Identifier: artartistsofourt04cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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orth mentioning to go upon; nor has he thought it worth hiswhile to spend six years in Jerusalem in order to paint what he might have found in Londonor Berlin, without trouble. Following the simple words of the story as told in Luke, heshows the child standing in the midst of the doctors. The group is placed in front of thetabernacle, which is merely indicated; its veiling curtain half vrithdrawn, a detail meantperhaps to be symbolical of the part Jesus was to play in the religious teaching of the race. 188 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. At the right of the picture, one of the doctors is sitting with a book in his lap which he hasbeen examining for some text that might confute the boys argument. The gesture of Jesusshows that he is answering the question, and his answer evidently moves the minds of all hishearers, each of whom expresses his feeling in his own way, according to his character. Avery old rabbi near him, leaning on his staff, regards the child with the pleased wonder of age
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THE CHILD JESUS IN THE TEMPLE. FROM THE Picture by heinrich hofmann. in the brightness of youth. Next him, a younger man, keen-witted and intellectual, followsthe argument with interested attention, the action of his hand showing his readiness to in-terrupt the speaker with an objection, but that respect, as for a superior, restrains him untilthe proper moment. On the other side, a sterner auditor listens in no relenting mood to wordsthat even from the mouth of a child, threaten the stability of a creed to which he is pledged.His ai-m resting strongly on the book of his faith, he grasps his beard, and looks earnestly in ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 189 the face of the youthful prophet, while with the other hand he holds the scroll of the law, asif it were a weapon whose temper against such a foe he almost doubts. Behind tliis manappears the head of still another who looks on at what is passing with an expression of merecuriosity. We have said that Hofmann has not attempted to make of

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