The Calling of the Disciples from Matthew’s Gospel
The Calling of the Apostles, Mosaics from San Marco, Santa Maria Assunta in Torcello and Murano
Apostle’s Call, Relief from Manastery of San Pedro da Roda
Calling of Peter and Andrew, Duccio di Buonisegna (1308-1311)
James Tissot, The Calling of Saint Peter and Saint Andrew (1886-1894)
The second Sunday of Epiphany always takes us into John’s story, and in year A it is John the Baptist pointing out Jesus as the Lamb of God, two of John’s disciples (one being Andrew) following Jesus and then Andrew bringing Simon who is renamed Peter.
There are some good John the Baptist images in my Advent posts, but here is another couple:
Jacopo del Sellaio, St John the Baptist about 1485
Carvaggio, St. John the Baptist
Then the calling of the disciples (many other images of this will be out next week for the Matthew reading)
Carvaggio, the Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew
Ghirlandio Domenico, the Calling of the First Apostles (1481)
And since this is one of the place Andrew is highlighted:
Icon of St. Andrew by Yoan from Gabravo, 19th Centuty
Andrey Mironov, Saint Andrew (2013) copyright holder grants licence under Creative Commons Attribution
This is another festival where there are no shortages of images out there. Particularly in ancient art baptism is frequently portrayed as well as the baptism of Jesus. Also the reading from the New Testament is from the baptism of Corneilius, the Roman Centurion in Acts, so a couple images from the Acts story first:
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Vision of Cornelius the Centurion, 1664
Francesco Trevisani, Peter Baptizing the Centurion Cornelius (1709)
Guido Reni, The Baptism of Christ (1623)
Francesco Albani, Baptism of Christ (1600s)
A favorite for stained glass windows:
Louis Comfort Tiffany, The Baptism of Christ, Stained Glass Window at Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church, Baltimore
And icons
Baptism of Jesus, Orthodox Icon
And Baptism in general appears in artwork across the ages from the very ancient
Baptism Fresco on the catacomb of Saints Marcellinus and Peter, Via Labicana, Rome, Italy
Masaccio, Baptism of the Neophytes, (1424-28)
To modern architecture and art in churches:
Baptismal font at Valparaiso University
Descending Dove in Grace Lutheran Church, Tacoma Washington
From Luke’s Christmas Story
Nativity by Lady Macbeth @deviantart.com
Nativity by Zephyr98@deviantart.com
Hugo Van der Goes, The Adoration of the Shepherds 1480
James Tissot, The Adoration of the Shepherds between 1886 and 1894
Christmas Day from the Prologue of John’s Gospel there are some really cool images at the Light of the World Exhibition of the Episcopal Church and Visual Arts
Finally for the Sunday after Christmas, which this year is the story of the slaughter of the innocents by Herod in Matthew’s gospel
Codex Egberti, Folio 15, scene: Bethlehemitscher Kindermord
Peter Paul Rubens, La massacre des Innocents 1611-1612
Francois-Joseph Navez, the Massacre of the Innocents 1824
Another cool resource I found this week for artwork is Art and Bible which is in French, but it is pretty easy to click on the wikis for various readings which also has some great artwork for this passage.
