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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The story of the patriarch Jacob’s dream of a ladder (or more likely, a stairway) from earth to heaven (Genesis 28) forms the basis for this illustration, perhaps by Cranach. It is one of several full-page woodcuts by the famous artist that were prepared for Luther’s translation of the Old Testam... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Three women with jars of ointment come to the tomb of Jesus, only to find it empty and an angel sitting astride the coffin -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A Christological interpretation of Isaiah 11: As Jesse, the father of David, lies on the ground, from his side grows up a tree at whose center is the Madonna and child -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Triumphant Christ is flanked by the Electoral and Ducal coats of arms of Saxony -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Historiated title-page border From the Master of Jacob's Ladder, a pupil of Georg Lemberger -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This historiated title-page border features cherubs, mermaids, and dolphins -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Historiated title-page border with columns cherubs angels garland musical instruments tamborine lyre trumpet men towing a boat sea creature -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Historiated title-page modeled after 116, a typical work of Hans Springinklee. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A nativity scene with the baby Jesus, Mary, and Joseph