Great Bible Stories and Master Paintings: A Complete Narration of the Old and New Testaments

by Owen S. Rachleff

Great Bible Stories and Master A Complete Narration of the Old and New Testaments is an inspiring combination of words and pictures. Here, the wonderful narratives of the most important book of the Western World, are illustrated by the great paintings that were inspired by these stories. Here, verbally and visually, are the great events and memorable records of human spiritual progress. Truth and Beauty abide in these pages. Written for the modern reader, the stories attempt to preserve as much as possible of the majesty and impressiveness of the original, while at the same time they allow the reader to approach them as he would contemporary literature. There can be no doubt that this approach can do much to clarify the Bible for the layman -- young and old alike -- but it will also be an incentive to read the great Book itself. Perhaps the most outstanding feature of this new volume is the illustrative 104 masterpieces of art, reproduced in full color, ranging from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. Museums and private collections in America and Europe have been combed for three years to find works by master painters to illustrate a "picture-story" of the Bible. Among the artists are Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Tintoretto, Raphael, El Greco, Poussin, Murillo, Tiepolo, Van Eyck, and many, many others. Together these masterpieces form one of the finest galleries of Biblical painting ever assembled in book form.

399 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1968