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- Habakkuk communicating with God (Habakkuk 1)
- Habakkuk is told to write his vision (Habakkuk 2:2)
- Habakkuk ~ Ezekiel's vision of God
- Habakkuk's prayer (Habakkuk 3)
- Habakkuk's prophecies
- Habbakuk's prophecies (with BOOK CHAPTER:VERSE)
- habit, frock
- hacking and thrusting weapons
- hacking and thrusting weapons (with NAME)
- hacking and thrusting weapons: dagger
- hacking and thrusting weapons: rapier
- hacking and thrusting weapons: sword
- hackle
- hackling ~ textile industry
- Hadad expels the Israelites from Edom and becomes king
- Hadad, son of the king of Edom, escapes to Egypt
- Hades, the Underworld
- Haemon kills himself
- Haemon, Creon's son and betrothed to Antigone, forces his way into the tomb and finds her dead
- haff, lagoon created by sand, shingle bank ~ coast
- haff, lagoon created by sand, shingle bank ~ coast - HH - ideal landscapes
- Hagar (not in biblical context)
- Hagar (not in biblical context) - (other) specific aspects, e.g. allegorical and symbolical aspects ~ female persons from the Old Testament
- Hagar (not in biblical context) - foundress, initiatrix ~ Old Testament
- Hagar (not in biblical context) - legendary/historical addition to life-story of female persons from the Old Testament
- Hagar (not in biblical context) - patroness, female intercessor ~ Old Testament
- Hagar (not in biblical context) - personal devotions of female persons from the Old Testament, e.g. vision, prayer, penitence
- Hagar (not in biblical context) - post-mortem occurrences of female persons from the Old Testament, e.g. finding and transportation of relics
- Hagar (not in biblical context) - relationships, etc. of female persons from the Old Testament
- Hagar and Ishmael (often with bow and arrow) depart
- Hagar and Ishmael in the wilderness
- Hagar flees into the desert
- Hagar ill-treated by Sarah
- Hagar returns to Abraham
- Hagar sits weeping after having put Ishmael under a bush to die
- Hagar, who is with child, despises the barren Sarah
- Hagen
- Haggai's prophecies
- Haggai's prophecies (with BOOK CHAPTER:VERSE)
- Haggai, urged by God, exhorts Zerubbabel and Joshua to resume the building of the temple (Haggai 1:1-11)
- hail
- hair
- hair - AA - female human figure
- hair raised
- hair shirt ~ ascetic life
- hair-cutting
- hair-cutting - AA - ~ women
- hairdress
- hairdress - AA - ~ women
- hairdresser
- hairdresser - AA - ~ women
- half or three-quarter figure of the Man of Sorrows
- half-column, pilaster ~ architecture
- half-length figures of Mary and the angel ~ Annunciation
- half-light
- hall with distorting mirrors
- hall-mark (control of quality)
- Halloween, All Hallow's Eve (October 31)
- ham
- Haman begs Esther for his life
- Haman begs Esther for his life - QQ - Mordecai present
- Haman entreats Ahasuerus to issue a decree that all the Jews are to be put to death; Ahasuerus consents and yields his signet-ring to Haman
- Haman on the gallows
- Haman's discomfiture: Ahasuerus orders the royal robes and his horse to be bestowed on Mordecai
- Haman's plot against the Jews (Esther 3)
- Haman's promotion
- Haman's wrath: he decides to kill all the Jews of the kingdom
- Haman, after leaving the banquet encounters Mordecai at the entrance of the palace; the latter refuses to show him any sign of respect
- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- hammock
- Hamor and Shechem come to Jacob, whose sons have just come in from the fields, to ask for Dinah in marriage; the sons agree on condition that the Shechemites will be circumcised
- Hananiah prophesies falsely in the temple and breaks Jeremiah's wooden yoke
- hand
- hand - AA - female human figure
- hand behind the head
- hand behind the head - AA - both arms or hands
- hand holding the breast
- hand holding the breast - AA - both arms or hands
- hand in the pocket
- hand in the pocket - AA - both arms or hands
- hand in the sleeve
- hand in the sleeve - AA - both arms or hands
- hand made into a fist
- hand made into a fist - AA - both arms or hands
- hand not visible
- hand not visible - AA - both arms or hands
- hand on breast (or stomach), slipped into opening of vestment
- hand on breast (or stomach), slipped into opening of vestment - AA - both arms or hands
- hand on shoulder (friends)
- hand on the heart
- hand on the heart - AA - both arms or hands
- hand on the hip
- hand on the hip - AA - both arms or hands
- hand shovel-board
- hand striking the chest
- hand striking the chest - AA - both arms or hands
- hand touching beard (swearing an oath)
- hand touching beard (swearing an oath) - GG - woman touching her braids
- hand touching the beard
- hand touching the beard - AA - both arms or hands
- hand towards the forehead
- hand towards the forehead - AA - both arms or hands
- hand uncovering the chest
- hand uncovering the chest - AA - both arms or hands
- hand with the fingers spread out ~ Jewish blessing
- hand(s) behind the head
- hand(s) behind the head - AA - both arms or hands
- hand(s) bent towards the head
- hand(s) bent towards the head - AA - both arms or hands
- hand(s) towards the ear(s)
- hand(s) towards the ear(s) - AA - both arms or hands
- hand(s) towards the eye(s)
- hand(s) towards the eye(s) - AA - both arms or hands
- hand(s) towards the mouth
- hand(s) towards the mouth - AA - both arms or hands
- hand(s) towards the nose
- hand(s) towards the nose - AA - both arms or hands
- hand, 'Dextera Dei' ~ symbol of God the Father
- hand, arm of justice (symbol of sovereignty)
- hand, arm of justice (symbol of sovereignty) - BB - female ruler
- hand-cart
- hand-print
- hand-print - AA - female human figure
- hand-to-hand fighting (~ battle)
- handball
- handbill
- handcuffs
- handicrafts and industries
- handicrafts ~ animal material
- handicrafts ~ clay, sand, chalk
- handicrafts ~ drink
- handicrafts ~ food
- handicrafts ~ food (with NAME of trade or profession)
- handicrafts ~ glass
- handicrafts ~ maintenance and repair
- handicrafts ~ maintenance and repair (with NAME of trade or profession)
- handicrafts ~ metal
- handicrafts ~ other animal material
- handicrafts ~ other animal material (with NAME of trade or profession
- handicrafts ~ other plant material
- handicrafts ~ other plant material (with NAME of trade or profession)
- handicrafts ~ plant material
- handicrafts ~ precious and semi-precious stones
- handicrafts ~ production of food, drink, stimulants, etc.
