These frescoes are from the Raphael Loggia at the vatican in Rome that consist of 13 arches forming a gallery 65 meters long and 4 meters wide.

Wake of the Flood

"Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth." (GENESIS 7:2-4)

Construction was started by Bramante in 1512, under Pope Julius II and was completed by Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520) under the reign of Leo X. The pictorial work was initiated in 1517.
The 52 scenes on the ceilings of the loggia are still popularly referred as "The Raphael Bible"

Gradually the waters receeded from the earth. At the end of one hundred and fifty days, the waters had so diminished that, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. (GENESIS 8:3-4)

Then God said to Noah: "Go out of the ark, together with your wife and your sons and your son's wives. Bring out with you every living thing that is with you - all bodily creatures, be they birds or animals or creeping things of the earth - and let them abound on the earth, breeding and multiplying on it." (GENESIS 8:15-17)


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