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Art & Faith – Easter Sunday (B)
Videos, tweets, and other content connecting art with the Sunday readings
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GOSPEL READING
Loyola Press
Francesca’s “The Resurrection of Jesus Christ”
(3:37) – Piero della Francesca’s 15th-century fresco of The Resurrection of Jesus Christ comes from an unexpected place. Rather than a church or a shrine, it adorned the wall of the civic meeting hall of the Tuscan town of Sansepolcro. On this Easter Sunday, this triumphant image of Christ emerging from the tomb compels us to consider what his victory means not only for the Church but for our whole world.. READ MORE
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Loyola Press
Eugène Burnand, “The Disciples Peter and John Running to the Sepulchre on the Morning of the Resurrection,” 1898
(2:50) – In this painting, Eugène Burnand invites us along as Peter and John run to the empty tomb on Easter morning. In front of a resplendent dawning sky and rushing through a pastoral landscape, Peter and John are hurrying toward the site of Jesus’ burial. Peter, bearded, older, and wearing somber colors, wears a complex expression. In his face is the story of his experience of the Passion, the shock and anxiety, the fear and desperation, the guilt and heartbreak. His is an exhausted face that lived this experience. His body moves toward the tomb, but his spirit is conflicted—fearing the worst about the missing body, daring to hope but torn by the fact that he has denied the Lord. What if his body has been taken—when will the torture of these events stop? But what if he is risen? And what will happen now? READ MORE
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CONTEMPORARY PAINTING
Ron DiCianni’s Resurrection of Christ
(4:23) – This painting is so amazing and incredible, it really help us visualize that powerful moment when Jesus rose from the tomb. Thank you Lord for Your son! Painted by Ron DiCianni an incredibly talented.
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Featured Tweets
Eventually you are orienting your temples but you have no idea why any more…Fresco painted on the walls of the 3rd c. AD baptistry in Dura-Europus, Syria. Women visiting the empty tomb after Christ’s resurrection. Is that the rising sun above the tomb?https://t.co/CNXJmeVB0R pic.twitter.com/ZP7mEum8gK
— oldeuropeanculture (@serbiaireland) March 20, 2021
27 March: The anniversary of Christ’s Resurrection.
“The Resurrection, and its consequences, were the ‘gospel’ or good news which the Christians brought”. C S Lewis
Historical fact; what turned scared disciples who denied Christ, into apostles who were prepared to be martyred. pic.twitter.com/MLE6zSKXxl
— Irish History Bitesize! (@lorraineelizab6) March 27, 2021
This angel shows Christ is risen: part of ‘The Women at the Sepulchre’ – one of the first #StPaulsMosaics installed pic.twitter.com/nXwSs1Rwvv
— St Paul’s Cathedral (@StPaulsLondon) November 12, 2015
The Women at the Sepulchre (The Angel at the Tomb of Christ), 1805 https://t.co/2zDARIB409 pic.twitter.com/kIchAZzRxq
— Brooklyn Museum Bot (@BklynMuseumBot) August 20, 2020
Situla (Bucket for Holy Water)
860–880, Ivory.
Carolingian (Met Museum)
This was used for holding the holy water sprinkled in processions – the upper panels shown here take you through the Easter Triduum from Last Supper to the women at the Sepulchre pic.twitter.com/L0XrdcP7t9— John McCafferty (@jdmccafferty) April 10, 2020
The Women at the Sepulchre, 1768
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Benjamin West pic.twitter.com/qOkKzRlYDP— Kalina Boulter (@KalinaBoulter) April 16, 2017
The Women at the Sepulchre. Interesting rt hand gesturehttp://t.co/Hr4ZnM2jEk pic.twitter.com/3p99YvPVYW
— Kathleen McCallum (@Peripheralpal) July 13, 2015
The Women at the Sepulchre pic.twitter.com/kEKyZ3wNEY
— David Wurst (@DavidWurst) June 25, 2019
