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Good Friday Painting of Pontius Pilate washing his hands, wearing ornate robes and a turban, as an attendant pours water over his hands into a silver dish, with two figures in the shadowed background. Michelangelo: Pietà Paolo Veneziano: The Crucifixion The Easter Story
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Christ as Ruler, with the Apostles and Evangelists (represented by the beasts). The female figures are believed to be either Santa Pudenziana and Santa Praxedes or symbols of the Jewish and Gentile churches. Mosaic in the apse of Santa Pudenziana, Rome,A
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Procession of Nazarenos carrying a cross during Good Friday in Valladolid, Spain.
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Matthias Stomer: Pilate Washing His Hands
Pilate Washing His Hands, oil on canvas by Matthias Stomer, c. 1650; in...
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Michelangelo: Pietà
Pietà, marble sculpture by Michelangelo, 1498; in St. Peter's Basilica,...
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Paolo Veneziano: The Crucifixion
The Crucifixion, tempera on wood by Paolo Veneziano, c. 1340/45; in the...
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