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The Bible In Paintings, #54: “GREATEST HITS” – MY FAVORITES, SO FAR
c. 2200 BC -- c. 95 AD | Father, Son & Holy Spirit

Posted on 08/15/2020 7:41:05 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6

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MY FAVORITES, SO FAR:
A PERSONAL ALBUM

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Back when cameras used film, on a rainy day you’d take out your shoebox full of photos, pick out the “keepers” and mount them in a sturdy photo album—to be treasured later and grabbed in the event of a fire. These days I expect that digital cameras and smartphones have complicated that a bit—now I suppose you have the drugstore make an album for you.

I’ve created a photo album like that for myself right here. In compiling this series I’ve posted nearly 2,000 images, and having done the work I’d like to keep my favorites for future review. I went back through all 53 threads to collect them. These 43 images jumped out at me. It’s sort of a “Greatest Hits” compilation, and you’re welcome along for the ride.

I know very little about “art,” other than knowing what I like. Intuitively, I like all of these; but I thought it might be fun to try to articulate my feelings into words—so I briefly annotated all 43 with my thoughts. If you want to argue with me, that’s fine, but I hope you’ll actually try to educate me instead.

Perhaps you also have a favorite or several you’d like to share—it’s an open thread, so have at it! Let me know if you need help posting an image. There’s really nothing to it—even I can do it!

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by KERRY MONTOYA
From #4, ADAM & EVE HIDING FROM GOD
How did God appear to Adam and Eve? At the very least, overwhelming, which Montoya represents. Also: beautiful, multifaceted, nonthreatening….

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by JAMES TISSOT
From #5: GOD BANISHES ADAM & EVE
Those are some BIG angels! Their unequivocal message is: SCRAM, AND DON’T COME BACK! Tissot portrays banishment vividly. Adam and Eve got the message, although Eve appears incredulous at these unfeeling angels.

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by JAMES TISSOT
From #6: CAIN AND ABEL
Cain is older, much stronger, armed and murderously angry. Abel is young, undeveloped, innocent, and all-too-used to being dominated. It’s clear he has no inkling of what is coming, nor if he did that he could do anything at all to prevent it. Imminent inevitability is what Tissot shows us.

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by JAMES EDWIN McCONNELL
From #7: GOD'S FLOOD & NOAH'S ARK
I have lived 71 years and am fast becoming an old man. By this point Noah had labored faithfully for an inconceivable 120 YEARS building his boat. Such a man would have rolled up plans in his hand, for he planned his work meticulously, and a far-away look in his eye, which he had long-ago developed and earned, and a resolute visage—for nothing but such steadfastness could have carried him to this climactic moment of completion. But it is not a time for celebrating, for Noah knows the grim carnage the onrushing storm forbodes, having preached about it for a century. McConnell’s magnificent painting fully illustrates why God grouped Noah with Job and Daniel as the three most righteous men (Ezekiel 14:14).

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by JAMES TISSOT
“The Sodomites”
From #13: THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM & GOMORRAH
Imagine having an entire city of degenerates terrorizing you, threatening abusive assault. What would that look like? Tissot shows us: intimidating, frightening, hopeless. Or is it?

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From #14: GOD TESTS ABRAHAM
So, you’re Isaac and your dad just scared the living daylights out of you, and now he’s holding you and a ram lies where you were moments ago. So, you’re Abraham and you trusted God and He actually came through for you and you’re deeply, profoundly grateful and relieved and stunned.

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by BENJAMIN WEST
“Isaac's Servant Tying the Bracelet on Rebecca’s Arm”
From #15: ABRAHAM FINDS ISAAC A WIFE!
Don’t know whether to laugh or cry. The composition, color, and execution are magnificent. But….First, did your camel’s mother mate with a lion? Never mind. Supposedly, beautiful, virginal Rebecca—she appears to be both—just finished watering Isaac’s servant’s camels. In a billowing silk dress with preposterously puffy sleeves, having come straight from the hair salon. C’mon, Benjamin! You got everything right except—well—everything.

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“Jacob’s Ladder Angels”—Bath Abbey, West Face, Somerset, England
From #16: JACOB & ESAU, Part 1
The very idea of putting Jacob’s Ladder up the side of a church, with angels ascending and descending, is so hilarious and inventive and original and iconoclastic to me that all I can do is bow and scrape to the architect and bishop. Masterful!

