The Bible: Art and The Bible Links

Art and The Bible Links

The following links go to other art web sites and open in a new window. Some pages take a while fully load. Many of these sites feature thumb nail versions of art with the option to click on a link to see a larger versions of the art.

Art Concordance, The Text This Week: Artwork is indexed according to Biblical/Liturgical subjects.

Christian Catacombs in Rome: includes the Good Shepherd, the Orante, the monogram of Christ, the fish, the Alpha and Omega, the phoenix, and the dove. This a multilingual site, offered in ten different languages, including Spanish and Korean.

Orthodox Icons of Jesus (5 icons of Christus Pantokrator (Christ, Our Lord) and one of "Our Saviour with the wet beard")

Jesus Christs: Images, Art . Over 500 Images and Growing

Medieval Christian Art, Architecture and Music Links (UMW Resource)

National Gallery of Art (These are selected links to a large web site.)

The Baptism of Christ by Nicolas Poussin, French, 1594 - 1665
El Greco (Spanish, 1541-1614) El Greco was a Greek-born artist whose emotional style expressed the passion of Counter-Reformation Spain. (8 images with detailed descriptions and background)
Italian Painting of the 15th century includes Painting in Siena in the 14th and Early 15th Centuries and The Early Renaissance in Florence
Byzantine Art and Painting in Italy during the 13th and 14th Centuries

The Sistene Chapel: (These are selected links to the vast Christus Rex web site.)

1 through 3 - Scenes from Genesis at the top of the ceiling (14 Images depicting the Creation story in Genesis 1)
4 through 5 - Scenes from Genesis (14 Images depicting the creation of Adam and Eve)
6 - Scenes from Genesis (9 Images depicting that Fall and Expulsion from Paradise)
Scenes from the life of Christ (15 images depicting the baptism of Christ, the temptation, and the calling of the disciples)
Scenes from the life of Christ (15 images depicting the Sermon on the Mount, the charge to Saint Peter, and the Last Supper)
Michelangelo's Ceiling (1508 - 1512) (18 Images)
Michelangelo's Last Judgement on the altar wall (19 Images)
Last Judgement : Celestial World (26 Images)
Last Judgement : Resurrection of the Dead (17 Images)

Ukrainian Icons, 11th-16th Centuries

Biblical Reflections

We invite you to reflect on art as a part of your study of The Bible: the Book that Bridges the Millennia. Visit the art on the web and look at art in your home and church. Does your Bible have illustrations? What are these like? Do they aid in your understanding of the Bible?

Christian art varies in style and quality and message. It may or may not accurately reflect biblical material.

Take the Highway

Art and the Bible: Because art is nonverbal it can convey a message even to people who can not read, including young children. For those of us who have grown up in the church or who visited homes with religious art as a child, art may have been one of the first ways we learned about the Bible.

This study is a resource from:
The Women's Division
General Board of Global Ministries
The United Methodist Church
E-mail: umw@gbgm-umc.org.
Web: http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/

Disclaimer: Some links jump to outside sites for further information on the Bible, interpretations, the canon, translations, manuscripts, resources, and other perspectives. Links do not constitute an endorsement by the Women's Division of the information on other web sites. External web sites offer us diverse perspectives; afford us an opportunity to compare them to United Methodist positions; and, encourage us to critically analyze the issues raised by The Bible: the Book that Bridges the Millennia web pages.