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Art history

Latest Mosaic Content for Art history

  1. Observation ·

    Welter and Waste in the Hebrew Bible

    By Jacob Wisse

    The Great Masters saw eternal stillness in Christian Scripture, and dynamism and change in Jewish Scripture.

    Welter and Waste in the Hebrew Bible
  2. Response ·

    Twisted Tales: Christian Art Re-Presents the Hebrew Bible

    By Larry Silver

    Christian artists often employ a notion called typology, or prefiguration, where events from the Hebrew Bible eventually find rhymes within the later life of Jesus.

    Twisted Tales: Christian Art Re-Presents the Hebrew Bible
  3. Monthly Essay ·

    How Western Artists Used and Abused the Hebrew Bible

    By Dr. Jacob Wisse

    For centuries, visual artists, nearly all Christian, turned to the Hebrew Bible for inspiration even more often than the New Testament. What did they find there, and did they treat it well?

    How Western Artists Used and Abused the Hebrew Bible
  4. Observation ·

    The Once and Future Temple, Part II

    By Marc Michael Epstein

    Christian Renaissance paintings of the Temple are the visual record of a theology that had devastating consequences in the lives of Jews from antiquity to the Middle Ages and beyond.

    The Once and Future Temple, Part II