Ad Imaginem Dei: April 2026

Anthony van Dyck, The Resurrection
Flemish, c. 1631-1632
Hartford (CT), Wadsworth Athenaeum

Alleluia!

Alleluia!

Alleluia!

The days of Lent and the days of sadness that are the Triduum are past and Easter 2025 has arrived!

Alleluia!

Alleluia!

Alleluia!

I wish you a happy and profoundly inspiring Easter Season.

Alleluia!

Alleluia!

Alleluia!

To guide some of your explorations of the themes of this joyful season I recommend to you the links below. They lead to some of the commentary that I have written over the years regarding the iconography of the Easter Season, which extends from this happy day till Pentecost and Trinity Sunday.

Please feel free to explore the art created to imagine the Resurrection and the days immediately following, all the way through to the feast of the Holy Trinity. I hope that considering these events and the pictures that artists have created to illustrate them over the centuries will help you to feel more connected to the long tradition of Christian art offered to the glory of God and to the living Church of our own time.

Links have constantly been improved over the years. New images, better quality images and new material are constantly being incorporated. If the original publication date suggests the material is now old, it isn't. I am constantly revising and housekeeping.

Please note that over the course of the Easter Season I will be overhauling every one of the essays listed below to swap out old images with few pixels for newer ones with a greater number of pixels, giving you more visible details when you enlarge the images. I will also be adding new images that turn up in the course of my hunt for improved ones (and this happens all the time). Much more material turns up every year! So, check back often to see what's new.

The Resurrection, the Incredulity of Thomas, Emmaus

Title

Link

The Women at the Tomb

http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/04/iconography-of-resurrection-women-at.html

Noli Me Tangere

http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/04/iconography-of-resurrection-noli-me.html

Jesus, the Gardener

http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2017/04/iconography-of-resurrection-she-thought.html

The Incredulity of St. Thomas (Doubting Thomas)

http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/05/iconography-of-resurrection-incredulity.html

Emmaus -- The Journey

http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/05/iconography-of-resurrection-emmaus.html

Emmaus -- The Recognition

http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/05/iconography-of-resurrection-emmaus_07.html

Climbing from the Tomb

http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/05/iconography-of-resurrection-climbing.html

Hovering over the Tomb

http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/05/iconography-of-resurrection-hovering.html

Bursting from the Tomb

http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/05/iconography-of-resurrection-bursting.html

An Awkward
Resurrection Image

Apparitions

http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2014/04/a-happy-and-blessed-easter-season-to.html

Good Shepherd Sunday

http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/05/good-shepherd-sunday-fourth-sunday-of.html

The Lake of Galilee -- The Disciples Go Fishing

http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/05/iconography-of-resurrection-lake-of.html

Commission to Peter -- The Good Shepherd Transfers Responsibility

http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/05/iconography-of-resurrection-peters.html

The Commission to the Apostles

http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/05/iconography-of-resurrection-commission.html

Christ Appears to His Mother

Christ Presents the Redeemed to His Mother

http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/06/iconography-of-resurrection-christ.html

http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2017/05/iconography-of-resurrection-christ.html

The Ascension

Striding into the Sky

https://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/06/iconography-of-ascension-part-i-of-iv.html

Lifted in a Mondorla or on a Cloud

http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2017/05/iconography-of-ascension-part-ii-of-iv.html

The Disappearing Feet

http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2017/05/iconography-of-ascension-part-iii-of-iv.html

The Direct Approach

http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2017/05/iconography-of-ascension-part-iv-of-iv.html

Pentecost

Tongues of Fire

https://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2016/05/tongues-of-fire.html

At This Sound, They Gathered In a Crowd

A Dove Descending

The Holy Trinity

Worthy Is The Lamb

Father, Son, Spirit

Iconography of the
Holy Trinity –
Imagining The Unimaginable

The Holy Trinity -- Love Made Visible

The Holy Trinity -- The Throne of Grace