RELIGIOUS ART | NEWS OF WEEK - 1st Sunday of Lent

March 10, 2019

RELIGIOUS ART | NEWS OF WEEK - 1st Sunday of Lent

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By Gregory & Ernest Disney-Britton

Bartolomé Esteban Murrillo's "Christ healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda" (1670); oil on canvas; National Gallery, London

After emergency foot surgery, Ernest returned to work wearing a fracture boot and riding a knee scooter. All week, he felt tentative and diminished but on Saturday, a movie scene reminded him of John 5:1-9 when Christ healed a lame man. In an instant, the man was healed, and Jesus said, “Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.” What won’t Jesus do for us? Last night, Ernest finally asked Jesus to heal him, and he felt instantly stronger. That’s why Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's “Christ healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda” is our our Lenten art of the week.

NEWS OF 2008-2019 from across the USA, and around the world:

Buddhist Art of Week: "LACMA Adds Zeng Fanzhi's Untitled (2018) to its Contemporary Chinese Collection" [More News]
Christian Art of Week: "7,000 Years of Art History For Sale at TEFAF Maastricht" [More News]
Hindu Art of Week: "How the Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur was put on the cultural map of Rajasthan" [More News]
Islamic Art of Week: "Two Pakistani American Women Reinvent Traditional Art With Unconventional Subjects" [More News]
Jewish Art of Week: "Jewish Art Co-Op welcomes ‘Pop Art Rabbi’ Yitzchok Moully for first exhibit" [More News]

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