Bible Art

Crucifixion Diptych
Artist: Rogier van der Weyden
1460 Painting

This large, starkly dramatic work picks up many of the themes and approaches that Van der Weyden used throughout his career, giving equal weight to Christ's suffering and to the anguish of the witnesses to his death. The scene is set before a blank stone wall over which are draped two bright red cloths of honor, below a dark blue-black sky. In the left panel, a swooning Virgin Mary is supported by Saint John the Evangelist, both weeping and both dressed in unusually pale robes. In the right panel, Christ hangs heavily from the cross, the blood running down his forehead echoed by the tears of Mary and John. Despite the shallow space and limited setting, the skull and bone on the ground mark the site as Golgotha, or Calvary, where Christ was crucified, and where Adam, the first man, is said to have been buried, while the dark sky corresponds to the biblical description of the moment of Christ's death.

This oil on oak panels artwork is in The Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Crucifixion of St. Peter
Artist: Caravaggio
1600 Painting

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The painting shows Saint Peter’s half nailed to the cross, being placed in an upside-down way since he did not want to pose rival to Christ the savior.

this Baroque oil on canvas painting measures 230 cm × 175 cm (91 in × 69 in). It is housed in Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome.

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The Bible, its themes, events and characters, are the subject of many of mankind's finest works of art.

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