Weekly beauty: Corinne Vonaesch

Trinity has a projection screen, so when I preach there I usually send them an image to project during my sermon. In the process of looking for one to go with this week's text (from John 4), I stumbled across a new artist with whom I'm now enamored.

You can read about Corinne Vonaesch and see her work at her website. As with Macha Chmakoff*, the titles of the paintings are in French, so you'll have to work around that. Here's some of what caught my attention.

She's done a 21-part series illustrating the gospel of John. Check out a couple of my favorites, which all seem to go with our current and upcoming liturgical orientation.


The piece I originally found to coordinate with my sermon this week, "Jesus et la femme samaritaine" (Jesus and the Samaritan woman).




For Palm Sunday, "L'entree de Jesus a Jerusalem" (The entry of Jesus into Jerusalem).




And for Easter, "Resurrection de Jesus-Christ" (I bet even the non-francophones can get that one).




Vonaesch also did a series on the seven days of creation. Here's a tiny overview of the whole series, to show you how beautiful it looks all together. There are bigger pictures of each painting on her site.




Finally, here are a couple of my favorites from her collection of other biblically-themed paintings.


"Le bon samaritain" (The good Samaritan)




"Femme touchant Jesus" (Woman touching Jesus)




* Incidentally, Macha Chmakoff has done a series on this text, the encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well. I just discovered it; it wasn't on her site the last time I visited. It's beautiful.