Image Credits

The Penniless Carpenter

Every image on the course page, with its source, license, and the reason it was chosen. The artwork is public-domain and freely-licensed material from Wikimedia Commons: paintings of Jesus among the poor and the working, photographs of Roman coins and the Galilean landscape, and the pages of the manuscripts that carried his words. Creative Commons works are attributed below. All images have been resized for the web.

Image Work & Attribution License Where it appears Why it’s included
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary martha-mary.jpg Christ in the House of Martha and Mary Johannes Vermeer c. 1654 to 1655 Source ↗ Public domain Hero background Vermeer’s only painting of Jesus, and Bart’s own pick for the course: a guest at someone else’s table, being fed.
Silver denarius of Tiberius (the “Tribute Penny”) tribute-penny.jpg Silver denarius of Tiberius (the “Tribute Penny”) Photo: DrusMAX Coin 1st century CE (photographed 2012) Source ↗ CC BY-SA 3.0 Hero ornament A denarius of Tiberius: a day’s wage, and the coin Jesus asked to be shown.
Diogenes diogenes.jpg Diogenes Jean-Léon Gérôme 1860 Source ↗ Public domain Hero ornament & Lecture 04 medallion Gérôme’s Diogenes in his jar: the Cynic teacher who gave up everything, the closest comparison the ancient world offers to Jesus.
The Cripples (The Beggars) beggars.jpg The Cripples (The Beggars) Pieter Bruegel the Elder (photo: Shonagon) 1568 Source ↗ Public domain Hero ornament Bruegel’s beggars: the destitute, the class below the poor, in whose company Jesus lived.
The Exhortation to the Apostles exhortation.jpg The Exhortation to the Apostles James Tissot c. 1886 to 1894 Source ↗ Public domain Origin section figure Tissot’s Jesus sending out the disciples with no purse, no bag, and no second tunic: the instruction the whole course takes seriously.
Jesus Went Out into a Desert Place desert-place.jpg Jesus Went Out into a Desert Place James Tissot c. 1886 to 1894 Source ↗ Public domain At-a-Glance backdrop The itinerant on the road, with nowhere in particular to sleep.
Christ Pantocrator, Deesis mosaic, Hagia Sophia pantocrator.jpg Christ Pantocrator, Deesis mosaic, Hagia Sophia Photo: Myrabella Mosaic c. 1261 (photographed 2012) Source ↗ Public domain Lecture 01 medallion Christ in gold and imperial majesty: the opposite of the penniless Galilean, and an ancestor of the prosperous Jesus modern readers still want.
Ruins of the ancient synagogue at Capernaum, Sea of Galilee capernaum.jpg Ruins of the ancient synagogue at Capernaum, Sea of Galilee Photo: Eddie Gerald (UNESCO) Photographed 2009 Source ↗ CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Lecture 02 medallion & Schedule backdrop The stones of a Galilean town: the archaeology that gives Jesus his physical world back.
Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard vineyard.jpg Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard Rembrandt van Rijn 1637 Source ↗ Public domain Lecture 03 medallion Rembrandt’s day laborers being paid: the parable at the heart of the “capitalist Jesus” case.
The Disciples Eat Wheat on the Sabbath wheat-sabbath.jpg The Disciples Eat Wheat on the Sabbath James Tissot c. 1886 to 1894 Source ↗ Public domain Lecture 05 medallion The disciples stripping grain from someone else’s field as they walk: one of the few glimpses the Gospels give of how they actually ate.
The Tribute Money tribute-money.jpg The Tribute Money Titian 1540 Source ↗ Public domain Lecture 06 medallion Render unto Caesar: the moment everyone reaches for when they ask whether Jesus opposed Rome.
The Sea of Galilee from the Golan Heights galilee.jpg The Sea of Galilee from the Golan Heights Photo: Adam Jones Photographed 2011 Source ↗ CC BY-SA 2.0 Instructor backdrop The lakeside country Jesus walked, and the fields and villages that had to feed him.
Sestertius of Vespasian, IVDAEA CAPTA (RIC 424) judaea-capta.jpg Sestertius of Vespasian, IVDAEA CAPTA (RIC 424) Photo: Classical Numismatic Group (CNG) Coin 71 CE (photographed 2002) Source ↗ CC BY-SA 3.0 Stats backdrop Rome’s own coin advertising the conquest of Judaea: the power Jesus’ world lived under.
The Gleaners (Des glaneuses) gleaners.jpg The Gleaners (Des glaneuses) Jean-François Millet 1857 Source ↗ Public domain Bonuses backdrop Millet’s gleaners taking what the harvest left behind: subsistence at the very bottom of an agrarian economy.
The Parable of the Rich Fool rich-fool.jpg The Parable of the Rich Fool Rembrandt van Rijn 1627 Source ↗ Public domain “Prepare to Rethink” backdrop Rembrandt’s miser counting by candlelight: the man Jesus’ parable calls a fool.
Codex Sinaiticus, Matthew 6:4-32 sinaiticus.jpg Codex Sinaiticus, Matthew 6:4-32 Unknown scribe (Codex Sinaiticus) 4th century CE Source ↗ Public domain FAQ backdrop The page that carries “do not worry about what you will eat” in one of our oldest Bibles, the very question this course asks.

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