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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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ted sides. The first were intended originally to assistthe theological idea by which the dead were judged accordingto their previous acceptance or rejection of our Lords Crossand Passion. In early forms of Art they stand on clouds withfolded wings, in solemn rows beneath the Judge, holding forththe crown of thorns, the nails, the scourge, the spear and lance,and even the bucket which held the vinegar. This soon gaveway to their more picturesque treatment above the judgment-seat,where they hover, in airy forms, to the better rounding of thepicture, though still intent on displaying the insignia of the Passion.This, however, depended on the space over the Judge. In FraAngelico, where the heavenly conclave mount to the top of the 1 Molanus de Historia SS. Imaginum, p. 524. 404 HISTORY OF OUR LORD. composition, an angel with the Cross alone—as an epitome of allthe instruments of the Passion—stands below the feet of Christ.As Art expanded in material forms and degenerated in sentiment.
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277 Angels in Last Judgment. (Orgagna. Campo Santo, Pisa.) the office of these angels became more burdensome or more frolic-some. Instead of the mere typical forms of our Lords suffering, across large enough to have borne Him and a column of equaldimension are hoisted into the air, either to their evident embar-rassment or to their boisterous delight. Both effects are visible inMichael Angelos Last Judgment. THE LAST JUDGMENT. 405 More awful to the imagination are those angelic beings who,hovering in headlong postures between earth and heaven, sound theresistless Trump of Doom. These are never absent from the truetype of the Last Judgment, summoning from the four winds thescattered millions of the human family, who cannot rise till theyhear that sound. Sometimes two only are seen with their diverg-ing instruments, immediately under the foot of the Judge—as inOrgagna (woodcut, No. 277) and Fra Angelico. Sometimes theybray forth their terrific notes directly over the graves, which yaw

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