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Genesis


The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise by Giovanni di Paolo
God as Creator of the World with a Compass, from the Bible moralisée by Unknown artist [Paris]
The Separation of Light and Dark by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Genesis 1:1–2 In the Beginning

The Creation from the series Illustrations of the Bible by John Martin
Baptistry window in Coventry Cathedral by John Piper and Nicholas Patrick Reyntiens
"The Division of the Light from the Darkness," illustration III, in the book Genesis from the Bible (Soho, London: The Nonesuch Press) by Paul Nash

Genesis 1:3–5 Let There be Light

The Nebra Sky Disk, by an unknown artist
Peapod with ten biblical scenes, by an unknown German artist
Fossil Necklace, by Katie Paterson

Genesis 1:6–23 The Heavens and the Earth

The Creation of the World, Endpaper from Wittenberg Luther Bible of 1534 by Lucas Cranach the Younger and Monogrammist MS
The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Tapestry of Creation (The Girona Tapestry) by Unknown artist

Genesis 1:24–31 The Sixth Day of Creation

The Creation of Adam, After Michelangelo by Vik Muniz
The Creation of Adam by Unknown Byzantine artist
'The Creation of God' by Harmonia Rosales

Genesis 2:4–8 Forming the Human

The Garden of Eden, by Thomas Cole
The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych by Hieronymus Bosch
Carpet, by an unknown Persian artist

Genesis 2:9–17 The Garden of Eden

Adam in the Earthly Paradise, diptych valve from the Carrand Diptych by unknown artist
Adam Naming the Animals, detail from the Creation by Unknown Venetian artist
Adam in Paradise by Unknown artist

Genesis 2:18–20 Adam Naming the Animals

Adam and Eve, from The Sarajevo Haggadah, by and unknown Spanish artist
Rebecca 1, by Elena Dorfman
Inner Light I, by Liliane Lijn

Genesis 2:21–25 Woman, the World’s First Idol

The Fall, Adam and Eve Tempted by the Snake, from the Diptych of the Fall and the Redemption, left wing by Hugo van der Goes
The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens
Adam and Eve by Titian

Genesis 3:1–13 The Fall

Madonna and Child with St Anne [Dei Palafrenieri] by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Pietà [Lamentation] by Vecchietta
The Holy Family with the Christ Child Crushing the Serpent with His Feet by Sébastien Bourdon

Genesis 3:14–15 Crushing the Serpent

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Show all exhibitions from the Bible book Exodus

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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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