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A long, horizontal painting depicts a blank-eyed cadaver laid on cloth-covered slab. The light-skinned body is skeletal and nearly naked save for a white cloth over the hips. His head, pierced rib, and wounded hands and feet are a bruised, green color.

Dead Christ Entombed

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A painting provides a view into a forest clearing with a green canopy of trees over a muddy, watery expanse.

Asher Durand, In the Woods

Rebecca Bedell

Article

A painting provides a view into a forest clearing with a green canopy of trees over a muddy, watery expanse.

In the Woods

Material Objects

A series of large white and black paintings hangs on the walls of a white gallery space. The white canvases are painted with black lines of differing thicknesses.

Barnett Newman, The Stations of the Cross: Lema Sabachtani

Valerie Hellstein

Article

A dark-skinned man wearing a white t-shirt holds a large, broken mortar transformed into an art object. It is painted orange with a large eye depicted at center. Other smaller eyes cover the object's surface. Neat, white text also covers the piece.

The Supernatural Eyes of God

Material Objects

A colorful but weathered ink painting shows a pale-skinned, many-armed figure sitting cross-legged at its center. A large halo of hands surrounds him, each with a single eye. Accompanying figures lie outside the halo against a blue background.

Thousand-armed and Thousand-eyed Avalokiteshvara

Material Objects

A manuscript page with black and red text depicts Christ on a blue, floral cross. A pale, blood-spurting Christ is nailed to the cross. The geometric figure has large open eyes but stiff limbs and drapery. Two angels swoop around the crucifix.

Christ Crucified in the Gellone Sacramentary

Material Objects

A nun addresses a group of young, white-frocked women sitting in a dimly-lit room. The girls lean on one another and appear bored at the nun's story while another nun stands with her back to the group. She exits a portal on the right of the painting.

The Story of a Life

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A panel painting depicts a pale, dead Christ being removed from a cross. A man climbs down a ladder behind the cross as Jesus is deposited among a vividly dressed group. A pale-faced woman in a blue dress swoons to the ground among the attendants.

Deposition

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In a painting, light-skinned figures gather around a Christ's limp body. One man props him up as a woman in a white veil holds and examines the dead man's arm. A bearded man in pink and red dress stands and gestures dramatically at the group.

Lamentation

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A lamenting group cradles a light-skinned, dead figure of Jesus in this detail of a painting. Two figures hold his head and chest. A woman in a red dress kneels and embraces his feet.

Lamentation

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Light-skinned figures in bright drapery gather around a dead figure of Jesus laid on the ground. The group holds up the man's chest, and a woman kneels at his bleeding feet. A green landscape, white buildings, and blue sky form the painting's background.

Lamentation

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