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107/2007: The Rapture of Jesus
Summary: Collection of Paintings with Jesus‘ eyes cast skywards
Description: Back in 2007, I went to the library looking for pictures of Jesus nailed to the cross. The depiction of Jesus was, surprisingly, usually with Jesus looking down. I must have gone through hundreds if not thousands of pictures, before coming up with this list of images here of Jesus gazing skywards.
One may have noticed all these paintings are of a particular style and all of them were painted before the 1900s - I have omitted all works which were in a style too contemporary or abstract in my opinion to convey the Rapture in the same way a classical traditional painting. A modern painter would be even less likely to be as god-fearing or religious.
domenikos theotocopoulos ("el greco"), 1580-5
guido reni, 1624
francisco de zurbaran, 1627-9
eustache le sueur, 1642
francisco goya, 1780
pierre-paul prud'hon, 1822
nikolai ge, 1893
One may have noticed all these paintings are of a particular style and all of them were painted before the 1900s - I have omitted all works which were in a style too contemporary or abstract in my opinion to convey the Rapture in the same way a classical traditional painting. A modern painter would be even less likely to be as god-fearing or religious.
domenikos theotocopoulos ("el greco"), 1580-5
guido reni, 1624
francisco de zurbaran, 1627-9
eustache le sueur, 1642
francisco goya, 1780
pierre-paul prud'hon, 1822
nikolai ge, 1893
© Debbie Ding 2009