LiturgyTools.net: Pictures for Pentecost Sunday, Year C (15 May 2016)

This is a small selection of free-use illustrations, photographs or images based on the readings and prayers/propers in the Roman Catholic lectionary for Pentecost Sunday, Year C. It is part of the Lectionary Art Series.

See Hymn Ssggestions for this Sunday for more information about the readings and seasonal notes about this day, and links to other weeks.

Classical

Pentecost - Panel from the Maesta Altarpiece of Siena

Source: http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=49257

Artist: Duccio, di Buoninsegna, d. 1319

Descent of the Holy Spirit

Source: http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48043
Artist: Greco (1541?-1614)

Dove of the Holy Spirit - Bernini

Location: In the apse of Saint Peter's Basilica
Source: .Wikimedia
Artist: Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)

Tongues of fire descend on the apostles at Pentecost.

Source: Wikimedia

Artist: Unknown

Contemporary

Сашэсце Святога Духа - Descent of the Holy Spirit

Source: .Wikimedia
Artist: .Unknown - between 1850 and 1900

Renew the Face of the Earth - "The Blue Marble"

Source: A famous photograph of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/115334main_image_feature_329_ys_full.jpg
Artist: The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft