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That work, however, in its entirety, was far +too costly for the larger and ever-widening circle of M. Dore's +admirers, and to meet the felt and often-expressed want of this +class, and to provide a volume of choice and valuable designs +upon sacred subjects for art-loving Biblical students generally, +this work was projected and has been carried forward. The aim has +been to introduce subjects of general interest—that is, those +relating to the most prominent events and personages of +Scripture—those most familiar to all readers; the plates being +chosen with special reference to the known taste of the American +people. To each cut is prefixed a page of letter-press—in, +narrative form, and containing generally a brief analysis of the +design. Aside from the labors of the editor and publishers, the +work, while in progress, was under the pains-taking and careful +scrutiny of artists and scholars not directly interested in the +undertaking, but still having a generous solicitude for its +success. It is hoped, therefore, that its general plan and +execution will render it acceptable both to the appreciative and +friendly patrons of the great artist, and to those who would wish +to possess such a work solely as a choice collection of +illustrations upon sacred themes.</p> +<br><br><br><br> +<center><h2>GUSTAVE DORE.</h2></center> +<br> +<p>The subject of this sketch is, perhaps, the most original and +variously gifted designer the world has ever known. At an age +when most men have scarcely passed their novitiate in art, and +are still under the direction and discipline of their masters and +the schools, he had won a brilliant reputation, and readers and +scholars everywhere were gazing on his work with ever-increasing +wonder and delight at his fine fancy and multifarious gifts. He +has raised illustrative art to a dignity and importance before +unknown, and has developed capacities for the pencil before +unsuspected. He has laid all subjects tribute to his genius, +explored and embellished fields hitherto lying waste, and opened +new and shining paths and vistas where none before had trod. To +the works of the great he has added the lustre of his genius, +bringing their beauties into clearer view and warming them to a +fuller life.</p> + +<p>His delineations of character, in the different phases of +life, from the horrible to the grotesque, the grand to the comic, +attest the versatility of his powers; and, whatever faults may be +found by critics, the public will heartily render their quota of +admiration to his magic touch, his rich and facile rendering of +almost every thought that stirs, or lies yet dormant, in the +human heart. It is useless to attempt a sketch of his various +beauties; those who would know them best must seek them in the +treasure—house that his genius is constantly augmenting with +fresh gems and wealth. To one, however, of his most prominent +traits we will refer—his wonderful rendering of the powers of +Nature.</p> + +<p>His early wanderings in the wild and romantic passes of the +Vosges doubtless developed this inherent tendency of his mind. +There he wandered, and there, mayhap, imbibed that deep delight +of wood and valley, mountain—pass and rich ravine, whose variety +of form and detail seems endless to the enchanted eye. He has +caught the very spell of the wilderness; she has laid her hand +upon him, and he has gone forth with her blessing. So bold and +truthful and minute are his countless representations of forest +scenery; so delicate the tracery of branch and stem; so +patriarchal the giant boles of his woodland monarchs, that the' +gazer is at once satisfied and entranced. His vistas lie +slumbering with repose either in shadowy glade or fell ravine, +either with glint of lake or the glad, long course of some +rejoicing stream, and above all, supreme in a beauty all its own, +he spreads a canopy of peerless sky, or a wilderness, perhaps, of +angry storm, or peaceful stretches of soft, fleecy cloud, or +heavens serene and fair—another kingdom to his teeming art, +after the earth has rendered all her gifts.</p> + +<p>Paul Gustave Dore was born in the city of Strasburg, January +10, 1833. Of his boyhood we have no very particular account. At +eleven years of age, however, he essayed his first artistic +creation—a set' of lithographs, published in his native city. +The following year found him in Paris, entered as a 7. student at +the Charlemagne Lyceum. His first actual work began in 1848, when +his fine series of sketches, the "Labors of Hercules," was given +to the public through the medium of an illustrated, journal with +which he was for a long time connected as designer. In 1856 were +published the illustrations for Balzac's "Contes Drolatiques" and +those for "The Wandering Jew "—the first humorous and grotesque +in the highest degree—indeed, showing a perfect abandonment to +fancy; the other weird and supernatural, with fierce battles, +shipwrecks, turbulent mobs, and nature in her most forbidding and +terrible aspects. Every incident or suggestion that could +possibly make the story more effective, or add to the horror of +the scenes was seized upon and portrayed with wonderful power. +These at once gave the young designer a great reputation, which +was still more enhanced by his subsequent works.</p> + +<p>With all his love for nature and his power of interpreting her +in her varying moods, Dore was a dreamer, and many of his finest +achievements were in the realm of the imagination. But he was at +home in the actual world also, as witness his designs for +"Atala," "London—a Pilgrimage," and many of the scenes in "Don +Quixote."</p> + +<p>When account is taken of the variety of his designs, and the +fact considered that in almost every task he attempted none had +ventured before him, the amount of work he accomplished is fairly +incredible. To enumerate the immense tasks he undertook—some +single volumes alone containing hundreds of illustrations—will +give some faint idea of his industry. Besides those already +mentioned are Montaigne, Dante, the Bible, Milton, Rabelais, +Tennyson's "Idyls of the King," "The Ancient Mariner, +Shakespeare, "Legende de Croquemitaine," La Fontaine's "Fables," +and others still.