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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1. Pope Leo XIII was the earliest-born person recorded on film. Born in 1810, he was 86 years old when this was captured in 1896. For reference, the Pope was born the year after Lincoln and Darwin and the same year as Chopin.
2. D-Day, 6th June 1944
3. This footage was recorded in Gateshead, England, on May 8th, 1945, following Churchill's declaration of Victory in Europe.
Thread of historical photos you've (probably) never seen before 🧵
1. A Protestant husband and his Catholic wife were not allowed to be buried together. These are their headstones, reaching across the two cemeteries in 1888.
2. Jenny Joseph posing for Columbia Pictures Logo, 1992
3. Dresden viewed from the Rathaus (city hall) in 1945
Between 13 and 15 February, over 3,900 tons of explosives and incendiaries were dropped on Dresden.
The resulting firestorm destroyed more than 1,600 acres of the city centre and killed up to 25,000 people.