#biblical art

[classic-art-favourites]

The Annunciation by Eustache Le Sueur, 1652.

[madamserpentessa]

“The fruit was never an apple”

Max Svabinsky, (1873-1962)

“In Paradise” circa 1918

[twisted-teeth]

By Rob Isley

[constanzarte]

Francesco Hayez, Ruth

[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

[painisforsundays]

Grief.

—Anna Ancher. c.1902

[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.

[comikbook]

The Son of Man, 2024, Digital Painting by myself, Liz Pence

[illustratus]

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

[constanzarte]

Lilith, John Collier

[splittersplack]

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