#biblical art

[madamserpentessa]

“The fruit was never an apple”

Max Svabinsky, (1873-1962)

“In Paradise” circa 1918

[constanzarte]

Francesco Hayez, Ruth

[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

[sapphicides]

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

[classic-art-favourites]

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

[painisforsundays]

Grief.

—Anna Ancher. c.1902

[divine-evil]

Sin, Death, and Satan.

-Gustave Doré. c.1866

[lionofchaeronea]

Adoration of the Magi, tapestry by Edward Burne-Jones (with details by William Morris and Henry Dearle). Designed 1888, woven 1894. 258 cm (101.1 in) high x 384 cm (151.3 in) wide. Now at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, England, UK.

[constanzarte]

Abbott Handerson Thayer, Winged Figure

[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

[koenji]

Vintage Israeli stamps depicting the Seven Species designed by Zvi Narkiss (צבי נרקיס, Israeli, 1921-2010), 1958.

The Seven Species (שבעת המינים‎, Shiv'at HaMinim) are two grains and five fruits mentioned in the Torah as special produce of the Land of Israel: wheat, barley, grape, fig, pomegranate, olive (oil), and date (honey). These staples were central to the diet of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel in biblical times and hold spiritual significance, as shown by the unique blessing recited after eating them to thank G-d for the land's abundance. Their first fruits were offered as bikkurim in the Temple in Jerusalem.

אֶרֶץ חִטָּה וּשְׂעֹרָה וְגֶפֶן וּתְאֵנָה וְרִמּוֹן אֶרֶץ־זֵית שֶׁמֶן וּדְבָשׁ

"a land of wheat and barley, of vines, figs, and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey" - Devarim (Deuteronomy) 8:8.