{"id":1797,"date":"2017-04-15T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2025-09-29T18:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:41:15","slug":"easter-art-touch-me-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"Easter art: &#8220;Touch me not&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A day early. Chinese art and an ancient short sermon tomorrow.<a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2016\/03\/the-resurrection-4-artists-my-easter-posting-since-2009-.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Easter I received this image from a group called Daily Theology and liked it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Noli me Tangere&#8221; or &#8220;Touch me not&#8221; as Mary Magdelene recognizes Jesus as she is leaving the empty tomb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The school of art is the Cretan School of Byzantine icon painting, which flourished in Crete in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. This icon is dated the mid-16th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The &#8220;Cretan&#8221; version of the Mi mou aptou, or Noli me tangere icon- The influence of this school (the Cretan School of iconography) is evident in the bright colors chosen for the image and the long flowing hair of St Mary Magdalene.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d1b5160c970c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13377\" title=\"Mary magdelene sees risen Jesus\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d1b5160c970c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d1b5160c970c-500wi-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day early. Chinese art and an ancient short sermon tomorrow. Last Easter I received this image from a group called Daily Theology and liked it. &#8220;Noli me Tangere&#8221; or &#8220;Touch me not&#8221; as Mary Magdelene recognizes Jesus as she is leaving the empty tomb. The school of art is the Cretan School of Byzantine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13378,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/13378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}