​Easter Iconography

Through The Ages​

"Father forgive them for they know not what they do."

Luke 23:34

​Early Christian 5th Century

​Early Christian 5th Century

Early Christian 6th Century

Early Christian 6th Century

Early Christian 7th Century

Early Christian 7th Century

Early Christian 8th Century

" Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise."

Luke 23:43

Early Medieval-Carolingian 9th Century

Early Medieval-Carolingian 9th Century

Byzantine 8th-12th Century

Byzantine 8th-12th Century

Byzantine 8th-12th Century

Byzantine 8th-12th Century

Medieval 12th Century

Medieval 13th Century

"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"

Matthew 27:46

Medieval 14th Century

Medieval 14th Century

Medieval 13th Century

Medieval 13th Century

Late Medieval 14th Century

Late Medieval 14th Century

Late Medieval 14th Century

"I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die."

John 11:25-26

Late Medieval 14th Century

Late Medieval 14th Century

" The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. "

John 12:23

Renaissance 15th Century

Renaissance 15th Century

Renaissance 15th Century

Renaissance 15th Century

Jesus took bread, blessed it, brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, " Take, eat; this is my body."

Matthew 26:26

Renaissance 15th Century

Renaissance 16th Century

"Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest! "

Matthew 21:9

Renaissance 16th Century

Renaissance 16th Century

Renaissance 16th Century

Renaissance 16th Century

Renaissance 16th Century

He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, "Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins."

Matthew 26:27-28

Renaissance 16th Century

Renaissance 16th Century

Baroque 16th Century

Baroque 17th Century

Baroque 17th Century

Baroque 17th Century

Neoclassical 17th Century

Rococo 18th Century

" Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven."

Acts 1:11

Romantic 19th Century

Romantic 19th Century

Romantic 19th Century

Romantic 19th Century

Symbolist 19th Century

Symbolist 20th Century

Victorian 19th Century

Realism 19th Century

Victorian 19th Century

Russian Imperial 19th Century

Russian Imperial 19th Century

Post Impressionist 19th Century

Post Impressionist 19th Century

Expressionist 20th Century

Modernist 20th Century

"... for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit."

Luke 23:45-46

The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

King of Kings (1961)

Jesus Of Nazareth (1977)

The Last Temptation Of Christ (1988)

The Passion Of Christ (2004)