsemen: one with a crown and bow and arrow, another with a sword, another with scales, and the last as a skeleton with pitchfork. Human forms are slain before them. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library 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... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Jesus comes to the shore of the Sea of Galilee, where he calls the fishermen Peter, Andrew, James, and John -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As Jesus stands surrounded by his disciples, the mother of James and John, the sons of Zebedee, kneels before him with her request that he elevate her sons above the others -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library 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 ... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Here the Apostle John passes a letter to a messenger.