Running to the tomb
One of the most visited pages on hillfamily.net is this fairly crummy photo from 15 years ago of Eugène Burnand's Les disciples Pierre et Jean courant au sépulcre le matin de la Résurrection (Apostles Peter and John running to the tomb the morning of the Resurrection). It comes up pretty high on a Google search and gets a lot of comments. I always felt bad that the photo was so poor, so when I was in the Orsay Museum in Paris last month I stopped by to get some better shots. Here's one (larger version here):
And here it is from further back -
It's not a very famous painting and doesn't do well with art critics, but it's one of my favorites -- you can really sense the anxiety of the moment.

