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Artist

Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475–1564

Works featured in these exhibitions


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

In the Beginning

Genesis 1:1–2

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

The Sixth Day of Creation

Genesis 1:24–31

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

The Drunkenness of Noah

Genesis 9:18–10:32

Hendrick ter Brugghen by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Jacob Reproaching Laban for Giving him Leah in Place of Rachel by Hendrick ter Brugghen
Pregnant Self Portrait by Ghislaine Howard

Leah’s Struggles

Genesis 29:21–35

Prophet Zechariah by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Re-building of the Temple in Jerusalem, from Dore Bible by Gustave Doré
Everyone Who Mourns Jerusalem Reaps Its Joy (At the Wailing Wall) by Hermann Struck

The Exalted Return to Jerusalem

Zechariah 1

Vinicius Silva de Almeida [Vinicius S.A] by Rembrandt van Rijn
Tears of Saint Peter (Lagrimas de São Pedro) by Vinicius Silva de Almeida [Vinicius S.A]
The Crucifixion of Saint Peter by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Peter’s Denial of Christ

Matthew 26:69–75; Mark 14:66–72; Luke 22:54–62; John 18:15–18, 25–27

Lamentation over the Dead Christ by Andrea Mantegna
The Entombment (or Christ being carried to his Tomb) by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Invisible Mother by Urs Fischer

The Burial of Christ

Matthew 27:57–61; Mark 15:42–47; Luke 23:50–56; John 19:38–42

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‘I am the Resurrection and the Life’

John 11:1–44

Conversion of Saul by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
The Conversion of Saul by Michelangelo Buonarroti
The Conversion of Saul by William Blake

The Road To Damascus

Acts of the Apostles 22 & 26

Deposition by Andrey Rublyov
Pietà for Vittoria Colonna by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Deposition by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

The Birth of the Church

Ephesians 4:1–16

Theodor Metochites presenting model of the church of the Chora to Christ by Unknown artist
Rondanini Pietà by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Wooden Reliquary Box with Stones from the Holy Land by Unknown Syrian or Palestinian artist

A Living Stone and a Chosen People

1 Peter 2:1–10

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The Last Judgement

Revelation 20:11–15


Bry, Johann Theodor de Burnand, Eugène

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