. 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. n in a grand and strictly originalpicture by Moretto (born about 1500) in the Museo Tosi at Brescia,his native city. Here the Saviour sits bound, His body markedwith stripes, and the reed sceptre in His hand, upon the stepswhich possibly lead up to the tribunal of Pilate. The Cross, towhich He was to be obedient, is at His feet, while above, holdingthe garment of Christ, is an angel, the face all convulsed withweeping, like a grand youth not
. 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. n in a grand and strictly originalpicture by Moretto (born about 1500) in the Museo Tosi at Brescia,his native city. Here the Saviour sits bound, His body markedwith stripes, and the reed sceptre in His hand, upon the stepswhich possibly lead up to the tribunal of Pilate. The Cross, towhich He was to be obedient, is at His feet, while above, holdingthe garment of Christ, is an angel, the face all convulsed withweeping, like a grand youth not ashamed to show his artists could have coped with such an expression as we heresee in the angels face, distorted, and yet so overpoweringly touch-ing. The idea of the angel holding the robe is doubtless takenfrom the early conception of angels holding the garments atthe Baptism. We refer the reader to the accompanying woodcut(No. 164). A picture called an Ecce Homo, in the Pitti, attributed to Pol-lajuolo (born 1439), evidently aims at the same combination of Christ, crowned with thorns, is looking at those before Him. =n. TWJ& H Cz^oT^ Tzttz/. FlorejisGc. THE ECCE HOMO. 99
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