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October 15, 2006
Bible in Art
I hate this time of the semester - I'm choosing textbooks for next semester and suddenly getting more interested in that than this.
On the other hand, I'm teaching the first half of medieval for the first time in 2 years (it's a long story involving a leave and team-teaching for why I haven't lately). I haven't decided yet, but I did decide to look at the handouts I use for Bible Knowledge.
You see, I gave up long ago. None of them know anything about scripture. None of them will have learned anything about scripture since they got to college which would be useful for understanding the cultural deposit. Therefore I have to teach them - or stop and explain every other slide.
So my Art 270, Art of the First Christian Millennium, begins with a Bible Knowledge workbook. I've been doing and redoing this for a few iterations (including the semester in Rome) and it's getting pretty sophisticated. I sat down just now and flipped through my currently favored textbook and checked and am pleased with how closely the images they chose match my list of themes to cover.
Click on extended entry if you want my current list of what will get you through a pre-Renaissance art course.
Infancy – Annunciation
Infancy - Visitation
Infancy – Nativity
Infancy – Visit of the Shepherds, Magi
Infancy – Flight into Egypt
Infancy – Herod and the Innocents
Miracles – healing blind man
Miracles – Lepers
Miracles - Raising of Lazarus
Miracles – Woman with Flow of Blood
Mission – Feed my Sheep
Mission - John the Baptist
Mission – Mary & Martha
Mission - Parables - Shepherds
Mission - Parables - Vines
Mission - Peter & Keys
Mission – Storm on Sea of Galilee
Mission - Transfiguration
Mission - Whoever has done it unto the least of these…
Passion – Christ before Pilate
Passion – Crucifixion
Passion - Entry into Jerusalem
Passion – Garden of Gethsemane
Passion – Lamentation / Deposition
Post-Passion – Ascension
Post-Passion – Doubting Thomas
Post-Passion – Emmaus
Post-Passion – Harrowing of Hell
Post-Passion – Marys at tomb
Acts - descriptiosn of early Church (esp house space)
Acts – Peter and Tabitha (unusual choice)
Acts - Pentecost
Apocalypse – 144,000
Apocalypse – 4 Horsemen
Apocalypse – Devil bound
Apocalypse – Firey furnace
Apocalypse - Heaven – Elders on Thrones
Apocalypse – Matthew version – in the sky
Apocalypse – One Enthroned on Rainbow
Apocalypse – Woman Clothed with the Sun
Marian – Coronation
Marian – Dormition
Genesis - Adam & Eve
Genesis – Cain & Abel
Genesis – Noah
Genesis - Abraham – 3 Visitors, Sacrifice of Isaac
Genesis – Jacob & Esau
Genesis – Joseph
Exodus – Red Sea
Exodus – Bronze serpent*
Samuel – Choosing of David
Samuel – David & Goliath
Samuel – Jesse’s Dream / Tree of Jesse
Kings - Ark of the Covenant
Jonah – under gourd vine as well as Whale bit
Daniel – Susannah and the Elders
Psalms – David as composer
Psalm 1
Psalm 22/23
Psalm 43/44
Psalm 150
Posted by CrankyProfessor at October 15, 2006 8:11 PM