Excerpt from The Life of Our Lord in Art: With Some Account of the Artistic Treatment of the Life of St. John the Baptist
The life of Our Lord is the grandest subject in sacred art, the culminating point of interest of all study in this direction. The present book is the natural outgrowth of the writer's editorial work upon the revision of Mrs. Jameson's "Sacred and Legendary Art." It was a cause of great regret to all admirers of Mrs. Jameson, that upon her death in 1860, the crowning work of her series, which was to take up the history of Our Lord, was still so far from completion. She had made ready no material on the most important of all Christian subjects. Our Lord's Passion; and on various other incidents in his life, her collected notes were quite insufficient. In this lack of material from the favorite author's own hand, and with almost inexhaustible stores of art information made available by recent investigation, there has for some years been a very apparent need for the work which the present writer has attempted.
The book is intended to be a brief descriptive history of the art illustrating the incidents in the historic life of Christ. A few connected incidents from the life of St. John the Baptist are also included in due course. All symbolical and allegorical Christ art and the history of Christ portraiture are entirely omitted as lying outside a theme quite sufficient in itself for a single volume.
The subjects are arranged not according to the group system which has sometimes been adopted, but in the chronological order approved in accepted Harmonies, Robinson being the leading authority.
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