Women in the Bible

Ruth by the French Academic Painter Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889). This is a very reduced nearly symbolist painting.

Ruth gleaning in a medieval illumination. That she's the most hard working is demonstrated because she alone is on her knees,

Ruth in a medieval illumination. Already the hard working girl what made her so popular.

This is a more recent Bible illustration from 1965. It’s by the American artist Francis Marshall (1901-1980) who worked also for Vogue and d...

Ruth Declares her Loyalty to Naomi (1614) by the Dutch painter Pieter Lastman (c.1583-1633). Lastman was a well known history painter workin...

Once more the hard working Ruth is discovered by Boaz, her future husband. Engraving by Paul Gustave Doré (1832–1883) from the illustrated B...

Ruth and Naomi (1886) by the English Painter Philip Hermogenes Calderon (1833-1898). Naomi wanted to go back to Bethlehem and Orpah is also ...

James Tissot (1836-1902) was a French painter who had immigrated to England after the suppression of the Paris Commune. In London he had gre...

Ruth in the Fields. That’s the cover of a magazine of 1947. It’s obvious how the technique of 19th century history painting now have spread ...

Although this too is a 19th century romantic Ruth, it's quite different from that of Francesco Hayez. It's by the German painter Jul...

This example of Ruth is by Francesco Hayez (1791-1882) the leading artist of Italian Romanticism. Ruth is wearing the clothes of an Arab wom...

During a famine an Israelite family emigrated from Bethlehem to the land of the Moabites where the two sons married the Moabite women Ruth a...