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  • An engraving depicting the martyrdom of Antipas of Pergamum. The image shows a hollow bull statue set above a blazing fire.
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    Antipas, brulé vif dans un Taureau d'airain environ l'an 95

    Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712
    An engraving depicting the martyrdom of Antipas of Pergamum. The image shows a hollow bull statue set above a blazing fire.
    Date Issued or Published
    1685
    1698
    Copyright
    An engraving depicting the martyrdom of Antipas of Pergamum. The image shows a hollow bull statue set above a blazing fire.
  • A series of four engravings depicting aspects of religious rituals and practices from ancient Mediterranean cultures, including Greek, Roman, and Egyptian. The engraving on the top right depicts a supplicant praying before a temple of Pomona, the Latin and Roman goddess of fruit trees, gardens, and orchards, who is depicted to the supplicant's left. The engraving on the top left depicts four medallions, the top one showing Pomona holding a tree as another figure kneels to scoop water into a vessel, and the remaining three showing vestments and other objects used in the Lustration rites of ritual cleansing. The engraving on the bottom right depicts another four medallions, the top one showing sacrifices being made to Hercules by worshipers, the middle two shows Emperor Severus veiled and holding an olive branch and a veiled woman before an altar, and the bottom one shows the bust of a man wearing a Phrygian cap. The engraving on the bottom left depicts three medallions and two coins, the top left medallion showing the owl of Athena ringed by a laurel wreath, the top right medallion showing Anubis enthroned with a supplicant prostrating before him, the middle medallion showing three worshipers around a Greek- or Roman-style altar, and the two coins showing a man galloping on a horse and throwing a javellin at a kneeling foe (left) and a man standing with an orb and Victory in one hand and the other hand reaching down to a kneeling figure (right).
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    Dissertation sur le Culte Religieux

    Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733
    A series of four engravings depicting aspects of religious rituals and practices from ancient Mediterranean cultures, including Greek, Roman, and Egyptian. The engraving on the top right depicts a supplicant praying before a temple of Pomona, the Latin and Roman goddess of fruit trees, gardens, and orchards, who is depicted to the supplicant's left.
    Date Issued or Published
    1741
    Copyright
    A series of four engravings depicting aspects of religious rituals and practices from ancient Mediterranean cultures, including Greek, Roman, and Egyptian. The engraving on the top right depicts a supplicant praying before a temple of Pomona, the Latin and Roman goddess of fruit trees, gardens, and orchards, who is depicted to the supplicant's left.
  • An engraved title page to Jean Luiken's Theatre des Martyrs. In the center, there is a depiction of several martyrdoms, including being boiled, being spun on a wheel across spikes, and burning at the stake, under which is the phrase, "per angusta ad augusta" (from crisis to glory). Forming a border around the title information is a collection of weapons and instruments of torture which are related to various martyrdoms, including: swords, maces, spears, arrows, axes, clubs, halberds, flails, saws, knives, chains, manacles, torches, mallets, anchors, and a crown of thorns.
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    Historiated title page of Theatre des Martyrs

    Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712
    An engraved title page to Jean Luiken's Theatre des Martyrs. In the center, there is a depiction of several martyrdoms, including being boiled, being spun on a wheel across spikes, and burning at the stake, under which is the phrase, "per angusta ad augusta" (from crisis to glory). Forming a border around the title information is a collection of weapons and instruments of torture which are related to various martyrdoms, including: swords, maces, spears, arrows, axes, clubs, halberds, flails, saws, knives, chains, manacles, torches, mallets, anchors, and a crown of thorns.
    Date Issued or Published
    1685
    1698
    Copyright
    An engraved title page to Jean Luiken's Theatre des Martyrs. In the center, there is a depiction of several martyrdoms, including being boiled, being spun on a wheel across spikes, and burning at the stake, under which is the phrase, "per angusta ad augusta" (from crisis to glory). Forming a border around the title information is a collection of weapons and instruments of torture which are related to various martyrdoms, including: swords, maces, spears, arrows, axes, clubs, halberds, flails, saws, knives, chains, manacles, torches, mallets, anchors, and a crown of thorns.
  • A woodcut depicting the celebration of Holy Saturday. A bishop presides as a deacon lights one candle from three and sings, “Lumen Christi” (“the light of Christ”), to which all reply,”Deo gratis” (“thanks be to God”). The scene is flanked by a pair of cherubs holding rings and kneeling on helmets. The woodcut is reused throughout the work.
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    Holy Saturday

    A woodcut depicting the celebration of Holy Saturday. A bishop presides as a deacon lights one candle from three and sings, “Lumen Christi” (“the light of Christ”), to which all reply,”Deo gratis” (“thanks be to God”). The scene is flanked by a pair of cherubs holding rings and kneeling on helmets. The woodcut is reused throughout the work.
    Date Issued or Published
    1582
    Copyright
    A woodcut depicting the celebration of Holy Saturday. A bishop presides as a deacon lights one candle from three and sings, “Lumen Christi” (“the light of Christ”), to which all reply,”Deo gratis” (“thanks be to God”). The scene is flanked by a pair of cherubs holding rings and kneeling on helmets. The woodcut is reused throughout the work.
  • An engraving depicting a portrait of John Wycliffe framed in a laurel wreath with a pile of books and papers being burned, representing the declaration by the Council of Constance that his works should be burned.
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    Iean Wiclef

    Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733
    An engraving depicting a portrait of John Wycliffe framed in a laurel wreath with a pile of books and papers being burned, representing the declaration by the Council of Constance that his works should be burned.
    Date Issued or Published
    1714
    Copyright
    An engraving depicting a portrait of John Wycliffe framed in a laurel wreath with a pile of books and papers being burned, representing the declaration by the Council of Constance that his works should be burned.
  • An engraving depicting the torture of Origen. The image shows Origen chained to a prison wall by his neck, his hands clasped in prayer and feet locked in a stocks, while torturers head coals and hold burning straw towards him.
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    Orïgene, mis à la torture à Alexandrie, et ensuite envoyé en exil, environ l'An 254

    Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712
    An engraving depicting the torture of Origen. The image shows Origen chained to a prison wall by his neck, his hands clasped in prayer and feet locked in a stocks, while torturers head coals and hold burning straw towards him.
    Date Issued or Published
    1685
    1698
    Copyright
    An engraving depicting the torture of Origen. The image shows Origen chained to a prison wall by his neck, his hands clasped in prayer and feet locked in a stocks, while torturers head coals and hold burning straw towards him.
  • An engraving depicting the martyrdom of Saint Polycarp. The image shows Polycarp sitting on a blazing fire with eyes turned towards heaven as a man stabs him with a sword.
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    Polycarpe, cueque de Smyrne, mis à mort par le feu et par le fer, A. 168

    Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712
    An engraving depicting the martyrdom of Saint Polycarp. The image shows Polycarp sitting on a blazing fire with eyes turned towards heaven as a man stabs him with a sword.
    Date Issued or Published
    1685
    1698
    Copyright
    An engraving depicting the martyrdom of Saint Polycarp. The image shows Polycarp sitting on a blazing fire with eyes turned towards heaven as a man stabs him with a sword.
  • An engraving depicting a scene from the eighteenth book of the epic poem, Saint Louys, in which God destroys a false Crown of Thorns which would have caused plague and bestows the true Crown of Thorns on Saint Louis.
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    Saint Louis and the Crown of Thorns

    Chauveau, François, 1613-1676
    An engraving depicting a scene from the eighteenth book of the epic poem, Saint Louys, in which God destroys a false Crown of Thorns which would have caused plague and bestows the true Crown of Thorns on Saint Louis.
    Date Issued or Published
    1658
    Copyright
    An engraving depicting a scene from the eighteenth book of the epic poem, Saint Louys, in which God destroys a false Crown of Thorns which would have caused plague and bestows the true Crown of Thorns on Saint Louis.
  • A series of four engravings depicting the standards of the Spanish and Goan Inquisitions (top), a man awaiting judgement (bottom left), and a nun who avoided being condemned to the stake by confessing (bottom right). The standard of the Spanish Inquisition features a cross made of rough logs, flanked by a sword and a branch with the motto, "EXURGE DOMINE ET JUDICA CAUSAM TUAM PSALM 73." The standard of the Goan Inquisition features a Dominican monk holding a sword and branch above a dog holding a torch to an orb with the motto, "MISERICORDIA ET JUSTITIA."
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    Standards and Condemned of the Inquisition

    Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733
    A series of four engravings depicting the standards of the Spanish and Goan Inquisitions (top), a man awaiting judgement (bottom left), and a nun who avoided being condemned to the stake by confessing (bottom right). The standard of the Spanish Inquisition features a cross made of rough logs, flanked by a sword and a branch with the motto, "EXURGE DOMINE ET JUDICA CAUSAM TUAM PSALM 73." The standard of the Goan Inquisition features a Dominican monk holding a sword and branch above a dog holding a torch to an orb with the motto, "MISERICORDIA ET JUSTITIA."
    Date Issued or Published
    1741
    Copyright
    A series of four engravings depicting the standards of the Spanish and Goan Inquisitions (top), a man awaiting judgement (bottom left), and a nun who avoided being condemned to the stake by confessing (bottom right). The standard of the Spanish Inquisition features a cross made of rough logs, flanked by a sword and a branch with the motto, "EXURGE DOMINE ET JUDICA CAUSAM TUAM PSALM 73." The standard of the Goan Inquisition features a Dominican monk holding a sword and branch above a dog holding a torch to an orb with the motto, "MISERICORDIA ET JUSTITIA."
  • An engraving depicting a scene from the fourth book of the epic poem, Saint Louys, in which a pair of extravagently dressed figures appear riding an elephant, above which hangs a globe or disc representing the Heavens, with the fire of the sun encircling it as a cherub (representing modest love) sits atop it.
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    The Elephant with Two Bards and the Circle of Heaven

    Chauveau, François, 1613-1676
    An engraving depicting a scene from the fourth book of the epic poem, Saint Louys, in which a pair of extravagently dressed figures appear riding an elephant, above which hangs a globe or disc representing the Heavens, with the fire of the sun encircling it as a cherub (representing modest love) sits atop it.
    Date Issued or Published
    1658
    Copyright
    An engraving depicting a scene from the fourth book of the epic poem, Saint Louys, in which a pair of extravagently dressed figures appear riding an elephant, above which hangs a globe or disc representing the Heavens, with the fire of the sun encircling it as a cherub (representing modest love) sits atop it.
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