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Home > Resources > Genesis

Genesis

Classic and modern artwork inspired by Genesis.
Studying Old Testament

Art: (click to view)

  • “The Creation of the World,” artist unknown
  • “The Creation of the Sun, the Moon and the Plants,” Michelangelo Buonarroti
  • “Adam and Eve” by Fernando Botero
  • “Adam and Eve” by Lucas Cranach the Elder
  • “Adam and Eve” at Abreha and Atsbeha Church, Ethiopia
  • “Tower of Babel” by Pieter Brueghel the Elder
  • “The Deluge” by Winifred Knights
  • “Miniature of Noah’s ark” by Guiart des Moulins
  • “Nora, Hoist The Window / Let The Dove Come In (Who Built The Ark?)” performed by Bessie Jones
  • “The Old Ark’s A-Moving” performed by A.A. Gray & Seven-Foot Dilly
  • “God’s Covenant with Abraham” by Jan Goeree and A. de Blois
  • “God’s Promises to Abram” by James Tissot
  • “Righteous Forefather Abraham Icon” at Orthodox Church in America
  • “Sacrifice of Isaac” by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
  • “The sacrifice of Isaac” by Marc Chagall
  • “Abraham and the Binding of Ishmael” in the Haft Tanan Mausoleum, Iran
  • “Three Visitors Announce to Abraham the Birth of Isaac” byAlexander Ivanov
  • “Abraham Casting Out Hagar and Ishmael” by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri
  • “Sacrifice of Abraham” by “Il Riccio” Andrea Briosco
  • “Study for Climbing Jacob’s Ladder” by William H. Johnson at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
  • “The Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau” by Sir Peter Paul Rubens
  • “Jacob’s Ladder” by Yoram Raanan
  • “Joseph, Overseer of Pharaoh’s Granaries” by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
  • “Joseph” at Takieh Mo’aven ol-Molk Museum, Iran
  • “Joseph Interprets Pharaoh’s Dream” by James Tissot
  • “Joseph Accused by Potiphar’s Wife” by Rembrandt Van Rijn
  • “Joseph’s Bloody Coat Brought to Jacob” by Diego Velázquez
  • “Joseph pardons his Brothers” by Bacchiacca
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