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  2. Damien Hirst

Artist Damien Hirst, b.1965

Works featured in these exhibitions


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 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

Fishman in Excelsis Table, by Paul Thek
Kinlochbervie, by John Bellany
Isolated Elements Swimming in the Same Direction for the Purpose of Understanding (Left), by Damien Hirst

Matthew 4:12–22; Mark 1:14–20 Fishers of People

The Farnese Atlas, by an unknown Roman artist
Monument to the Living and the Dead, by Damien Hirst
Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky, by Emily Carr

John 3:16–21 The Power of Love

Maid in London (Sweeping It Under the Carpet) by Banksy
For the Love of God by Damien Hirst
Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve ('The Ambassadors') by Hans Holbein

James 4:13–5:6 Rotten Riches


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More Exhibitions

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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