The Biggs Museum of American Art is extending its current exhibit, “Illuminating the Word: The Saint John's Bible.”The show will now runthrough April 24. It was originally scheduled to end on March 27.
Pages from The Saint John's Bible have never been to Delaware before. The 70 pages included in the Dover exhibit span all seven volumes of The Saint John's Bible. This is the first time pages from all seven volumes have been on display together.
Tim Ternes is the Director of the project.
“This happens to be one of the major art commissions in the modern world. Many scholars have said that art commissioning on this scale hasn't really happened in the modern world since the commissioning of the Sistine Chapel.”
A team of international scribes and artists worked for almost fifteen years to adorn each of the 1,130 vellum pages of The Saint John's Bible. They used the same tools and materials that medieval monks used to create Bibles before the invention of the printing press: quill and ink.
And the Biggs Museum will host one of the 26 artists involved with the project. Suzanne Moore, is one of only two American artists that worked on the Bible. Shewill be in Dover on March 5.
This piece is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.
