. Illustrated catalogue of the private collection of valuable paintings by the old masters and early English artists formed by the late Leon Hirsch of New York. \ / A^£^^^^^—5^5^ ^^//:. No. If)nil<: MASS OF ST. aiilAlOUY I!V LUCAS CRANACII (VUV. KLDEU) No. 46LUCAS GRANAGH (THE ELDER) German: 1472—1553 THE 31 ASS OF ST. GREGORY (Panel painted about 1515) Q Height, 3-4 inches; width, 24|/) inches At the altar on the left the celebrant in white with ornatevestments gazes earnestly upward at the Christ wearing thecrown of thorns surrounded by a halo, leaning forward andshowing His wounds, while
. Illustrated catalogue of the private collection of valuable paintings by the old masters and early English artists formed by the late Leon Hirsch of New York. \ / A^£^^^^^—5^5^ ^^//:. No. If)nil<: MASS OF ST. aiilAlOUY I!V LUCAS CRANACII (VUV. KLDEU) No. 46LUCAS GRANAGH (THE ELDER) German: 1472—1553 THE 31 ASS OF ST. GREGORY (Panel painted about 1515) Q Height, 3-4 inches; width, 24|/) inches At the altar on the left the celebrant in white with ornatevestments gazes earnestly upward at the Christ wearing thecrown of thorns surrounded by a halo, leaning forward andshowing His wounds, while among clouds of incense rising allabout appear heads and symbols, Pilate washing his hands,the cock on a pillar to which are bound a scourge and imple-ments of the Crucifixion, all with a variety of color and tonsured monks in rich vestments, kneeling on the altarsteps, ujjhold the robe of the celebrant, others kneel uponthe floor with candles, and through an arched doorway a mitredbishoj) is seen descending a stone stairw^ay. Kach of thefigures—the whole composition, also—is strongly lighted, thealtar is covered with a cloth of white and green, and the churc
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