The Bible In Paintings: GOD COMPLETES JONAH'S RESCUE

[Hebrews 11:6]

The Bible In Paintings 2
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE

GOD COMPLETES
JONAH'S RESCUE

J O N A H
CHAPTER 2

AND THE LORD COMMANDED THE FISH, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

1
Asia Minor, 3rd Century
"Jonah Cast Up"

2
DIRK CRABETH
"Jona en de Walvis"

3
Detail
Source

4
"Jonah Escapes the Whale"

5
"Jonah is Spit on Land by the Fish"

6
HERRAD OF LANDSBERG
"The Prophet Jonas Is Spit out by Fish at Nineveh"

7
"Jonas Rejected by the Whale"

8
"Jonas und der Wal"

9
JAMES TISSOT
"Jonah, as in Jonah 2:10,
"And the Lord commanded the fish,
and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.""

10
GUSTAVE DORÉ
"Jonah Is Spewed Forth by the Whale"

10A
GUSTAVE DORÉ
"Jonah Is Spewed Forth by the Whale"

11
"Jonah and the Whale"

12
JAN BRUEGHEL the Elder
"Jonah Escapes the Whale's Throat"

13
Source

14
Source

15
JOSEF WELPONER-STRËUBL
"Jonah Exits the Fish"

16
FELICE FICHERELLI
"Jonah Comes Out of the Whale's Belly"

17
JOSEF KEPPLINGER
"Jonas und der Walfisch"

18
"Fountain of Jona"

19
HANS DANTZLER
"Jonah and the Whale"

20
"Jonah Cast out by the Fish"

21
"Jonah"

22
MICHEL CORNEILLE the Elder
"Jonah and the Whale"

23
"Jonah and the Whale"

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Source

25
PIETER LASTMAN
"Jonah and the Whale"

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Source

27
JOHANN MICHAEL PRUNNER
"Jonas und der Wal"

28
VICTOR MOLEV
"Jonah"

29
H. MANDEL
Source

30
Source

31
FREDERIK VAN VALKENBORCH
"Jonah and the Whale"

32
ZACK WINCHESTER
"Jonah and the Whale"

33
GULNAR KADYROV
"Jonah and the Whale"

34
ROBERT COPPENS
"Jonah and the Whale"

35
MAERTEN DE VOS HIERONYMUS WIERIX
"Jonah Cast on Shore by the Fish"

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Source

37
Source

38
"Jonah and the Whale"

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BRUEGHEL the Elder
"Jonah and the Whale"

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TINTORETTO
"Jonah Leaves the Whale's Belly"

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[Hebrews 11:6]

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[Hebrews 11:6]

J O N A H
Prelude – TRIBUTES TO JONAH
ANGRY JONAH GETS DUNKED
WHEN SWALLOWED: REPENT AND PRAY!!!
GOD COMPLETES JONAH'S RESCUE
JONAH PREACHES, NINEVEH REPENTS!

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Today’s tour de force! Brilliant!
Glorious stained glass windows, frescoes, carvings, illuminated manuscripts etc.
Dore’ at #10; the fresco at #11. #22, a fresco resembling a bronze carving; #34 Coppens, #38, beautiful illuminated miniature from a medieval manuscript.

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[Hebrews 11:6]

Too bad Jonah wasn't swallowed by a giant squid.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Glad you found some gems, Alba!

[Hebrews 11:6]

How Melvillian of you.

[spankalib]

#28, Victor Molev - his art - it looks like his mind is like a fun house mirror.

Here is his Jacob's Ladder:

See the face? wow...

[Hebrews 11:6]

Now that you’ve pointed it out, I do see it—but I don’t get it. What point is he trying to make?

[Hebrews 11:6]

Gotta say: the more I look at that face, the more it looks like Mrs. Wm. Clinton.

[spankalib]

What point is he trying to make?

I'm not sure. I think it might represent the omnipresence of God. Just a guess, though...

[SisterK]

Like #36 and 37.
A lot.
In some of the artwork, the fish look like giant alligator gar. Yucky.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Everyone seems to assume it was an existing marine creature, either whale or fish. But there is another possibility consistent with the text: that God created a unique sea-creature just for the occasion, which was perfectly suited to house and transport Jonah.

[SisterK]

God created a unique sea-creature just for the occasion, which was perfectly suited to house and transport Jonah

cannot argue that
but all the sharp teeth...