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Chris Franke is a faculty member and Chaire Hagen-Fleck a student at the College of St. Catherine.

Abstract: This paper will examine how messianic motifs in Isaiah were used by artists to portray changing understandings of the messiah or messianic days over time. Themes in works of art taken from Isaiah include the annunciation (allusions and direct references to Isaiah 7); the man of sorrows (from Isaiah 52:12-53); the Jesse tree and the peaceable kingdom (Isaiah 11) . Special attention will focus on works from the Philadelphia Museum, including annunciation paintings and Edward Hicks’ "The Peaceable Kingdom." Our focus will be on how the context and historical circumstances of the times influenced changes of emphasis in the paintings, and in the visions of the painters as their views changed. The many renderings of the “peaceable Kingdom” by Hicks, for example, reflect his anguish over the bitter battles within his Quaker community.

2005, Philadelphia


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