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by GUSTAV DORÉ
“Jacob's Dream”
From #16: JACOB & ESAU, Part 1
The light! The light! No wonder Jacob saw this dream. And the divine light at the top of the ladder—oh, to be an angel. Yet someday we will judge them. Doré’s works as we have them are dark, but this is the brilliant, shining exception.

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by JIM CAMPBELL and BENJAMIN BERGERY
“Jacob’s Dream” —Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, California
From #16: JACOB & ESAU, Part 1
Nothing says “ladder” like this incredible edifice within a stained glass cathedral. The contrast between its clean, stark simplicity and its surroundings highlights what is already a bright beacon. No one visiting can be unaffected by it.

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by JOSEPH-FLORENTINE BONNAT
“Jacob Wrestling with the Angel”
From #18: JACOB & ESAU, Part 3
Bonnat’s angel dwarfs Jacob and easily holds him off without injuring him. But we see plainly Jacob’s struggle, which is the whole point; indeed, now he's lifted that enormous angel completely off the ground. Israel won’t surrender—and that remains the Jews’ sad stumbling block right down to this very day.

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by SUZANNE TORNQUIST
“Joseph And His Coat Of Many Colors”
From #19: JOSEPH, Part 1 – DREAMS, AND REALITY
I like bright colors! An artist painting a “coat of many colors” should go all-out, and Suzanne did. A treat for my eye.

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by GUSTAV DORÉ
“Joseph Interpreting the Pharaoh's Dream”
From #21: JOSEPH, Part 3 – JOSEPH AIDS PHARAOH
An overwhelmingly immense and intimidating throne room, filled with Pharaoh and his men. But the room and the ruminators and the ruler are all still as death. The only dynamic is little Joseph, fresh from prison, absolutely dominating that scene because only he has the answer they need. Doré knows, “Knowledge is Power.”

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by JAMES TISSOT
“Joseph Interprets Pharaoh’s Dream”
From #21: JOSEPH, Part 3 – JOSEPH AIDS PHARAOH
Unlike Doré, Tissot contrasts Joseph not with the setting but against Pharaoh’s sycophantic priests. Universally head-shaven, fat, emasculated and worthless, they can only sit mutely disinterested while prison-skinny Joseph conveys God’s answer. The contrast is starkly effective.

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by ADOLPHE ROGERS
“Jacob Refusing To Let Benjamin Go to Egypt”
From #22: JOSEPH AIDS HIS BROTHERS
The older brothers plead their case in the background, but Rogers leaves us no choice but to consider Jacob’s sore spot: his beloved Joseph is gone, and he’ll be damned if he’ll let them have his little brother, too. It is just so wonderful to know the whole story behind a work like this.

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by HE QI
“Baby Moses” – silk tapestry
From #23: GOD PREPARES MOSES
So Moses was Oriental—who knew? Qi unabashedly claims Moses for his own, and I expect Jesus right along with him. Some black people claim Jesus was black, too. And they should: Jesus came precisely to become us. Immanuel!

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From #23: GOD PREPARES MOSES
Brilliant color and composition set this apart. That bush is burning! This is one of those windows with no painting; every shape is separately cut (I expect windowmakers have a term for that). God is visible in the bush—although the text doesn’t insist on it.

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“Moses and the Burning Bush”
From #23: GOD PREPARES MOSES
No one can actually paint what God looked like to Moses, but this artist certainly tried: multifaceted and complex and ordered and bright and beautiful. Moses and God are naked and open before one another—makes me even more eager for heaven.

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From #24: LET MY PEOPLE GO!
EEEEEEEEK!!!! Just for laughs, of course—yet it illustrates very well the personal terror those plagues caused. They were truly no laughing matter.

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From #24: LET MY PEOPLE GO!
That is one angry Pharaoh! Teeth bared, red-faced—I wouldn’t want to be in range of him. Look at those locusts. And they come after seven other plagues. What’s next?

