Photograph of a carpenter's shop in Palestine

Description of Illustration: modern carpenter's shop in Palestine, boys, teens and men, tools, labor, wood, iron, tables, restored photograph

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Prayer in the desert

Description of Illustration: Arab, camel, sands of the desert, yellow and grey clip art

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Blowing of The Ram's Horn

Description of Illustration: blowing the ram's horn, Jewish traditions, head covering, clip art comes in blue, tan and grey versions

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Jaffa's Road to Bethlehem

Description of Illustration: The Old Road from Jaffa Gate to Jerusalem and then to Bethlehem, potter's shed donkeys, long winding road, tents, people, restored photograph

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A tiny Syrian maid with her pet

Description of Illustration: plants, child, stones, small puppy, bare feet, curly hair, humble beginnings, little girl

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Algerian Shepherds

Description of Illustration: restored photograph, sheep, donkey, three shepherds resting

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Young Syrian Boys

Description of Illustration: Syrian children, boys, sheep skin garments, stone wall, black and white illustration

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Son of a Sheik

Description of Illustration: garments of a sheik's son, drawing made prior to WWI, greyscale portrait restored

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Watering The Goats in Palestine

Description of Illustration:  shepherds water their goats at a well in Palestine, subtle colors, baskets, rocks, head coverings,

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Life and Times of Jesus by Tissot

Samples of watercolor paintings by James Tissot from The Life and Times of Jesus.

        In 1885, Tissot had a revival of his Catholic faith, which led him to spend the rest of his life making paintings about Biblical events. Many of his artist friends were skeptical about his conversion, as it conveniently coincided with the French Catholic revival, a reaction against the secular attitude of the French Third Republic. At a time when French artists were working in impressionism, pointilism, and heavy oil washes, Tissot was moving toward realism in his watercolors. To assist in his completion of biblical illustrations, Tissot traveled to the Middle East in 1886, 1889, and 1896 to make studies of the landscape and people. His series of 365 gouache (opaque watercolor) illustrations showing the life of Christ were shown to critical acclaim and enthusiastic audiences in Paris (1894–5), London (1896) and New York (1898–9), before being bought by the Brooklyn Museum in 1900. They were published in a French edition in 1896–7 and in an English one in 1897–8, bringing Tissot vast wealth and fame. During July 1894, Tissot was awarded the Légion d'honneur, France's most prestigious medal. Tissot spent the last years of his life working on paintings of subjects from the Old Testament. Although he never completed the series, he exhibited 80 of these paintings in Paris in 1901 and engravings after them were published in 1904.

From the Life and Times of Jesus by Tissot:

1. The Adoration of The Magi
2. The Magnificat
3. Saint Joseph seeks a lodging at Bethlehem
4. The Massacre of the Innocents
5. The Childhood of Saint John the Baptist
6. Jesus found!
7. The Winnower
8. The Baptism of Jesus
9. Calling of Saint Andrew and Saint John
10. All the City was gathered together at the door
11. Healing of the Lepers at Capernaum 
12. Jesus teaching on the sea-shore
13. In the Villages the sick were brought unto Him
14. The Pharisee and the Publican
15. The Resurrection of Lazarus
16. The evil Counsel of Caiaphas 
17. The first Denial of Saint Peter
18. Our Lord Jesus Christ
19. Judas and with him a great multitude
20. The Bridge over the Brook Kedron
21. Christ mocked in the House of Caiaphas
22. What Our Savior saw from the Cross
23. The Scourging of the Face
24. The Scouring of the Back
25. The Crown of Thorns
26. The Scala Sancta
27. Simon of Cyrene compelled to bear the Cross
28. The Penitent Thief
29. Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani!
30. It is finished 
31. The People beholding the things that were done smote their breasts
32. The Soul of the Penitent Thief
33. The Descent from the Cross
34. Christ carried to the Tomb
35. The Resurrection
36. Christ appearing to Saint Peter

self portrait of Tissot

       In an article by Clifton Harby Levy he says of Tissot and his paintings: "He went to Palestine, there to study the places associated by Scripture and tradition with the name of Jesus. He stayed there two or three months, making sketches which he thought would suffice for paintings dealing with Jesus and his disciples. He was on the point of returning to Paris, when he looked over his drawings and saw how few and unsatisfactory they were. He determined to make a hundred, but when those were completed their paucity again impressed him. He would make a hundred more; but even then he was unsatisfied. It was only after he had finished three hundred and sixty-five paintings in oil and water color, and had, while ten years had elapsed, made a hundred and fifty pen-and-ink sketches, that he felt content with having done his best to tell the story of Jesus as it had never been told before.

       Mr. Tissot made a careful study of the Gospels. He had read them so often that he knew them by heart, but he felt that without the background of the country and its customs, they were often incomprehensible. He tried to free himself from all prejudices and dogmas. He wished to know "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," and present it by the power of paint and pencil to the Christian world. With this end in view he remained in Palestine for ten long years, following the steps of Jesus as closely as he could that he might catch the spirit and atmosphere of Him he was trying to trace. He could not give a contemporaneous life of Jesus, but he could, at least, try to come as near to it as possible. So he studied every ruin. He talked with the rabbis in Jerusalem; he conversed with Turk and Syrian, learning all of the traditions so carefully treasured up in the Orient.

