Religious iconography

A beautiful collection of Antique Holy Card Ephemera! Most of these cards are French with Lace borders, some are Sacred Heart Holy Cards.

This is an extract from a longer post about the Icon of Christ, but deserves a separate entry. It explains the meaning behind the way Christ and the Saints are sometimes shown holding their right h…

The 650+ images in this album depict all the main events of Revelation. The images are organized in order of appearance, beginning with St. John in...

For such a beautiful book containing such rich and powerful religious iconography there is surprisingly little known about Livre de la Vigne Nostre Seigneur other than it is a French book written circa 1450-70 and is an illustrated treatise “on the Incarnation, Passion, and Resurrection of Christ” and “the Antichrist, Last Judgement, Hell, and Heaven.” The book’s title Livre de la Vigne Nostre Seigneur is an “allusion” to: ...a vineyard often evoked in the Old Testament, planted by Yahweh…

NEG009-25 Banner Dutch Produced by H. Fermin, Delft Date: c. 1900-1910

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LGBT people of color can be viewed as double outsiders. Gabriel Garcia Román interprets them as everyday saints.

by St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco Iconography began on the day our Lord Jesus Christ pressed a cloth to His face and imprinted His divine-human image thereon. According to tradition, Luke the Evangelist painted the image of the Mother of God; and, also according to tradition, there still exist today many Icons which were painted by him. An artist, he painted not only the first Icons of the Mother of God, but also those of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul and, possibly, others which…