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From #25: PASSOVER!
Little boys always stand around and gawk—it’s what they do. But this fellow’s unique actions have attracted a group of kibitzers, wondering about the meaning of his extraordinary doings. Putting BLOOD on your door?! Nonbelievers fundamentally just do not and cannot understand Christ, Christianity and Christians; first, they must be born again.

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by JAMES TISSOT
"The Jews' Passover"
From #25: PASSOVER!
Tissot often exercised his exceptional imagination and produced scores of wonderful works excelling every other artist’s rendition of the same story. But Tissot also could read! Unlike many of these artists, he paid careful attention to the Scripture he was illustrating. This is a perfect example, requiring little imagination, but James aptly included everything in the text.

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“The Pillar of Cloud”……….....………… “The Pillar of Fire”
North Wilkesboro Presbyterian Church, North Carolina
From #26: THE PEOPLE GO, EXODUS!
These windows are a significant fraction of the height of the real cloud and pillar they portray. O, to sit in front of these spectacular images and meditate on what they represent: God’s wise guidance and reassuring protection.

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by RICHARD MCBEE
"Exodus"
From #29: PARTING THE RED SEA
There were TWO MILLION Israelis and friends crossing the Red Sea, and McBee showed that. But he added something that no other artist did: organization. He shows the Israelites marching in clearly-defined groups, because that’s exactly how they did everything: in their twelve tribes.

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From #33: Mt. Sinai – GOD SHOWS OFF
Every eye, without exception, is riveted upon God’s pyrotechnic display and therefore, by extension, upon God Himself. That includes our eyes—this artist places us amidst the vast crowd. What will God do next?

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by VIDA KHADEM
“The Golden Calf”
From #39: THE GOLDEN CALF, Part 1
Do modern people still worship Golden Calves? Absolutely! “All have sinned….” Khadem refuses to let us wallow in the conceit that we would never do such a thing.

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by REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
“Moses Smashing the Tablets of the Law”
From #40: THE GOLDEN CALF, Part 2
Many artists portrayed Moses smashing the tablets, but none succeeded quite so well as Rembrandt. He has Moses absolutely dominating the frame, so that this single act is all that is in contemplation. But it is Moses’ despairing look that rivets: it conjures by itself the sorry culmination of forty days above. The light features his face and arms: Moses despairs, Moses smashes.

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by PHILLIP PRESCOTT PARHAM
“Moses in the Cleft of the Rock”
From #41: GOD SHOWS MOSES HIS GLORY
You REALLY want to see My glory? Here’s a tiny, tiny glimpse, all you can handle. Parham beautifully suggests God’s overwhelming magnificence.

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by TED LARSON
“Show Me Your Glory”
From #41: GOD SHOWS MOSES HIS GLORY
When Moses’ interview with God was complete, he glowed, per the text—and Larson accurately records that. So, when I have an encounter with God, do I hide like Adam and Eve, or do I glow like Moses?

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by GRAHAM COOPER
From #41: GOD SHOWS MOSES HIS GLORY
Someone suggested to me that this painting belongs in a comic book. Perhaps, but I see Cooper’s powerful evocation of God’s protection of Moses and, of course, of me.

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From #42: MISCELLANY
If I didn’t have my wife and granddaughter on my computer's desktop, this would be. Balanced, vibrant, lively, with Jesus resting and caring for His lamb: I could not possibly ask for more.

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by EMILE LEVY
“Abraham Washing the Feet of the Three Angels”
From #42: MISCELLANY
See, Emile, Abraham said, “Let a little water be brought, and then you may all wash your feet….” Gen.18:4 No wonder no other artists painted the scene you did! But hey, perhaps you’re correct after all: Abraham was certainly acting obsequiously, and he may have changed his mind after all. It’s such a lovely thought, washing Jesus’ feet.

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by LUTHER TERRY
“Jacob's Dream”
From #42: MISCELLANY
Do all angels have wings? Someone had better tell the middle one! Lovely scene: pretty colors, well composed, with action: Shhhhhh! One angel apparently is supervising, and the androgynous recent arrivals down the ladder need instructing: God wants this dream dreamt, so Shhhhh. Well done, Mr. Terry.

