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Passiontide and Easter

Holy Week and Easter rehearse Christianity’s great exodus narrative, in which the tribulations of an enslaved people are relived in the sufferings of one man. His going through the ‘deep waters’ of death recalls the ancient Israelites’ passing through the Red Sea, and the morning of the resurrection marks the glorious dawn of liberty after captivity. These exhibitions illuminate the journey of Christ to the cross, to the dead, and into the glory of a new creation.

Christ on the way to Calvary, from the Maestà by Duccio
Jesus Carrying the Cross (Chapel 36), by Jean de Wespin and Giovanni d’Enrico
Christ on the Way to Calvary, by Titian

Matthew 27:32; Mark 15:21; Luke 23:26; John 19:17 Christ on the Way to Calvary

The Crucifixion by Andrea Mantegna
Scenes from the Passion of Christ: The Agony in the Garden, the Crucifixion, and the Descent into Limbo by Andrea Vanni
The Passion and Crucifixion of Christ by Bernardino Luini

Matthew 27:35–36; Mark 15:24; Luke 23:34; John 19:23–25a The Casting of Lots

White Crucifixion by Marc Chagall
Bedouin Crucifixion by Ygael Tumarkin
Untitled (The Crucified) by Mosche Castel

Matthew 27:37; Mark 15:26; Luke 23:38; John 19:19-22 Reinscribing The Cross

The Entombment (The Seilern Triptych) by Robert Campin
Road to Calvary, Crucifixion, and Descent into Limbo by Andrea da Firenze (Andrea di Bonaiuto)
The Descent from the Cross by Jacopo Sansovino

Matthew 27:38, 44; Mark 15:27, 32; Luke 23:33, 39–43; John 19:18 The Two Thieves

Lamentation over the Dead Christ by Andrea Mantegna
Invisible Mother by Urs Fischer
The Entombment (or Christ being carried to his Tomb) by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Matthew 27:57–61; Mark 15:42–47; Luke 23:50–56; John 19:38–42 The Burial of Christ

The Three Marys at the Tomb, from the St Albans Psalter, by an Unknown Miniaturist
Curiosity, by Gerard ter Borch
All Hail of the Myrrh-Bearers, by an Unknown Byzantine Artist

Matthew 28:1–10; Luke 24:1–11 The Women at the Tomb

PH-235 (1944-N-No. 1) by Clyfford Still
The Road of Humankind by Jean Dubuffet
End of the Gospel of Mark from the Codex Sinaiticus by Unknown artist

Mark 16:1–8 In My End Is My Beginning

Jesus is taken down from the Cross (Station of the Cross no. 13) by Engelbert Mveng
The Laufacher Pieta by The Laufacher Pieta
The Lamentation of Christ (Beweinung Christi) by Willem Key

Luke 2:34–35 A Sword Will Pierce Your Own Heart Also

The Supper at Emmaus by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Kitchen Scene with Christ at Emmaus by Joachim Beuckelaer
Christ Disappearing at Emmaus by Henry Fuseli

Luke 24:13–35 The Road to Emmaus

Foot reliquary of Saint Blaise by Workshop of Hugo d’Oignies
Jesus Washing Peter’s Feet by Ford Madox Brown
Base and feet of a colossus in the name of Amenophis III by Unknown artist, Ancient Egypt

John 13:1–20 Washing the Disciples’ Feet

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General Resurrection from the Bamberg-Eichstätt Psalter by unknown German artist
Sarcophagus of Theodore by Unknown Italian artist
The Resurrection, Cookham by Stanley Spencer

1 Corinthians 15:35–58 Bodily Resurrection

Yellow Crucifixion by Marc Chagall
Christ appearing to Saint Peter on the Appian Way (Domine, Quo Vadis?) by Annibale Carracci
The Last Judgement by The Last Judgement

1 Peter 4:12–19 Finding Meaning in Suffering

The War in Heaven (pane 7g), part of The Great East Window of York Minster
Saint Michael and the Devil by Unknown Spanish Artist
The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Revelation 12:7–12 War in Heaven

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