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

More Exhibitions

Joseph Sold into Slavery, Bad Blood, False Accusations and Portents of the Future, from The Crusader Bible (The Morgan Picture Bible) by Unknown French artist

Zulaykha Seizing the Skirt of Yusuf's Robe, from a Yusuf and Zulaykha of Jami by Unknown Bukharan artist

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife and Scenes from the life of Joseph, from the Golden Haggadah by Unknown artist

Genesis 39
Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife

Christ and the Samaritan Woman by Lavinia Fontana

Christ and the Samaritan Woman by Unknown artist

The Woman at the Well by Diego Rivera

John 4:1–42
The Woman at the Well

Jali Lattice Window by Mughal artists from Gujurat

Self Portrait in a Fur-Trimmed Robe by Albrecht Dürer

Still Life with Vessels by Francisco de Zurbarán

2 Corinthians 3:12–4:18
From Glory to Glory Advancing