Tuesday, January 5, 2010

What Our Savior Saw From the Cross




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The featured picture this week is a painting in the French Victorian Neoclassical style by James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902)
This painting renders a unique view of the Crucifixion on Mount Calvary: the view of Jesus hanging from the Cross. The kneeling figure at the bottom of the image appears to be Mary Magdalene, while Our Lady appears to be standing in the center with Saint John to her right. The high-priests sit on their mules off to the right of the image while the Centurion, St. Longinus, is off to the upper left of the picture. To the left and right  of Saint Longinus are two sitting, Roman soldiers with lances—quite possibly one of the same lances that Longinus would later use to pierce the side of Jesus.

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