. 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. 270 The Glorification of the Son. (Michael Wohlgemuth.) The Child Christ. The Infant Jesus, represented alone, is a subject which does notoccur before the latter part of the 15th century. It always assumesan abstract character, and represents the idea of the Sacrifice. Thisis conveyed by various accessories denoting the divine nature and THE CHILD CHRIST. 379 mediatorial office, combined with the person of a little child of aboutthree years
. 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. 270 The Glorification of the Son. (Michael Wohlgemuth.) The Child Christ. The Infant Jesus, represented alone, is a subject which does notoccur before the latter part of the 15th century. It always assumesan abstract character, and represents the idea of the Sacrifice. Thisis conveyed by various accessories denoting the divine nature and THE CHILD CHRIST. 379 mediatorial office, combined with the person of a little child of aboutthree years of age. It may be supposed that the subject first sug-gested itself to a painter whoexcelled in the delineation of infantineforms and expression; and Luini was probably one of the earliestof the Italian school, as he was certainly the best fitted, by thecharacter of his art, to originate so sweet and tender an image. A M /if \) I 1 w ?. 271 Infant Christ. (Luini. M. Reizet. Paris.) picture by him in the collection of M. de Eeizet, at Paris, adds ailthe pathos of childish innocence to the solemnity of the mediatorialidea. The beautiful Child, as seen in our woodcut (No. 271), isseated alone in a cave, with its little hand pointing to the Cross,His features already sanctified with the promise of that manhood, who, when He was reviled, reviled not again, while an apple witha piece bitten out of it on which His foot rests, and the dead serpentat His side, show what brought the Divine Word to earth wraptin clouds of infant flesh. 380 HISTORY OF OUR LORD. Murillo, for the same reason, that of excelling in the expressionof childhoods sweetness and grace, was fertile in the same Child Christ is less pathetic than that by Luini, whose children,under any circumstances, bear something on their little featureslike the shadow of an approaching sorrow. Both Luini and Murillomay be said to be feminine in the character o
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