The Bible In Paintings: ✝️ JESUS ASCENDS TO HEAVEN ! ! ! ✝️ Part 1

[Hebrews 11:6]

The
Bible
In
Paintings

~ Encouragement for Applying
and Appreciating God's Word ~

•Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows•

JESUS ASCENDS
TO HEAVEN ! ! !

֎ Featuring 53 Paintings ֎

A C T S
«Chapter 1»

They asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”

He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

After he said this, HE WAS TAKEN UP BEFORE THEIR VERY EYES, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? THIS SAME JESUS, who has been taken from you into heaven, WILL COME BACK IN THE SAME WAY you have seen him go into heaven.”

1
WILLIAM BRASSEY HOLE
"Jesus Ascending into Heaven"

2
GUSTAVE DORÉ
"The Ascension"

3
Detail #1

4
Detail #2

5
JEAN FRANCOIS DE TROY
"The Ascension"

6
FRESKEN VON GEBHARD FUGEL
Source

7
ANDREA MANTEGNA
"The Ascension"

8
Detail

9
GIACOMO CAVEDONE
"Ascension of Christ"

10
English School
"The Ascension"

11
HEINRICH JENNY
"Ascension of Christ"

12
FRANCISCO CAMILO
"Ascension"

13
FORD MADOX BROWN
"Ascension"

14
PIETRO PERUGINO
"The Ascension of Christ"

15
Source

16
PAOLO VERONESE
"The Ascension"

17
TOMMY WINN
"Ascension"

18
Source

19
ANTONIO DE LANCHARES
"The Ascension of Christ"

20
GAROFALO
"Ascension of Christ"

21
ELEANOR DIXON STECKER
"Ascension of Jesus"

22
JACOPO ZUCCHI
"Ascensione di Gesù Cristo"

23
JENNIFER HESS
"The Ascension"

24
GIOTTO
"The Ascension"

25
RABBULA GOSPELS, 586
Source

26
LIMBOURG Brothers
Source

27
PINTURICCHIO
Source

28
THEOPHANES the Cretan
"The Ascension"

29
JACOPO TINTORETTO
"The Ascension"

30
ANTONIO DE LANCHARES
Source

31
REMBRANDT
"The Ascension"

32
FRANCISCO BAYEU Y SUBIAS
"The Ascension"

33
JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY
"The Ascension"

34
BENJAMIN WEST
"The Ascension"

35
ALOIS FRAIDEL
"The Ascension"

36
JOHN LA FARGE
"The Ascension"

37
FRESKEN VON GEBHARD FUGEL
Source

38
ANTONIO BELLUCCI
"Ascension of Jesus Christ"

39
CRISTOFORO CASOLANI
Source

40
Source

41
LUCA LONGHI
Source

42
GIROLAMO MUZIANO
Source

43
ALBRECHT ALTDORFER
"Ascension of Christ"

44
GUSTAVE DORÉ
"The Ascension"

45
DOSSO DOSSI
"The Ascension"

46
HOWARD DAVID JOHNSON
"The Ascension of Christ"

47
JAMES TISSOT
"The Ascension"

48
JUAN RODRÍGUEZ JUÁREZ
"The Ascension of Christ"

49
Source

50
AMBROGIO DI BALDESE
"Ascensione"

51
GIOVANNI MARIA GALLI DETTO IL BIBBIENA
"Ascensione di Cristo"

52
Detail

→ a n d   f i n a l l y ←

53
WILLIAM BLAKE
"The Ascension"

To be continued…

New International Version ©1984, Abrgd, EMPHASES added
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[Bob434]

Many greats- love 2 and 22 and William Blake one. B.ake reminds me a bit of Marc Chagall- same dreamlike feel to the paintings. Chagall had many religiously based themes too. His use of color was pretty cool in some of his paintings, lending to a more dreamlike feel to them- it was as though he had a dream, awoke, and painted what he saw in his dreams.

[Hebrews 11:6]

A correlation between Blake and Chagall is a novel idea to me, Bob, especially as they’re both stylistically so unique. Of course, New Testament art by Chagall is rare indeed.

[InkStone]

Good Morning Dan, and wishing everyone a happy Tuesday =:^)

Many favorites from which to choose;

#2 Dore (love the displayed ‘details’)
#6 Fugel
#33 Copley

Thank You Dan!

[Bob434]

I love Chagall’s style quite a bit, as I do Blake’s style. Their styles are “simple” for sure compared to realistic artists, although they obviously had skill in color, tone, values, composition etc but the atmosphere in their paintings is what grabs my attention- it gives the paintings another dimension almost- something akin to viewing the spirit world I guess. Painting 2 in this thread really evoked that for me too showing a contrast between “the real world” and “the spirit world” in the painting.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Some might assume, Leon, that I create those “details” by carving chunks out of artworks and blowing them up. I wouldn’t know how. I simply stumble across them in my searches, and then—sadly—only rarely.

[etabeta]

A magnificent Dore” at #2
#13 Brown - English painter associated with artists of the the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. For a brief time, William Morris was one of his students.
Copley, West, Tissot, Blake.
Thank you, Dan.

