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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 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

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

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

Mother and Child (Divided) by Damien Hirst
Fragile Goddess by Louise Bourgeois
Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel (Genesis 4), from the Ashburnham Pentateuch (Tours Pentateuch; Codex Turonensis) by Unknown artist

Genesis 3:16, 20; 4:1–2
Eve’s Punishment

The Potato Eaters by Vincent van Gogh
Adam and Eve by Jan Gossaert
Aschenblume by Anselm Kiefer

Genesis 3:17–19, 23
Adam’s Curse

The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden by Masaccio
Hereford Mappa Mundi by Richard of Haldingham and Lafford [Richard de Bello]
Adam and Eve (Banished from the Garden) by Damien Hirst

Genesis 3:22–24
Expulsion and Exile

Pagination

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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

The Visitation by Unknown Cypriot Artist
The Visitation by Pontormo
The Visitation by El Greco

Luke 1:39–45

Quickening Creation

Tree of Jesse from an English Psalter in Latin by Unknown English Artist
Untitled (Rejoice!), from 'Inflammatory Essays' by Jenny Holzer
The Peaceable Kingdom by Edward Hicks

Isaiah 11:1–10

War and Peace

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