Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Susanna e i Vecchioni (Susanna and the Elders) 1552–1555 Oil on canvas, 58 x 116 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This canvas is part of a group of six paintings: Susannah and the Elders (P386), Esther and…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Belshazzar’s Feast c.1636–1638 Oil on canvas, 167.6 x 209.2 cm National Gallery, London Belshazzar’s Feast was painted somewhere between 1636 and 1638, when Rembrandt was about 30 years old. He had to make his way in Amsterdam, a…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Bathsheba at Her Bath 1654 Oil on canvas, 142 x 142 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Subject taken from the Bible (II Book of Samuel, the importance of the letter delivered to Bathsheba, the strong point of an…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) An Old Woman Reading, Probably the Prophetess Hannah 1631 Oil on panel, 60 x 48 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Here the light comes from behind the old woman: the brightest illumination falls on the book and her wrinkled hand,…
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Abraham receiving the three angels of the Lord c.1680–1685 Oil on canvas, 120 x 164 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Episode taken from the Bible (Genesis, XVIII, 6-15). In the background, Sarah, Abraham’s old wife, who will…
Guercino (1591-1666) Giuseppe e la moglie di Putifar (Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife) 1649 Oil on canvas, 123.2 x 158 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A nude woman with pale pink skin reclines under cream-white sheets in a bed as…
Guercino (1591-1666) Susanna e i vecchioni (Susanna and the Elders) 1617 Oil on canvas, 176 x 208 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Historian Denis Mahon has masterfully shown that this painting and two other famous works by Guercino –Lot and…
Director: Cecil B. DeMille Producer: Cecil B. DeMille Screenplay: Fredric M. Frank, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Harold Lamb, Jesse L. Lasky, Jr. Genre: Historical | Biblical | Drama Music: Victor Young, Ray Evans (song), Jay Livingston (song) Country: United States Language: English…
Director: Cecil B. DeMille Producer: Cecil B. DeMille, Henry Wilcoxon Screenplay: Æneas MacKenzie, Jesse L. Lasky, Jr., Jack Gariss, Fredric M. Frank Based on: Pillar of Fire by Joseph Holt Ingraham, On Eagle’s Wings by A. E. Southon, Prince of Egypt…
Director: William Wyler Producer: Sam Zimbalist Screenplay: Karl Tunberg Based on: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) by Lew Wallace Narrated by: Finlay Currie Genre: Epic | Historical | Biblical | Drama Music: Miklós Rózsa Country: United States Language: English…