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Purgatory

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Images from the collections

Images about Purgatory

10 images from works
  • Souls in purgatory, looking up at the wounds of Christ and at the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart. Watercolour.
  • Souls in purgatory, looking up at the wounds of Christ and at the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart. Watercolour.
  • Saint Teresa: she is encouraged by Christ to bring aid to Bernardino de Mendoza in purgatory by building a convent on land given to her by Bernardino. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Saint Andrew Avellino. Engraving by L.M.
  • Souls in purgatory, looking up at the wounds of Christ and at the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart. Watercolour.
  • The levels of hell depicted as circular stone tiers; purgatory lies outside its walls. Engraving.
  • The death of infants: a skeleton representing Death grabs and eats infants who die innocent of vice but unendowed with the theological virtues. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • Episodes in Dante's Divine comedy. Etchings by B. Pinelli, 1824-1826.
  • Saint Teresa: she is encouraged by Christ to bring aid to Bernardino de Mendoza in purgatory by building a convent on land given to her by Bernardino. Engraving by C. Warren after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • The circles of hell and limbo (containing Abraham and Lazarus) beneath the earth; snakes appear at the surface of the earth. Engraving by J. Wierix, 1595.

Works from the collections

14 works

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    A physician being tormented with medical and surgical treatments by grotesque figures representing his former patients. Coloured etching by R. Newton, 1792, after G.M. Woodward.

    Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809. | Date: Nov.r 11 1792 | Reference: 2491101i
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    The death of infants: a skeleton representing Death grabs and eats infants who die innocent of vice but unendowed with the theological virtues. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

    Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781-1835. | Date: 1825 | Reference: 661785i
    Part of: Episodes in Dante's Divine comedy. Etchings by B. Pinelli, 1824-1826.
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    The circles of hell and limbo (containing Abraham and Lazarus) beneath the earth; snakes appear at the surface of the earth. Engraving by J. Wierix, 1595.

    | Date: [1595] | Reference: 26239i
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    Documents relatifs au Concile de Florence.

    Council of Florence (1438-1445 : Florence, Italy) | Date: 1920-1923
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    Saint Teresa: she is encouraged by Christ to bring aid to Bernardino de Mendoza in purgatory by building a convent on land given to her by Bernardino. Engraving by C. Warren after Sir P.P. Rubens.

    Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640. | Date: 1810-1819 | Reference: 7260i

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Hell
Death

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