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 (1892)
Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860 · London ; New York : Longmans, Green · leaf 267
the Venetian school. Bellini has introduced him twice. He here presents rather an unhappy figure — the story of his sufferings being simply told by the absence of his clothes. He stands, a very uncom¬ fortable-looking* old man, for he is represented with a white beard. He is thus given in a picture… … number, and each surrounded with a framework of fantastic but typical forms, intermingled with portions of the text. Some of them, in pathos, poetry, and sublimity, yield to no pictorial con¬ ceptions of the Old Testament of any time or school. We instance the most striking. Ho. 4. The first…
Jesus Christ -- Art · Christian art and symbolism
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