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Christian art and symbolism

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Symbolism
Symbolism in art
Symbolism
Symbolism in art
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Images from the collections

Images about Christian art and symbolism

2 images from works
  • Wunderheilungen und ärztliche Schutzpatrone in der bildenden Kunst / von Dr. Oskar Rosenthal.
  • A bearded old man and a young woman representing Philosophy and Art respectively: he points to a book about mechanics and science, while she points to a painting of the Nativity of Christ. Engraving by W. Ridgway after D. Huntington.

Works from the collections

108 works

    • Archives and manuscripts

    "The weak one & the strong one"

    Bishop, Mary (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990 | Date: February 1969 | Reference: 2897057i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Pictures

    Die heilige Stunde.

    | Date: [between 1970 and 1980?] | Reference: 3289274i
    Part of: James Gardiner Collection: homoerotica photograph album
    • Books

    L'art religieux de la fin du moyen âge en France : étude sur l'iconographie du moyen âge et sur ses sources d'inspiration / Émile Mâle.

    Mâle, Emile, 1862-1954. | Date: 1931
    • E-books
    • Online

    Noli me tangere : on the raising of the body / Jean-Luc Nancy ; translated by Sarah Clift, Pascale-Anne Brault, and Michael Naas.

    Nancy, Jean-Luc. | Date: c2008
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Figure in red, possibly Christ being crucified, surrounded by horizontal purple lines

    Bishop, Mary (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990 | Date: August 1967 | Reference: 2854530i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)

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Medieval
Art
France
Face
Fires
Saints in art
Art, Byzantine
Church decoration and ornament
Church architecture
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