Jean-Jacques Henner
Jesus at the Tomb
1879 Musee d'Orsay, Paris
"After the riotous crowds, first adoring, then hostile, after the screams and the suffering, there's the quiet of the tomb, and that looks at first like utter defeat.
But then, in the deepest stillness that comes before the first birds wake, there's the soundless rise and fall of the chest, the whoosh of blood, the whispered singing of synapses.
Only the smallest sounds as the shroud comes off and he sits up, swinging around, setting his feet noiselessly on the cool stone, that neither cries nor shatters but silently takes his weight."
Molly Wolf
