Keyword: Mass
The Altar of Incense (1534)
from: De Biblie uth der uthlegginge Doctoris Martini Luthers in dyth düdesche ulitich uthgestellet, mit sundergen underichtingen alse men seen mach,Ludowich Dietz 1534
The Lambe speaketh. Anti-catholic satire with a wolf-headed Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, biting the neck of a sacrificial lamb suspended by its hind legs above an altar; to right, the bishops of London and Durham, the dean of Westminster and other Roman Catholic clerics (all with wolves' heads) drink the blood that spurts from the lamb; at Gardiner's feet lie six further lambs bearing the names of Cranmer, Ridley and other Protestant reformers; at upper left, three men pull at a rope tied around Gardiner's neck (members of the House of Lords who threw out Gardiner's heresy bill on 1 May 1554) while at lower left a group of gullible men (the Commons who had passed the bill a month earlier) are attached from rings in their noses to a rope around Gardiner's waist; the Pope as the devil appears top right (1555)
British Museum, London
Saint Gregory's Mass (1494)
from: Exterior of the Triptych of the Adoration of the Magi
Museo del Prado
Sacrificium sub Lege Naturae, Sacrificium sub Lege Moysis, Sacrificium sub Lege Evangelica (Three representations of sacrifices) (1588)
Royal Library of Belgium (S.IV 86279)
Scenes related to Saint Augustine addressing the Romans, featuring the Mass and, in the upper right, an animal sacrifice in the Temple. Augustine's words on a scroll read: «C'est le vray sacrifice a Dieu agreable». [1480]
from: St. Augustin [Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis]: La cité de Dieu. Enlumineur Maître de Coëtivy, Traducteur: Raoul de Presles (1316-1382). Miniature at the beginning of book 10
France, Mâcon, Médiathèque et Archives municipales, Ms. 1, fol. 305
The Mass at Bolsena (1512)
Stanza di Eliodoro, Raphael Rooms, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City
Pope Urban IV verifies the Eucharistic Miracle of Bolsena (1357-1364)
Cathedral of Orvieto
Gregory the Great celebrating Mass (1465-1480)
from: Book of Hours Spain, perhaps Burgos or Segovia
New York, The Morgan Library Library & Museum, MS M.854 fol. 225v
Allegory of the Catholic Faith (picture made when public celebrations of the Mass were forbidden in the Dutch Republic) [1670 - 1672]
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York