Word: crucifixion
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...latter year, his picture Nude Girl with a Shawl, provoked a long and animated controversy between artists and moralists when it was exhibited at the National Arts Club. Last season, his contribution to the New Society of Artists' Manhattan Exhibition-a rude, graphic painting of the Crucifixion-attracted great attention, as did the recent picture he sent to that gallery-Two Women (TIME, Jan. 12). His paintings are hung in many famed galleries, museums, in the U. S. and Europe. Many are the honors, medals, that have been conferred upon...
...Born of Jewish parents in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), he claimed direct descent from King David, sweet singer of Israel. This regal lineage bred in him a scorn of Kings. The Tsar of all the Russias made him court painter. One day he painted a picture of the Crucifixion-Holy Mary, in peasant costume, her face twisted with anguish, weeping over the naked body of her peasant son. The authorities condemned the painting. Should peasants mourn their woes where privilege looked on? They displayed it in public with brands of white chalk smeared over its surface. Furious, Painter Bakst renounced...
That Jesus action in overturning the tables of the Jewish money lenders in the Temple of Jerusalem was the chief cause for his crucifixion, was among the assertions made yesterday afternoon by Professor Kirsopp Lake before a crowd which filled Peabody Hall in Phillips Brooks House...
...Historical Data Concerning Jesus, His Divinity, Nature, Ministry, Virgin Birth, Miracles, Crucifixion, Resurrection" is the title of Professor Kirsopp Lake's address tomorrow afternoon, in the third meeting of the Lecture Course in Religion. This course is held under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Society in the Peabody Hall in Phillips Brooks House. The talk will begin at 4 o'clock...
...Rehn Galleries, Manhattan, were exhibited recent paintings by George Bellows, whose Crucifixion (depicting a gaunt, muscular, cumbrous Christ) precipitated violent discussion a month ago (TIME...