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Resurrection of Jesus in Christian art - a thread 🧵

1. Rubens (1612)

2. Raphael (1499–1502)

3. Andrea Mantegna (1457-1459)

4. Piero della Francesca (1450-1463)

5. Anthony van Dyck (1631-1632)

6. Giovanni Bellini (1478-1479)

7. Christus Dolens by Bramantino (1490)

This masterpiece depicts Christ as a Man of Sorrows, but it may also represent the Resurrection: a ruined architecture - possibly the sepulcher - is visible in the background.

8. Rubens (1616)

9. Carl Heinrich Bloch (1881)

10. El Greco (1595)

11. Tintoretto (1565)

12. Annibale Carracci (1593)

13. Paolo Veronese (1570)

14. Tintoretto (1578-1581)

15. Tiziano (1542-1544)

16. Cecco del Caravaggio (1619–1620)

17. Nicolas Bertin (1668-1736)

18. Noël Coypel (1700)

19. Sandro Botticelli (1490)

20. Giorgio Vasari & Raffaellino del Colle (1545)

21. Arnout Vinckenborch (1617)

22. Luca Giordano (1665)

23. Giovanni Baglione (1603)

24. Lucas Cranach the Younger (1550)

This painting was commissioned by Dr Leonhard Badehorn, the mayor of Leipzig, in memory of his wife. His family is depicted in the lower part of the artwork, which illustrates the biblical resurrection of Christ.

25. Jan Janssens (1620-1625)

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