This week's four new art offerings tell the story of David the shepherd boy, who killed the Giant Goliath with a slingshot, recorded in 1 Samuel 17:1-51. Three new book plates of David the Giant-Killer have just been uploaded to the Eastern European Ex Libris page in the Schools of Sacred Art section. You can also find a new lithograph on the theme in the Roland Poska profile page in the Sacred Artists section. Ukrainian Graphic Artist David Bekker gives the most traditional rendering of the story in a small format drypoint reproduction of a painted leather shield by Italian Renaissance Artist Andrea del Castagno in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Russian Printmaker Vladimir Zuev contrasts the pint-sized David and the hulking Goliath in an unusual horizontal composition, while Bulgarian Ex Libris Artist Jeni Kavelieva sets the slaying in a surrealistic pear grove. Paper Artist Roland Poska has a bit of fun with the boy vs. giant tale in a high tech version with contending robots. (John Kohan)