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 Pentecost Sunday in Year B. It is part of the Lectionary Art Series.
Classical
Descent of the Holy Spirit
Source: http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48043Artist: el Greco (1541?-1614)
License: Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike 3.0 License
Pentecost
Source: http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=46144Artist: Unknown 12th century
Pentecost
Source: http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=46523Artist: Giotto, 1266?-1337
License: Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike 3.0
The Descent of the Holy Spirit
Source: https://www.artbible.info/art/large/163.htmlArtist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599–1641)
Contemporary
Pentecost
Source: https://pixabay.com/en/pentecost-holy-spirit-christianity-3409249/Artist: Unknown
Pentecost
Source: http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48388Attribution: JESUS MAFA. Pentecost, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN.
Tongues of fire came to rest on the heads of each of them
Source: WikimediaAttribution: 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
Pentecost
Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/waitingfortheword/5791933884Artist: Unknown
Line Art
Descent of the Spirit
Source: http://www.creationism.org/images/DoreBibleIllus/index.htmArtist: Gustave Doré (1832-1883)
Holy Day of Pentcost
Source: http://catholic-resources.org/Art/Nadal.htmArtist: Jerome Nadal (1507-1580)
The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Source: WikimediaArtist: Rudolf Koch (1876-1934)
Your notation for “JESUS MAFA” above suggests that the art is a project of Vanderbilt Divinity Library. That is misleading, to put in mildly. All of the JESUS MAFA artworks were created by a Christian community in North Cameroon, Africa in the 1970’s. There is plenty of documentation to support the Cameroon origin. If the art is a project of the Library, your notation needs to be clearer on the nature of the project. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteHi Frank, thanks for commenting. I agree that the attribution for the JESUS MAFA series pictures is not the best. I sourced the picture, and the attribution text, from the Vanderbilt Divinity Library website, and the comments there make the actual picture source very clear, even if their preferred attribution-text doesn't. I'm currently thinking about ways I can make this clearer.
DeleteIncidentally, I am very, very thankful for the JESUS MAFA project: my current parish includes people from a number of African nations, and being able to use artworks which reflect people from a range of backgrounds is a real blessing.