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November 18, 2007 - 30 March 30, 2008. Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art. Kimbell Museum of Art, Ft. Worth This exhibition is the first major review of 3rd- to 6th-century Christian art since the 1970s; it brings together frescoes, marble sculpture and sarcophagi, silver vessels and reliquaries, carved ivories, engraved gold glass, bronze sculpture, seals in semiprecious stones, and decorated crosses, and three of the rare surviving illustrated bibles: the Rabbula Gospels, a folio from the fragmentary Greek Sinope Gospels, and several fragments of the Cotton Genesis. It includes major loans from the Vatican, the Bargello and the Laurentian Library in Florence, the British Museum, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and other international institutions. For more information see http://www.kimbellart.org/exhibitions/picturing_the_bible.cfm
May 6 - July 27, 2008. Imagining Christ. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Over a period of almost 2,000 years, the image of Christ has changed, often in response to political forces or social changes. This exhibition of manuscripts from the Getty Museum's collection covers the years from around 1000 to 1500, and explores how medieval Christians pictured Christ as both divine judge and human son of God, and even used Christ's image to express such complex religious concepts as the Trinity. The exhibition examines the role Christ played in the imaginative life of medieval and renaissance viewers, demonstrating how in focusing on certain aspects of Christ--most notably his suffering--viewers gained access to their own piety. For more information see http://www.getty.edu/visit/exhibitions/future.html .
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