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  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This portrait of Martin Luther is framed by four scenes illustrating the story of human sin and redemption
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    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...
  • 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: Taken from a sermon by Martin Luther on the suffering of Christ, this woodcut shows Jesus on the cross with his tomb before him and (perhaps) the Apostle John (or another disciple) kneeling in prayer or worship before him. In the lower right corner is the monogram of Hans Schäufelein (which incor...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The crucifixion of Jesus dominates this representation of the Christian Trinity
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: A rendering of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ with Mary and the beloved disciple looking on
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This woodcut of the crucifixion of Jesus shows his mother Mary and the disciple John (his attribute, the book, in hand) looking on with the Roman soldiers and Jerusalem in the background. It was one of several illustrations in Michael Helding’s Roman Catholic catechism. Moderate Catholic suffraga...
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: For this image: The text around the woodcut is taken from Galatians 6:14. “Far be it from me that I should boast, except in the cross of my Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.”
  • 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: Crucifixion with Open Tomb. The wood-engraving (on t.p.) has the monogram of H. Schäufelein, according to WA. Jesus cross prayer disciple
  • 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: The Crucifixion. Jesus Christ is crucified, with the inscription "INRI" overhead, one soldier standing guard beneath the cross, two more on horseback, one lifting a spear to Jesus' side, and two of Jesus' followers barely visible at the lefthand edge.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: A rendering of the fulfillment of the Suffering Servant song in the crucifixion of Jesus. The artist of these engravings was the monogrammist HA
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jesus Christ is crucified between the two thieves, with the inscription "INRI" above his head and Jerusalem in the background.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jesus is crucified as Mary and John look on
  • 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: 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: 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: Mary kneels in prayer before the crucified Jesus
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jesus is crucified between two thieves, as his mother and the Apostle John look on
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jesus is cucified as Mary and the beloved disciple look on.
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jesus is crucified between two thieves
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: The crowd cries out for Jesus to be crucified
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
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  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This historiated title-page border depicts the attributes of the four gospel writers and Martin Luther and John Fredrich, Duke of Saxony, kneeling at the foot of the cross
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This historiated title-page border depicts the attributes of the four gospel writers and Martin Luther and John Fredrich, Duke of Saxony, kneeling at the foot of the cross
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This historiated title-page border depicts the attributes of the four gospel writers and Martin Luther and John Fredrich, Duke of Saxony, kneeling at the foot of the cross
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: This historiated title-page border depicts the attributes of the four gospel writers and Martin Luther and John Fredrich, Duke of Saxony, kneeling at the foot of the cross
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jesus hangs on the cross between two criminals as the crowds mock him
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Jesus carries his cross to Calvary