Gustave Dore’s Jesus Preaching on the Mount
With this post, we begin a regular walk through the art of the Christian Church. The title of the blog is How Great Thou Art. Together, we will examine ancient and contemporary pieces of art, the background of the artists, and how their art influences our worship of our great and glorious God.
We begin our journey together with one of the most popular artist that you have probably never heard of. Gustave Dore (1832-1883) was a child prodigy from Strasbourg, France. His first illustrated story was published at the age of 15. Within a year, Dore was the highest paid illustrator in France.
Gustave Dore never had an art lesson. Yet he was the illustrator for some of the most famous authors in history – Milton, Dante, Lord Byron, and Edgar Allen Poe, among them. He also illustrated the English Bible by John Wycliffe in 1866. Dore created 238 illustrations for the Bible.
But he wasn’t just an illustrator of books. He also engraved in both wood and metal. He was also famous as a painter and sculptor. But his lasting legacy is in his engravings and illustrations. More than 4,000 books have used the engravings of Gustave Dore. His illustrations have been used over 10,000 times in books.
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Dore’s painting of Jesus preaching on the mount is a beautiful depiction of the event recorded in Matthew 5-7, which will be the focus of our worship for the rest of the Epiphany season (for those following the cycle of the church year) .
The majority of Jesus’ ministry was conducted around the Sea of Galilee, which is seen in the background of the painting. His base of operations was the small fishing village of Capernaum. The people came out to listen to Jesus from Capernaum and the other small towns and villages in Galilee. As a rabbi, Jesus was sitting in order to teach the people who were gathered on the mount listening to Jesus’ sermon.
He has captured their attention. And why wouldn’t He? This is the very Son of God teaching them!
Check out tomorrow’s post for another artist’s take on the Sermon on the Mount and a lesson about the happiness we beggars have in coming to Christ’s feet to feast on his blessed words of life.
Michael Zarling
For the first 8 years of my ministry, I served at Faith Lutheran Church, an exploratory congregation in Radcliff, KY. I presently serve at Epiphany Lutheran Church and Wisconsin Lutheran School (WLS) in Racine, WI. I am also very involved with our youth as the WLS head soccer coach and the head counselor for WELS Training Camp, a youth camp for 3rd – 9th graders. I have been married to Shelley for 20 years. Together we have 4 beautiful daughters – Abigail, Miriam, Lydia and Gabrielle. We also have 2 dogs – Messi and Mia – named after Lionel Messi and Mia Hamm (the Zarling family really likes soccer!)
