For the first time in years, parishioners can see the blues in the painting of Christ’s Ascension hanging over Grace Lutheran Church’s altar. And that’s no easy observation &#8212… ...

Ukrainian artist Vladimir Grygorenko pauses while painting an iconic representation of the ascension of Christ in the cupola of St. John the Baptist Orthodox Church in Euless, Texas, on March 6, 2025.

Juan Rodríguez Juárez and his brother, Nicolás, were leading artists in Mexico City early in the century. Juan’s monumental “Ascension of Christ” (1720), a painting on wood panel nearly ...

- Jean François de Troy's 1721 "Ascension of Christ." The art has been up for a few weeks in the church, and Dykes said the reactions have all been positive.

The apostles look upward in a state of joyous confusion; Theotokas Mary, Christ’s mother, gazes serenely ahead with the angels, given knowledge that her son’s Ascension completes the Holy Trinity.