Resurrection

‘Death be not proud’, wrote the English poet John Donne (1572–1631) in Sonnet X.

One short sleep past, we wake eternally

And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

These exhibitions explore the idea that God’s redeeming love is more powerful than death—an idea confirmed consummately for Christians in Jesus Christ’s resurrection, but traceable in multiple episodes of the Scriptures of both Christians and Jews.

Valley of Dry Bones, Ezekiel part of the Ezekiel Cycle by Unknown Artist

Ezekiel from the Knesset Menorah by Benno Elkan

Ezekiel Resurrection by Richard McBee

Ezekiel 37:1–14
Dry Bones

Jonah and the Whale by Pieter Lastman

Jonah by Lorenzetto

Jonah and the Whale, folio from a Jami al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) by Unknown Iranian artist

Jonah 2
Jonah and the Whale

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

Photoceramic portrait of Pietro Testi by Unknown artist [Fratelli Bucciolini Company]

Epitaph of the Lewe family with the resurrection of the youth at Naim (Epitaph der Familie Lewe mit der Erweckung des Jünglings zu Naim) by Veit Thiem

Archival photograph of Palma il Vecchio's Jesus and the Widow of Nain by Carlo Naya

Luke 7:11–17
The Widow of Nain

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

The Raising of Lazarus (from the Maestà) by Duccio

The Raising of Lazarus by Sebastiano del Piombo incorporating designs by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1981)

The Micault Triptych by Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen and Carl Bloch

John 11:1–44
‘I am the Resurrection and the Life’

The Ark of the Covenant

Mary Magdalene by Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo

Rotunda of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

John 20:1–16
Mary Magdalene at the Tomb

Noli Me Tangere by Titian

Noli Me Tangere/Soldiers at the Tomb by David Jones

Noli Me Tangere; Christ meets Mary Magdalen in the Garden, Cell 1 by Fra Angelico

John 20:11–18
Noli Me Tangere

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

More Exhibitions

Joseph Sold into Slavery, Bad Blood, False Accusations and Portents of the Future, from The Crusader Bible (The Morgan Picture Bible) by Unknown French artist

Zulaykha Seizing the Skirt of Yusuf's Robe, from a Yusuf and Zulaykha of Jami by Unknown Bukharan artist

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife and Scenes from the life of Joseph, from the Golden Haggadah by Unknown artist

Genesis 39
Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife

Christ and the Samaritan Woman by Lavinia Fontana

Christ and the Samaritan Woman by Unknown artist

The Woman at the Well by Diego Rivera

John 4:1–42
The Woman at the Well

Jali Lattice Window by Mughal artists from Gujurat

Self Portrait in a Fur-Trimmed Robe by Albrecht Dürer

Still Life with Vessels by Francisco de Zurbarán

2 Corinthians 3:12–4:18
From Glory to Glory Advancing