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“Infant Moses on the Nile”
From #42: MISCELLANY
Appears to be a night scene, but Moses’ mother NEVER would have set him afloat anywhere near dark. Nicely done moonlit waves, but lots o’ artists can do that. What makes this painting are its angels. God surely did send them to watch over Moses on his journey, just as He surely watches us protectively at every single moment.

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by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA
“The Finding of Moses”
From #42: MISCELLANY
Lawrence got every single element right. The princess would have been honored by being carried and fanned. Her carriers would have been head-shaven, bare-chested and, Tintoretto notwithstanding, Egyptian-looking. Her maids would have been attentive and helpful. Now I’m led to feel I’m viewing the actual scene.

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by WILLIAM WEST
“The Israelites passing through the Wilderness,
preceded by the Pillar of Light”
From #42: MISCELLANY
The cliffs are a thousand feet tall. God’s pillar is taller still. God’s people appear sooooo tiny. But West makes the point emphatically that no matter how small we feel and how huge our problems seem, God’s got this.

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From #43: THE ARK OF THE COVENANT
Jesus’ blood fulfills the Law. Period.

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From #46: – NADAB & ABIHU, TOASTED
How easy and fun it is to focus on Process and ignore Essence.

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From #48: – Want PLAGUE with Your QUAIL?
Manna fell everywhere, and most artists don’t show that. Of course they created a footpath through it. Most importantly, this artist shows the vastness of the camp, nearly to the horizon. This is what it looked like!

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by SANDRO BOTTICELLI
“The Punishment of Korah and the Stoning of Moses and Aaron”
From #50: KORAH’S SINKING FEELING
Mary-Lou absolutely nailed it. Without her explanation it doesn’t get included here, but with it I cannot omit it.

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by Henry Ossawa Tanner
“Christ And Nicodemus On A Rooftop”
From #53: JESUS EXPLAINS THE BRONZE SNAKE
Night, blue, simple; a hushed talk befitting the setting. But there was nothing quiet about what Jesus said: it still reverberates.

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by ALADAR KACZIANY
“Jesus and Nicodemus”
From #53: JESUS EXPLAINS THE BRONZE SNAKE
Jesus is relaxed and unthreatened as Nicodemus agonizes. Jesus also emulates the cross, which was central to his revelation to Nico.

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by LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY
“Nicodemus Came to Him by Night”
From #53: JESUS EXPLAINS THE BRONZE SNAKE
Tiffany beautifully shows Nicodemus carrying a lamp to inquire of the Light of the World, who reaches down to connect with him.

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SNEAK PEEK: Next time,

A ONE-WEEK HIATUS
I'm sensing viewer-fatigue,
so a short break is in order

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R E S O U R C E S

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Three masters who painted Biblical scenes prolifically:

REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON van RIJN

GUSTAV DORÉ
241 wood engravings for
La Grande Bible de Tours

JAMES TISSOT
180 paintings depicting Bible scenes

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This series keeps moving from one Bible passage to another,
so here is a fascinating and enjoyable link to assist in following along:
BIBLE TIMELINE

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Finally, here are links to the
PREVIOUS 53 POSTS IN THIS SERIES
with descriptive titles, to assist you in finding those which interest you

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SPECIAL THANKS
to FReeper left that other site,
who allowed God to make her His conduit
for incomparable enthusiasm, encouragement,
education, advice and technical assistance!

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NOTES ON MY SUBJECTIVE SELECTION CRITERIA

Quality
The Bible is my focus, not the art. So, works need not be masterpieces to qualify for inclusion here—they don’t need to be housed at the Louvre nor auctioned by Sotheby’s. They only need to successfully illustrate some aspect of the Biblical text or, frankly, just tickle my fancy, which I'm asking the Holy Spirit to guide. So, with such forgiving filters, it means that you're seeing practically everything I'm finding.

Pacing
The pace may seem glacial to those eager to see their favorite events. My commission is to search for art on each Bible passage in sequence; if I find enough, then it becomes the next installment, even if undramatic. The Bible is a thick book, as you know; but we'll get there eventually, Lord willing. Always remember:
love, joy, peace, patience kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control is a fruit of the Spirit!

I’m just having fun—and I certainly hope you are, too!
Thank you for your understanding.