[Hebrews 11:6]

So, their styles seem other-worldly, of the spirit-world.

[Hebrews 11:6]

If I were an artist, I cannot imagine not painting Jesus’ ascension, as it is the pinnacle of His earthly ministry.

[spankalib]

I didn't notice it until Tissot at #47, but several artists used the symbolism of footprints - as if to say; "Yes, Jesus was really here!"

(see #12, #49, and #51:)

[Hebrews 11:6]

Very prominent in tomorrow’s thread, John: Jesus’ feet take center-stage. I grouped them appropriately.

[Bob434]

No, not “of the spirit world”- but rather they have a sense of showing a world that the bible states when it talks about the unseen world where good battles evil- something that we dont see, but which exists (god showed one of the people I.n The Bible the great mu,titude of angels standing on the hillside in defense of the Israelites, which he hadnt seen before god revealed it to him).

Blake and Chagall just had a feeling to,their paintings as though they were depicting what they “thought” the spirit realm might look like- they weren’t drawing “power from the spirits” to paint. There is a distinction.

[Bob434]

[[#2 Dore (love the displayed ‘details’)]]

My choice too. Such a great painting.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Thanks for clarifying your meaning, Bob.

[Ezekiel]

THIS SAME JESUS, who has been taken from you into heaven, WILL COME BACK IN THE SAME WAY you have seen him go into heaven.

Outside and above anyone's particular religious beliefs,

There's a vast, integrated, multi-layered analog in modern times with the mission of Apollo 11/Saturn V. It also links with Apollo 8, Earthrise, and the Genesis reading. And of course the 50th anniversary in 2019, when Apollo 11 had been projected onto the Washington Monument for the big launch.

I've posted bits and pieces over the years. This stuff could fill book after book, yet it's all very simple. It's sure to come out in due time. Sudden revelation, epiphany: when knowledge and understanding flip over and on in an instant.

The multiple selections of artwork here (with Jesus' ascending in a white robe) do add to the "Apollo Effect".

In the meantime,

Here's a very small example from the VLF transmitter (Very Large File), concerning the tabernacle of David that is fallen...

Amos 9:11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

... because here's where it all started, with the development of the Saturn V and its Garden of Cyrus (quincunx) pattern of the engines:

Visiting Marshall

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is situated on the U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. Visitors are welcomed at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Marshall's official Visitor Center, which offers public bus tours of Marshall. U.S. Space & Rocket Center visitors can learn more about Marshall's legacy and ongoing work. Interactive exhibits and historic artifacts demonstrate our critical role in supporting the breadth of NASA's exploration and science missions. Visitors will learn how Marshall develops, integrates and manages complex space systems and scientific research projects that continue to yield exciting and innovative scientific discoveries.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/about/visitor.html

Visitors are welcomed at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Marshall's official Visitor Center...

[zipcodes 35805, 35808]

For a deep visual perspective, here are a couple of photos from the Wikipedia page:

 

Google street view even walks inside the Davidson Center, where the visitor is greeted by the engine display overhead, at the base of the... horizontal model. The rocket stages (1, 2, 3) are marked as the teaching route continues onto the Moon, which is encircled by the famous announcement of the ages.

It's like the form of the letter lamed:

A three-stage rocket ship soaring into outer space.
Man's aspiration to understand the universe.

A heart of a wise man ascending to comprehend the wisdom of God.
Learning in order to teach, learning in order to do.

Divine inspiration; the higher Shechinah.
Prophetic imagination breaking through the limitations of rational intellect.

On that note,

Apollo 11 launched on July 16th, 1969, which was the 1st of Av -- the beginning of the Nine Days that ended on Tisha B'Av with the splashdown of the CM Columbia ("dove").

The 1st of Av is also a key date in Jewish history because 123:

Aaron the first High Priest, brother of Moses and Miriam, passed away at age 123 on the 1st of Av of the year 2487 from creation (1274 BCE). This is the only yahrzeit (date of passing) explicitly mentioned in the Torah (Numbers 33:38).

https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/day.asp?tdate=07%2F16%2F1969

U.S. Space & Rocket Center visitors can learn more about Marshall's legacy and ongoing work.

3, 2, 1..

It's really amazing what sits there right underneath Interstate 565, the Ohr Mashiach, Messianic Light [אור משיח = 565]. There's room to post it all, so I have to leave a lot out.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Read it all, comprehended some. Not sure yet where I should file it—but Thanks, as always.

[Ezekiel]

They are actually just various match-ups with dates and names, along with their associated references from history and traditional Jewish subject matter, linked where appropriate.

It's always something!

Not sure yet where I should file it—

Mysteries of the universe. 🤠

[InkStone]

#2 Dore (love the displayed ‘details’)
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Bob, don’t you just love the faces of the angels? All so expressive...

[Hebrews 11:6]

We take for granted that the universe has mysteries. But there are none for the Omniscient One.

Indeed, that knowledge helps me to confess my sins. Confession is not revealing my sins to Him, because He already knows all about them. Rather, it is agreeing with Him about them.