Masters of interpreting the Bible

Author: Shui Sheng
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This book selects works by master artists such as Rembrandt, Bruegel, and Turner, who, with their exceptional painting skills, interpret the wondrous work of the Bible. Their talents vary: Turner's works are grand, majestic, and awe-inspiring, radiating creativity and eternity, evoking the fiery prophet Elijah and the Book of Isaiah today; Bruegel's works are sorrowful and nightmarish, filled with a painful, dreamlike quality, resembling the Lamentations of Jeremiah; Rembrandt's skills are extraordinary, his works telling stories with a spiritual humility and patience, like the Gospel of Luke, which is as vivid as painting and as elegant as poetry. However, through the analysis of their works, it can be found that the Bible has given them the highest realm of art—life.