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Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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a Christian couple in the Lateran of thesame period shows the Trinity as three bearded men creating Evefrom the rib of Adam who lies asleep on the ground. But thelesson in offering a lamb as sacrifice is given to Adam and Eve bya beardless man, by Christ. Underneath are represented the ado-ration of the magi and Jesus healing a blind man. On the right ofthe upper row Christ changes water into wine, multiplies the loavesand fishes and calls Lazarus back to life. In the lower row Christrebukes Peter for his denial and in all these scenes Christ is beard-less like the lamb-bearing shepherd boy. The same conception of a beardless Christ prevails also in manypictures and mosaics. Perhaps the grandest one is in the mosaicof St. Aquilinus in Milan, where the youthful Christ is enthroned THE PORTRAYAL OF CHRIST. 31 in the midst of the twelve apostles, most of whom are bearded andfurther advanced in years than the Christ himself. Another youthful Christ is preserved in a terra-cotta medallion
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in the Biblioteca Barberiniana, which is the oldest representationextant of the last Judgment. Christ is enthroned with three apos-tles on either side. Below the throne are the multitudes hailing 32 THE OPEN COURT. hini as the people of that age might greet a new emperor on hisaccession to power, but the Christian character of this piece ofterra-cotta is assured by the christogram and the dotted cross en-graved on stones lying at the right side of the throne. In a niche on a sarcophagus in the Lateran we see representedan interesting scene which is called Christ crowned with thorns.The figure of Christ is represented in the traditional style holding

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