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  • He had chasubles, also, of amber-coloured silk, and blue silk and gold brocade, and yellow silk damask and cloth of gold, figured with representations of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, and embroidered with lions and peacocks and other emblems; dalmatics of white satin and pink silk damask, decorated with tulips and dolphins and fleurs-de-lis; altar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria. The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • In his weekly post, Williamson wrote that "the killing of Jesus was truly 'deicide' " and that "only the Jews leaders and people were the prime agents of the deicide because it is obvious from the gospels that the gentile most involved, Pontius Pilate, … would never have condemned Jesus to death had not the Jewish leaders roused the Jewish people to clamour for his crucifixion. Bishop's blog raises tensions between Jews and the Vatican
  • The use of the word Parasceve in the Gospels raises the question concerning the actual day of Our Lord's crucifixion. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
  • I would like to think people come to the Met to see the David Lavoisier, the Van Eyck diptych of the Crucifixion and Last Judgement, and the Velazquez Juan de Pareja.
  • Johnson's film also contains at least one decent surprise, a nice line in black humour, and looks very stylish throughout, while being laden with religious imagery - referring to the crucifixion and the stigmata on several occasions.
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  • At the intersection was a human figure, neither male nor female, arms outstretched as in a crucifixion, but not nailed. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
  • In those two hours, the audience, the congregation, the singers, the musicians, re-live, in a powerful way, the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ.
  • Frey is, we are to understand, a man of sorrows, who has undergone excruciation if not crucifixion, and has been stigmatised by his bad press. The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey – review
  • The shroud is imprinted with the image of a naked man who bears the marks of whipping and crucifixion.
  • He elsewhere asserts very decidedly (without however giving reasons) that the Quartodeciman controversy turned on the point whether the 14th Nisan was the day of the Last Supper or the day of the Crucifixion, the Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
  • Everyone is afraid that there's going to be a test and they'll need to know that Pablo Picasso's father bore a strong resemblance to Edgar Degas, that Nicolas Poussin despised Caravaggio, that the third centurion to the left in the Rembrandt crucifixion scene was a dead ringer for Ignaas van der Hoeven, a baker who once stiffed the artist out of 50 guilder. Three Tips for Surviving the Art Museum
  • Simon Zelotes speaketh it somewhile after the Crucifixion. Ballad of the Goodly Fere
  • For example, some who fixate on the image of the crucifixion are known to reproduce the wounds of Christ so-called stigmata. Experiencing the Next World Now
  • Only honesty isn't likely if the reward for it is crucifixion in the press, four different malpractice suits and an exemplary jail sentence.
  • Dressed in flowing white, wearing a crown-of-thorns headdress and posing with arms outstretched, crucifixion-style, Lilo was snapped by style photographer Terry Richardson for the new issue of Purple Magazine. Lindsay Lohan Nude Threesome Photoshoot Purple Magazine
  • The Crucifixion was delivered, and therefore reckoned to be finished, but it is also strikingly economical and bold in its details.
  • We shall not 'quicken' our fellows unless we 'die,' either literally or by the not less real martyrdom of rigid self-crucifixion and suppression. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV
  • He also showed His crucifixion scars on his hands and side to Thomas, this made him fall down and confess him as his own Lord and God.
  • The great three-bay Crucifixion in S. Giacomo, filled with incident and genre detail but controlled by a compositional rigour looking both to Giotto and to Roman relief sculpture, is representative.
  • St Paul's greatness is not, however, constituted by this rationalism -- for such we must term the arithmetical manipulation of the death of Jesus -- but by an entirely new appreciation of the Crucifixion. The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. I.
  • We must be crucified personally, mystically; for through crucifixion is the only path to resurrection. The Reality of Discipleship
  • In that tradition, it may be recalled, the crucifixion of Christ is construed as Christianity's repudiation of the earthly and fleshly, to which Dionysian intoxication is the alternative.
  • Next, on the liturgical left, is Filippino's Crucifixion of Peter, where the original subject is at question.
