#biblical art

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Angel of the Annunciation and Virgin Annunciate (outer wings from the organ of Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice; the inner wings, depicting Sts. Peter and Paul, are lost) Artist: Giovanni Bellini (Italian [Venetian], ca. 1430-1516) and workshop Date: ca. 1500 Genre: religious art (Roman Catholic Christianity) Period: Renaissance (Cinquecento) Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 225 cm (88.5 in) high x 105 cm (41.3 in) wide (each) Location: Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy

[artandthebible]

The Dead Man Restored to Life by Touching the Bones of the Prophet Elisha

Artist: Washington Allston (American, 1779-1843)

Date: 1811-1813

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Description

One of the most ambitious paintings attempted by an early American artist, this monumental work depicts an episode from II Kings 13:21 in which accidental contact with the bones of the prophet Elisha resurrects a dead Israelite.

Once while some Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders; so they threw the man’s body into Elisha’s tomb. When the body touched Elisha’s bones, the man came to life and stood up on his feet. (II Kings 13:21)

[madamserpentessa]

“The fruit was never an apple”

Max Svabinsky, (1873-1962)

“In Paradise” circa 1918

[constanzarte]

Abbott Handerson Thayer, Winged Figure

[twisted-teeth]

By Rob Isley

[classic-art-favourites]

Saint Michael Triumphant over the Devil by Bartolome Bermejo, 1468.

[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

[lottiekilah]

judith with the head of holofernes, andrea vaccaro (c. 1620s)

[artandthebible]

Christ Rejected

Artist: Benjamin West (British-American, 1738-1820)

Date: 1814

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Description

The monumental scale and complex composition of this painting have something in common with other forms of popular entertainments of the period - dioramas and panoramas. Such spectacular works used to travel from city to city in Europe and America, where they were displayed to receptive crowds in galleries and lecture halls. The English novelist Jane Austen was particularly impressed by West’s contribution to the genre: “I have seen West’s famous Painting, and prefer it to anything of the kind I ever saw before…[it] is the first representation of our Savior which ever at all contented me.” When the painting was featured in a special exhibition at the Museum in 1862, viewers received a three-page pamphlet explaining the scene.

[comikbook]

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

[constanzarte]

Francesco Hayez, Ruth

[painisforsundays]

Grief.

—Anna Ancher. c.1902

[divine-evil]

Sin, Death, and Satan.

-Gustave Doré. c.1866