William Blake
The Bible encourages us to meditate on it (Ps. 1:1-3, 119:11-16, etc.), and these artists have done so and their works can assist us. But it is not only oil-on-canvas that can so help us; I refer to the astonishing video series The Chosen, which strolls through the four Gospels at the most leisurely pace. The eight episodes of Season 1 are finished, and the second of a planned seven seasons is coming soon. I say "leisurely" because after an entire year Jesus still has only seven of the apostles (although He's preparing to call up Thomas from the minor leagues--but Thomas is skeptical, of course). Anticipating a canvas of fifty-plus hours instead of a movie's paltry two hours, The Chosen turns the characters into three-dimensional humans and brings the Gospels alive--you have never seen anything even remotely like it. Here is the Official Trailer.
Finally. apropos of Adam and Eve's banishment, here is a link to John Milton's epic PARADISE LOST.
Thank you very much. Only 3 of those pieces portray it scripturally. The ones with Adam and Eve clad in animal skins; usually assumed to be sheepskins. But all of them show the enormous tragedy of the couple receiving the recompense of their disobedience, and being driven out of their once-idyllic home.
William Blake
The Dore painting is the one I recognize......
Great illustrations!
Tissot’s fine banishment effort is front-and-center today.
My view is the angels were there to guard tree of life, not to keep them out of garden. God probably didn’t keep the garden as such any more. They ate of the only fruit forbidden, the tree of knowledge., and brought death into the world. Therefore the tree of life was guarded, for we learn in Genesis 3:16, the way of eternal life was thru Jesus Christ, no longer a tree
to eat to stay alive.
