Sweet Rebecca

Rebecca at the Well illustration by the American painter Michael Deas. Rebecca is the symbol of a good caring woman and as the mother of Jacob one of the most important matriarchs of the bible.

Peeping Old Men

Susanna and the Elders by the German painter Lovis Corinth (1858–1925).

Sodom and Gomorrah

Pulp cover by the famous American illustrator Robert A. Maguire. The biblical sins are converted into a great spectacle.

A Severe Business

Salome by the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). There's no triumph only the severe contemplation of death.

Dramatic Scenery

Jephtah's Daughter (1859-60) by the French painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Degas painted only very few mytological or biblical subjests, he was much more interested in everyday life scenes. This painting is one of his early works when he returned from Italy where he was influenced by the great masters of traditional painting.

A Perfect Composition

Adam and Eve (c. 1620) by the Italian painter Guido Reni (1575-1642). This painting from the heyday of the baroque era is nearly perfectly composed. The two perfect bodies like a pair of scales, the evil snake in the center and the the fatal apple. The lion, the rey among the animals, seems already very upset.

Homage To Rembrandt

Homage To Rembrandt: Bathsheba (2001) by the American painter Patricia Watwood (born 1971). Here the subject is not any more the story of the Old Testament but art history itself.