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Christian art and symbolism
Christian saints in art
Jesus Christ - Art

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Images from the collections

Images about Icons

4 images from works
  • Worshippers in the chapel of Elijah on Mount Sinai. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Crowds of sick people and their families making the pilgrimage to Lourdes in the hope of a miraculous cure. Reproduction of a wood engraving after H. Lanos.
  • A man suffering from mental illness or epilepsy is held up in front of an altar on which is a reliquary with the face of Christ, several lame men are also at the altar in the hope of a miracle cure. Watercolour.
  • A man suffering from mental illness or epilepsy is held up in front of an altar on which is a reliquary with the face of Christ, several lame men are also at the altar in the hope of a miracle cure. Watercolour.

Works from the collections

5 works

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    Die heiligen Ärzte in der Ostkirchenkunst / von C.H.W. Wendt.

    Wendt, C. H. W. | Date: 1950
    • Pictures
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    Worshippers in the chapel of Elijah on Mount Sinai. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.

    Roberts, David, 1796-1864. | Date: [1849] | Reference: 36130i
    Part of: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia
    • Books

    Russian copper icons and crosses from the Kunz Collection : castings of faith / Richard Eighme Ahlborn and Vera Beaver-Bricken Espinola, editors.

    | Date: 1991
    • Pictures

    A man suffering from mental illness or epilepsy is held up in front of an altar on which is a reliquary with the face of Christ, several lame men are also at the altar in the hope of a miracle cure. Watercolour.

    | Reference: 18581i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Crowds of sick people and their families making the pilgrimage to Lourdes in the hope of a miraculous cure. Reproduction of a wood engraving after H. Lanos.

    Lanos, Henri. | Date: [1895?] | Reference: 18574i

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