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  2. Gallery of the Sistine Chapel ceiling - Wikipedia

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    Above the windows are a series of families with young children. The children may represent particular children who are mentioned in the Bible, such as Isaac and Samuel . The composition of many of the pictures is similar to that found in depictions of the Holy Family resting on the Flight into Egypt .

  3. Gustave Doré's illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours

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    Héliodore Pisan after Gustave Doré, "The Crucifixion", wood-engraving from La Grande Bible de Tours (1866). It depicts the situation described in Luke 23.. The illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours are a series of 241 wood-engravings, designed by the French artist, printmaker, and illustrator Gustave Doré (1832–1883) for a new deluxe edition of the 1843 French translation of the ...

  4. Religious images in Christian theology - Wikipedia

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    [6] Later, during the Iconoclastic Fury, Calvinists removed statues and sacred art from churches that adopted the Reformed faith. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The church father John of Damascus argued "that God's taking on human form sanctified the human image, noting that the humanity of Christ formed an image of God; therefore, artists could use human images ...

  5. Bible for children - Wikipedia

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    Children's Bibles, or Bibles for children, are often collections of Bible stories rather than actual translations of the Bible and are aimed at children. [1] These adaptations of the Bible are written to be more understandable and entertaining for younger audiences. [2] There is a range of simplicity across various children's Bible publications.

  6. The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible - Wikipedia

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    The episodes were not released in an order consistent with the Biblical chronology, but can be construed to give a coherent story beginning with "The Creation" and ending with "The Easter Story". The first six episodes, released simultaneously, relate Old Testament stories, with episodes pertaining to the life of Jesus being added among some ...

  7. Openclipart - Wikipedia

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    Openclipart, also called Open Clip Art Library, is an online media repository of free-content vector clip art.The project hosts over 160,000 free graphics and has billed itself as "the largest community of artists making the best free original clipart for you to use for absolutely any reason".

  8. Category:Paintings based on the Old Testament - Wikipedia

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    This category is located at Category:Old Testament subjects in art. Note: This category should be empty. The following categories are used to track and monitor this redirect:

  9. Restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes - Wikipedia

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    The ceiling before the restoration [c]. The preliminary experimentation for the modern restoration began in 1979. The restoration team comprised Gianluigi Colalucci, Maurizio Rossi, Piergiorgio Bonetti, and others, [6] who took as their guidelines the Rules for restoration of works of art as established in 1978 by Carlo Pietrangeli, director of the Vatican's Laboratory for the Restoration of ...