Christian Art at Kimbel in Ft. Worth

After the Christmas holidays, First Presbyterian Church will be planning a roadtrip to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. Until March 30, 2008, the museum will be showing an exhibit entitled, Picturing the Bible: the Earliest Christian Art.

Here we will see how the "earliest Christians first gave visual expression to their religious beliefs." It is a review of Christian art from the third to the sixth century. This exhibit has art on loan from the Vatican, the Bargello and the Laurentian Library in Florence, the British Museum, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and a number of international institutions. The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth is the only place where this art will be on display together.

Thomas Hibbs, a professor of ethics and culture at Baylor University recently gave a review of the exhibit giving it a theological context. While drawing on Roman and Jewish antecedents, the message of the art is thoroughly Christian.