page_title: The Three Marys
section_title: Women at the tomb in art
hierarchical_section_title: The Three Marys / The three Marys at the tomb / Women at the tomb in art
caption_attribution_description: English: The Three Marys at the Tomb (1396) by Lorenzo Monaco, Illumination on vellum, 46 x 48 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
context_page_description: The Three Marys or Maries are women mentioned in the canonical gospel's narratives of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, several of whom were, or have been considered by Christian tradition, to have been named Mary.
  The Gospels give the name Mary to several individuals. At various points of Christian history, some of these women have been conflated with one another.
  Mary, mother of Jesus
  Mary Magdalene
  Mary of Jacob
  Mary of Clopas
  Mary of Bethany
  Another woman who appears in the Crucifixion and Resurrection narratives is Salome, who, in some traditions, is identified as being one of the Marys, notwithstanding having a different name. In such cases, she is referred to as Mary Salome. Other women mentioned in the narratives are Joanna and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.
  Different sets of three women have been referred to as the Three Marys:
  Three Marys present at the crucifixion of Jesus;
  Three Marys at the tomb of Jesus on Easter Sunday;
  Three Marys as daughters of Saint Anne.
context_section_description: What may be the earliest known representation of three women visiting the tomb of Jesus is a fairly large fresco in the Dura-Europos church in the ancient city of Dura Europos on the Euphrates. The fresco was painted before the city's conquest and abandonment in AD 256, but it is from the 5th century that representations of either two or three women approaching a tomb guarded by an angel appear with regularity, and become the standard depiction of the Resurrection. They have continued in use even after 1100, when images of the Resurrection of Jesus in Christian art began to show the risen Christ himself. Examples are the Melisende Psalter and Peter von Cornelius's The Three Marys at the Tomb. Eastern icons continue to show either the Myrrhbearers or the Harrowing of Hell.
  The fifteenth-century Easter hymn "O filii et filiae" refers to three women going to the tomb on Easter morning to anoint the body of Jesus. The original Latin version of the hymn identifies the women as Mary Magdalene (Maria Magdalene), Mary of Joseph (et Iacobi), and Salome (et Salome).
caption: Lorenzo Monaco, The Three Marys at the Tomb (manuscript illumination of a 1396 antiphonary)[7]
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