3/31/2013

Best of Easter

Albrecht Dürer, The Dead Christ with the Crown of Thorns, 1503


Today is Easter so here's some Jesus. 

I chose these not as religious pieces of art, rather images that depict Jesus as a human. 
A dying and dead human with gruesome details. Enjoy!

Antonello da Messina, The Antwerp Crucifixion, 1454–5



Annibale Carracci, Salma di Cristo (Body of Christ), 1583–1585



Peter Paul Rubens, Deposition, 1602



Caravaggio, The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, 1602



Konstantin Vasilyev, Ascension, 1964



detail from Mathis Gothart Grünewald, Isenheim Altarpiece,1512–16



I can't find the name, but I saw this in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels.
Jesus's tomb was stinky.