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In the Roman church and in many other Christian churches today, 5. April 2015, is Easter Sunday. Herewith links to a few medieval depictions of the Anastasis (in Orthodox churches, celebrated on Holy Saturday) mostly from churches in areas liturgically Greek:
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://www.eikonografos.com/album/albums/uploads/osios%20loukas/50.jpg
b) Mosaic (mid-eleventh-century) in the katholikon of the Nea Moni on Chios:
http://www.eikonografos.com/album/albums/uploads/nea_moni/71.jpg
c) Fresco (later eleventh-century) in the Karanlık kilise (Dark Church) at Göreme in Turkey's Nevşehir province (two images, each showing matter absent from the other):
http://www.goreme.org/churches/karanlik/karanlik5.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/dosseman/image/41566370/original
d) Fresco (ca. 1130-ca.1140) in the narthex of the Transfiguration cathedral in the Mirozhsky monastery in Pskov:
http://images.icon-art.info/main/01000-01099/01024.jpg
e) Mosaic (ca. 1180-ca.1200) in the basilica cattedrale di San Marco in Venice:
http://tinyurl.com/mld7q3z
f) Fresco (ca. 1191) in the church of St. George at Kurbinovo (Resen municipality) in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:
http://tinyurl.com/msur2fz
g) Fresco (ca. 1300; attrib. to Manuel Panselinos) in the Protaton church on Mt. Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/nyf8qmf
h) Fresco (ca. 1313-ca. 1320) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the altar area of the King's Church (dedicated to Sts. Joachim and Anne) at the Studenica monastery near Kraljevo (Raška dist.) in Serbia:
http://tinyurl.com/ol4jefd
i) Fresco (betw. 1315 and 1321) in the apse of the parekklesion of the Chora church in Istanbul:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Chora_Anastasis1.jpg
j) 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
Christos anesti!
Christus resurrexit!
Best,
John Dillon
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