The collection in numbers

Nothing here is written by hand: the page recounts the content at every build, so it never promises more than the collection delivers.

By book

BookChaptersPericopesWith artWithout artCoverageWorksJudged
Genesis501369640 71%40213
Exodus4014937112 25%145—
Leviticus271142112 2%2—
Numbers361647157 4%23—
Deuteronomy341243121 2%5—
Joshua2483677 7%7—
Judges21835429 65%143—
Ruth41358 38%19—
1 Samuel31983563 36%122—
2 Samuel24892069 22%56—
1 Kings221021983 19%77—
2 Kings25932667 28%42—
1 Chronicles291224118 3%6—
2 Chronicles361091495 13%24—
Ezra1031229 6%2—
Nehemiah1351051 0%0—
Esther1023815 35%37—
Job421164112 3%21—
Psalms1501500150 0%0—
Proverbs3169069 0%0—
Ecclesiastes1232032 0%0—
Song of Solomon822022 0%0—
Isaiah661743171 2%3—
Jeremiah521793176 2%3—
Lamentations514014 0%0—
Ezekiel481676161 4%8—
Daniel12471532 32%15—
Hosea1428028 0%0—
Joel310010 0%0—
Amos929029 0%0—
Obadiah1404 0%0—
Jonah4844 50%5—
Micah716016 0%0—
Nahum3808 0%0—
Habakkuk310010 0%0—
Zephaniah3909 0%0—
Haggai2505 0%0—
Zechariah1431031 0%0—
Malachi4808 0%0—
Matthew281549262 60%4582
Mark16976037 62%3312
Luke241359342 69%46611
John21864541 52%270—
Acts281143975 34%1104
Romans1656056 0%0—
1 Corinthians1658157 2%9—
2 Corinthians1333132 3%2—
Galatians618018 0%0—
Ephesians619019 0%0—
Philippians414014 0%0—
Colossians413013 0%0—
1 Thessalonians512012 0%0—
2 Thessalonians3707 0%0—
1 Timothy617017 0%0—
2 Timothy411011 0%0—
Titus3707 0%0—
Philemon1404 0%0—
Hebrews1341041 0%0—
James515015 0%0—
1 Peter515015 0%0—
2 Peter3909 0%0—
1 John515015 0%0—
2 John1303 0%0—
3 John1404 0%0—
Jude1505 0%0—
Revelation2255550 100%264—
Total118937377592978 20%307732

A pericope where someone looked at the image beside the passage and decided. The rest is frozen automatic selection — fixed, not checked.

3077 appearances · 1826 distinct works. The same work can open two parallel pericopes. Appearances count both; distinct works count one.

Works by century

  1. 4 1
  2. 5 1
  3. 9 1
  4. 11 2
  5. 12 2
  6. 13 19
  7. 14 42
  8. 15 150
  9. 16 413
  10. 17 670
  11. 18 166
  12. 19 323
  13. 20 22

Period: 300–1964

Where the images come from

  • Wikidata · Wikimedia Commons 1795
  • Wikimedia Commons 28
  • Rijksmuseum 1
  • National Gallery of Art 1
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art 1

Most present artists

  • James Tissot 139
  • Peter Paul Rubens 73
  • Rembrandt 32
  • Albrecht Dürer 26
  • Arent de Gelder 22
  • Gerbrand van den Eeckhout 18
  • Jacopo Tintoretto 16
  • William Blake 16
  • Jacob Jordaens 15
  • Adriaen van der Werff 14
  • Ferdinand Bol 13
  • Lucas Cranach the Elder 13
  • Maarten van Heemskerck 13
  • Pieter Lastman 13
  • Nicolas Poussin 12

740 artists · 81 with no identified artist

Engineering: how the books connect