  • Now it is well known, both from remains of victims of crucifixion and from cadaver experiments, that people were not crucified with nails through the palms.
  • While anatomical and spatial description is often minimal, the overall narrative organization and pace of the scenes is dramatic, culminating in the powerful Crucifixion which takes up the main space of an entire bay.
  • If the Western imperial church hadn't burned heretics and crusaded against Christians who objected to the Crusades, we'd have a lot more who aren't obsessed with the crucifixion. Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: The Ideological Roots Of Christian Terrorism
  • BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Three hundred thousand gathered in St. Peter's Square over the weekend, there to witness the rise to sainthood of Padre Pio, a friar who bore the stigmata, that is the marks of crucifixion. CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2002
  • Obviously, the image for him was Christ, and the Passion and Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
  • In front of the chapel is an atrial cross depicting the crucifixion of Christ. The Meseta Purepecha
  • The period covered by the narrative in Acts begins shortly after the Crucifixion and ends somewhere between A.D. 64 and 67.
  • His 1912 Calvary is at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and his White Crucifixion hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago.
  • His duties even called on him to be the first person to try out the cross for the Crucifixion scene.
  • Denoncourt's Via crucis explores a boy's imaginative interpretation of the Catholic iconic representation of the crucifixion and ascension of Christ.
  • Grunewald's Crucifixion becomes a symbol of Germany's agony, the Passion it suffered as a consequence of its defeat in World War I.
  • The crucifixion is the point of concentrated intensity which above all realizes what is most distinctive about Christian theology of salvation, and it will be taken up in the next section.
  • The figure of Christ during the crucifixion is actually James Caviezel, despite popular rumors - no animatronics were used. Boing Boing: March 21, 2004 - March 27, 2004 Archives
  • Augustus III was of a religious turn of mind, and he had Meissen produce sacred art like Kandler's Crucifixion, one of the largest porcelain groups.
  • He had long ago sought out and met Father Pio de Pietraicina, the Italian Capuchin monk who suffered the stigmata of Christ's crucifixion.
  • Quimper-Corentin should carp, carp, carp; that the declaimer against philosophers should occasion his own crucifixion in St. Denis street; that a rascally recollet and the archdeacon of St. Malo should diffuse their gall and calumny through their Christian journals; that philosophy should be accused at the tribunal of Candide
  • He has a new play, Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams, running in New York, and an even newer work, Crucifixion, receiving its world premiere in San Francisco in October.
  • These include a fragmented image of the crucifixion with parts of Christ's body in pieces around the cross.
  • For a start I believe the audience is responding to the power of the original plays and their retelling of the Christian story from the creation to the crucifixion and resurrection.
  • In some communities, flagellation and/or real crucifixion is included. Easter in Mexico, Semana Santa and Pascua: a resource page
  • The bull's carcass dragged and hung in a grotesque parody of crucifixion.
  • Hear what our Saviour says on this subject; "it must needs be that offences come, but _woe unto that man through whom they come_" -- Witness some fulfillment of this declaration in the tremendous destruction of Jerusalem, occasioned by that most nefarious of all crimes the crucifixion of the Son of God. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
  • The choir will be singing Crucifixion, by Stainer, and anybody interested in joining in can go along to the rehearsal at 2pm on the same day.
  • Quimper-Corentin should carp, carp, carp; that the declaimer against philosophers should occasion his own crucifixion in St. Denis street; that a rascally recollet and the archdeacon of St. Malo should diffuse their gall and calumny through their Christian journals; that philosophy should be accused at the tribunal of Candide
  • Tiberius, the emperor at the time of Christ's crucifixion, is represented here by a round-topped sandstone stela that shows him in classic pharaonic dress with a winged sun-disk kneeling before a couple of gods and with his name translated into hieroglyphs, recording the reconstruction of some flood-damaged temples at Karnak. British Museum handsomely fulfils its duties to England outside London
  • The Crucifixion series, he says, ‘will go on forever, because every time I start one I never know what's going to go into it.’
