Antique Catholic

In Hawaii Vaillant spent much time easing relations between French residents and the chiefs, particularly with respect to the expulsion of Catholic priests. Artists and Engravers: A...

Mercator was born in Flanders and educated at the Catholic University in Leuven. After his graduation in 1532, Mercator worked with Gemma Frisius, a prominent mathematician, and Gasp...

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) was an English, designer, author, theorist, and leading figure in the English Roman Catholic and Gothic Revival periods, the first to emplo...

St Carlo Borromeo (1538-1584), was a Cardinal of the Holy Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Milan from 1565 to 1583.

In Hawaii Vaillant spent much time easing relations between French residents and the chiefs, particularly with respect to the expulsion of Catholic priests. Artists and Engravers:...

Her union with the king of Navarre, which had been intended to contribute to the reconciliation of Roman Catholics and Protestant Huguenots in France, was tarnished six days after th...

He financed the building of the Catholic church in Dalton Square, Lancaster in 1798.

The 16th century, marked by political, social, and religious upheavals, saw in sacred art a crucial means of expressing the Catholic faith. Antwerp, as a bastion of Catholicism, beca...

The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus is one of the most widely practiced Catholic Faith devotions wherein the heart of Jesus Christ is viewed as a symbol of “God’s boundless and passionate...

Following the Counter-Reformation (the self-imposed disciplining of the Catholic Church to ‘counter’ the successes of the Protestant Reformation), portrayals of Christ’s suffering be...

The Southern Netherlands, also called the Catholic Netherlands, was the part of the Low Countries largely controlled by Spain (1556–1714), later Austria (1714–1794), and occupied the...

He was Secretary of the Society of Artists of Paris, in 1894 he was named knight of the order of Carlos III, in 1901 of the Legion of Honor and, in 1902, commander of the order of Is...

The war began with a Protestant uprising in Flanders and Holland against the Spanish Catholic Habsburgs. It ended with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648: Spain recognized an independen...

His “Haywain” (Rijksmuseum on loan to the Museum Catharijneconvent) is a satirical allegory criticizing the Catholic Church through the representation of the seven deadly sins.

He financed the building of the Catholic church in Dalton Square, Lancaster in 1798.

Denis joined the nationalist and pro-Catholic Action Française in 1904, and remained a member until 1927, when the group had moved to the extreme right and was formally condemned by ...

Though he received the adulation of the court and Parisians, Molière's satires attracted criticism from moralists and the Catholic Church. Tartuffe and its attack on perceived religi...

The son of a prosperous shopkeeper who was a devout Roman Catholic, the young Tissot was sent away to a boarding school run by Jesuits.

After his retirement, he authored several historical accounts including the Teatro del Belgio, which described the Catholic/Protestant wars in Belgium and Netherlands during the seve...

480-543 AD) is a Christian saint venerated in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Anglican Communion and Old Catholic Churches and h...

. - **Religious Diversity**: There was significant religious diversity, with Islam being the dominant religion due to Ottoman rule, but large Christian (Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catho...

This rare antique religious work / object of art, circa 1750, most likely commissioned by the Catholic Church of Spain, destined to be prominently displayed as an altarpiece / retabl...

In Hawaii Vaillant spent much time easing relations between French residents and the chiefs, particularly with respect to the expulsion of Catholic priests. Artists and Engravers:...

In Hawaii Vaillant spent much time easing relations between French residents and the chiefs, particularly with respect to the expulsion of Catholic priests. Artists and Engravers:...

The son of a prosperous shopkeeper who was a devout Roman Catholic, the young Tissot was sent away to a boarding school run by Jesuits.

'Biblia Sacra' served as a translation of the Holy Scriptures into Dutch, following the Roman Catholic tradition. The illustrations within this publication aimed to visually convey t...

The definition was first introduced to the public by a Roman Catholic priest named Richard Lassels in his 1670 book Voyage to Italy.

The international meetings between social Catholics and social Christians promoted by Mermillod led to the creation of the Union of Friborg, where problems such as trade unionism, th...

Strasbourg Cathedral or the Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, or Cathédrale de Strasbourg, German: Liebfrauenmünster zu Straßburg or S...

The most important celebration of the Catholic Church is the Eucharist. The faithful gather to commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus through the priest's consecration of br...

This happened with more Catholic names: the Sint-Nicolaaskerk became the Oude Kerk and the Sint-Catharinakerk on Dam Square became the Nieuwe Kerk.