</p> + +<p>Take one of these works—the Dante, La Fontaine, or "Don +Quixote"—and glance at the pictures. The mere hand labor +involved in their production is surprising; but when the quality +of the work is properly estimated, what he accomplished seems +prodigious. No particular mention need be made of him as painter +or sculptor, for his reputation rests solely upon his work as an +illustrator.</p> + +<p>Dore's nature was exuberant and buoyant, and he was youthful +in appearance. He had a passion for music, possessed rare skill +as a violinist, and it is assumed that, had he failed to succeed +with his pencil, he could have won a brilliant reputation as a +musician.</p> + +<p>He was a bachelor, and lived a quiet, retired life with his +mother—married, as he expressed it, to her and his art. His +death occurred on January 23, 1883.</p> +<br><br><br><br> + +<center> +<table summary="Illustrations"> +<tr><td> +<h2>LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS</h2> +<br> + +<a href="#front">GUSTAVE DORE</a><br> +<a href="#079">JESUS AND THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY</a><br> +<a href="#080">THE RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS</a><br> +<a href="#081">MARY MAGDALENE</a><br> +<a href="#082">THE LAST SUPPER</a><br> +<a href="#083">THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN</a><br> +<a href="#084">PRAYER OF JESUS IN THE GARDEN OF OLIVES</a><br> +<a href="#085">THE BETRAYAL</a><br> +<a href="#086">CHRIST FAINTING UNDER THE CROSS</a><br> +<a href="#087">THE FLAGELLATION</a><br> +<a href="#088">THE CRUCIFIXION</a><br> +<a href="#089">CLOSE OF THE CRUCIFIXION</a><br> + + + + + + +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> + + + +<br><br> +<a name="079"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>JESUS AND THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/079.jpg"><img alt="079th.jpg (37K)" src="images/079th.jpg" height="481" width="381"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. And early in the morning +he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; +and he sat down, and taught them.</p> + +<p>And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken +in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, they say +unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very +act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be +stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that +they might have to accuse him.</p> + +<p>But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the +ground, as though he heard them not.</p> + +<p>So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and +said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first +cast a stone at her.</p> + +<p>And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.</p> + +<p>And they which heard it, being convicted by their own +conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even +unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing +in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but +the woman, he said unto her, Woman where are those thine +accusers? Hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord.</p> + +<p>And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and +sin no more. —john viii, 1-11</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="080"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>THE RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/080.jpg"><img alt="080th.jpg (32K)" src="images/080th.jpg" height="483" width="371"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that +place where Martha met him. The Jews then which were with her in +the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose +up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the +grave to weep there. Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and +saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if +thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.</p> + +<p>When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also +weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was +troubled, and said, Where have ye laid him?</p> + +<p>They said unto him, Lord, come and see.</p> + +<p>Jesus wept.</p> + +<p>Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him! And some of them +said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, +have caused that even this man should not have died?</p> + +<p>Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. +It was a cave and a stone lay upon it. Jesus said, Take ye away +the stone.</p> + +<p>Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, +by this time he stinketh for he hath been dead four days.</p> + +<p>Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou +wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?</p> + +<p>Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead +was laid.</p> + +<p>And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee +that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always: +but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may +believe that thou hast sent me.</p> + +<p>And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, +Lazarus, come forth.</p> + +<p>And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with +graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin.</p> + +<p>Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.</p> + +<p>Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the +things which Jesus did, believed on him.—John xi, 30-45</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="081"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>MARY MAGDALENE.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/081.jpg"><img alt="081th.jpg (31K)" src="images/081th.jpg" height="469" width="383"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>Of Mary "called Magdalene" (Luke viii, 2) but few particulars +are recorded in scripture. We first hear of her as having been +delivered by Jesus of seven devils (Luke viii, 1-3; Mark xvi, 9). +Impelled, no doubt, by gratitude for her deliverance, she becomes +one of his followers, accompanying him thenceforward in all his +wanderings faithfully till his death. She was the first person to +whom he appeared after his resurrection (Mark xvi, 9; John xx, 1, +11-18) The common belief that she was a fallen woman is destitute +of the slightest foundation. On the contrary, the references to +her as being in the company of such women as Joanna, the wife of +Herod's steward, Salome, the mother of James and John, and Mary, +the mother of Jesus (Luke viii, 3; Mark xvi, 40; John xix, 25), +strongly discountenance such a supposition. The error, which had +no other source than ecclesiastical tradition, has been fostered +and perpetuated by the stupid blunder of the translators of the +authorized version in identifying her with the "sinner" who is +described in Luke vii, 37-50 as washing the feet of Jesus with +her tears (see head-note to Luke vii).