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Stone, gold and parchment, and the people whose work they are.

Sculpture and stone

Every photograph on the site is credited here with its source, its photographer and its license, and with what we did to it.

Grade applied to every image: converted to black-and-white (plain luminance, or the red channel where noted), contrast raised and shadows lowered, a warm gold tint laid over the highlights only, a radial vignette, and for portrait originals the sides feathered into ink. Cropped as noted. Emitted as AVIF and WebP at 640 / 1280 / 1920 / 2560 px.

Guardrail: no image depicts the Trinity (no three-figure groups, no Father + Son + dove, no triangles, no Shield of the Trinity), and none is Marian or papal. None is an Italian monument (Italian cultural-heritage law restricts commercial reuse of those).

CC BY-SA images require that any derivative (these graded files) be shared under the same license; the attribution below satisfies the attribution requirement.

Home hero

  • Subject
    Angel of the Old Testament holding the cross with the brazen serpent, by Lorenzo Mattielli (c. 1730s), in front of the Karlskirche, Vienna, Austria.
    Photographer
    Manfred Werner (Tsui)
    Changes
    cropped to the statue (the crowd on the steps below removed by the crop; desktop 16:9 and mobile 3:4 crops), black-and-white, contrast, warm highlights, vignette, feathered sides.

Plate I — Isaiah 45:22

  • Subject
    Life-size carved oak angel on a confessional, Sint-Carolus Borromeuskerk (St. Charles Borromeo), Antwerp, Belgium, 17th century.
    Photographer
    Dosseman
    Changes
    cropped to the left-hand angel's wing and shoulder, black-and-white, contrast, warm highlights, vignette.

Plate II — 1 Timothy 3:16

  • Subject
    Baroque ivory corpus on an ebonised cross in a carved wooden shell niche, museum display, Vienna, Austria (institution not stated on Commons).
    Photographer
    Jorge Royan
    Changes
    cropped to the cross and figure, black-and-white, contrast, warm highlights, vignette, feathered sides.

Patrons

  • Academy

    Subject
    Moses holding the Tablets of the Law, seated, limestone, French, c. 1170. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Romanesque rather than baroque; chosen because the Academy is about the text, and this is the text being held. (Replaced an Annunciation Gabriel with a scroll.)
    Author
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access
    License
    CC0 1.0
    Changes
    cropped to the head and the tablets and the canvas widened to 16:9 by repeating the edge columns of the museum wall (a portrait original cannot fill a 16:9 plate without losing either the face or the tablets), black-and-white, contrast, warm highlights, vignette.

  • Arena

    Subject
    St. Michael with cross-staff and sword over the dragon, zinc statue by August Kiss on the bell-tower gable of St. Michael's Church, Berlin-Mitte (church built 1851–56). Nineteenth-century historicist rather than baroque; chosen for the armed archangel.
    Photographer
    Bautsch
    License
    CC0 1.0
    Changes
    re-cropped 16:9 to the head, laurel, wing and cross-staff (the earlier crop showed only a wing tip), red-channel black-and-white (the sky goes to black), contrast, warm highlights, vignette, feathered sides.

  • Library

    Subject
    Lectern in the form of an angel holding an open Bible, carved painted wood on a sandstone base, unidentified Wrocław sculptor, 1640s. National Museum in Wrocław, Poland.
    Photographer
    Commons user Ablakok
    Changes
    cropped 16:9, black-and-white, contrast, warm highlights, vignette.

  • About

    Subject
    Kneeling angel presenting a shield/tablet with traces of an inscription, limestone, workshop of Master Jubert, Troyes, c. 1480. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, BK-1961-48. Late Gothic; chosen because the About page is about stating the case plainly and correcting the record in public, and this is a figure holding out a written record.
    Source
    Wikimedia Commons, File:Knielende engel (schilddrager), BK-1961-48.jpg,_BK-1961-48.jpg)
    Author
    Rijksmuseum
    License
    CC0 1.0
    Changes
    cropped 16:9 to the head, tablet and wing, black-and-white, contrast, warm highlights, vignette.

  • Beliefs

    Subject
    Angel holding the Cross (Arma Christi), nave niche, St. Michael's Church, Munich, Germany.
    Photographer
    José Luiz (Commons user Jbribeiro1)
    Changes
    cropped to the angel and cross, black-and-white, contrast, warm highlights, vignette.

