Bishop celebrating mass from BL Royal 10 E IV, f. 193
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.
The Mass of St. Gregory
Anonymous, German, 15th century
Mass of St. Gregory
Anonymous, German, 15th century
Manuscript Leaf with the Celebration of a Mass in an Initial S, from an Antiphonary
Master of the Riccardiana Lactantius Made in Florence, Italy
The Mass of Saint Gregory
Master of the Church Fathers' Border (German, late 15th century)
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)
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)
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)
Mass Bell
Netherlands
The Mass of St. Gregory
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
Blessed Francis Venimbeni Celebrating Mass for souls in Purgatory
Giuseppe Cades (Italian, Rome 1750–1799 Rome)