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Francesco di Vannuccio, Crucifix, ca. 1370 . The Museum & Gallery, Inc. is currently located on the campus of Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina. It was established in 1951, and focuses on sacred art, mainly European Old Master paintings, but also includes smaller collections of sculpture, furniture, architectural elements, textiles, Greek and Russian icons, and ancient artifacts.
Bob Jones University (BJU) is a private university in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. It is known for its conservative and evangelical cultural and religious positions. The university, with approximately 3,000 students, is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) and the ...
The case was heard on October 12, 1982, and on May 24, 1983, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Bob Jones University in Bob Jones University v. United States (461 U.S. 574). The university refused to reverse its interracial dating policy and (with difficulty) paid a million dollars in back taxes.
The Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery is strong in Baroque paintings and includes works by Rubens, Tintoretto, Veronese, Cranach, Gerard David, Murillo, Mattia Preti, Ribera, van Dyck and Doré. The museum is the largest collection of religious art in the Western Hemisphere and remained Jones' hobby for the remainder of his life.
In 1970, Bopp joined two other BJU faculty members, Darell Koons and Carl Blair, in founding Hampton III Gallery, one of the first commercial galleries in Upstate South Carolina. [8] Bopp also enjoyed performing in BJU films and Shakespearean productions, nearly making a career of playing harmless old men. [2] In 1948, Bopp married Marian Meyer.
An executive vice president at Bob Jones University has been named interim president of the 96-year-old fundamentalist Christian school in Greenville.
In March 2020, he married Karen Rowe, a member of the BJU English faculty. [6] Jones's younger son, Stephen, replaced him as president of BJU in May 2005 when Jones took the title, "Chancellor." Jones remains chair of the International Testimony to an Infallible Bible and chair of the board of directors of the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery.
In 1992 he received a bachelor's degree in public speaking from BJU and in 1996, a Master of Divinity. On the day he became University president in 2005, Jones also received a Ph.D. in Liberal Arts Studies from BJU. [1] Jones's wife, Erin Rodman Jones, who is the Director of the BJU Museum & Gallery, is also a BJU graduate. They have three ...