A Visit With Jesus: Bible Art

A Christian Casket

420s-430 Sculpture

This casket with 4 individual panels of ivory sculpture is in the British Museum and is an example of how the Roman Christian sculptors followed the Greco-Roman manner but applied the beauty to Christian texts: “When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead…

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Abraham and Hagar

Jan Mostaert

c. 1475 Painting

This work is an Oil on panel. It measures 94 x 131 cm. It is on display in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

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Abraham and Isaac

Titian

1543-44 Painting

This oil painting is also known as The Sacrifice of Isaac. It measures (129 in × 112 in).Titian painted it for the church of Santo Spirito, but is now in the basilica of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice.

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Abraham and the Three Angels

Noel Halle

1765 Painting

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Abraham and the Three Angels

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

1656 Painting

The subject of this picture is taken from the Old testament (Gen. 18:1-19). While Abraham sat at the tent door in the middle of the day three men appeared before him. Realizing that they were angels he bowed down before them, fetched water and washed their feet; then with…

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Abraham and the Three Angels

Pieter Lastman

1621-23 Painting

Abraham was visited by angels in the guise of visitors. They were on the way to destroying the city of Sodom for their wickedness. This 1623 oil on panel painting measures 82 x 126 cm, and is housed in The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.

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