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ELCA
Library > Electronic Bookshelf > Gallery
of Christian Art
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Anno
Domini : Jesus through the Centuries from the Canadian Heritage Information Network and the
Provincial Museum of Alberta. Jaroslav Pelikan is the
honorary curator of this virtual art gallery which is based on
his book.
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Asian Christian art
Association, founded in 1978
to
encourage artists to express Christian concern through their art
in an Asian context.
- Art
Index for College Teaching is a non-commercial site
dedicated to the principle of free exchange of image resources
for and among members of the educational community.
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Christians in the Visual Arts exists to explore and
nurture the relationship between the visual arts and the
Christian faith. Founded in 1979, CIVA first met to consider the
place of the Christian artist in the church and in the
world-at-large. Site includes artists' galleries and
useful links
- Christus
Rex et Redemptor Mundi is your doorway into the Virtual
Vatican Art Museum with its countless treasurers by the
"old masters." It includes pictures from churches,
cathedrals, and monasteries all over the world.
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The Cooperative
Digital Resources Initiative of the American Theological
Library Association and Association of Theological Schools is a
repository of digital resources contributed by member libraries.
- Danish
Gospel frescos in Danish churches 1050-1150 AD depicting
the life of Jesus.
- David
J. Hetland / Hetland Ltd. is a collection of this
contemporary artist's commissioned work in stained glass,
murals, mosaics, and other media. Most of the works have been
commissioned by Lutheran churches, schools, and organizations.
The tour includes a description of the biblical texts and
themes which have inspired each work.
- Eikon
Image and Text Library Database for Biblical Studies from Yale Divinity
School
- John
August Swanson exciting depiction of Bible stories.
His art reflects the strong
heritage of storytelling he inherited from his Mexican mother
and Swedish father.
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Joan
Bohlig
"My family’s Christian heritage, and
the Bible yield an unending source of wonderful material. The
making of these etchings has positively changed my life and I
anticipate continuing on with this series as long as I am able."
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Lindisfarne Gospels and the Luttrell Psalter displayed with
fascinating technology that allows the viewer to slide a
magnifier over the images.
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Paul T. Granlund,
sculptor-in-residence at Gustavus Adolphus College
from 1971 until his retirement in 1996, died on Sept. 15, 2003,
in Mankato, Minn. In a creative career spanning more than 50
years and more than 650 works, he had been recognized as a
premier sculptor throughout the United States and abroad.
- Scrolls
from the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran and
Modern Scholarship, a Library of Congress exhibit.
- Religion
and the Arts on the World Wide Web contains links to many
museums and other sources of art with religious themes.
- Reformation
Picture Gallery offers digital versions of the portraits
and places of the Reformation.
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Richard
C. Kessler Reformation Collection at Pitts Theology
Library, Candler School of Theology Emory University. A
digital image archive selected from among the 2,500 volumes
related to the Protestant Reformation in Germany down to 1570.
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Sandra Bowden Sandra Bowden's art is a complex
meditation on time incorporating biblical archaeological
references, segments of language and text, inscribed artifacts,
timeworn pages from antique bibles, and intriguing musical
scores and facsimiles.
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Solomon Raj Gallery Solomon Raj is a Lutheran Pastor
from Kerala, South India. He has lectured in many parts of the
world, particularly in America, and Germany. For many years he
has used Batiks and Woodcuts to portray Gospel themes and
stories in an Indian style, but also a style that is uniquely
his own.
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Sybil Andrews Linocut artist.
- Symbols
in Christian Art and Architecture Walter E. Gast has
created an interesting and useful site for Christian symbols.
The images are under copyright, but you are invited to use
them, provided credit is given.
- Portraits
and Scenes from the Life of Luther from the ELCA Archives.
- "A
Sword Shall Pierce Your Own Soul Too" A
collection of wood-cut prints by Albrecht Dürer
(1471-1528) presented by the Concordia Historical Institute.
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Vinayak Masoji
The life of Jesus Christ was often the subject of his
paintings, which are the prized possessions of Churches in India
and abroad.
- The
Word Made Visible, the permanent art collection of the
Lutheran Center in Chicago. Here you can view the art
collection and learn about the artists.
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