a visit with jesus

 Bible Art

Risen Christ
Artist: Michelangelo
 1521    Sculpture

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The Risen Christ, or Cristo della Minerva in Italian, is a marble sculpture completed in 1521. It is also known as Christ the Redeemer or Christ Carrying the Cross. It’s to the left of the main altar of Rome’s Santa Maria sopra Minerva church.

Road to Emmaus
Artist: Robert Zund
 1877    Painting

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One event around the first Easter is the little excursion to Emmaus by a couple of clueless and dejected disciples who find themselves joined by a third party. The account is loaded with massively-significant things – walking and conversing intimately with a very real Jesus, urging this “Stranger” to stay with them, and being finally made aware of His presence in the breaking of the bread. One is easily moved by the disciples’ retrospective assessment of the trip, “Did not our hearts burn within us?”

Arguably, one of the most recognizable images of that Emmaus trip was painted by Swiss artist, Robert Zünd.