  • The Grail itself, which began as the dish from which Jesus are at the Last Supper, and in which his blood was collected at the Crucifixion, has become the chalice of the Last Supper, and by implication the forerunner of the chalice of the Mass.
  • Soutine's paintings of skinned rabbits, plucked fowl, fish and beef carcasses—metaphors for suffering and martyrdom, especially the Crucifixion—were inspired by paintings of similar subjects by Titian, El Greco, Rembrandt and Chardin. Constructivist Criticism Laid Bare
  • This pray is set towards the end of his time with them on earth but before the crucifixion.
  • Among the numerous paintings in his outdoor gallery were poignant representations of the Crucifixion of Christ, the Nativity, the Three Wise Men, and the Annunciation to the Shepherds.
  • What makes this humorous is how people lose site of the value of life - easier to do thanks to the nature of the crime - in favor of the trivial discussions over percentages and the accuracy with Christ's crucifixion. REVIEW: Infinity Plus - The Anthology edited by Keith Brooke and Nick Gevers
  • The usual crucifixion began with the victim being flogged and severely beaten.
  • As opposed to the resurrection, the cross symbolises crucifixion.
  • Masaccio himself painted a small version of Peter's crucifixion for the predella of the Pisa polyptych, where squat pyramids, hardly taller than the figures, take up considerable space at both edges of the panel.
  • This was a drug that would ease the acute pain that crucifixion brought to the victim.
  • It might be of the Paradise in which, on the very day of the crucifixion, the penitent thief was to meet the Saviour of mankind; or it might be of that Heaven, yet increate or unpeopled, seen by some in long, distant perspective, shadowed forth in such lines as these: -- The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
  • The window on the east wing depicts the crucifixion while the Lady Chapel features a spectacular scene of the Ascension.
  • Jesus showed them from the Old Testament how the crucifixion was not in fact a denial of the Messiahship of Jesus.
  • After all, the one to whom he said this had apparently committed a crime that deserved the most severe punishment available, crucifixion.
  • Unitarian in religion; more accurately, I was a psilanthropist, one of those who believe our Lord to have been the real son of Joseph, and who lay the main stress on the resurrection rather than on the crucifixion. The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838
  • It was a celebratory, sedate, courtly dance: exultant outstretched jumps, falling, turning and an eloquent reflection on the crucifixion.
  • The extracanonical portrait of James fasting and anticipating seeing Jesus after the crucifixion also needs to be considered. Review of Did The Resurrection Happen? A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew
  • Crucifixion there often appears beneath the feet a wooden support (, suppedaneum); that it ever existed is very doubtful. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
  • a dozen religions: some of them barbarous; some cynical and pessimistic; some amoristic and romantic; some sceptical and challenging; some kindly, simple, and intuitional; some sophistical and intellectual; none suited to the character and conditions of western civilization unless it be the Christianity which was finally suppressed by the Crucifixion, and has never been put into practice by any State before or since. Treatise on Parents and Children
  • To the right of the entrance into the cloisters is a building containing the refectory, with a Last Supper, by Giotto, and above it a Crucifixion and Tree of Jesse. The South of France—East Half
  • Yet for the Indie's Tim Luckhurst, 'Kate's crucifixion' is a tale of fashion labels 'buckling' under the pressure of the hideous tabloids. Archive 2005-09-25
  • The variety of Pino's responses to Michelangelo is seen in his later Crucifixion of 1577 in SS Severino e Sossio, where Christ's lithe body is seen above a commotion of figures below.
  • This was a drug that would ease the acute pain that crucifixion brought to the victim.
  • It's a pretty basic assignment that asks only that one read fairly carefully; the key is that our culture tends to use Christic imagery that's either pathos-filled (the pieta and suffering/crucifixion imagery) or pastoral (the Jesus hanging out with little children or teaching imagery), while the poem's imagery is more heroic: Archive 2007-01-01
  • Even so, in the instance of the crucifixion, the same image is present to the theanthropist and to the psilanthropist or Socinian -- but to the latter it represents a mere man, Literary Remains, Volume 1
  • Padre Pio, the priest who suffered from stigmata comparable to those suffered by Jesus Christ in His Crucifixion, became an object of special identification to that little girl's family.
