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| Keywords: Greek - Resurrection of Christ - Walters 37751.jpg This icon one of the finest in North America features the Anastasis or the Resurrection of Christ the traditional Byzantine image depicting Christ's descent into hell to redeem the Just of the Old Testament In the upper portion of the painting the Harrowing of Hell is shown In the Christian tradition this is the period of time between Christ's burial on Good Friday and the discovery of his Resurrection on Easter Sunday when Christ was thought to have entered hell defeated Satan and freed the worthy souls who had been imprisoned there including David Solomon John the Baptist and other prophets and the first parents Adam and Eve Beneath is a depiction of the Holy Women mourning at Christ's tomb and then learning of the Resurrection from the angel ca 1350 1375 Medieval tempera on wood with gilding cm 36 2 26 5 3 accession number 37 751 9120 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Translation Of Greek inscription And the women were sitting opposite the tomb And Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there to see the place where He had been buried Holy Image Holy Space Icons and Frescoes from Greece The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore; Center for the Fine Arts Miami; Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco San Francisco; The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland; The Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond 1988-1990 Highlights from the Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998-2001 Sacred Arts and City Life The Glory of Medieval Novgorod The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Bucerius Kunst Forum Hamburg 2005-2006 place of origin Macedonia Walters Art Museum license 2D Byzantine and Early Russian art in the Walters Art Museum Icons of Greece Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Icons of the harrowing of hell Holy women | ||||
