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Modern Ancient Art: Genesis

So much art has been created out of the characters and stories of the book of Genesis. Let's explore it just a bit!

The Creation of Adam

The Italian artist Michaelangelo painted The Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel in the early 1500s by one of the worst popes of all time, Julius II. The fresco illustrates God giving life to Adam as part of the two biblical creation stories. It references the verse Genesis 1:27 "God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him" (Gen. 1:27), which is probably a later addition to the previous verse: "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:" This fresco remains one of the most iconic, celebrated, and reproduced paintings in human history.

The Tower of Babel

This 1560s painting by Renaissance Dutch great Pieter Bruegel the Elder unfolds the more one stares at it. The seemingly solid Coliseum-style structure starts to look crooked and doom to fail. Bruegel was referencing the contemporary view of Ancient Rome similarly to Ancient Babylon, an empire that fell victim to its own hubris. Two versions, one large and one small, are in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam respectively.

Cain and Abel

16th Century Venice

One Son Murdering Another

One Son Murdering Another

 Cain and Abel, by Rennaissance painter Titian, is now on the ceiling of the church of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice 

One Son Murdering Another

One Son Murdering Another

One Son Murdering Another

The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve (William Blake, 1826) illustrates the parents  discovering their dead son, as Cain flees 

Steinbeck's Magnum Opus

One Son Murdering Another

Steinbeck's Magnum Opus

One brother is virtuous and dutiful, the other wild and rebellious. Published in 1952, the book still sells 50,000 copies each year 

Hamlet

Vaughn's Contrast

Steinbeck's Magnum Opus

In what is considered among the most influential works of world literature, Shakespeare alludes to Cain and Abel

Vaughn's Contrast

Vaughn's Contrast

Vaughn's Contrast

In this 1946 work, Abel looks on while Cain’s tormented face stares out of the picture, eyes unseen and his hair caught in a storm 

Reacting in Paris

Vaughn's Contrast

Vaughn's Contrast

In 1896, French sculpture Henry Vidal finished Cain, after having murdered his brother Abel, now in the Tuileries in Paris

Noah and the Flood

The Deluge

Drunkenness of Noah

One for the Road

In 1869, French artist Gustave Doré painted a litany of works about Genesis in general and Noah in particular

One for the Road

Drunkenness of Noah

One for the Road

Noah performs a last-minute sacrifice to Yahweh in French Sebastien Bourdon's 1640's painting

Drunkenness of Noah

Drunkenness of Noah

Drunkenness of Noah

The uncomfortable scene of the nude dad was captured by the Italian artist Giovanni Bellini's 1515 painting

Noah the Gladiator

A Recent Incredible Finding

Drunkenness of Noah

 Darren Aronofsky's 2014 retelling of the biblical epic story highlights Noah's dark personal journey

Noah Almighty

A Recent Incredible Finding

A Recent Incredible Finding

Steve Carrel's 2007 reticent and skeptical Noah is the polar opposite of the biblical obedient character

A Recent Incredible Finding

A Recent Incredible Finding

A Recent Incredible Finding

This is the oldest surviving work of Noah's Ark. Artist unknown

Abraham

Caravaggio

A Venetian Titan

The Good Host

The Great Roman Baroque painter with his Sacrifice of Isaac, c. 1600

The Good Host

A Venetian Titan

The Good Host

The Hospitality of Abraham, by artist unknown, is celebrated in this 14th century Greek painting

A Venetian Titan

A Venetian Titan

A Venetian Titan

Sacrifice of Isaac, by Venetian Rennaissance painter Titian, in classical Mannerist style, was meant to ve viewed from below

Old Amsterdam

17th Century Genoa

A Venetian Titan

17th century Dutch painter Pieter Lastman's The Angel of the Lord Preventing Abraham from Sacrificing his Son Isaac

17th Century Genoa

17th Century Genoa

17th Century Genoa

The Journey of Abraham and His Family, 

by Grechetto

Baroque Abraham

17th Century Genoa

17th Century Genoa

17th century Italian painter Domenichino depicts Abraham leading his beloved son Isaac to be sacrificed at God’s command 

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