The National Gallery’s Religious Art– Part One

The National Gallery’s Religious Art– Part One

While lots of people know all about the impressive Impressionist collection at the National Gallery, as well as many others, less well known is that there is a considerable amount of Christian art in the museum as well. For example, here’s the famous Salvador Dali surrealist painting of the Last Supper, or maybe a meal with a see through risen Jesus….

Hendrik Goltzius a 16th century Dutch painter offers us a picture of the moment when Adam and Eve ‘fell’…
Notice in the background hanging from the tree, the snake with a female face looking rather like a Medusa figure.

There are a variety of paintings of churches, and here are two of them. This is Oude Kerk in Amsterdam in the 16th century, painted by Emmanuel de Witte.

The church depicted above is the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Hertogenbosch rendered by Dutch artist Pieter Jansz (17th century).


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