23 by Grunewald sure didn’t pull. Any punches by ‘cleaning up the scene for the audience’ the pain and 5orture that Christ underwent for us was unreal. There flogging whips back then had bits of thorns and sharp rocks and sharp pottery shards that they would embed in the whip which would break off and stick,in the skin to inflict tremendousmpain an suffering. 23 caught that gruesome effect.
Gotta look into gaugins ‘yellow christ’- I doubt gaugin was religious, having sought and lived a hedonistic lifestyle, but perhaps his religious paintings had some kind of,influence on him later in life. Always liked his paintings.
Tissot of course always great, creates great theatrical scenes, like,perhaps an illustrator for an epic movie would do to promote it, and get people,interested by the grand scale and majestic scenes.
28 Messina, what an interesting depiction of the scene. Feels very lonesome even with the two women there, they seem to feel alone now too. Rabbit and owl in the scene- rabbit an signify new life as we discussed ear,earlier,, not sure what owl represents. People in the background wal,Wal, off towards the city again, leaving the scene it seems. I like that there aren’t 3 crosses, makes Christ’s stand out more, good use of contrast to draw attention.
36 Giovani really gets to me. The anguish of Mary. Everything else is excluded fro the scene, and it is just the two of them in a personal spiritual connection, as she thinks she is losing her lord and master and beloved teacher. The pain must have been excruciating for her, and the others as well of course, but this painting zeros in on her pain and how it affected her personally. Powerfully depicted.
she thinks she is losing her lord and master and beloved teacher
While it is true, as stated explicitly in Scripture, that the disciples remained ignorant of the need for Christ's death and the inevitability of His resurrection, I cannot help but suppose that Jesus had let His mother in on the whole story. So, if true, then she knows she is not "losing her lord and master and beloved teacher"; her anguish becomes no less intense, but she cries only the ordinary tears a mother has when watching her child suffer..