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In the Roman church and in many other Christian churches today, 8. April 2012, is Easter Sunday. Herewith links to a few medieval depictions of the Anastasis (in Orthodox churches, celebrated on Holy Saturday) and of other Eastertide scenes from churches in areas liturgically Greek:
Anastasis:
a) Mosaic (early eleventh-century; restored betw. 1953 and 1962) in the narthex of the katholikon of the monastery of Hosios Loukas near Distomo in Phokis:
http://tinyurl.com/2bn6m5z
b) Mosaic (mid-eleventh-century) in the katholikon of the Nea Moni on Chios:
http://tinyurl.com/2akm4zb
c) Fresco (central panel; ca. 1191) in the church of St. George at Kurbinovo (Resen municipality) in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/7xnyqlc
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/7ja4yju
d) Fresco (ca. 1300; attrib. to Manuel Panselinos) in the Protaton church on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/3joloql
Detail views:
http://tinyurl.com/3d2ls9u
http://tinyurl.com/29ucscq
e) Fresco (betw. 1315 and 1321) in the apse of the parecclesion of the Chora church in Istanbul:
http://tinyurl.com/yeojlvs
f) Fresco (1330s) in the church of the Hodegetria in the Patriarchate of Peć at Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
http://tinyurl.com/2drcobt
Other Eastertide scenes:
a) The angel at the tomb and the myrrhbearers as depicted in the earlier thirteenth-century frescoes (1230s) of the church of the Holy Ascension in the Mileševa monastery near Prijepolje (Zlatibor dist.) in Serbia, starting with the scenes as a whole (in dark light and then in brighter light but with one of the myrrhbearers cropped out):
http://tinyurl.com/6shrppq
http://tinyurl.com/7dsrv79
Detail views (the angel):
http://tinyurl.com/7vsj2v4
http://tinyurl.com/83sudeq
Detail view (sleeping soldiers):
http://tinyurl.com/85g2ojg
b) Two scenes (the risen Jesus at the open tomb; Jesus with the myrrhbearers) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1311 and ca. 1322) in the church of St. Nicholas Orphanos in Thessaloniki:
http://tinyurl.com/6nsra5n
Detail views:
http://tinyurl.com/8y6tbob
http://tinyurl.com/7yux28a
c) Two scenes (the myrrhbearers sharing the news with the apostles; John and Peter at Christ's open sarcophagus) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321/1322) in the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/8xx4n9e
Detail views:
http://tinyurl.com/794phtv
http://tinyurl.com/6p7s3qr
http://tinyurl.com/7yauf3o
d) The myrrhbearers with the angel before Jesus' open tomb as depicted at right in this composition in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (ca. 1323) in the church of St. Demetrius in the aforesaid Patriarchate of Peć:
http://tinyurl.com/8xbbwl7
Detail views (myrrhbearers with the angel; sleeping soldiers):
http://tinyurl.com/7jcohet
http://tinyurl.com/7g3e6mm
e) Four scenes (the myrrhbearers before the angel; Christ's open sarcophagus and the sleeping soldiers [followed by a detail view of the soldiers]; Jesus with the myrrhbearers [_Noli me tangere_]; the myrrhbearers sharing the news with the apostles) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) on the east arch under the dome in the church of the Holy Ascension monastery in the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/3j697ak
http://tinyurl.com/433dv4g
http://tinyurl.com/3w4lwpl
http://tinyurl.com/4xc36vzh(http://tinyurl.com/4xc36vz)
http://tinyurl.com/4xsu97s
f) Expandable views of Easter events as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century vault frescoes of the altar area in the aforesaid church in the Visoki Dečani monastery are here:
http://tinyurl.com/4ytp8fo
g) Expandable views of Jesus appearing to the apostles at Emmaus as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes of the south wall of the altar area in the aforesaid church in the Visoki Dečani monastery will be found at bottom here:
http://tinyurl.com/7pdze58
Felix Pascha to all,
John Dillon
(notices of saints of 8. April to follow later)
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