. 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. f life; supported inthe arms of others, like any other mother from the common , other writers deny the possibility of her fainting, calling thesupposition temerarium, scandalosum et periciilosumj affirmingthat those preachers in Spain who maintained this fact were, by anedict of the Sacred Inquisition, compelled to recant their words ascontrary to the magnanimity and fortitude of the Thislist of protesting writers may 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. f life; supported inthe arms of others, like any other mother from the common , other writers deny the possibility of her fainting, calling thesupposition temerarium, scandalosum et periciilosumj affirmingthat those preachers in Spain who maintained this fact were, by anedict of the Sacred Inquisition, compelled to recant their words ascontrary to the magnanimity and fortitude of the Thislist of protesting writers may be closed with the pithy words of theAbbe Zani, writing in this century: This group may be rather 1 Molanus, p. 444. 2 Idem, p. 445. THE CRUCIFIXION WITH THE VIRGIN FAINTING. 181 dispensed with, so that the spectator may have an open field toturn the eyes of repentance to Him who suffered for We must now consider the subject in its course through Art, inwhich it forms a remarkable example of the impetus to exaggera-tion ever acquired by an heretical incident. The earliest examplesof this mournful group are, therefore, the finest; for they give. 19(5 Virgin fainting. (Duccio. Siena.) little more than the indications of the approaching swoon. InDuccio, especially, the first weakness of the limbs appears. Wesee that she has stood till that moment, when, Christ being dead,her fortitude forsakes her; but she is still looking upwards at herSon. It must be said for those early masters that they generallygive the fainting of the Virgin after the death of the Saviour;though afterwards not even this decorum was observed. Tintoretto,for instance, makes her fainting while the Cross was being Pisano goes a step farther in the falling attitude; her eyesare closed, and her head sunk on her shoulder. It is not too much 1 Zani. vol. viii. p. 50. 182 HISTORY OF OUR LORD. to say that during the 13th and 14th centuries the Virgin is stillsemi-upright—her usual action being tha
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