  • The first crucifixion is being doled out to "Cynewulf," played by a 27 year-old electrical engineer from Flint, Michigan, whose crime is "ganking" (ripping off) new players as they first appear in game. - Boing Boing
  • Jerusalem - Thousands of Christian pilgrims flocked to Jerusalem Friday to retrace Jesus Christ's last steps to his crucifixion along the route known as the Via Dolorosa, in Jerusalem's Old City. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • The blood flows appeared to extend from the wrist to the elbow, which would have been consistent with the outstretching of the arm in crucifixion. The Shroud Codex
  • Jesus suffered crucifixion because he knew that his ideas could triumph only through his own sacrifice.
  • Sutherland accepted a commission to paint a Crucifixion for a church in Northampton.
  • The Grünewald altarpiece had also been a favourite of the German expressionists, being the starting point for Emil Nolde's famous Crucifixion of 1912.
  • In the mouldings of the arched canopy the ball-flower ornament is again in evidence, and behind the tomb a carving of the crucifixion is still visible, though nearly obliterated by the chisel of the Puritans. Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
  • The original hues of the Crucifixion from S Giacomo degli Spagnoli (displayed in SS Marcellino e Festo) have been transformed into an unfortunate and unalterable subfusc.
  • The New York Times called it “The most impressive of all motion pictures,” while Variety said that the picture was “tremendous in its lesson, in the daring of its picturization for a commercial theater, and tremendous in its biggest scene, the crucifixion of Christ.” Empire of Dreams
  • Gentiles that sought His presence, the hour of His death was the hour of His life; the hour of His defeat in crucifixion the hour of His triumph in redemption. Death, the Law of Life
  • The received date of Christ's crucifixion was 25 March - hence the year number changed on that day - and 25 March by the Gregorian calendar was 15 March Julian, the ides.
  • As Neil from "The Young Ones" once sagaciously pointed out, the problem with crucifixion as a form of suicide is that "there's no way you can hammer in the last nail. Bikes and Beatitudes: The Salmon on the Mount
  • And the texts advocated that a crucifix or an image of the Crucifixion should always be in the sight of the dying person.
  • May that which is unholy within me be nailed to the sacrificial cross of crucifixion and may that which pleases you be raised in the holy and blessed hope of the ressurection.
  • The demand for Virgins, Crucifixions, and Baptists, for cassoni and deschi da parto, was sufficiently great for workshops to be able to produce them without a particular customer in mind.
  • So Jesus was not so disfigured that he seemed less then human; still more importantly, in difference to the Servant, Jesus had the public career, he was known, and his suffering was not constantly accentuated, but it came in the end culminating in his crucifixion; and most of all, in difference to the mythologem of Suffering Servant, Jesus 'career, as seen by his contemporaries immediately after his sacrificial death, ended in a complete failure. Expecting Rain
  • As someone who attaches no supernatural value to the crucifixion of Jesus, I would have preferred just a plain, non-supernatural special effects account of what probably happened that Friday.
  • The crucifixion of the two robbers with Jesus was a sort of topstone of obloquy and disgrace contrived by His murderers with the double object of further humiliating Him in the eyes of the people, and of adding poignancy to His own agony. Our Master Thoughts for Salvationists about Their Lord
  • Sutherland gracefully found a way back to nature studies while painting the crown of thorns in his Crucifixion.
  • Thus, for example, the blood of the lamb which was slain on the Jewish altar was a type, or a foreshowing, of the crucifixion of Choice Readings for the Home Circle
  • But all the authorities are agreed that the worst aspects of crucifixion were the raging thirst and the excruciating cramps that racked the victim till he died.
  • In real life crucifixions, the nail was placed between the radius and ulna bones of the forearm, with a plate of wood set between the head of the nail and the flesh to secure it further.
  • Each of the three movements ‘depicts’ an episode in the life of Christ: Nativity, Crucifixion and Resurrection.