</p> + +<p>The Roman Catholic notion that this "sinner" was Mary the +sister of Lazarus is almost equally groundless (see Douay Bible, +head-note to Matthew xxvi, and the foot-note references to Luke +vii, 37, found in most Catholic Bibles). The only reason for this +identification is that the anointing by the "sinner" is described +as taking place in the house of a Pharisee named Simon (Luke vii, +36, 39-40 43-44); that the anointing by the unnamed woman, as +described in Matthew xxvi, 6-13 and Mark xiv, 3-9, took place in +the house of one "Simon the leper," in Bethany; and that Mary, +the sister of Lazarus, is described in John xi, 2, and xii, 3-8, +as anointing Jesus in a house (apparently that of Lazarus +himself) in Bethany, when a conversation ensues altogether +different from that recorded in Luke vii, but similar to that +related in Matthew xxvi, and Mark xiv, save that the objection to +the anointing of Jesus is made, not by "his disciples" (Matthew +xxvi, 8), not by "some that had indignation" (Mark xiv, 4), but +by "one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son" (John xii, +4). The demeanor of Mary, the sister of Lazarus, is, however, by +no means that of a fallen and sinful though penitent woman but +that of a pious and good one (see Luke x, 39, 42; John xi, 28-33; +xii, 3).</p> + +<p>Dore's illustration, which portrays Mary Magdalene as a +heartbroken and despairing sinner, shows that he has fallen into +the common error.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="082"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>THE LAST SUPPER.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/082.jpg"><img alt="082th.jpg (34K)" src="images/082th.jpg" height="481" width="383"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the +disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we +prepare for thee to eat the passover? And he said, Go into the +city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time +is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my +disciples. And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and +they made ready the passover.</p> + +<p>Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve. And +as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you +shall betray me.</p> + +<p>And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them +to say unto him, Lord, is it I?</p> + +<p>And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in +the dish, the same shall betray me. The Son of man goeth as it is +written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is +betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born. +Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it +I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.</p> + +<p>And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and +brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this +is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to +them, saying, Drink ye all of it; for this is my blood of the new +testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. But +I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the +vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's +kingdom.</p> + +<p>And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount +of Olives.—Matthew xxvi, 17-30.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="083"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/083.jpg"><img alt="083th.jpg (43K)" src="images/083th.jpg" height="487" width="381"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of +Olives; and his disciples all followed him. And when he was at +the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not in +temptation.</p> + +<p>And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and +kneeled down, and prayed Saying, Father, if thou be willing, +remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be +done.</p> + +<p>And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, +strengthening him.</p> + +<p>And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat +was as it were great drops, of blood falling down to the +ground.</p> + +<p>And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his +disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow, and said unto them, +Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation—Luke +xxii, 39-46.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="084"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>PRAYER OF, JESUS IN THE GARDEN OF' OLIVES.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/084.jpg"><img alt="084th.jpg (34K)" src="images/084th.jpg" height="479" width="381"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, +and saith unto, the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray +yonder. And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, +and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Then saith he unto +them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye +here, and watch with me.</p> + +<p>And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and +prayed, saying, O my Father, if be possible, let this cup pass +from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.</p> + +<p>And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and +saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? +Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation the spirit +indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.</p> + +<p>He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my +Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, +thy will be done.</p> + +<p>And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were +heavy.</p> + +<p>And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third +time, saying the same words.</p> + +<p>Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on +now, and take your rest behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son +of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise let us be +going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me. Matthew xxvi, +36-46</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="085"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>THE BETRAYAL.