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Title: The history of Our Lord as exemplified in works of art : with that of His types ; St. John the Baptist ; and other persons of the Old and New Testament
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860 Eastlake, Elizabeth, 1809-1893
Subjects: Jesus Christ Christian art and symbolism
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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143 Christ washing Disciples Feet. (Giotto. Arena Chapel.) what might appear as a profane reversal of the order of things.Giottos fresco in the Arena Chapel is the first large and importantrepresentation of this subject (woodcut, No. 143), He has seized themoment which gives dignity to the Saviour and raises Him aboveHis office. The Master, it is true, is on one knee before His servant,holding one of the feet which He is about to immerse in the water,but His head is uplifted, His other hand raised; He is speaking, 16 HISTORY OF OUR LORD. inculcating the humility they are to imitate, and thus bringing thedoctrine more before our minds than the act. His head is full ofenergetic grandeur. Two young Apostles, St. John and another,the first carrying a pitcher of water, and thus, by this act of service,helping to elevate the office of Christ, look like attendant angels.A fully-bearded and long-haired figure (red hair in the fresco) in
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144 Christ washing Disciples Feet. (Fra Angelico.) the foreground, tying on his sandals, is, as we have said, doubtlessintended for Judas. But of all the painters who expressed the condescension of theLord by the impression it produced upon those to whom it was sent,Fra Angelico stands foremost in beauty of feeling (woodcut, No. 144).Not only the hands, but the feet of poor shocked Peter protestagainst his Masters condescension. It is a contest for humility CHRIST WASHING THE DISCIPLES FEET. 17 between the two ; but our Lord is more than humble, He is lowlyand mighty too. He is on His knees; but His two outstretchedhands, so lovingly offered, begging to be accepted, go beyond themere incident, as Art and Poetry of this class always do, and linkthemselves typically with the whole gracious scheme of Redemp-tion. True Christian Art, even if Theology were silent, would, likethe very stones, cry out, and proclaim how every act of our Lordscourse refers to one supreme idea. Unfortunately su

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