Wildridge, Thomas Tindall · London, W. Andrews & co. · leaf 131
ft wasthat the artist went with the artistic tide in representing therecently-born infant as a strapping boy of four or five ; yet hiscommon-sense telling him that was a violation of fact he put theother figure in with the strapped infant to show what—in hisown private opinion—the child would… … SCRIPTURAL ILLUSTRATIONS. 117 well be stated. Such examples, as in a few churches are leftto us, are simply curiosities. Though changing with thestyles they are more crude than the sculptures, and themodern eye in search of the grotesque, finds here compositionsinfinitely more excruciatingly…
Grotesque · Christian art and symbolism · Church decoration and ornament
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