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To: NYer

Well, it is ugly. We have a spectral, floating “resurrected Jesus” from the same time that is also very ugly and a little creepy looking. It was a bad period for religious art.

Get a new crucifix, perhaps, but don’t replace it with one of those neutral, symbolic things Protestants have used for years.


10 posted on 01/08/2009 12:02:20 PM PST by livius
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To: livius
Just out of curiosity, what do you think of the Matthias Grünewald Resurrection?

It's floating and it's spectral, but it's early 16th century and, I think, very effective. Especially when contrasted with the horrific Crucifixion.

14 posted on 01/08/2009 12:12:38 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse (TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary - recess appointment))
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