A selection of images from our lectionary essays, with new ones added weekly.
Image credits are in the original essays, which you can view by clicking on the caption text.
 
Battle of the Milvian Bridge, fresco by Raphael.
 
Painting by Albrecht Durer (1471-1528).
 
The Scream by Edvard Munch (1893).
 
Louis VII departs for the Second Crusade.
 
Capture of Jerusalem, 1099.
 
Edward Hicks (1780-1849), The Peaceable Kingdom.
 
Mosaic dome in the Arian Baptistry in Ravenna, Italy, 5th century.
 
Jacob receives Esau's blessing, anonymous Flemish tapestry, early 16th C.
 
Isaac rejects Esau, Giotto di Bondone, 1290's.
 
Meeting of Jacob and Esau, 11th century old Enlgish Bible by Aelfric.
 
Dance Around the Golden Calf, Emil Nolde, 1910.
 
The Worship of the Golden Calf by Filippino Lippi.
 
Pentecost, the Rabbula Gospel, c. 586, illuminated Syriac Bible.
 
Domenico Veneziano, John the Baptist casts off his clothes for life in the desert.
 
Caravaggio, The Beheading of St John, 1608.
 
Jesus washes his disciples' feet.
 
Ivan Kramskoy, Christ in the Desert.
 
20th-century martyrs in Westminster Abbey.
 
Separation, Edvard Munch, 1900.
 
Ashes, Edvard Munch, 1894.


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