       He trod, as far as could be ascertained, the very places where Jesus walked, and on the hallowed soil he posed his living models--men and women who, with costume and custom unchanged by the centuries might fitly represent the figures of the past, In the consecrated enthusiasm of his art, he has reproduced, with a realistic fidelity that has astonished the critical world, the scenes and incidents of the Gospel history, with figures full of character, and amid such surroundings as no other painter ever drew. His figures are those of the real people of Palestine of the first century." 

• Bible collections by James Tissot at The Brooklyn Museum of Art
• Portraits by James Tissot

A Creation Mosaic Including Adam and Eve

Description of Illustration: Adam and Eve, garden of paradise, lion, horse, giraffe, dear, mosaic, creation art, transparent background

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Illustration of a Church Organ

Description of Illustration: pipes, old organs, from church, in neutral colors, cathedral pipe organ, located in New York City

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Black and White Clip Art of Church Organs

Description of Illustration: pipes, old organs, from churches and homes, black and white illustration

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Choir Rehearsal

Choir dressed in navy robes.

Description of Illustration: choir rehearsal, robes in: navy, burgundy, gold, green and red

Choir dressed in burgundy robes.

Choir dressed in gold robes.

Choir dressed in green robes.

Choir dressed in red robes.

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Singing In The Choir

Description of Illustration: choir singing, musical notes, leading the choir, choir robes, black and white illustration

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The Conversion of St. Paul

Description of Illustration: stained glass illustration of the conversion of St. Paul, text "Saul, Saul" and "The Conversion of St. Paul", servant, city, scroll, trees, clouds, words of Christ

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Ancient Assyrian Artifacts

Illustration Described: fully restored black and white illustration of Assyrian Artifacts, ancient weapons, carvings

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Pentateuch Written More Than 3200 Years Ago

Illustration Described: three versions: blue, grey and tan, According to rabbinic tradition, all of the teachings found in the Torah, both written and oral, were given by God through Moses, a prophet, some of them at Mount Sinai and others at the Tabernacle, and all the teachings were written down by Moses, which resulted in the Torah we have today. According to a Midrash, the Torah was created prior to the creation of the world, and was used as the blueprint for Creation.

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Ancient Egyptian Country Home

Illustration Described: fully restored Egyptian country house, servant or slave, drawing water from canal, stucco, mud brick, palm trees, beautiful day

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Ancient Egyptian Galley

Illustration Described: restored full color illustration of an Egyptian Galley, The Nile River, sailors

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Marbled Paper: French Curl: wine, blue and neutral colors

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Marbled Paper: French Curl: whites, reds and lavender

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Marbled Paper: French Curl: Greens and Blues

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Marbled Paper: Fantasy: Browns and Tans

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Chained Bibles

A Bible chained to the pulpit.

Description of Illustration: bible, chains, bookcase, library, the word restricted, precious and rare copies, break the chains, give the Word freedom and new life! black and white illustrations

Bibles locked and chained inside of a bookcase.

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Jesus casts out the money changers...

Description of Illustration: Stained glass illustration, Jesus casting out the money changers from the temple., scripture reference, "And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons." Matthew 21:12 English Standard Version, transparent background

The cleansing of the Temple narrative tells of Jesus expelling the merchants and the money changers from the Temple, and occurs in all four canonical gospels of the New Testament.

       In this account, Jesus and his disciples travel to Jerusalem for Passover, where Jesus expels the merchants and money changers from the Temple, accusing them of turning the Temple into a den of thieves through their commercial activities. In the Gospel of John Jesus refers to the Temple as "my Father’s house", thus, making a claim to being the Son of God.

       The narrative occurs near the end of the Synoptic Gospels (at Mark 11:15–19, Matthew 21:12–17, and Luke 19:45–48) and near the start in the Gospel of John (at John 2:13–16). Some scholars believe that these refer to two separate incidents, given that the Gospel of John also includes more than one Passover.

 
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A cross including the Gospel books

Description of Illustration: A crucified Christ surrounded by His Gospels, transparent background, symbols of the Gospel books

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Jesus surrounded by his followers...

Description of Illustration: Jesus gives the blessing. He holds the Bible, Illustration of an antique Bible book cover, throne seat, clergy

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The Annointing The Savior

Description of the Illustration: transparent background, stained glass window design, the annointing of Jesus is one of the relatively few events reported by each of the four Gospels, although the details differ in the accounts. All report the anointing of Jesus with expensive perfume by a woman, who pours over Jesus the contents of an alabastron jar of "nard" (or spikenard), a very expensive perfume. The anointing angers some of the onlookers because the perfume could have been sold for a year's wages—which the Gospel of Mark enumerates as 300 denarii—and the money given to the poor. Matthew's gospel states that the "disciples were indignant" and John's states that it was Judas who was most offended. John adds that he was bothered because he (Judas) was a thief and desired the money for himself. Jesus is described as justifying the action of the woman by stating that the poor will always exist, and can be helped whenever desired.

Based upon scripture from Luke:

       "And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner. " Luke 7: 37-38  King James Bible

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Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

"...the greatest tyrants over women are women."

Description of Illustration: pencil portrait of William Makepeace Thackeray, four of his popular quotes

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"Never loose a chance of saying a kind word."

"Good humor may be said to be one of the very
 best articles of dress one can wear in society."

"A good laugh is sunshine in a house."