LiturgyTools.net: Pictures for the Feast of the Ascension, Year B

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 the feast of the Ascension in Year B. It is part of the Lectionary Art Series.

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

Classical

Ascension of Christ

Source: http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=46207
Artist: Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506)

Ascension from the Rabbula Gospels

Source: http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=53846
Artist: 6th century unknown

The Ascension - terracotta with glaze — Museum Duomo, Florence

Source: Wikimedia
Artist: Luca della Robbia (1400 – 1482)

Contemporary

Jesus ascends

Source: Wikimedia
Artist: Biblical illustrations by Jim Padgett, courtesy of Sweet Publishing, Ft. Worth, TX, and Gospel Light, Ventura, CA. Copyright 1984. Released under new license, CC-BY-SA 3.0