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Title: The history of Our Lord as exemplified in works of art : with that of His types ; St. John the Baptist ; and other persons of the Old and New Testament
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860 Eastlake, Elizabeth, 1809-1893
Subjects: Jesus Christ Christian art and symbolism
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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rist is clothed to the feet in a robe that is intended to behonourable in character. He is dead, with His eyes closed, and His.head inclined. Sun and moon as disk and crescent are above. Herethe Virgin and St. John, at the transverse ends, are rude signsrather than figures. Nevertheless, they serve to represent the in-auguration, as it were, of that group which, whether as an accessoryin the crucifix or as an historical adjunct to the Crucifixion, isuniversally seen. Here, too, the direct historical sense in which thecrucifix encroaches on the Crucifixion is evident in the inscription— 1 Borgia de Cruce Vaticana. THE CRUCIFIX. 329 that traditional refuge of Greek Art—under each arm of our Lord:under the right, i Behold thy son; under the left, Behold thymother. This is the meaning, therefore, which must be borne in mindwherever we see those stereotyped figures of the Mother and thebeloved disciple on each side of the Cross, even when our Lord, asin this case, is seen already dead.
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252 Cross of Lothario. (9th century.) A crucifix in the Treasury of Aix-la-Chapelle, of which the dateis supposed to be certain, is another specimen of the earliest knownkind where the Christ is represented as dead. This is a richlyjewelled object, called the Cross of Lothario1 (son of Charlemagne— 1 The untrustworthiness, however, of a traditional name, even in such a treasury as thatVOL. II. U U 330 HISTORY OF OUR LORD. died 855). Here, in addition to the Christ being dead, and notfully draped, as we see by our woodcut (No. 252), the figure issunk and swayed, and the head fallen, as in the worst art of the 14thcentury, while all four wounds are given, and seen bleeding.1 Thehand of the Father, holding the wreath with the bird in it, showsthe symbolic idea of the Trinity. These figures are all incised on asilver-gilt ground.

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