Selected free publications from famous art museums related to Biblical background/Christianity

From Getty Publications Virtual Library :

Gardens of the Roman World

Patrick Bowe, 2004

Treasures from the Ark: 1700 Years of Armenian Christian Art

Vrej Nersessian, 2001

Roman Funerary Sculpture: Catalogue of the Collections

Guntram Koch, 1988

Greek Gold from Hellenistic Egypt

Michael Pfrommer, 2001

Greek Funerary Sculpture: Catalogue of the Collections at the Getty Villa

Janet Burnett Grossman, 2001


From The Metropolitan Museum of Art:

Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century

Weitzmann, Kurt, ed. (1979)

Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C. 

Art of the Ancient Near East: A Resource for Educators

Benzel, Kim, Sarah B. Graff, Yelena Rakic, and Edith W. Watts (2010)

Assyrian Reliefs and Ivories in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Palace Reliefs of Assurnasirpal II and Ivory Carvings from Nimrud

Crawford, Vaughn E., Prudence O. Harper, and Holly Pittman, with an essay by Dorothea Seelye Franck (1980)

Assyrian Origins: Discoveries at Ashur on the Tigris: Antiquities in the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

Harper, Prudence O., Evelyn Klengel-Brandt, Joan Aruz, and Kim Benzel (1995)

Royal City of Susa: Ancient Near Eastern Treasures in the Louvre

Harper, Prudence O., Joan Aruz, and Françoise Tallon, eds. (1992)

Greek Art From Prehistoric to Classical: A Resource for Educators

Norris, Michael, Carlos Picón, Joan Mertens, Elizabeth Milleker, Seán Hemingway, and Christopher Lightfoot (2000)

The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843–1261

Evans, Helen C., and William D. Wixom, eds., with essays by Speros P. Vryonis, Jr., Thomas F. Mathews, Jeffrey C. Anderson, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Henry Maguire, Robert G. Ousterhout, Ioli Kalavrezou, Eunice Dauterman Maguire, Helen C. Evans, Olenka Z. Pevny, Joseph D. Alchermes, S. Peter Cowe, Thelma K. Thomas, Jaroslav Folda, Priscilla Soucek, and William D. Wixom (1997)

Medieval Art: A Resource for Educators

Norris, Michael (2005)

Rembrandt and the Bible
[adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 36, no. 3 (Winter, 1978–1979)]

Mayor, A. Hyatt (1979)

Roman Sarcophagi in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

McCann, Anna Marguerite (1978)

Roman Art: A Resource for Educators

Thompson, Nancy L., Felicia Blum, Michael Norris, and Edith Watts (2007)

The Year One: Art of the Ancient World East and West

Milleker, Elizabeth J., Christopher Lightfoot, Melanie Holcomb, Marsha Hill, Jean Evans, Joan Aruz, Denise Patry Leidy, and Julie Jones (2000)