. 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. 175 Offering the Vinegar. (Lucas van Leyden.; this subject, in the Ertborn collection at Antwerp (No. 69), has anun kneeling in front, presented by St. Ambrose: the Virgin andSt. John are seated in the middle distance. This is a wretchedcaricature. CHRIST ASCENDING THE CROSS. 129 Christ Ascending the Cross. This is so rarely seen, that no known master can be quoted as havingattempted it. It occurs in a series of miniatures of the Life and. 1
. 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. 175 Offering the Vinegar. (Lucas van Leyden.; this subject, in the Ertborn collection at Antwerp (No. 69), has anun kneeling in front, presented by St. Ambrose: the Virgin andSt. John are seated in the middle distance. This is a wretchedcaricature. CHRIST ASCENDING THE CROSS. 129 Christ Ascending the Cross. This is so rarely seen, that no known master can be quoted as havingattempted it. It occurs in a series of miniatures of the Life and. 176 Christ Ascending the Cross. (Italian miniature. 13th century). Passion of the Lord, of the 13th century, belonging to the writerfrom which our illustration is taken (No. 176). Also in a finelypreserved enamel1 of the 13th century, containing the Crucifixionin the centre, and eight subjects, some of them of unusual selection,around; our Lord is in the act of being helped, not ungently, upthe ladder by two figures. The Cross, like all early crosses, is 1 Belonged, in June 1861, to Mr. Farrer, of 106 New Bond II. S 130 HISTORY OF OUR LORD. short, so that one figure stands on the ground, and the other on akind of high stool behind. A third figure is driving in wedges, tostrengthen the Cross in the ground. Our Lord being nailed to the Cross. Hal. LIncliiodazione. And now Art can no longer delay the last and only less terriblescene before the final suspension on the Cross. Scripture, again,is as sparing of its words as it is simply great in the art of narra-tive, giving us t
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