For this year it is Matthew’s nativity story which focuses attention on Joseph and the angel speaking to Joseph in a dream:
Saint Joseph the Carpenter, Georges de La Tour (1640)
James Tissot, The Vision of Saint Joseph (1886-1894)
T’oros Roslin, Joseph’s Dream (1262)
Domenico Guidi, Vision of St. Joseph 1694
Sir John Everett Millais, Jesus in the House With His Elders, 1850
Saint Joseph Holding the Christ, Scuola Veneta, picture by Antione Motte dit Falisse
This is typically the second Sunday of John the Baptist readings for the season of Advent, so a few images of John the Baptist first and then I’m going to break from the Revised Common Lectionary this Sunday in Year A (Matthew) and use the genealogy in Matthew’s gospel as a way to introduce the story. So John the Baptist first, as I mentioned last week John the Baptist is a favorite of artists so there are lots more out there, but a few include:
Joan de Joanes, Saint John the Baptist, 1560
John the Baptist, Icon from Macedonia 14th Century
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, The Beheading of St John the Baptist 1869
Now for the Geneology of Matthew which is punctuated (unusual for a geneology) by a number of women including
Tamar:
Horace Vernet, Judah and Tamar 1840
Rahab:
James Tissot, The Harlot of Jericho and the Two Spies
Ruth
William Blake, Naomi Entreating Ruth and Orpah
Bathsheeba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite
Artemisia Gentileschi, Bathshedba, first half of the 17th Century
The good kings of Israel and later Judah and the bad:
King Josiah by Julius Schnoor von Carolseld
The Exile in Babylon
James Tissot, The Flight of the Prisoners
And the return
Nehemiah View the Ruins of jerusalem’s Walls, Gustav Dore 1866
And finally Joseph
Guido Reni, Saint Joseph with the Infant Jesus, 1635
With Thanksgiving I didn’t get the first set of images posted, so here are the images for Advent 1 and 2 from year A of the Revised Common Lectionary:
Advent 1: Isaiah 2: 2-5 and Matthew 24: 36-44
Let us Beat Swords Into Plowshares, a sculpture by Evgeniy Vuchetich, given by the Soviet Union to the United Nations in 1959
Franzosischer Meister, Der Bau der Arche Noah, 1675
The Second Sunday of Advent
Two on the Isaiah 11: 1-10 from Edward Hicks
Edward Hicks, Peaceable Kingdom 1834
Edward Hicks, Peaceable Kingdom of the Branch (182601830)
The Oldest know Jesse Tree Window from the Chartres Cathedral in France c. 1145
And then some images of John the Baptist from Matthew 3 (there is a plethora of John the Baptist images in classic art, her is one of the favorite characters so this is a very small sample)
Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Sermon of St John the Baptist (detail) 1566
Cristofano Allori, John the Baptist in the Desert, 17th Century
Matthias Grunewald, Detail from the Isenheimer Altar 1512-1516
Stained Glass window at the Melkite Catholic Annunciation Cathedral in Roslindale, MA depicting Christ the King with the regalia of a Byzantine Emperor
Hubert van Eyck, Genter Altar, Altar des Mystischen Lammes (before 1432) in the Cathedral St. Bavo, Gent
Icon of Crucifixion in the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens
Miguel Angel Buonarroti, Copia desde la Crucifixion dibujada (1540)
Reproduction of Carl Heinrich Bloch’s, Christ on the Cross (1870)
This is one of those festivals where there are no shortage of images for either the kingly side, particularly in Roman Catholic Churches, and the Crucifixion. I have included a couple images of each, and I used images of the crucifixion I had not previously used in other posts
The primary text this week is Jesus talking about the destruction of the Temple, so there are a number of good temple related images:
The Temple by Radojavor@deviantart.com
Model of the Second Temple at the time of Jesus
James Tissot, Reconstruction of Jerusalem and the Temple of Herod, painted between 1886 and 1894
The Disciples Admire the Buildings of the Temple, James Tissot
The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by Romans Under the Command of Titus, A.D. 70 by David Roberts 1850
This is the confrontation between Jesus and the Sadducees in Luke 20: 27-40, Job19: 23-27 and 2 Thessalonians 2: 1-5, 13-17
Before I get into specific Sunday there is a really cool link to the Wikipedia Commons for James Tissot’s Paintings of the Life of Christ, roughly 436 paintings from various scenes.
Job (oil on canvas) by Bonnat, Leon Joseph Florentin (1833-1922)
For a little fun from United Methodist Memes
James Tissot, Annas and Ciaphas (between 1886-1894)
James Tissot, The Chief Priests Take Counsel Together (1886-1894)
Ezekiel’s Vision: Resurrection of the Dead, Synagogue interior wood panel Dura Europos, Syria
Luca Signorelli, Resurrection of the Flesh (1499-1502)
Sign of the Rose 