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TOPICS: Apologetics; General Discusssion; History; Theology
KEYWORDS: art; bible; paintings
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At the Holy Spirit's prompting, I am surveying "Bible art" to give God glory, as many of these artists have done, and for my own amusement and learning; and I thought others might enjoy it and be blessed by it, too. My plan is to proceed methodically from left-to right, Genesis to Revelation, as the Lord wills. Back soon with another.

The Bible encourages us to meditate on it (Ps. 1:1-3, 119:11-16, etc.); these artists have done so, and their works can assist us and enrich our own thoughts about biblical characters, incidents and concepts, and increase our faith in He who is behind it all. As you encounter and consider these images and the related Scriptures and the Spirit enlightens your understanding, please share it with 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’s viewing 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 (especially including Jesus!) into three-dimensional humans and brings the Gospels alive--you have never seen anything even remotely like it! Here is the Official Trailer.

Here is a link for free viewing of The Chosen: “Works with your phone, tablet, and you can cast to your Roku or Chromecast.” Last fall I paid $34.98 for DVDs and ongoing internet access—best 35 bucks I’ve ever spent (I don’t recall how much our marriage license cost, but then it was 42 years ago).

1 posted on 08/15/2020 7:41:05 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6
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2 posted on 08/15/2020 7:43:02 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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I agree with your choices. Aren’t these splendid!


3 posted on 08/15/2020 7:49:46 AM PDT by freepertoo
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Some of my faves too! :-)


4 posted on 08/15/2020 8:00:18 AM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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It was a load of fun selecting and then annotating them. In creating each installment of this series I exercise very little editorial control, posting the most indifferent art right alongside the masterpieces, as long as they tell the story. But some works and some artists deserve special honor, and as long as I’m the one posting I must use my own judgment. So glad you enjoyed them, too.


5 posted on 08/15/2020 8:02:47 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: left that other site

Add some more if you like, as you’ve done before.


6 posted on 08/15/2020 8:04:03 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

This One:






I grew up with this one, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston where I went to school.

7 posted on 08/15/2020 9:11:01 AM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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Here is the info on that painting:

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/33665


8 posted on 08/15/2020 9:12:26 AM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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It is brilliant--I well recall it from the Plagues post. You didn't specify why you like it, which I'd love to read, but I'll take a backbencher's stab at it.

Most prominent to me is the clear statement that, no matter how worldly-powerful you are, you are nothing when God comes against you. We see Egypt's massive splendor assailed by tiny Moses, and we know which was the victor.

Second, and requiring careful inspection, surely Martin has featured a cross in the dead-center distance, as well it was then.

9 posted on 08/15/2020 9:24:18 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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Sold for £15 in 1960! How many million today?


10 posted on 08/15/2020 9:29:38 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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Well, yes, I agree, but mostly because I used to go upstairs to the gallery and gaze upon the original painting 3 days a week after Art Class. I remembered it from the first time I went to the Museum when I was about 8 years old. It seemed to jump off the wall at me!

The whole Museum is awesome, but when I was a little kid all I remembered were the mummies and THAT painting.

Who would have thought that 60 years later I would be posting it on FR! :-)


11 posted on 08/15/2020 9:30:36 AM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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And the mummies remember you!


12 posted on 08/15/2020 9:37:05 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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They do? I thought they were too wrapped up in other business to remember little ol’ ME!


13 posted on 08/15/2020 9:46:05 AM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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too wrapped up in other business

Off to the punitentiary with you--a second offense, I believe. You may be incorrigible.

14 posted on 08/15/2020 9:55:45 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

“You may be incorrigible.”

I have been told that is the case. :-)


15 posted on 08/15/2020 9:58:04 AM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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Just in case.
16 posted on 08/15/2020 10:00:50 AM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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Just in case

A third offense, madam. We are not complete fools.

17 posted on 08/15/2020 10:17:11 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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I’m incorrigible.


18 posted on 08/15/2020 10:40:56 AM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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Yours is the last word on it.


19 posted on 08/15/2020 10:47:47 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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The cherubim pictured by Tissot and the others are FAR less terrifying than the ones described in Ezekiel 1. They hardly need swords.
20 posted on 08/15/2020 12:33:19 PM PDT by Forgiven_Sinner (Seek you first the kingdom of God, and all things will be given to you.)
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