Category: Art & Music

Visual art opening and exploring the texts we “read, study, learn and inwardly digest.” Music and notes about music used to open and celebrate the texts read in worship.

Eight Van Gogh Sowers. | Art for A Proper 10

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Matthew 13:1-3 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying: “Listen! A sower went out to sow.

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The Sower
The Sower (after Millet)
Oil on canvas
80.8 x 66.0 cm.
Saint-Rémy: Late October, 1889
F 690, JH 1837
Collection Niarchos
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The Sower
The Sower (after Millet)
Oil on canvas
64.0 x 55.0 cm.
Saint-Rémy: October-November, 1889
F 689, JH 1836
Otterlo: Kröller-Müller Museum
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The Sower
The Sower (study)
Oil on canvas
19.0 x 27.5 cm.
The Hague: August, 1883
F 11, JH 392
Location unknown
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The Sower
The Sower
Oil on canvas
64.0 x 80.5 cm.
Arles: June, 1888
F 422, JH 1470
Otterlo: Kröller-Müller Museum
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The Sower
The Sower
Oil on canvas
32.0 x 40.0 cm.
Arles: November, 1888
F 451, JH 1629
Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum
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The Sower
The Sower
Oil on burlap on canvas
73.5 x 93.0 cm.
Arles: November, 1888
F 450, JH 1627
Zurich: Foundation E.G. Bührle
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The Sower
The Sower
Oil on canvas
72.0 x 91.5 cm.
Arles: October, 1888
F 494, JH 1617
Winterthur: Villa Flora
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The Sower
The Sower
Outskirts of Arles in the Background
Oil on canvas
33.6 x 40.4 cm.
Arles: September, 1888
F 575a, JH 1596
Los Angeles: The Armand Hammer Museum of Art
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Eliezer and Rebecca (Track 1) Entry Into Jerusalem ( Track 2 )| Art for A Proper 9

RCL Track 1
Genesis 24:43-44 I am standing here by the spring of water; let the young woman who comes out to draw, to whom I shall say, “Please give me a little water from your jar to drink,” and who will say to me, “Drink, and I will draw for your camels also” –let her be the woman whom the LORD has appointed for my master’s son.’

Eliezer and Rebecca
BRAY, Salomon de
Eliezer and Rebecca
1660
Oil on canvas, 90 x 156 cm and three sketches
Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai
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Eliezer and Rebecca
BRAY, Salomon de
Eliezer and Rebecca
1659
Pen in brown, brush, grey wash, 86 x 145 mm
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich
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Eliezer and Rebecca
BRAY, Salomon de
Eliezer and Rebecca
1659
Pen in brown, brush, grey wash, 89 x 145 mm
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
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Eliezer and Rebecca
BRAY, Salomon de
Eliezer and Rebecca
1660
Pen in brown, brush, grey wash, 182 x 312 mm
Kunsthalle, Hamburg
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RCL Track 2
Zechariah 9:10
Lo, your king comes to you;
triumphant and victorious is he,
humble and riding on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey

Entry Into Jerusalem
Manuscript illumination
ca.1030-1040
Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment
232 mm (9.13 in). Width: 160 mm (6.3 in).
Getty Center, Los Angeles
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Sacrifice of Isaac | Art for A Proper 8

Genesis 22:1-2 After these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you.”

Sacrifice of Isaac
Sacrifice of Isaac
Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985
Painting
Musée du Message Biblique Marc-Chagall
Nice
France

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Hagar in the Wilderness | Art for A Proper 7

21:17 And God heard the voice of the boy; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid; for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

Hagar in the Wilderness
LANFRANCO, Giovanni
(b. 1582, Parma, d. 1647, Roma)
Hagar in the Wilderness
Oil on canvas, 138 x 159 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
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Holy Trinity | Art for A Trinity

2 Corinthians 13:13
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.

Holy Trinity
Rublev, Andreĭ, Saint, d. ca. 1430
Holy Trinity
Painting, panel
1400
Gosudarstvennai︠a︡ Tretʹi︠a︡kovskai︠a︡ galerei︠a︡
Moscow
Russia
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Pentecost | Art for A Pentecost

Acts 2:1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

Pentecost
DORFFMEISTER, István
Pentecost
1782
Oil on canvas, 55 x 33 cm
Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest
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Pentecost
MILDORFER, Joseph Ignaz
(b. 1719, Innsbruck, d. 1775, Wien)
Pentecost
1750s
Oil on canvas, 55 x 33 cm
Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest
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Same work – two guys- can anyone sort them out????

Ascension | Art for A Easter 7

Acts 1:6-14 When the apostles had come together, they asked Jesus, “Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?” He replied, “It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” When he had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight

Ascension
MOSAIC ARTIST, Italian
(active 1175-1200 in Venice)
Crossing (Ascension) cupola
1175-1200
Mosaic
Basilica di San Marco, Venice
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Elohim Creating Adam | Art for A Easter 6

Acts 17:26 From one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live.

Elohim Creating Adam
BLAKE, William
(b. 1757, London, d. 1827, London)
BLAKE, William
Elohim Creating Adam
1795
Watercolour, 420 x 535 mm
Tate Gallery, London
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The Stoning of St Stephen | Art for A Easter 5

7:58-59 Then they dragged him out of the city and began to stone him; and the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul. While they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

The Stoning of St Stephen
ANGELICO, Fra
(b. ca. 1400, Vicchio nell Mugello, d. 1455, Roma)
The Stoning of St Stephen
1447-49
Fresco, 326 x 236 cm
Cappella Niccolina, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican
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Jesus the Good Shepherd | Art for A Easter 4

Psalm 23:1 The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.

Jesus the Good Shepherd
Le Breton, Jacques ; Gaudin, Jean
Jesus the Good Shepherd
 Stained-glass composition by J. Le Breton (glass studio of Gaudin, Paris), 1933.
 Cathédrale d’Amiens (1508-1519)
Amiens
France
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