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So many lovely pictures. Favorite is # 6 by Polenov. Look at the face of the mother as she sees her daughter open her eyes. What is written on the wall to the right?
#3, there is so much light around and in the Christ that he seems more of an apparition than human.
A fine Bronzino at #20 and a very expressive #32.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Probably none of us will ever know the joy that mother felt at seeing her precious daughter brought back to life--except, isn't that the exact situation when our children are born again?

I loved the cleverness in #3: so many artists want to endow Jesus with a glow, but this one found a way to do so that seems uncontrived. It's like Lee Remick told George Segal in No Way To Treat A Lady, when he complimented her on her natural beauty: "That's what takes so long."