Easter falls on April 4th this year, so, the trio of new pieces on display this month from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection celebrate the Resurrection of Christ. They are the work of three Eastern Christian iconographers, representing three different national schools of iconography. If we needed more proof that this ancient tradition of sacred art is far less standardized and copy book-guided than many people assume, we need only look at these very different depictions of one of two traditional Eastern Orthodox depictions of the Resurrection--the visit of the myrhh-bearing women to the empty tomb on Easter Sunday morning. Reflecting the appealing simplicity of the Coptic Orthodox style, Egyptian Artist Rania Kuhn depicts the moment in the Gospel of Matthew, when the two Marys encounter the Resurrected Christ after hearing from the angel at the sepulchre that he has risen from the grave. Cypriot Artist Charalambos Epaminonda follows the account of Easter Sunday events in the Gospel of Mark, where three myrrh-bearing women come upon an angelic young man at the empty tomb in an icon offering a dynamic Cubist variation on conventual iconography. Ukrainian Greek Catholic Artist Sviatoslav Vladyka offers another strikingly modern depiction (left) of the three myrrh-bearers where he has left the largest portion of the wood panel exposed, using the wood grain to suggest the sky at sunrise on Resurrection Day. The three Eastern Christian Easter icons can be found on The Empty Tomb page of The Resurrection of Christ gallery of The Life of Christ section. Christ is Risen! He is risen, indeed! (John Kohan)