The Visual Commentary on Scripture

The Visual Commentary on Scripture (theVCS.org) is an open-access online publication that provides theological commentary on the Bible in dialogue with works of art. It helps its users to (re)discover the Bible in new ways through the illuminating interaction of artworks, scriptural texts, and commissioned commentaries.
The VCS is interdisciplinary, featuring the work of scholars working in the fields of theology, art history, and biblical studies. These contributors create digital exhibitions comprising a biblical passage, three art works, and associated commentaries. To date, theVCS.org features over 900 high resolution images with interactive zoom function.
The digital exhibitions of theVCS.org aim to open new dialogues between image and text so that the Bible and the selected works of art come alive in new and vivid ways.
On the website, you can find over 300 digital exhibitions exploring the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, Apocrypha, and New Testament. Many of these feature audio, and all feature high resolution images with an interactive zoom function. The VCS has also produced several film series, including Creative Conversations which feature leading figures in the art world, and Unlocking Christian Art, made in partnership with the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
Image credit: Giovanni di Paolo , The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise, 1445 , The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
News
New collaborative project will unlock Christian art and foster interfaith discussions in the heart of Berlin
The Visual Commentary on Scripture Project at King’s has launched a new partnership with the Bode-Museum and the Gemäldegalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu...

News
New collaborative project will unlock Christian art and foster interfaith discussions in the heart of Berlin
The Visual Commentary on Scripture Project at King’s has launched a new partnership with the Bode-Museum and the Gemäldegalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu...


Principal Investigator
Ben Quash
Professor of Christianity and the Arts
Investigators
Jennifer Sliwka
Deputy Director of the VCS project, Senior Research Fellow and Visiting Lecturer
Michelle Fletcher
Research Associate, The Visual Commentary on Scripture
Chloë Reddaway
Research Associate, Arts and the Sacred at King's