Materials

  • The doors

    Subject
    The Romanesque portal arch of Clonfert Cathedral, County Galway, Ireland (12th century).
    Photographer
    Andreas F. Borchert
    Changes
    cropped to the arch, the lowest band of the jambs repeated downward to stand the doorway taller, black-and-white with warm highlights, masked to an arch with the doorway cut out (alpha).

  • Tonight's objection, front

    Subject
    Baroque sandstone tomb stela with cartouche and putti, churchyard of the church at Neiden (Pfarrgasse), Saxony, Germany.
    Source
    Wikimedia Commons, File:Neiden, Kirche und Kirchhof (07).jpg.jpg)
    Photographer
    Tommes
    Changes
    cropped to the stela above the plaster line, keyed off the white wall (alpha), black-and-white with warm highlights.

  • Tonight's objection, reverse

    Subject
    Baroque sandstone tomb stela with rocaille frame, same churchyard.
    Source
    Wikimedia Commons, File:Neiden, Kirche und Kirchhof (08).jpg.jpg)
    Photographer
    Tommes
    Changes
    as above. (Currently held in reserve; the reverse face on the site is the dark stone slab below.)

  • Door interiors

    Academy: the Wrocław lectern angel with the open Bible (see Library patron above); cropped, graded dark and warm.

    Arena: Angel bearing the lance (Arma Christi), nave niche, St. Michael's Church, Munich. Wikimedia Commons, File:Lance - Arma Christi - Michaelskirche - Munich - Germany 2017.jpg, photographer José Luiz (Commons user Jbribeiro1), CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped to the niche, graded dark and warm.

  • Textures from Poly Haven (all CC0, no attribution required; given anyway)

    materials/leaf-* (the oak door leaves): weathered_planks, diffuse map, graded dark and warm.

    materials/stone-plinth-* (plinths, niche frames, inscriptions): rock_boulder_dry, diffuse map, black-and-white with warm highlights.

    materials/stone-dark-* (band backgrounds, the answer slab, the menu sheet): plastered_stone_wall, diffuse map, darkened.

    materials/stone-dressed-* and materials/gilt-* (incised slabs, arches and gilded surfaces): Marble 01, diffuse map, graded as pale dressed stone or recoloured as aged gold.

    materials/ashlar-* (Scripture Map pilasters): Medieval Blocks 03, diffuse map, darkened and warmed.

    materials/silk-* (saved-item ribbons): Velour Velvet, diffuse map, darkened to blood-stone red.

  • Academy objects

    materials/plaque-*: the same CC0 Marble 01 surface credited above, cut as a certificate field with a moulded engraved border.

    materials/candle-* and materials/lamp-*: original illustrated material studies; no source photograph.

  • The hero in depth

    Both are cut from the Karlskirche photograph credited under Home hero above: angel-* is the figure keyed off its background (a luminance key weighted by an ellipse around the figure; alpha), nave-* is the wall beside the figure, stretched, blurred and darkened. The older flat hero-* files are the same photograph graded as a single plate; the hero no longer uses them, but they are kept as the poster for share images and the print/prerender fallback.

Founder portrait

  • Subject
    Jonathan Mahaney.
    Source
    supplied directly by One God Apologetics for use on the site.
    Changes
    metadata removed and encoded as WebP; the homepage and About page crop it responsively inside their portrait niches.

Type

Set in faces released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, and served from this site rather than a font service:

Cormorant Garamond and Cormorant SC
Christian Thalmann. Display type, references and inscriptions.
Source Serif 4
Frank Grießhammer for Adobe. The reading face.
Noto Serif Hebrew
Google and the Noto project. Hebrew, with its vowel points.
Gentium Book Plus
SIL International. Greek.

The seal is original vector work; its legend and Shema were set in Cormorant SC and Noto Serif Hebrew and frozen as outlines.

Textures

The stone fields, plinths and oak leaves are cut from Poly Haven textures, released under CC0 (no rights reserved); they are credited above all the same. The fine grain on dark surfaces and the fiber in the parchment are drawn in the browser from SVG noise, so they cost no downloads.

Scripture

Scripture is quoted from the King James Version (Authorized Version, 1611, in its standard modern text). The text used here is the eBible.org edition, also distributed by the CrossWire Bible Society. The King James Version is in the public domain outside the United Kingdom; in the United Kingdom the rights are vested in the Crown and administered by Cambridge University Press.

Words the translators supplied are set in italic in the verse popovers, as the printed KJV sets them.

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