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Decruz, Beatrice. Stained Glass at the Church Gallery Depicting St. Francis with the Stigmata of Jesus. 2022. Stained glass. Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Singapore. Photograph by VITA images. Published in Catholic News SG, October 30, 2022.
The opening of the Book of John is a statement on Plato’s Timaeus, Aristotle’s Metaphysics, and Genesis at once.
It probably is the inspiration for Philo’s attempt to unify Greek and the Hebrew Bible.
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Van Eyck, Jan, and Hubert van Eyck. The Ghent Altarpiece: Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (lower central panel). 1432. Oil on oak panel, 134.3 x 237.5 cm. Saint Bavo’s Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium.
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Zurbarán, Francisco de. Agnus Dei. c. 1635–1640. Oil on canvas, 38 x 62 cm. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
Bruegel, Pieter, the Elder. The Harvesters. 1565. Oil on wood, 119 x 162 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Gogh, Vincent van. The Sower. June 1888. Oil on canvas, 64.2 x 80.3 cm. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands.
Lhermitte, Léon Augustin. The Payment of the Harvesters. 1882. Oil on canvas, 215 x 272 cm. Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.
