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Study for Christ and Nicodemus on a Rooftop

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This study for Christ and Nicodemus on a Rooftop made Henry Ossawa Tanner's reputation. The story of Nicodemus visiting Christ at night spoke to African American worship habits that Tanner remembered from his youth: After emancipation, freed slaves continued to meet at night, as they had done when their masters had forbidden them to read the Bible (Mosby, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1991).
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Oil On Wood Panel
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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Robbins
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Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

  1. Bible, N.T
  2. Christ
  3. Jesus Christ
  4. New Testament
  5. Nicodemus
  6. Religion
  7. Tanner, Henry Ossawa

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