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The Visual Bible, also Visual Bible Project is the name used by two distinct projects to film, verbatim, books of the New Testament. The first Visual Bible project produced The Visual Bible: Matthew (1993) and The Visual Bible: Acts (1994) starring Italian - American actor Bruce Marchiano as Jesus .
The Visual Bible: Matthew (also known as The Gospel According to Matthew) is a 1993 film portraying the life of Jesus as it is found in the Gospel of Matthew. The complete Gospel is presented word-for-word based on the New International Version of the Bible .
Because they are faithful reproductions of a two-dimensional works of art on which copyright has expired, the images are themselves in the public domain. (See Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag ) Note that the pictures from Pantaleon's "Prosopographiae" should be taken with 'a grain of salt': It appears that he reused the same woodcuts to ...
The Visual Bible: Acts is a 1994 American Christian film directed by Regardt van den Bergh and starring Henry O. Arnold, James Brolin, Dean Jones, and Bruce Marchiano. It depicts the events of the Acts of the Apostles from the New Testament. All of the dialogue is word-for-word scripture, taken directly from the New International Version of the ...
The Biblia pauperum (Latin for "Paupers' Bible") was a tradition of picture Bibles beginning probably with Ansgar, and a common printed block-book in the later Middle Ages to visualize the typological correspondences between the Old and New Testaments. Unlike a simple "illustrated Bible", where the pictures are subordinated to the text, these ...
British Library – Over a million images, taken mostly from illustrations in 17th, 18th and 19th Century books, released into the public domain, as announced on the British Library blog. Metadata about the images and the books from which they come is also available for download on Github. Pixnio – A large collection of high resolution public ...
The Wiedmann Bible (original) The idea of translating Bible verses into images was initiated in 1984, when Willy Wiedmann was assigned to redecorate the interior of the Pauluskirche in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen/Germany. [3] [4] He always wanted to simplify and engage more people with the Bible. He finished his works in 2000.
The Velislaus Bible or Velislav's Bible (Czech: Velislavova bible; Latin Velislai biblia picta) is an illuminated manuscript of 1325–1349. It is in effect a picture-book of the Bible, as the text is limited to brief titles or descriptions of the 747 pictures from the Old Testament and the New Testament , from the writings about the Antichrist ...