The Life of Christ – James Tissot

BYU Museum of Art June 18, 2010 – January 11, 2011

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Exhibit poster

Rita Wright welcomes us to her office in the MOA

Tissot’s illustrated bible – copy from the BYU Library

Signature of Joseph F. Smith in the front cover – donated to BYU by Joseph Fielding Smith

Rita Wright welcomes us to the Tissot exhibit in the BYU Museum of Art

Bethrothal of the Holy Virgin and Saint Joseph

The Magnificat

The Magi Journeying

Inward Voices – Tissot paints the dream which set him on the course of painting the scriptures

Jesus Transported to a High Mountain

Jesus Tempted in the Wilderness

Jesus Carried to the Pinnacle of the Temple

Jesus Minstered to by Angels

Jesus Unrolls the Book in the Synagogue

The Good Shepherd

The Procession in the Streets of Jerusalem

The Voice From On High

Jerusalem, Jerusalem

Reconstruction of Jerusalem and the Temple of Herod

The Last Supper – Judas Dipping His Hand in the Dish

The Washing of the Feet

The Communion of the Apostles

The Scourging on the Front

The Crowning With Thorns

Jesus Meets His Mother

A Holy Woman Wipes the Face of Jesus

The Holy Face

The First Nail

The Raising of the Cross

What Our Lord Saw From the Cross

Stabat Mater – Woman Behold Thy Son

The Dead Appear in the Temple

Noli Me Tangere – Touch Me Not

The Ascension as Seen from the Mount of Olives

Portrait of the Pilgrim

Thanks to Rita Wright of the BYU Museum of Art