With Thanksgiving I didn’t get the first set of images posted, so here are the images for Advent 1 and 2 from year A of the Revised Common Lectionary:
Advent 1: Isaiah 2: 2-5 and Matthew 24: 36-44
Let us Beat Swords Into Plowshares, a sculpture by Evgeniy Vuchetich, given by the Soviet Union to the United Nations in 1959
Franzosischer Meister, Der Bau der Arche Noah, 1675
The Second Sunday of Advent
Two on the Isaiah 11: 1-10 from Edward Hicks
Edward Hicks, Peaceable Kingdom 1834
Edward Hicks, Peaceable Kingdom of the Branch (182601830)
The Oldest know Jesse Tree Window from the Chartres Cathedral in France c. 1145
And then some images of John the Baptist from Matthew 3 (there is a plethora of John the Baptist images in classic art, her is one of the favorite characters so this is a very small sample)
Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Sermon of St John the Baptist (detail) 1566
Cristofano Allori, John the Baptist in the Desert, 17th Century
Matthias Grunewald, Detail from the Isenheimer Altar 1512-1516
Sign of the Rose 