  • Blood flows freely as Jesus Christ is flagellated by Roman soldiers and the scenes of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ are, indeed, not pleasant viewing.
  • It is the proof of our own benumbment if we do not feel that such accusations resulted in spiritual crucifixion. The Epistles of St. Peter
  • As one sees from his Crucifixion and his Battle of Poitiers, hung alongside, Delacroix was rapacious for colour; especially, in picture after picture, for the cruel colour of blood.
  • He had chasubles, also, of amber-colored silk, and blue silk and gold brocade, and yellow silk damask and cloth of gold, figured with representations of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, and embroidered with lions and peacocks and other emblems; dalmatics of white satin and pink silk damask, decorated with tulips and dolphins and fleurs de lys; altar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria. The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • This show includes six nonobjective masterpieces by Malevich, including "Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying" (1915), which seemingly positions us at the origin of creation, and "Mystic Suprematism" (1920-27), a precise distillation of the torsion experienced in an El Greco crucifixion. Intersecting Planes and Opposing Angles
  • The composition of a Crucifixion cameo of similar date, here tentatively associated with Venice, may in theory have been borrowed from a mosaic or manuscript source, but not from a classical cameo.
  • The space between the great arch and the groining of the Choir is filled with rich tracery, on the central panel of which is painted the Crucifixion, with angels holding the chalice and palm branch on the right and left. Ely Cathedral
  • He had long ago sought out and met Father Pio de Pietraicina, the Italian Capuchin monk who suffered the stigmata of Christ's crucifixion.
  • Spend enough time at "The Sacred Made Real" and the paintings, with their figures "spotlit" against indeterminate darkness, start to read as "portraits" of the sculptures, a not-unlikely notion underlined by the pairing of Mart nez Monta z's exquisitely carved "Crucifixion" and Zurbar n's two-dimensional version, in which Christ is like a carving in strong side-light. Bringing Devotion to Life
  • The areas outside were enclosed and equipped with triumphal arches and calvaires - essentially Crucifixion scenes on poles, set about with extraordinarily rich biblical scenes.
  • Jeremiah wondered how many Brotherhood artists had attended the crucifixion, or sketched pictures of the nativity.
  • Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus, popularly known simply as Tiberius, was the Roman emperor at the time of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
  • And since Caiaphas is only associated with Jesus's crucifixion, you put two and two together and they seem to imply that these are the nails.
  • Senator John McCain delved on Sunday into remarks made by Senator Barack Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., saying it was “beyond belief” that Mr. Wright had likened the Romans at the time of Jesus’ crucifixion to the Marines and had suggested that the United States was acting like Al Qaeda under a different color flag. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Monday, April 28, 2008
  • The blessing upon the merciful seems to flow directly from the previous beatitude in that the merciful are those who have hungered and thirsted for righteousness, and have been satisfied; in other words, they are made righteous through cooperation with the grace of God revealed in Jesus Christ, who shows us what it means to be merciful through his own suffering and crucifixion. Eric Simpson: Those Who Are Merciful Will Obtain Mercy
  • Simon Zelotes speaketh it somewhile after the Crucifixion. Ballad of the Goodly Fere
  • Hear what our Saviour says on this subject; "it must needs be that offences come, but _woe unto that man through whom they come_" -- Witness some fulfilment of this declaration in the tremendous destruction of Jerusalem, occasioned by that most nefarious of all crimes the crucifixion of the Son of God. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
  • As the kings of Kongo became the principal promoters of Christianity in the region, they commissioned local representations of the crucifixion as emblems of their leadership and power.
  • Holy Week...family arrangements for Easter with talk of travel arrangements and grandparents and simnel cake... jostling with the veiled statues in church and the Gospel bringing home the stark ghastliness of a Roman crucifixion and Christ's agony. Archive 2009-04-01
  • The Romans designed the act of crucifixion to slowly execute a person through torture while humiliating him.
  • It was there that he lived during the time of the ministry and crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
  • It will feature John Stainer's Crucifixion, a well-known and loved piece.

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