. 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. as they treated all,with a mixture of naturalistic and dramatic feeling. In Martin 262 HISTORY OF OUR LORD. Schons engraving Eve follows close on Adam, with the fatal applein her hand. Abel, clad in skins, is at her side. The broken gatesare nnder the Lords feet, but one of the demons has seized asplinter, and with it is threatening the group of anxious spirits whopress forward. Another has its claw fiercely set on a womansshoulder. Yet the
. 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. as they treated all,with a mixture of naturalistic and dramatic feeling. In Martin 262 HISTORY OF OUR LORD. Schons engraving Eve follows close on Adam, with the fatal applein her hand. Abel, clad in skins, is at her side. The broken gatesare nnder the Lords feet, but one of the demons has seized asplinter, and with it is threatening the group of anxious spirits whopress forward. Another has its claw fiercely set on a womansshoulder. Yet the souls evidently perceive that the reign of theirtormentors is over, and eager hands are seen behind in the deepprofound, raised as if in clamorous joy. Albert Diirer forsakes tradition. Many figures are already de-livered—children among them—and Christ is taking John theBaptist apparently by the hand, who is being helped up frombelow. Above the black arch is a window, whence demons withstaves are aiming blows at Christ. This subject went out of favour as Art matured, and very fewinstances of it will be found in Italian Art of the 16th EIIE J&JESTinRJRlEGTXG&M. fMI MAIOIIS A1P TIHUS 3IllPIDnL€!HIIEJEcirZy Ivory. THE RESURRECTION. 263 The Resurrection. Ital. La Resurrezione ; or, II Risorgimento di Cristo. Fr. La Die Auferstehung Christi. The Rising of our Lord from the Tomb, always called the Resurrec-tion, is presented for the treatment of Art under peculiar condi-tions. Not having been witnessed by mortal eye, it takes nographic form in Scripture. There is no narration of the actualscene of the Resurrection. Yet this event, the most stupendousof all for the i sure and certain faith of the Christian world, it wasmore especially the duty of Art to bring before the eye; for c ifChrist be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith isalso vain; ye are yet in your sins (1 Cor. xv. 14). In lieu, there-fore, of the fact itself, which the s
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