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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2. La Fermette Marbeuf was a prestigious restaurant in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
The restaurant's winter garden-like Belle Époque Art Nouveau "1900 room" was created by architect Émile Hurtré and has been an official Historical Monument since 1983.
3. Villa Peduzzi in Lake Como, Italy
Originally built in 1909 on the site of a medieval watchtower as a retreat for the Peduzzi family, an Italian engineering dynasty, Villa Peduzzi was reimagined as a luxury retreat in 2016.
2. This stunning 3rd-century A.D. Roman mosaic floor was unearthed beneath a vineyard in Negrar di Valpolicella, Italy.
The site was discovered by chance in 1887 during agricultural work.
This masterpiece was found in May 2020, just a few meters below the surface:
3. The Baghdad Battery
Discovered in present-day Khujut Rabu, this ancient set of three artifacts consists of a clay jar, a copper cylinder, and an iron rod, leading many to speculate that it could have been an early battery.
It disappeared in 2003 during the invasion of Iraq.
I used Grok 3 to reinterpret ancient myths and epic poems. The results are impressive 🧵
1. Priam begs Achilles for Hector's body
2. The Tower of Babel
According to the biblical story, humanity, united by a single language, comes together to construct a tower that reaches the heavens.
Yahweh confuses their language, so that they can no longer understand each other, and scatters them around the world.
3. Pandora’s Box
After Prometheus gave fire to humans, Zeus sought to punish him. He decided to create Pandora, giving her a jar with strict instructions not to open it.
She was then sent to Prometheus' brother. Pandora opened the jar, releasing all evils into the world.
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon was published 249 years ago today, in 1776.
2. The Langs' Fairy Books, a series of popular collections of fairy tales published between 1889 and 1913 by Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne.
3. Instead of spine art, this is a stunning collection of Edgar Allan Poe's poetry, featuring textured pages.