Paradise
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In religion and folklore, paradise is a place of everlasting happiness, delight, and bliss. Paradisiacal notions are often laden with pastoral imagery, and may be cosmogonical, eschatological, or both
The Last Judgment (detail), c.1431, by Fra Angelico depicting people in paradise
The luxurious palace and gardens of Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (ruled 668–631 BCE) at Nineveh, with original color reconstitution. Irrigation canals radiate from an aqueduct. The king appears under the porch. British Museum.
Paradise by Jan Bruegel, circa 1620
Nicolas Poussin, Four seasons of paradise, 1660–1664
Universal resurrection
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General resurrection or universal resurrection is the belief in a resurrection of the dead, or resurrection from the dead by which most or all people who have died would be resurrected. Various forms
Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, fresco from the Dura-Europos synagogue
Ezekiel's Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, engraving by Gustave Doré (1866)
Resurrection of the Flesh (c. 1500) by Luca Signorelli – based on 1 Corinthians 15: 52: "the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." Chapel of San Brizio, Duomo, Orvieto.
Detail from a North Mississippi Christian cemetery headstone with the inscription: "May the resurrection find thee on the bosom of thy God."