It is Easter tomorrow. A great moment to reflect on the death and resurrection of Jesus, you might say. But we will not be doing that. Easter is a Christian festival, but it also has a long secular tradition. This is reflected in Easter fires, Easter processions, Easter eggs and, of course, the appearance of the Easter bunny: the non-religious personification of the Christian festival. Just as Santa Claus is for Christmas. As a non-believer, Escher was not particularly concerned with the tradition of the festival, but he did depict a hare and two rabbits in his work. Clearly not intended to be Easter bunnies, but we’ll show them anyway.
M.C. Escher, Rabbits, woodcut, 1920
M.C. Escher, The Sixth Day of the Creation, woodcut, March 1926
Sons George and Arthur in bunny costumes. Not for Easter, but for a masked ball in the Circulo Svizzero (Swiss Circle) in Rome, January 1931
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