a visit with jesus

 Bible Art

Descent of Noah from Ararat
Artist: Ivan Aivazovsky
 1889    Painting

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The people in Aivazovsky's painting are not just Biblical figures, they are Aivazovsky's dreamy imagining of his own romanticized Armenian roots combined with a vaguely conceived Orientalism that looked towards an old Constantinople and beyond for a sense of uncorrupted identity.  Aivazovsky produced hundreds of paintings like this, which sought to escape from those uncertain realities into a world of mythical certainties, for which Biblical symbolism was a convenient vehicle. 

This is an oil on canvas painting that is in the National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan.

Easter Morning
Artist: Maurice Denis
 1894    Painting

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The work depicts a group of woman, clothed in white robes and piously composed, walking in a garden. They are accompanied by a child, and by two angels who hold their hands up in a gesture of protection. In the background is a vivid landscape, perhaps Italianate, yet strangely otherworldly, composed of small whitewashed houses dotted along a green hillside. 

This is a oil on canvas that is in the  Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Musée Départemental