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Ecclesiastes


Vanitas Still Life with Self-Portrait by David Bailly
Flowers in a Glass Vase with a Tulip by Rachel Ruysch
A Landscape with a Ruined Castle and a Church by Jacob van Ruisdael

Ecclesiastes 1:1–12 Vanity of Vanities

Lemons and Limes by Bartolomeo Bimbi
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? by Paul Gauguin
Green Disaster #2 (Green Disaster Ten Times) by Andy Warhol

Ecclesiastes 1:12–2:26 Philosophy, Pleasure, and Folly

Allegory of the City of Madrid by Francisco de Goya
Self-Portrait at the Easel by Rembrandt van Rijn
The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid (The Executions) by Francisco de Goya

Ecclesiastes 3 For Everything a Season

The Wise Farmer, by Debra Band
The Day is Short and the Work is Much & When the King is a Child, by Debra Band
Wisdom is Better than Strength, by Debra Band

Ecclesiastes 9:13–11:7 The Elusive Secret to Meaningful Life


Show all exhibitions from the Bible book Proverbs
Show all exhibitions from the Bible book Song of Solomon

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General Resurrection from the Bamberg-Eichstätt Psalter by unknown German artist
Sarcophagus of Theodore by Unknown Italian artist
The Resurrection, Cookham by Stanley Spencer

1 Corinthians 15:35–58 Bodily Resurrection

Yellow Crucifixion by Marc Chagall
Christ appearing to Saint Peter on the Appian Way (Domine, Quo Vadis?) by Annibale Carracci
The Last Judgement by The Last Judgement

1 Peter 4:12–19 Finding Meaning in Suffering

The War in Heaven (pane 7g), part of The Great East Window of York Minster
Saint Michael and the Devil by Unknown Spanish Artist
The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Revelation 12:7–12 War in Heaven

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