Each Saturday and Tuesday during Lent, the devotion will consist of visual or musical works of art for you to contemplate. There might be a brief quote or statement for you to consider as you view/listen to the material; there may be notes from or about the artist or work. We hope you will find meaning in these pieces during your lenten journey.
“O God, I am listening. I desire a sacred dialogue with you that I may hear the call of deep relationship. Let me hear your voice, O God.”
Title: Raising of Lazarus
Date: c. 1525
Artist: Van Leyden, Aertgen
Location: Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title: Jesus raises Lazarus to life
Date: 1973
Artist: JESUS MAFA
Country: Cameroon
Notes: Aertgen van Leyden was a 16th-Century Dutch painter, draughtsman and designer of stained glass. Works by this artist can be found at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid.
JESUS MAFA (1973) is a response to the New Testament readings from the Lectionary by a Christian community in Cameroon, Africa. Each of the readings were selected and adapted to dramatic interpretation by the community members. Photographs of their interpretations were made, and these were then transcribed to paintings. See: www.jesusmafa.com and www.SocialTheology.com.
| Attribution: | Van Leyden, Aertgen. Raising of Lazarus, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN.http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=46232 [retrieved March 5, 2014]. Original source: http://www.yorckproject.de. |
| Attribution: | JESUS MAFA. Jesus raises Lazarus to life, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN.http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48269 [retrieved March 5, 2014]. |