This depicts a man rowing in a boat alone except for Jesus Christ, who appears in dazzling white. The stormy waters apparently represent the challenges of human life.
The subject of this painting is probably the shepherd presented in Luke 15:1-7. In this passage, Jesus tells about a shepherd who loses one of his one hundred sheep. The shepherd then leaves the other sheep and goes to find this lost sheep. He…
In this painting Jesus Christ is seated and wears a crown of thorns. With the signature, Oertel refers to John 18:37. In this verse, part of John's account of Jesus's trial before Pilate, Pilate asks, "So are you a king?" Jesus answered, "You say…
The Prophet Joel is depicted as a grizzle-haired older prophet. He is tearing his shirt apart with both hands. Joel 2:12-13 states, "Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; rend…