Public Library, Front View, Boston, Mass. - Letter to E[lias] H[asket] Derby, [Salem, Mass.]

Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a bishop celebrating mass inside a church. Image taken from f. 193 of Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals'). Written in Latin.

Kneeling man focussed on the Holy Mass in the initial

Priest celebrating Holy Mass, with Arnold of Oreye and his wife kneeling

A priest getting dressed before celebrating the Mass

Miniature of mass for the dead. Full border decoration, initial, rubric.

Manuscript Leaf with the Celebration of a Mass in an Initial S, from an Antiphonary

Master of the Riccardiana Lactantius Made in Florence, Italy

Heinrich Seuse writing his 'Horologium Sapientiae'; God the Father inspiring him; Holy Mass; the Last Judgement: Christ on a rainbow raises the dead in the presence of Mary and St. John the Baptist; two angels holding instruments of the Passion; four angels bringing souls to heaven; devils dragging the damned into hell

The Mass of Saint Gregory

Master of the Church Fathers' Border (German, late 15th century)

Miniature of mass for the dead? Large initial, border decoration.

Explicit of the mass for the dead.

Miniature of mass for the dead.

St. John and the snaky chalice; John consecrating the host at the celebration of mass; and John rising from a tomb full of manna.

Miniature of mass with Christ and instruments of crucifixion. Border design.

Holy Mass attended by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy

The mass of St. Martin, Bishop of Tours

Priests celebrating a mass f. 273

Mass according to the Orthodox rite f. 276

The mass of St. Gregory the Great: Christ appears on the altar

Holy Mass; altar-piece with Crucifixion (detail)

The mass of St. Gregory the Great: Christ appears on the altar

Diptych with the Nativity and the Mass of Saint Gregory

The mass of St. Gregory the Great: Christ appears on the altar

The Mass of Saint Gregory

Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg)

The Mass of Saint Gregory

Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg)

Maximilian I Hearing Mass

Hans Weiditz the Younger (German, Freiburg im Breisgau before 1500–ca. 1536 Strasbourg)

The mass of St. Gregory the Great: Christ appears on the altar

Hercules strangling the serpents: Hercules grasps two serpents in his crib, Juno points toward the serpents from a mass of cloud at right, from the series 'The Labors of Hercules'

Antonio Tempesta (Italian, Florence 1555–1630 Rome)

[Saint Brendan, 484-577, figurative map of St. Brendan's legendary voyage; shows Mass being said on the back of a whale]

Air, a landscape during a hurricane, three horsemen battling the wind, a mass of trees to the right, from 'The four elements' (Les quatre Eléments)

Stefano della Bella (Italian, Florence 1610–1664 Florence)

According to his long-time friend and biographer, Michel-François Dandré-Bardon (1700 - 1783), Carle Vanloo received the prestigious commission for the vault of the church of Saint-Louis des Invalides in 1762. ... more

The Grand Canal above the Rialto (recto); A Priest Celebrating Mass and Saint Vincent Ferrer Preaching (verso)

The veduta on the recto is a painstakingly accurate view of the Venetian Grand Canal from the Fabbriche Nuove on the extreme left to the Palazzo Pesaro in the distance and including the campanile of San Cassian... more

The Mass of Saint Basil

The rare subject concerns Saint Basil the Great (ca. 339–379) and Emperor Valens, a heretical Arian. Surrounded by priests, Basil receives the wine for consecration from a priest. Valens's required gifts of bre... more