Holy Week Art Series: Holy Saturday

During the time between Good Friday and the Easter vigil, we think of Jesus' descent into the limbo of the patriarchs to free the just.  Read more here.

 

 

The image above depicts the event.  It is a fresco entitled Christus Victor by Fra Angelico in the Museum of San Marco in Florence, Italy

 

Holy Week Art Series: Good Friday

 Here are three Good Friday artworks by James Tissot:

The third image depicts Tissot's imagination of what Jesus saw from the Cross.  One can read more about each image on the Brooklyn Museum website here, here, and here.

May we all make the best possible Good Friday.

Holy Week Art Series: The Last Supper

 

Here are three Holy Thursday images from James Tissot:

Top:  The Communion of the Apostles

Middle:  The Washing of the Feet

Bottom:  Judas Dipping his Hand in the Dish

All are small oaque watercolors over graphite on gray wove paper.  They are in the collection at the Brooklyn Museum.