Might the greatest Easter painting ever made not actually contain a representation of Jesus risen? In Eugène Burnand's The Disciples Peter and John Running to the Sepulchre on the Morning of the Resurrection (1898, above), Elise Ehrhard suggests, the disciples are sprinting towards discovery of the moment that forever altered heaven and earth. We see their anxiousness and hope, a mystery beyond full human comprehension or control. Let us see through their eyes, that we, too, may discover the empty tomb... and all that it promises!
Happy Octave of Easter!
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