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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

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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