#biblical art

[illustratus]

The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon by Edward John Poynter

[zesty-bread]

Christ Pantocrator

[madamserpentessa]

“The fruit was never an apple”

Max Svabinsky, (1873-1962)

“In Paradise” circa 1918

[twisted-teeth]

By Rob Isley

[nightwingsgirlfriend]

jay jay siwa

[saintavangeline]

Detail shot from Roberto Ferri’s “The Last Judgement”

[nyuiarantes]

A short comic based on a passage in Acts of John, an apocryphal christian writing from the second century CE. I really enjoy the way it's written as a first person account of the travels of Saint John, it's very lovely:

113 O thou who hast kept me until this hour for thyself and untouched by union with a woman: who when in my youth I desired to marry didst appear unto me and say to me: John I have need of thee: who didst prepare for me also a sickness of the body: who when for the third time I would marry didst forthwith prevent me, and then at the third hour of the day saidst unto me on the sea: John, if thou hadst not been mine, I would have suffered thee to marry: who for two years didst blind me, and grant me to mourn and entreat thee: who in the third year didst open the eyes of my mind and also grant me my visible eyes: who when I saw clearly didst ordain that it should be grievous to me to look upon a woman[...] who didst make my love of thee spotless: who didst make my joining unto thee perfect and unbroken: who didst give me undoubting faith in thee, who didst order and make clear my inclination toward thee[...]

[eirene]

Madone (Madonna), (detail).

Herman Jean Joseph Richir

[divine-evil]

Sin, Death, and Satan.

-Gustave Doré. c.1866

[lionofchaeronea]

Scenes from the Life of Christ: 23. Pentecost, Giotto, between 1304 and 1306 (fresco in the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua)

[1five1two]

'And the white moon became as blood and the stars of the heavens fell unto the earth (Rev. 6-12.13)'. Henry John Stock. 1910.

[painisforsundays]

Grief.

—Anna Ancher. c.1902

[constanzarte]

Christ in the Wilderness - Ivan Kramskoy

[drawdusoleil]

[splittersplack]

"Satan in Council" by Gustave Dore, 1868. Engraved illustration for Milton's "Paradise Lost".

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

"The masculine urge" "the feminine urge" The Christian urge to buy a crucifix necklace so I can meditate on the Christ Crucified and wonder in awe of the incarnation and in horror of human violence and in utter confusion at God's self giving love for us that led him to die the death of a cursed blaspheming slave.