Word: crucifixions
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...piece de resistance for the critics was Bellows' Crucifixion. There, set amid violent lights and shadows, with "portentous storm clouds swirling over Calvary," a gaunt, muscular, physical Christ depends from the cross. The sweet Christ, the mild Christ, the frail Christ are not there. He is a tremendous peasant fellow. His muscles bulge. His members are large, cumbrous, powerful, those of a toiler, of a great struggler. On his face are the passing marks of the death agony, the last contortions of pain passing in the peace of unconsciousness...
...from Strassburg Cathedral; a relief of the Last Judgement and the figures of the Church Triumphant and Synagogue Defeated from Bamberg Cathedral; six busts of Patriarchs and Saints from the Monastery of Blaubeuren; two 13th century statues of Abraham and Melchisedek from the church at Wechselburg; a 16th century Crucifixion from St. James Church at Lubeok; and the centrepiece of Bruggemann's High Altar at Schleswig Cathedral...
Raphael's Crucifixion, a Titian Madonna and Child, and paintings by Gentile Bellini, Fra Bartolommeo, Correggio, Palma (Il Vecchio) and Tintoretto were bequeathed to the National Gallery, London, in the collection of the late Dr. Ludwig Mond, on the death of his widow. The Raphael was painted when the artist was only 16, and is worth...
William D. Upshaw, Congressman from Georgia: " In a speech at a Baptist Church in Manhattan, I denounced ' wet Democrats of New York who shake hands like Herod and Pilate over the crucifixion of the 18th Amendment...
Desvallieres is a religious patriot. His finest recent work is a Crucifixion. During the war he served as major with the picked Chasseurs Alpins, though he was 50 years old. He thinks "some great crisis" which evokes religious feeling in its broadest sense will be necessary to call forth in stone or paint the "spirit of your people...