They left the ship in the sea, without oars or sails or anything that she could help in the navigation with the idea that shipwrecked, but God saw to it that he reached Marseilles. T...

18th century Immaculate Madonna Terracotta, 53 x 22 x 20 cm The work examined depicts the Virgin Mary treated according to the iconography of the Immaculate Virgin The th...

In 1971 the city was included in the list of Dutch 'Urban and village conservation areas'. In 1923, when Catholics in the Netherlands were not allowed to engage in public expressi...

After his retirement, he authored several historical accounts including the Teatro del Belgio, which described the Catholic/Protestant wars in Belgium and Netherlands during the seve...

The Carthusians, also known as the Order of Carthusians (Latin: Ordo Cartusiensis), are a Latin enclosed religious order of the Catholic Church. The order was founded by Bruno of Col...

© Big Sky Fine Art This most elegant original gouache and watercolor painting depicts the magnificent Roman Catholic Church, L’ Église de la Sainte-Trinité, at the head of the Pla...

Our Lady of the Good Event is the English translation of the Spanish language Catholic Marian title Nuestra Señora del Buen Suceso, often mistranslated as Our Lady of Good Success du...

Reliquaries fell out of favor when Protestants objected to Catholics’ deep devotion to saints as idols. Today, our pair of silvered wooden reliquaries from 18th century France would ...

France, 19th century, luxurious Baroque taste, almost certainly commissioned for and originally part of a Catholic church, this repurposed building element now mounted on a substanti...

In 2002 he created 15 stained-glass windows for the St. Verena Catholic Church in Stäfa near Zurich, representing biblical scenes and concepts of mercy and law, also documented in t...

Together, they symbolize the Eucharist, a Christian/Catholic rite that is considered a sacrament or ordinance in most churches.

A most impressive, large scale, museum exhibition quality Baroque period Italian Catholic church cartaglorie altar card frame, now repurposed and fashioned as a stunning mirror.

Brewer, noted artist of historical architecture and prominent convert to the Catholic Church, and the grandson of John Sherren Brewer, Jr., “the brilliant editor of the Calendar of L...

He also painted floral still lives, and religious subjects of which many were painted for local Roman Catholic churches. One of his murals, 50 feet long, was installed at the altar o...

The Moerentorf Bible met extraordinary success and "became the standard Bible for Dutch Roman Catholics" (Darlow & Moule) for almost three centuries, being repeatedly reprinted a...

Georg Braun (1541-1622) was German Catholic cleric who was born and who died in Cologne, Germany.

Often pinned to the bodice, these ornaments served as both symbols of Catholic faith and treasured heirlooms, handed down through generations.

The print is from a Dutch Bible known as "Biblia Sacra," which is the Holy Scripture of the Old and New Testaments, translated into Dutch following the last Roman Catholic decision o...

The mention of the 'holy state of matrimony' (heiliger Ehestand) and the precise duration of XIV years of married life are characteristic of Lutheran Protestant epitaphs. Unlike the ...

A ceroferary is the acolyte in the Catholic church that is the candle bearer during processionals.

The Spanish Inquisition, a period of religious persecution and trials overseen by the Catholic Church, extended its influence to various parts of the Spanish empire.

Carlos Cuarteron was a Spanish mariner who later became a priest and established the first Roman Catholic missions in northern Borneo. Born in Cadiz to an Italian father and Spanish ...

Exceptionally executed in Victorian era Neo-Gothic taste, influenced by the highly decorative Catholic churches and Cathedrals, Middle Ages ecclesiastical architecture, centuries old...

Antonius Sanderus (1586-1664) was a Flemish Catholic cleric and historian. He was born "Antoon Sanders", but Latinized his name like many writers and scholars of his time.

A most impressive antique Spanish Colonial hand carved polychromed wood Santo Catholic church altar figure. circa 1800 Hand-crafted in the late 18th / early 19th century, exceptiona...

In many places in the Spanish territories it was used as a municipal archive, following laws inherited from a pragmatic one of June 9, 1500 with which the Catholic Monarchs forced th...

Principal Horton Hall Bowden Hall Bronson Hall Principal's Residence Gymnasium Parade and Play Grounds Public Schools Episcopal Church Congregational Church Methodist Church Catholic...

At the age of 29 he converted to the Catholic faith. It goes without saying that a painter in Antwerp had to be familiar with the themes of the Christian religion, since it was neces...

These dishes are often presented in a series of standardized executions due to a massive production of a proto-industrial type spread especially in the areas of Catholic influence (s...