. 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. ngersoars naturally and necessarily upwards, as in Giottos Niccolo di Pietro, He is stepping out of the tomb, which, pos-sibly to favour that action, is open, with the stone lying by, andthe guards asleep. This is literally wrong ; for, in the silence keptby Scripture as to the mode of our Lords Resurrection, it is tobe inferred that the earthquake took place at this stupendous event—our Lord, namely, rising through all barri
. 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. ngersoars naturally and necessarily upwards, as in Giottos Niccolo di Pietro, He is stepping out of the tomb, which, pos-sibly to favour that action, is open, with the stone lying by, andthe guards asleep. This is literally wrong ; for, in the silence keptby Scripture as to the mode of our Lords Resurrection, it is tobe inferred that the earthquake took place at this stupendous event—our Lord, namely, rising through all barriers—and that the angeldescended, and rolled away the stone after the Lord was risen, in 2 B. VII., 1320, there is a strange picture. It is night, and an old man is coming to thefoot of the tomb. The guards start up and repel him. It looks like an embodiment ofthe suspicion that the disciples might come by night and steal the body. This is literallya heresy in Art, which is bound to depict only the truth in fact or doctrine. 1 It formed one of a series upon a press for sacred vessels, in the sacristy of S. Croceat Florence. THE RESURRECTION. 267. 218 Resurrection. (Giotto.) order to show that the sepulchre was empty. It is evident that acertain latitude of treatment was felt to be allowable here. Theelder Bellini, who partook of the dramatic feeling of Giotto, has leftin his book of drawings a Resurrection, in which the Lord is alsorising buoyantly, like a spirit of finer tissues, from a closed guards always asleep. Fra Angelico has treated this subject several times. In oneof his pictures he adheres to the old type, the women and theangel at the sepulchre. In another he has combined the oldversion with the new. The Maries are looking into the emptytomb; the angel is solemnly addressing them; while above soarsthe Lord, not as one rising, but as merely a glorified body, withthe banner of victory in one hand and the palm-branch of martyr-dom in the other, His feet los
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