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  • 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: A rendering of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ with Mary and the beloved disciple looking on
  • Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library
    Description: Appearing on the title page of this volume by the Jewish convert to Christianity, Johannes Pfefferkorn, this engraving of the crucifixion shows Jesus’ blood flowing from his wounds into a font. Mary the mother of Jesus shelters the faithful on the left, while the pope (note the triple tiara and t...
  • 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: 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: 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 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.