Nashville TN.- A selection of magnificent Northern Renaissance paintings from an often overlooked collection will be on exhibition in the Frist Center for the Visual Arts’ Upper-Level Galleries.  “A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery” features 28 paintings from 15th- and 16th-century Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Spain. The exhibition is conceived as an intimate encounter with the devotional art of the Renaissance and explores the way in which 15th- and 16th-century Northern European painters expressed the central mysteries of the Christian faith through setting, pose, gesture and the objects of everyday life. These paintings, which are part of a collection better known for its grand Baroque pictures, have been little studied since their acquisition in the mid-20th century. Since that time, considerable advances have been made in analytical methods and connoisseurship of Northern Renaissance paintings and additional archival research has been undertaken. “A Divine Light” is on view now at the Frist.