The Angelic Doctor - St. Thomas Aquinas salesian such as the thorn piercing

such as the thorn piercing Christ’s brow

emphasizing his sacred role as a heavenly emissary

executed around 1500 and now in the Alte Pinakothek of Munich

A fantasticly detailed woodcut of St

The "Entry of Joan of Arc into Orleans" by Henry Scheffer

The Angelic Doctor - St. Thomas Aquinas salesian such as the thorn piercingHere is depicted the "Angelic Doctor" of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas. This is an extract from Demidoff Altarpiece. Crivelli painted two altarpieces for the small church of San Domenico, in the town of Ascoli Piceno in the Italian Marche. Their history is complex and intertwined. A large, double tiered polyptych (a multi panelled altarpiece) sat on the high altar, while a smaller altarpiece was in a side chapel. In the nineteenth century parts of