- handicrafts ~ stimulants
- handicrafts ~ stone
- handicrafts ~ wood, timber
- handicrafts, craftsman at work
- handicrafts, hobbies (leisure time activities)
- handing over a bill of divorce ~ Jewish customs
- handkerchief
- handling of weapons ~ military training
- handmill
- hands against each other
- hands folded
- hands folded with fingers knit
- hands on top of each other
- hands with finger-tips against each other
- handwriting, writing as activity
- handwriting, written text
- hangar
- hanging by one arm
- hanging by one arm - AA - female human figure
- hanging by one leg
- hanging by one leg - AA - female human figure
- hanging by other parts of the body
- hanging by other parts of the body - AA - female human figure
- hanging by the arms
- hanging by the arms - AA - female human figure
- hanging by the hair
- hanging by the hair - AA - female human figure
- hanging by the legs
- hanging by the legs - AA - female human figure
- hanging by the teeth
- hanging by the teeth - AA - female human figure
- hanging clothes
- hanging figure (by the arms, legs, etc.)
- hanging figure (by the arms, legs, etc.) - AA - female human figure
- hanging gardens of Semiramis at Babylon (Wonder of the World)
- hanging the wash to dry
- hangings and drapery
- Hannah goes to the temple
- Hannah has three more sons and two daughters after Samuel
- Hannah prays in the temple and vows to give her child to the Lord
- Hannah's prayer and song of thankfulness
- Hannah's prayer in the temple of Shiloh
- Hannibal crosses the Alps with his army and his elephants
- Hannibal has Marcellus honoured with a magnificent funeral
- Hannibal with the head of Hasdrubal, which was thrown into his camp by the Romans
- Hanno of Carthage teaches birds to sing 'Hanno is a god' and then releases them, but the birds, once free, forget what they had been taught (the same story is told of Psaphon from Libya, but then the birds do not forget)
- Hanun, king of the Ammonites, mistreats David's messengers: their beards are shaven off and their clothes are cut off
- happening ~ stage
- Happiness, Felicity
- happy marriage
- Haran, Abraham's brother, having witnessed the miracle, decides to undergo the test of fire as well, but is immediately consumed
- harbour
- harbour equipment
- harbouring
- Hardness
- hare-hunting, rabbit-hunting
- hare-lip
- hare-lip - AA - female human figure
- harem
- Harmonia
- Harmonia's robe and necklace are dedicated to Apollo at Delphi
- harmonious sound, harmony, consonance
- Harmony, Regularity
- harness
- harp
- harp - CC - out of doors
- Harpies (classical mythology)
- Harpocrates
- harpy (fabulous bird); 'Arpie' (Ripa)
- harrowing
- harvest
- harvest festivities
- Hasidism ~ Jewish sects
- Haste
- Hatach reporting to Esther
- Hate; 'Odio capitale' (Ripa)
- hatter
- having asked for a sign Gideon prepares food and presents it in a basket to the angel
- having thrown a cup at Attalus during a banquet, Alexander quarrels with his father Philip, who threatens Alexander with his sword
- having to leave Arcadia, Alcmaeon is purified again by the river-god Achelous; he marries Achelous' daughter Callirrhoe and promises her the necklace of Harmonia
- having witnessed an evil deed of his brothers, Joseph reports it to his father
- hay-cock
- hay-stack
- hay-wagon
- Hazael becomes king of Syria
- Hazael comes to Elisha with forty camels and many gifts
- Hazael kills Benhadad: he soaks a cloth in water and smothers the king with it
- Hazael of Syria conquers the Israelite territory east of the Jordan
- he-goat, billy-goat
- head (human)
- head (human) - AA - female human figure
- head (internal)
- head (internal) - AA - female human figure
- head bent backwards
- head bent backwards - AA - female human figure
- head bent forward; bowing
- head bent forward; bowing - AA - female human figure
- head held in the hand(s), with elbows leaning on an elevation or on the knees
- head held in the hand(s), with elbows leaning on an elevation or on the knees - AA - both arms or hands
- head in normal upright position
- head in normal upright position - AA - female human figure
- head of a beheaded person
- head of a beheaded person - EE - death not certain; wounded person
- head of a beheaded person on a plate
- head of a beheaded person on a plate - EE - death not certain; wounded person
- head of a beheaded person on post or pole
Vocabulary information
Title
Iconclass
Subject
Description
Iconclass is a classification system designed for art and iconography. It is the most widely accepted scientific tool for the description and retrieval of subjects represented in images (works of art, book illustrations, reproductions, photographs, etc.) and is used by museums and art institutions around the world.
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Contains information from Iconclass, which is made available here under the Open Database License (ODbL).
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Last modified
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 06:35:26
Date issued
Friday, October 19, 2012 00:00:00
URI
http://iconclass.org/rdf/2011/09/