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After the overwhelmingly positive response... 

to a 2010–11 show featuring altarpieces and other paintings by Carl Bloch... 

Carl H. Bloch

MOA curators began working on an exhibit that would bring together works from three of 19th-century Europe’s most talented and prolific religious artists. 

To do so they had to persuade churches and museums in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, and New York to lend their paintings, most of which had never left their chapels since they were installed in the late 1800s.

Many of these paintings are familiar to a Latter-day Saint audience. 

The works of Bloch and Hofmann regularly appear on the covers of Church publications, and on the walls of meetinghouses. “We wanted to have some that were familiar, but also wanted to introduce some that weren’t,” says curator Dawn Chambers Pheysey. 

The exhibit begins with the dramatic presentation of Schwartz’s Agony in the Garden and ends with Bloch’s bold Resurrection of Christ. 

“You go through those doors, and you walk in, and you feel the presence of Jesus,” Karen McVoy-Stone, council-member at the Riverside Church in New York City, says of the exhibit. “You look at every picture from all three artists, and you feel the spirit of Jesus. You feel these men were imbued with the Spirit to produce incredible art.”

[bron]