and slides continued after his death with The Life of Christ and The Old Testament becoming the "definitive Bible images". In 1906, filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché used the Tissot Bible as reference material for her largest production at Gaumont to date, The Passion, creating twenty-five episodes, with approximately three hundred extras. His images provided a foundation for contemporary films such as the design for the Ark of the Covenant in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and lifestyle themes in The Age of Innocence (1993). In the first half of the 20th century, there was a re-kindling of interest in his portraits of fashionable ladies and some fifty years later, these were achieving record prices. Gallery See also List of Orientalist artists Orientalism References Citations General sources Biography of Tissot with recent information on Kathleen Newton Misfeldt, Willard E. "Tissot, James [Jacques-Joseph]" in Oxford Art Online. Wentworth, Michael. "James Tissot." Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. Print Wood, Christopher. "Tissot: Life and Work of Jacques Joseph Tissot 1836–1902." London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. Print. External links 209 works by James Tissot at www.JamesTissot.org James Tissot: The Life Of Christ. Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum 2009 Commentary on Tissot's etching of Kathleen Newton Commentary on a portrait of Mrs. Newton Biblical art by James Tissot Degas: The Artist's Mind, exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art fully available online as PDF, which contains material on James Tissot (see index) 1836 births 1902 deaths 19th-century French painters French expatriates in the United Kingdom French male painters French military personnel of the Franco-Prussian War Orientalist painters Artists from Nantes Vanity Fair (British magazine) artists 19th-century French male artists