The Three Marys at the Empty Sepulchre -- Baciccio (Giovanni Battista Gaulli) -- oil on canvas -- c.1684 -- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Seeing posts about Easter prompted me to post this Baciccio, with which I fell in love when it was displayed for a while at London's National Gallery many years ago.

Growing up in England, the language, images, sounds, and architecture of Christianity are inescapable, even though England has become a largely post-Christian, secularized society.

As somebody who is not a Christian, I have mixed feelings about this. I was going to post a long thread about these mixed feelings, but it's getting late so that thread will have to wait.

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