So I'm sure you've heard of the "storying cloth" which is used to communicate God's story to illiterate or story-based people groups. Well, we went to the Tile Museum (Museu Nacional do Azulejo) here in Lisbon and I found "storying tiles!" The picture above with Hannah and her sister Letha starts in the top left corner with creation and works itself, tile by tile, towards the NT church in Acts.
The tiles were actually designed and made in Holland in the 18th Century as you can see from the picture above. It was housed in a Palace here in Lisbon before finding its way to the museum.
The close ups here show some of the stories from the life of Jesus. The one below is obviously the death of Christ.
I thought it was pretty neat to find tiles that depicted the Biblical narrative. If you visit Lisbon the tile museum is vale a pena (worth it!).
3 comments:
How cool. We certainly need to plan a trip!
How cool! Awesome artwork, wonder if you could get a paper "copy" and use it on cloth or whatever medium would be reproducable! I'd put it up in my house!
Those are so cool! I have been thinking of buying one of the storying clothes.
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