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Genesis


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

Cain killing Abel by Niccolò Tornioli
Cain and Abel by Titian
Cain slaying Abel by Peter Paul Rubens

Genesis 4:3–16 Cain and Abel

Event Horizon by Antony Gormley
First page of Genealogy, Adam and Eve, from The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures by John Speed, issued in Holy Bible by unknown artist
Mirror Piece I by Joan Jonas

Genesis 5 In the Image and Likeness of God

The Flood by Jacopo Bassano
The Flood of Noah, leaf from Bible Pictures by William de Brailes
The Construction of Noah's Ark by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff,, from Die Schedlsche Weltchronik (Registrum huius Operis libri cronicarum cumfiguris et ymagibus ab inicio mundi) by Hartmann Schedel

Genesis 7 Noah’s Flood

The Exit from the Ark, illumination from the Bedford Hours by Master of the Munich Golden Legend
Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat Simon de Myle
The Flood; unloading the Ark; Noah's offering from the south barrel vault, west narthex by Unknown artist

Genesis 8:1–19 Out of the Ark

The Rainbow and Noah Freeing the Animals from the Ark, from the south barrel vault, west narthex by Unknown artist
Dome by Vincenzo Foppa (?)
Untitled by Dan Flavin

Genesis 8:20–9:17 The First Rainbow

The Drunkenness of Noah by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Drunkenness of Noah by Giovanni Bellini
The Drunkenness of Noah by Bernardo Cavallino

Genesis 9:18–10:32 The Drunkenness of Noah

Babel, by Cildo Meireles
Equivalent VIII by Carl Andre
The Tower of Babel, by Marta Minujín

Genesis 11:1–9 Babel

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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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