. 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. is the weight oftheir burden only, and not the character of it, which the painterhas kept in view, and we feel that the results would have been thesame had these figures been carrying a sack of sand. Here, fromthe youth of the figure, the bearer at the feet appears to be THE BEARING THE BODY OF CHRIST TO THE SEPULCHRE. 241 Titian gives the same moment in his fine picture in the he errs more than Raphael, inasmuch as the b
. 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. is the weight oftheir burden only, and not the character of it, which the painterhas kept in view, and we feel that the results would have been thesame had these figures been carrying a sack of sand. Here, fromthe youth of the figure, the bearer at the feet appears to be THE BEARING THE BODY OF CHRIST TO THE SEPULCHRE. 241 Titian gives the same moment in his fine picture in the he errs more than Raphael, inasmuch as the body of theSaviour is of a heavier type, and the bearers not so earnest intheir labour. The cloth, in which they are making-believe to liftit, is not even drawn tight beneath the weight; Joseph of Arimathea,who has the whole burden on his arms, and whose feet will soon beentangled in his own scarf, is putting forth no strength, while gentle hold of the dead hand will never support the figurefor an instant. Tintoretto represents a further phase in this school of picturesqueirreverence. In his picture in the Stafford Gallery, the chief weight.
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