Face of God

The painting is inspired by an episode from the Old Testament, in which Elijah is fleeing from Jezebel who is determined to kill him. He went for a day’s journey into the desert, sat beneath a tree and asked that he might die. In this painting he is asleep and an angel from God has brought him bread and water which would sustain him for his journey of forty days. 

Europe (unknown country, possibly Germany), The Saved and the Damned, circa 15th/16th century.

A woman elaborately made up to look like the Hindu goddess Kali

Buddha´s hand,Nepal

Archangel Gabriel by Manuel Panselinos Protaton, Karyes, Mount Athos 13th century

Madonna of the Pomegranate (detail) by Sandro Boticelli

Madonna of the Magnificat Sandro Botticelli, 1481.

Kali making a garland, lovely

Saint Mary Magdalene before a curtain supported by angels in an architectural niche, The Master of the Parrot

Unknown Japanese Artist, Twenty-five Bodhisattvas Descending from Heaven, c. 1300.

Book of Kells, Folio 32v, Christ Enthroned.

this is the single most painfully beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life.

Fresco from the synagogue at the ancient city of Dura-Europos (Syria), depicting Moses and the Israelites crossing the Red Sea.  Artist unknown; ca. 244-256 CE.  Photo credit: Becklectic/Wikimedia Commons.