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Ambrose

Roman theologian and Bishop of Milan (c. 340–397)

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Images featuring Ambrose

16 images from works
  • Saint Ambrose. Steel engraving.
  • Saint Ambrose barring the emperor Theodosius I from Milan Cathedral. Etching by W. Unger after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Saint Ambrose. Line engraving by G. Edelinck.
  • Saint Ambrose. Line engraving by P. Cool after M. de Vos.
  • Saint Ambrose. Engraving.
  • Christ with Saint Ambrose, Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin), Saint Charles Borromeo, and Saint Thomas the Apostle and angels. Etching by P. Aquila after C. Maratta.
  • Saint Jerome, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (?), Saint Dominic Guzman, Saint Clare, Saint Gregory the Great, Saint Ambrose and Saint Augustine of Hippo. Engraving by S.A. Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Saint Ambrose: his raising into heaven. Line engraving by C.N. Cochin the elder, 1736, after B. Boullogne the elder.
  • Saint Ambrose, Saint Gregory the Great, Saint Jerome and Saint Augustine of Hippo. Engraving by C. van Dalen after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Saint Ambrose. Line engraving by Houatt and N. Bazin after A. Dieu.

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    Six excellent treatises of life and death / collected (and published in French) by Philip Mornay, sieur du Plessis ; and now (first) translated into English.

    | Date: 1607
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    Hexameron. Beati Ambrosij Mediolanensis Ep[iscop]i. Incipit feliciter / [Ambrose].

    Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397. | Date: [ca. 5 May 1472]
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    De gentibus Indiae et Bragmanibus. S. Ambrosius de moribus Brachmanorum. Anonymus de Bragmanibus / Quorum priorem et postremum nunc primum in lucem protulit ex Bibliotheca Regia Edoardus Bissaeus.

    Palladius, Bishop of Aspuna, -approximately 430. | Date: 1665
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    Auctor operum sequentium [a woodcut portrait of St. Ambrose] / [Ambrose].

    Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397. | Date: [1492]
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    Hexameron / [Ambrose].

    Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397. | Date: [1480?]

Related topics

Gregory I
Jerome
Augustine of Hippo

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