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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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in front by statesmen, poets, sages, and in the backgroundby a shepherd, a mountaineer, a hunter, a faun, and others. Apriestess with a tripod before her sits at the stern and holds therudder. From the waves, Venus is rising into the air to join theOlympian gods in heaven. On the right above this scene HomericGreeks perform a funeral dance. On the left we see a temple likethe Parthenon, and Phidias- at work upon an Athene statue. Helifts his hands towards Jupiter in an attitude of inspiration. Under-neath we see a lawgiver inscribing laws upon a tablet of stone. ^ See our frontispiece. Kaulbach here utilizes a well-known portrait of Phidias. (See page 312.) 294 THE OPEN COURT. In representing the destruction of Jerusalem the artist showsthe avenging angels proceeding to earth from the clouds where areseated the four great prophets who have foretold the new covenantand warned Israel that she had not kept the old covenant withJehovah. Below we look upon the temple area with the altar of
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burnt offering in the middle. Titus and the conquering Romansare entering the holy place in the background on the right. In frontof them and upon the very altar are blown the trumpets of victory.Beyond the columns on the left we see the burning fortifications.The remnant of Jews around the columns are despairing of further KAULBACH S FRESCOES. 295 defence; old men raise their clenched fists to heaven in their help-lessness. In the center of the foreground the high priest is stabbinghimself in front of the altar of burnt offerings. Several groups ofterrified people surround the tragic scene, and in the left corner

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