a visit with jesus

 Bible Art

Paradiso
Artist: Tintoretto
 1588 - -92    Painting

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In Tintoretto's epic painting Paradiso (or Paradise), Christ and his mother Mary are depicted in a circle of golden light at the top center of the canvas. They look down upon concentric rings of clouds occupied by saints, angels, and bodies resurrected from their graves who look up towards heaven. An angel approaches Mary, just to her right, extending to her a stem bearing white lilies. Meanwhile, to the left of Christ, an angel is bringing a set of scales to the Christian savior.

One of the greatest works of Tintoretto's career, and certainly one of the largest at 23 feet high and 72 feet long, he won the commission in a competition to redecorate the Doge's Palace in Venice after it had been severely damaged in a fire.

This painting is oil on canvas and is housed in the Collection of the Palazzo Ducale, Venice 

Paul Healing a Man Who Could Not Walk
Artist: Karel DuJardin
 1663    Painting

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This painting measures height 179 cm x width 139 cm x depth 9 cm. It is housed in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Here, the Apostle Paul towers above a group of sick people. When he heals the feet of a man in the name of the Christian god in Lystra, a city in contemporary Turkey, the onlookers take him to be the heathen god Mercury. Du Jardin understood the art of using figural gestures to enhance the pathos and drama of a scene.