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The Entry into Jerusalem (c.1305) by Giotto – Artchive

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If God is throwing dice  And Einstein doesn't mind the chance  We'll navigate the seas of the sun. Luke Jerram exhibition, Helios, at The Exchange in Birmingham; I have followed him extensively...

The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple (Plate)

Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, 1631 by Rembrandt

Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, 1631 by Rembrandt

‘Ecce Ancilla Domini! (The Annunciation)‘, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1849–50 | Tate

‘Ecce Ancilla Domini! (The Annunciation)‘, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1849–50 on display at Tate Britain.

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Maundy Thursday by Wilfred Owen

Read, review and discuss the Maundy Thursday poem by Wilfred Owen on Poetry.com

Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward

Let mans Soule be a Spheare, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is, And as the other Spheares, by being growne Subject to forraigne…

Museo Nacional del Prado

The Descent from the Cross - The Collection

The painting represents an altarpiece of carved polychrome figures with the iconography of the deposition of Christ from the cross. The shape of the support with its projecting upper part and figures set inside a box with a gold background and sides, as well as the painted tracery in the corners, make it a depiction of a characteristic fifteenth-century sculpted altarpiece shrine.

Lamentation over the Dead Christ, 1492 by Sandro Botticelli

Birth Month

There is an urgency of May before the dog days of summer unroll their long tongues and throw off  loosened collars into the field.