Word: christe
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...LIFE OF CHRIST IN WOODCUTS- James Reid-Farrar & Rinehart...
...many a Roman Catholic church worshippers reverently view the "Stations of the Cross"-14 (sometimes 15) scenes from the end of Christ's life. London's Westminster Cathedral has a fine example cut in stone by Sculptor Eric Rowland Gill. Woodcutter James Reid, more ambitious, less successful, has attempted to picture the whole life of Christ in 71 scenes...
Unlike other tellers of stories in pictures, Artist Reid has the advantage that everyone is familiar with the tale he has to tell; he can often be decorative instead of continuous. But he labors under the difficulty that faces all modern portraitists of Christ: either to be original at the risk of irreverence or heresy, or traditional without originality. On the whole he sticks close to the traditional. Exceptions: showing Christ as a young man wistfully watching the youths and maidens walking out together through the fields; making Judas an evident fiend, a bat-eared Apollyon. Best cut: Lazarus...
...striking contrast to the Rembrandt in its breadth. Both pictures add examples of the Dutch School which up until this time have not been represented in the Fogg Museum collection except by occa- Family" by Murillo, as well as one of the many versions of El Greco's subject, "Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple." Several Italian primitives and other Flemish and Dutch works are also included in the bequest...
...wasn't too many centuries ago that Christ drove the money-lenders out of the temple. It wasn't more than a few years ago that someone remarked that the temple built to protect a spiritual fire is become the theatre of social manners. And it wasn't more than two days ago that Bishop Manning versus ex-Judge Lindsey took place in the tabernacle of the Lord, situated on Fifth Avenue...