James Tissot: The Old Testament - 110 Paintings - Jacques Joseph Tissot
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James Tissot: The Old Testament - 110 Paintings - Jacques Joseph Tissot Details
JAMES TISSOT: THE OLD TESTAMENT Art Book contains 110 HD Reproductions from his series of fourteen Old Testament Books of the Holy Bible, painted from 1896-1902. Presented in traditional order beginning with Genesis and includes the following books; Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, Ezra, Isaiah and Job.Tissot art book includes; Table of Contents, Top 50 Museums of the World, and is compatible with all Kindle devices, Kindle for iOS and Android Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).James Jacques-Joseph Tissot was born in 1836, in Nantes in a seaport on the French coast. He was a French painter and illustrator. His father, Marcel Théodore Tissot, was a successful drapery merchant. His mother, Marie Durand, assisted her husband in the family business and designed hats. Both devout Catholics, Tissot's mother instilled pious devotion in the future artist from a very young age. The Bible say's "Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it." His Christian training would later be the catalyst for his most successful and prolific series of work, illustrating the 'Holy Bible.' (cont)
Reviews
This is a great collection of paintings (all gouache on canvas) by James Tissot of selected events depicted in the Old Testament. The paintings all provide an interesting perspective of the events portrayed and are beautifully done. The only issue I have with this work is that the paintings only take up maybe 30% of the page when I went through the book on my iPad Air, making the paintings very small and very hard to see some the details. I imagine that on a much larger screen, such as a 27-inch monitor, they would be spectacular but I have not had an opportunity yet to try that.Also, a good part of the entire volume, about the last 15% portion of the volume when viewed on Kindle, is taken up with lists of museums and the like that does not add to the collection or necessarily an appreciation of it.