Women in the Bible

Esther before the King by the ItalianBaroque painter Andrea Celesti (1637-1712).

Vashti Deposed (1890) by the British painter Ernest Normand (1859-1923). Normand was kind of a specialist in mythological and historical ...

Joan Collins as Esther in the Film Esther and the King (1960). It's sex and crime what's selling now from the old Bible stories.

This poster for the movie "Esther and the King" (1960) shows how Hollywood liked to interpret those stories. There is a lot of act...

Queen Esther (1878) by the English painter Edwin Longsden Long (1829-1891). Long was an specialized in historical, biblical and oriental sub...

This Esther is an illustration of a popular bible. I don’t know the artist but it’s in the typical Art Deco style of the 1930’s. Despite pre...

This movie poster for "Esther and the King" (1960) starring Joan Collins as Esther underlines the modern artistic interest and exp...

Queen Esther before. King Ahasuerus (c. 1815) by the Slovenian painter Francesco Caucig (1755-1828). Although Caucig is a lesser known artis...

Esther before Ahasuerus (1738-40) by the Italian painter Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (1708-1787). It’s a typical classicist painting. The scenery...

The Festival of Esther (1865) by the English Victorian era painter Edward Armitage (1817-1896). Armitage focused on historical, classical an...

The Banquet of Esther (1640s) by the Dutch baroque painter Jan Victors (1620-?), who was probably a student of Rembrandt van Rijn. Here Esth...

Esther before the king from the Bible illustrated by Paul Gustave Doré (1832–1883). For Doré it was important be historical as exact as poss...

This Esther is by the English painter Sir John Everett Millais (1829–1896) one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Esther is ...

This interpretation of Esther is by the French painter Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856). He was a student of Ingres and therefore its in a ty...

King Ahasuerus (Xerxes) held a big feast in his capital Susa. But when he wanted his queen, Vashti, to appear and show her beauty, she refus...