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Historical Archive: Christianity and Judaism


Menorahs, other Jewish symbols, and Hebrew Inscriptions

Old Testament imagery from Christian contexts
Genesis with separate pages for
Genesis 2: Creation of Eve
Genesis 3: Temptation and Fall, Expulsion
Genesis 4: Offerings of Cain and Abel
Genesis 22: Abraham and Isaac
Genesis 37-46: Joseph/brothers/Potiphar's wife/dreams
Exodus
Numbers through Job with separate page for
Numbers 21: Moses with the brazen serpent
I Kings 16-24: David/Samuel/Saul/Goliath
Psalms through Malachi with separate pages for
Isaiah 11: Tree of Jesse
Daniel 6, 14: Daniel in the Lions' Den
Jonas/Jonah 1-4: Jonah and the Sea Monster/Whale

Hand of God

Good Shepherd, and Lamb of God

Chrismon (Christogram)

Dove of the Holy Spirit

Virgin and Child: up to c.1300, c.1300 to present

Madonna of Mercy

Life of Christ: Infancy, with separate pages for
Annunciation
Visitation
Nativity and Shepherds
Adoration of the Magi
Flight into Egypt
Massacre of the Innocents
Presentation in the Temple
Baptism

Life of Christ: Temptation

Life of Christ: Miracles, with separate pages for
Wedding at Cana
Raising of Lazarus
Haemorrhoissa
Transfiguration

Life of Christ: Parables, with separate page for
Lazarus and Dives

Life of Christ: Passion, with separate pages for
Entry into Jerusalem
Last Supper
Footwashing
Betrayal and Arrest
Christ before Pontius Pilate
Flagellation, scourging
Way to Calvary, Carrying of the Cross
Crucifixion: through 9th c., 10th-12th c., 13th c.-present
Crown of Thorns

Deposition/Lamentation/Entombment/Dead Christ
Resurrection and Anastasis/Harrowing of Hell
Noli me tangere
Incredulity of Thomas
Ascension

Life of Christ, other events: Calling of Apostles, Samaritan Woman,
Woman taken in adultery, Christ with Pharisees, with Zachaeus,
cursing fig tree, Mary anointing Christ's feet

Christ blessing/in Majesty, Pantokrator, Christ Triumphant, Christ Emmanuel to undifferentiated 12th c., dated within 12th c. to present

Pietà, Man of Sorrows, Pensive Christ, Instruments of the Passion, Wounds

Traditio Legis (Christ Giving the Law)

Dormition, Assumption, and Coronation of the Virgin

Human soul (eidolon) and Resurrection of the Dead

Angels: 5th to 10th c., 11th-12th c., c.1200 to 1360, c.1360-1460, c.1460 to present

Demons, Devil

Apostles: grouped or unidentified;
Andrew
Bartholemew
James the Greater
James the Less
John the Evangelist
Judas
Jude (Judas the Zealot, Thaddaeus)
Matthew
Matthias
Paul
Peter
Philip
Simon
Thomas

Evangelists: grouped or unidentified; Matthew, Mark, Luke, John

Saints (alphabetical):
Adalbert to Blaise
Boethius to Dorothy
Edmund to James the Greater
James the Less to Menas
Mercurius of Caesarea to Sigismund
Simeon Nemanja to Yaroslav Vsevolodovich

Religious officials: Priests/priestesses of various religions;
Christian popes, cardinals, bishops, deacons, rectors; Jewish mohel
Manichaean presbyter: through 13th c., 14th c. to present

Monks, Nuns, Regular Canons, Hermits, Friars, Abbesses, and Abbots

Christian liturgies, not including Baptism of Christ

Apocalypse, Book of Revelation, End of Time


Click to enlarge.
faience plaque with
angel of the
Annunciation, Faenza
c.1490, Louvre OA 3098
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Genesis 1: creation of
the birds and fish, ivory,
south Italy c.1084,
MAAB
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Good Shepherd, sard
intaglio, 3rd c., BM,
Dalton 503
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Saint Adrian of
Nicomedia, wood and
polychrome, Flemish
c.1515, IMA 45.8
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Crucifixion, jasper,
c.900, V&A A.77-1937