A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery

Organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee, and the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery in Greenville, South Carolina, “A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery” and its accompanying catalogue, which were awarded financial support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, presented 28 works of art from one of the finest collections of Old Master paintings in the Southeast. Dr. Bob Jones Jr. acquired these paintings for the art museum he founded in 1951, and “A Divine Light” marked the first time that they were the sole focus of an exhibition. Designed as an intimate encounter with the devotional art of the 15th and 16th centuries, “A Divine Light” examined the ways in which Northern Renaissance artists expressed the central mysteries of the Christian faith through setting, pose, gesture and the objects of everyday life.