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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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gladness of His gracious work and the miraculous effects of astrong and patient faith under all crosses of life. / The incidents of the Passion in which the Cross appears areespecially to be looked for in churches dedicated to the Cross,which, in the Koman calendar, takes the position of a saint. Thus,in the magnificent Church of S. Croce, at Florence, one in whichthe lover of Art and of History may alike find inexhaustible sourcesof interest, the legendary history of the Cross itself, which will beseparately treated farther on, is represented on the walls of thechoir, while the sacristy contained those events in which our Lordis historically associated with the instrument of our salvation. Thegreater portion of these last-named frescoes, which are by the hand VOL. II. p 106 HISTORY OF OUR LORD. of Tadcleo Gaddi, have been long covered with whitewash, leavingonly one wall visible, on which are three magnificent representa-tions, hitherto unengraved. 1. The Bearing of the Cross; 2. The
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167 Christ carrying the Cross. (Taddeo Gaddi. S. Croce, Florence.) Crucifixion; and 3. The Eesurrection. We give a woodcut ofthe Bearing of the Cross, which is remarkable in several respects(No. 167). Here Christ, clad in a robe of the most delicate CHRIST BEARING- HIS CROSS. 107 light red, walks with tolerable ease beneath His burden. BehindHim is a figure helping to bear the Cross, though scarcely to beinterpreted as Simon the Cyrenian, for with his other hand he isabout to push our Lord. Farther back is the Virgin with thewomen—of whom we shall have more to say. We will here onlydraw attention to her beautiful action, with the outstretched arms,which Raphael must have seen in his sojourns in Florence, between1504 and 1508, and which is the same motive as that given in hisSpasimo (painted 1516-18). This is a specimen of the way in whichthe best things in Art descended from one generation of painters toanother; Taddeo Gaddi himself having, perhaps, borrowed it fromsome earlier form

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