Art is available in many places while we are confined, and this selection will introduce you to masterpieces from great institutions in the United States and in other countries.
This specially curated online selection of 20 well-known works is focused on the Easter story. Central to our Catholic identity, the Easter event offers great reassurance, comfort, and hope. Each work is imbued with a unique style and symbolism, with its own kind of presence. Yet collectively they all contain the pathos, intimacy, and delicate attentiveness to the body of Christ in the Easter drama.
We hope you can take time to experience joy in a sustained contemplation of these masterpieces, and be renewed by their beauty. In the meantime, wishing you health and hours of peaceful enjoyment!
Where to Find
Courtesy of the Pinocoteca di Brera.
Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Courtesy of the Museo Nacional del Prado.
Courtesy of the Milan Museum.
Courtesy of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Courtesy of the Louvre Museum.
Courtesy of the Milan Museum.
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art.
Courtesy of the Alte Pinakothek.
Courtesy of the Vatican Museum.
Courtesy of The Uffizi.
Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Courtesy of the Convent of San Marco.
Courtesy of Royal Collection Trust.
Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Courtesy of The National Gallery, London.
Courtesy of a private collection in Europe.
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art.