a visit with jesus

 Bible Art

The Parable of the Good Shepherd Separating the Sheep from the Goats
 Byzantine School    Mosaic

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Mosaics consist of a number of tesserae—small pieces of stone or glass—placed together to render a work of art. Pliny the Elder gives the Greeks credit for inventing the mosaic form of art (Natural History 36.31), but the earliest extant mosaics, from around 700 BCE, are found in Gordian in Phrygia (in modern-day Turkey). Almost no mosaics with Christian motifs are extant from the period before the Emperor Constantine’s Edict of Milan (313 CE), which granted religious toleration throughout the Roman Empire. The surviving Christian mosaics before 313 tend to be found in tombs.

The Parable of the Great Supper
Artist: Cornelis Droochsloot
 c. 1665    Painting

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The Parable of the Great Supper (Luke 14. 16–24) is treated by Dutch painter Cornelis Droochsloot as a lively genre scene.  

This work is oil on panel and measures. H 55 x W 81.2 cmm

The painting is  housed in the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham.

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