Holy card
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In the Christian tradition, holy cards or prayer cards are small, devotional pictures for the use of the faithful that usually depict a religious scene or a saint in an image about the size of a playi
A German holy card (c. 1910) depicting the crucifixion of Jesus
Prayer card of Our Lady of Solitude of Porta Vaga from the Philippines
Annunciation by Robert Campin; a wood print is in the top right, between candle fixtures.
Saint Christopher holy card, c. 1435-1450, Buxheim, with hand-colouring
Head of Christ
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The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus by Warner Sallman. As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art, it had been reprodu
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…Ars Sacra in Germany) produced large numbers of cards, and often a single design was printed by different companies in different countries. The 1940 Head of Christ painting has been printed more than 500 million times, including pocket-sized cards for carrying in a wallet. In the World War II era, "millions of…
The Head of Christ by Warner Sallman 1941