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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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t must beremembered that the germ of most of their thoughts may be tracedto works of an earlier time. Luca Signorelli led the way in fallingfigures of stupendous power, hurled below by the fiat of the arch-angel. On the same level are demons with bat-like wings takingcharge with terrible irony of the weaker sex (woodcut, No. 279).We give an illustration of one group, unsurpassed in Satanicinvention. This fair sinner is only thus carefully conveyed to becast below among the crowd of struggling Condemned who arebeing bound by their captors previous to the last fatal plunge. Infront lies a wretched woman, perhaps intended for the same asseen above on the demons back, whom, with one foot on her head, THE LAST JUDGMENT. 411 her tormentor is about to splice like a bundle in a running noose(woodcut, No. 280.) Michael Angelo has also groups of demons bearing the Condemnedbelow, which are unsurpassable in power, and which are amongthose subjects to which his tremendous Art was most sympatheti-
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280 Group from Last Judgment. (Luca Signorelli. Orvieto.) cally applied. They are well known; nevertheless we remind thereader of one group which hangs above the boat steered by Charonacross the flood. Michael Angelos Last Judgment may beinstanced as the only one which in this portion of the compositionis taken directly from Dante. We pass on unwillingly to the extreme left side, which may besaid to have gone out of fashion at the period of Luca Signorelli 412 HISTORY OF OUR LORD. and Michael Angelo; but which, previously to these great masters,was too often occupied by a class of composition scripturally,morally, and pictorially indefensible, and which the last reasonalone should have sufficed to forbid to painters. That such dis-gusting horrors as are embodied in the so-called i Inferno, whichrepresents the last of the Four * Novissima, are not warranted bya single word of Scripture, may be safely declared without provokingany controversial criticism. Morally speaking, they are equa

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