a visit with jesus

 Bible Art

Baptism of the People
Artist: Andrea del Sarto
 1517    Painting

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This grisaille (grey monochrome) fresco depicts St. John the Baptist in the act of baptising a crowd. It is one of a series of frescoes depicting the life and times of St. John the Baptist in the Chiostro dello Scalzo cloister. Begun around 1511, the work was not completed until 1526, and almost all of the work was completed in del Sarto's own hand. Positioned at the very centre of the composition, John the Baptist's right foot is perched on a rock as he pours water from a simple terracotta bowl onto the head of a kneeling figure. He cradles a cane crucifix to the left side of his body. The kneeling figure hugs his own torso as he undergoes his baptism; his feet and right knee are submerged in the river. On either side, figures observe the scene as they wait their turn to be baptised. Some of the figures perch on rocks that sit in the river. In the right background of the fresco, there is another crowd of onlookers standing on a low hill. 

This fresco is located at Chiostro dello Scalzo, a cloister in Florence, Italy .

Bathsheba Makes an Appeal to David
Artist: Govert Flinck
 1651    Painting

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This work is oil on canvas  measuring104 × 152 cm) and was completed in 1651. This painting is housed in the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin.  It  is linked to 1 Kings 1:16. 

16 Bathsheba bowed down, prostrating herself before the king.

“What is it you want?” the king asked.

Bathsheba tries to convince king David to let their son Solomon be his heir. David had an older son, Adonijah, with another woman. Adonijah had more rights to the throne than Solomon. In the end Bathsheba got her way. She had much influence during Solomon's reign.