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  2. Ittai Weinryb

Ittai Weinryb

Associate Professor, Bard Graduate Center, New York City

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The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise by Giovanni di Paolo. An old man with a golden halo (God) swoops down from the upper left-hand corner. He points to the universe below, depicted as a series of concentric circles with the Earth in the centre. The sun and other cosmic bodies are depicted within the concentrated universe. On the right-hand side, nude figures (Adam and Eve) are being evicted from a garden by an angel (nude with wings & halo). Beneath, four rivers flow from arid ground
God as Creator of the World with a Compass, from the Bible moralisée by Unknown artist. •	In the centre sits a bearded, long-haired, haloed figure (Christ), dressed in blue and red. In his arm, he holds the universe in the form of a sphere of swirls of blue, green, black, and yellow. In his other hand, he holds a geometric compass, the needles pressed against the sphere’s centre and edge. An angel sits in each corner against a golden background. They hold up a quatrefoil frame which encircles Christ.
The Separation of Light and Dark by Michelangelo Buonarroti. God in the centre is clothed in red surrounded by four nude figures, one in each corner. The four sit in different positions atop respective stone platforms, in front of stone pillars. Two bronze shields/medallions are between them on opposing sides of the composition. God is framed by the stone pillars, shown in a contrapposto pose, and lifts his hands into the sky and separating the light from darkness.

Genesis 1:1–2 In the Beginning


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More Exhibitions

Jacob and the Angel by Jacob Epstein
Vision of the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) by Paul Gauguin
Jakob Ringt mit den Engel (Jacob Wrestles with the Angel) by Max Beckmann

Genesis 32:22–32 Jacob Wrestling the Angel

Two Travellers by Jack B. Yeats
Tobias and the Angel by Andrea del Verrocchio and workshop
Glass fragment with Tobias and the Fish by Unknown Roman artist

Tobit 6–7 Tobias and the Angel

Ecce Ancilla Domini! (The Annunciation) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Annunciation by Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi
The Annunciation, by Filippo Lippi

Luke 1:26–38 The Annunciation

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