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Front: Installation photographs from MOBIA exhibitions. From top to bottom, Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese, 2011; Coming Home! Self-Taught Artists, the Bible, and the American South, 2005; Reel Religion: A Century of the Bible in Film, 2009; Tobi Kahn: Sacred Spaces for the 21st Century, 2009.
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Front: Polyglot Bible. Antwerp: C. Plantin, 1572, Vol. 8; Book of Hours in Latin. Flanders, 15th C. Manuscript on vellum; Bible in English. New York: Hodge and Campbell, 1972. Bible in German. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1483.
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Unknown Illuminator. Women at the Tomb, detail, Gospels in Armenian, Lake Van region, late 15th C.
Manuscript on paper.
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Front: Hand-painted Ceramic Tiles created by children and families during MOBIA’s Family Day, 2010.
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Back Top: Collaborative Storybook Collage, detail, created by ten-year-old children from Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center as part of MOBIA’s program, Words & Pictures: Storytelling through Art, 2010.
Back Middle: Historiated Letter “R” created by nine-year-old child from Children’s Aid Society - Frederick Douglass Center as part of MOBIA’s program, Words & Pictures: Storytelling through Art, 2011.

The Bible has had a huge impact on the history of art and visual culture. MOBIA’s exhibitions offer diverse viewpoints and examples of ways that artists have been influenced by this one book throughout time and place. Programs and materials developed by the education department are designed to illuminate the symbolism, narrative, history and context explored in the exhibitions and the Rare Bible Collection @ MOBIA.