EMBARKATION OF APOSTLE PAUL AT OSTIA painting
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 8:55 pm
This French stamp issued in 1982 and designed after a painting made by the French painter Claude Gellee (1600c-1682) shows us the embarkation of the Apostle Paul in Ostia, Italy at the foreground with in the background a ship believed he arrived in. The Apostle Paul arrived in Rome in the year 61, at that time Ostia was the port of Rome but could only handle small ships, but it is given that Paul arrived on a grain ship from Alexandria which could not berth in Ostia, and he arrived in Puteoli, Gulf of Naples were he embarked and travel by foot to Rome.
In the Bible is given: The Apostle Paul, and the party accompanying him, stopped at Syracuse en route to Rome. “From there we set sail and arrived at Rhegium. The next day the south wind came up, and on the following day we reached Puteoli. There we found some brothers who invited us to spend a week with them. And so we came to Rome”
Acts 28:12-14, NIV
The painting was painted in the 17th century and the ship in the background is not a grain ship from Alexandria but more a ship of later date.
Source: Internet,
France 1982 4f sg2532, scott? The painting is now in the Epinal, Muséee d’Art et Contemporain.
In the Bible is given: The Apostle Paul, and the party accompanying him, stopped at Syracuse en route to Rome. “From there we set sail and arrived at Rhegium. The next day the south wind came up, and on the following day we reached Puteoli. There we found some brothers who invited us to spend a week with them. And so we came to Rome”
Acts 28:12-14, NIV
The painting was painted in the 17th century and the ship in the background is not a grain ship from Alexandria but more a ship of later date.
Source: Internet,
France 1982 4f sg2532, scott? The painting is now in the Epinal, Muséee d’Art et Contemporain.