Concepts Collection (page 7)

Monkeys Reincarnated
Two Japanese monkeys, anxious to know the life of Buddha, help a scholar to copy the Buddhist bible, and the senior, later reincarnated as a man, completes the task

Church Triumphant
Popes, saints and religious folk of all kinds applaud the triumph of the Christian Church

Mary, Baby, Angels
with her child and a pair of hovering angels, one of whom is offering a flower to the baby

Mary and Child
Mary with her baby, who is showing her a flower : she is standing on the new moon, with the sun behind her, and a pair of angels are adjusting her halo

The Great Brain
In Laurence Mannings story The man who awoke, set 8000 years hence, everyone and everything will be controlled by the Great Brain, anti- cipating Orwells Big Brother

The Wheel of Fashion
The wheel of fashion

Angel and Demons
An angel looks down in wonder at the noisy demons below

Rainbow (Grandville)
Iris, the goddess of the rainbow, spreads her fan

Moon and Reflection
The Moon admires her reflection

God Creating Worlds
God and a demon create new worlds for the fun of it

Grandville Steam Orch
A steam orchestra with, drums, cello, violin, french horn and trombone

Angels Scatter Flowers
Two angels scatter flowers

Divine Protection
Faith is rewarded with protection from on high

Quiet London Sunday
A QUIET SUNDAY IN LONDON, or, The Day of Rest

Image of St Richard
A popular Catalan image depicting Saint Richard, the crusading king of England !

Innocence Threatened
A virtuous French girl, on the way to her First Communion, encounters a Devil who offers her alternative suggestions

Birth of New Age
the Birth of the New Age

Concept / Amnesty
Amnesty depicted as a merciful mother gathering her wayward but now repentant offspring to her forgiving bosom

Crimea / Peace Restored
PEACE ! PEACE ! PEACE ! A song composed to celebrate the end of the war in the Crimea

Judgment Day / Fouquet
Fouquet makes it a less crowded occasion than in most depictions : perhaps God will judge us in small batches ?

Myth / Classical Myth / Fama
Fame blows her trumpet to proclaim a hero

Notre Dame De Liessee
Pilgrims at the shrine of Notre-Dame de Liesse pray before the miraculous statue of the Virgin; note the man on the left in true pilgrims garb, cockle shells and all

Concepts / Angels / Raphael
The archangel Raphael advises Tobias to catch a fish which leaps out of the water to attack him, because with its gall he can cure the blindness of his father Tobit

Sacred Heart of Mary
Mary shows you her sacred heart

Mary Devotional Card
Mary depicted as Notre-Dame des Victoires, madonna of the Archeconfrerie of the extremely holy and immaculate heart of Mary, crowned by Monseigneur Pacca. And Jesus

Morals / Virtue & Vice
Virtues and vices: (1) nobility (2) anger and accidie (3) envy

A SERAPH
A seraph

Angels in Battle
Angels join in battle against the enemies of the Israelites

Angel Chains Dragon
An angel locks the dragon - the Evil One - in the abyss

Angels and Abraham
Three angels appear to Abraham and inform him of Gods intentions

Guardian Angels at Work
Guardian angels watch over two babies, thwarting the Evil One who was reckoning to do something nasty to them

The Senses - Touch
The Five Senses TOUCH

The Senses - Taste
The Five Senses TASTE

The Senses - Smell
The Five Senses SMELL

The Senses - Hearing
The Five Senses HEARING

Past and Present
The AKERU, a pair of lion- gods, represent Past & Present, Yesterday and Today, in the Egyptian cosmology

Bathing Fashions, Paris
When a Paris couturier stages a show of bathing fashions, his models are attacked by Parisian women affronted by the display

Jesus in London Street
Jesus walks along a London street, but only the children are pleased to see him

Angel of Shadows
the Angel of the Shadows

Lucifer Falls
Lucifer, leader of the angels who rebelled against God, is defeated, and exiled to Hell whose entrance is a crack in the globes surface

Our Lady of Loreto
depicted as the Lady of Loreto, the site in Italy to which her house was miraculously moved from Nazareth

Yoga Meditation 1930S
Yogi Vithaldas sits in the Padma-Asan (Lotus Position) as he demonstrates his Rath-Yoga breathing exercise, to a group of gymnastic instructors

Unarmedcherubs
Unusually, these two cherubs are depicted with wings instead of arms, instead of crediting them with both, as is customary : this of course is more anatomically correct

Avarice / Greed by Galle
A profile portrait of a woman holding a purse surrounded by an ornate border of putti holding money bags, cutting purse strings and counting coins

Suggestive Fig Leaves
A kneeling one-armed man (a piece of statuary no doubt) holding an erect club hides his aroused modesty behind an up-turned fig leaf. All very explicit if a tad coy

Flacid Fig Leaf Statue
Half man half something else, a type of satir perhaps with one large leg with an eagles foot & forked beard models the down-turned or passive fig leaf. What the bell means ?

Infant Jesus Worshipped
Angels on banks of cloud worship the Christ Child

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