This book presents in an unprecedented way the various readings that the western and eastern art have given over the centuries to the resurrection as a central event of the christian faith. Although the Resurrection has not been witnessed by the human eye, it has been evoked and celebrated by Christian art from the first centuries to the present day. The book presents a selection of 50 works of different geographical origins, formats and workmanship, the oldest of which dates from 400 AD and the most recent a few years ago. Reproduced in large format, they are commented on by two recognized international experts in light of their exegetical significance, for the history of art and for theology. On all of them a fertile and eloquent tension emerges between the dominant tendency in Western art to represent the Resurrection of Christ as a triumphal exit from burial, quickly followed by the ascent to heaven, and the eastern one in which a completely different reading prevails, which highlights Christ’s descent into hell and its saving effect for the souls of the departed, the Righteous of the Old Covenant, starting with Adam and Eve.