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/085.jpg"><img alt="085th.jpg (28K)" src="images/085th.jpg" height="469" width="384"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>And he cometh the third time, and saith unto them, Sleep on +now, and take your rest it is enough, the hour is come; behold, +the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise up, +let us go; lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand.</p> + +<p>And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the +twelve, and with him great multitude with swords and staves, from +the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. And he that +betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall +kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely. And as +soon as he was come, he goeth straight way to him, and saith, +Master, master; and kissed him.</p> + +<p>And they laid their hands on him, and took him. And one of +them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high +priest, and cut off his ear. And Jesus answered and said unto +them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with +staves to take me? I was daily with you in the temple teaching, +and ye took me not but the scriptures must be fulfilled.</p> + +<p>And they all forsook him, and fled.—Mark xiv, 41-50.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="086"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>CHRIST FAINTING UNDER THE CROSS.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/086.jpg"><img alt="086th.jpg (30K)" src="images/086th.jpg" height="473" width="389"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>The incident depicted in this illustration seems to be as +apocryphal as that embodied in the artist's picture of Mary +Magdalene. There is absolutely no warrant in scripture for the +notion that Christ fainted under the burden of the cross. The +only foundation for such an idea to found in the Bible is +contained in the head note to Mark xv, which is quite unwarranted +by the text. According to the three synoptic gospels the cross +was borne not by Christ, but by Simon, a Cyrenian (see Matthew +xxvii, 32; Mark xv, 2 1; Luke xxiii, 26). According to the fourth +evangelist, Jesus bore the cross without assistance the whole +distance to the place crucifixion (John xix, 16-18). In not one +of the four narratives is there so much as a hint that he fainted +under the burden.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="087"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>THE FLAGELLATION.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/087.jpg"><img alt="087th.jpg (32K)" src="images/087th.jpg" height="486" width="391"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged +Jesus, he deliver him to be crucified.—Matthew xxvii, 26.</p> + +<p>And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released +Barabbas unto them, and deliver Jesus, when he had scourged him, +to be crucified.—Mark xv, 15.</p> + +<p>Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. John +xix.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="088"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>THE CRUCIFIXION.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/088.jpg"><img alt="088th.jpg (30K)" src="images/088th.jpg" height="486" width="386"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is +to say, a place of a skull they gave him vinegar to drink mingled +with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. +And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: +that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They +parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast +lots. And sitting down they watched him there; and set up over +his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE +JEWS.</p> + +<p>Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the +right hand, and another on the left.</p> + +<p>And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, and +saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three +days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God come down from the +cross.</p> + +<p>Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes +and elders, said, He saved others: himself he cannot save. If he +be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and +we will believe him. He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, +if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.</p> + +<p>The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same +in his teeth.—Matthew xxvii, 33—44.</p> + +<br><br> +<a name="089"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h2>CLOSE OF THE CRUCIFIXION.</h2> +<br><br> +<a href="images/089.jpg"><img alt="089th.jpg (30K)" src="images/089th.jpg" height="480" width="383"></a> +</center> +<br> + +<p>Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land +unto the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a +loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, +My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?</p> + +<p>Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, +This man calleth for Elias. And straightway one of them ran, and +took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, +and gave him to drink. The rest said, Let be, let us see whether +Elias will come to save him.</p> + +<p>Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up +the ghost.</p> + +<p>And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the +top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; +and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which +slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, +and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.</p> + +<p>Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching +Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they +feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.</p> + +<p>And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed +Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him: among which was Mary +Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother +of Zebedee's children.—Matthew xxvii, 45-56.</p> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p7.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="8710-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p9.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + |