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      <image:title>Blog - Irony - "Christ before Caiaphas". The High Priest is depicted tearing his robe in grief at Jesus' perceived blasphemy (Giotto, Life of Christ, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua)</image:title>
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      <image:caption>Orthodox Icon</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Transfiguration by Giovanni Bellini 1490</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Andrea Mantegna's Agony in the Garden, circa 1460</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>El Greco, late 16th century</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gustave Doré: Dispute between Jesus and the Pharisees</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Compromise part 2 - Tissot</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Pharisees Question Jesus</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Kiss of Judas (between 1304 and 1306) by Giotto di Bondone</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Betrayer Part 2 - Judas making a bargain with the priests, depicted by Duccio, early 14th century.</image:title>
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      <image:caption>1630’s</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Peter Paul Rubens</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>6th century</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - The Final Surprise - Christ Washing the Feet of the Apostles by Meister des Hausbuches, 1475 (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - The Towel and the Basin - Christ Reasoning with Peter</image:title>
      <image:caption>Giotto di Bondone (Scrovegni Chapel a Padua)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Communion of the Apostles, by Fra Angelico, with donor portrait, 1440–41</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Illustration by Jody Harrington</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jerusalem</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>House of the high priest, Jerusalem</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Were You There? - Expulsion of the Money Changers</image:title>
      <image:caption>Giotto</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - You Don’t Know Rejection - Rejection</image:title>
      <image:caption>Illustration by Juan Landin</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mary Magdalen anointing Christ's feet. Illuminated manuscript, c. 1500</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Supper at Emmaus, Caravaggio, 1601</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Michelangelo Pieta Firenze</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>6th century</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>15th Century</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - My Story — Mary Magdalene - Appearance of Jesus Christ to Maria Magdalena (1835) by Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov. In John 20:1–13, Mary Magdalene sees the risen Jesus alone</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Bystander Part 2 - Salome With the Head of John the Baptist</image:title>
      <image:caption>Caravaggio, 1607</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - An Interview With Pilate - Duccio, Christ before Pilate,</image:title>
      <image:caption>c. 1310, his Maestà in Siena</image:caption>
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