Volume 1
The history of Our Lord as exemplified in works of art : with that of His types, St. John the Baptist, and other persons of the Old and New Testament / commenced by the late Mrs. Jameson ; continued and completed by Lady Eastlake.
- Anna Brownell Jameson
- Date:
- 1865
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The history of Our Lord as exemplified in works of art : with that of His types, St. John the Baptist, and other persons of the Old and New Testament / commenced by the late Mrs. Jameson ; continued and completed by Lady Eastlake. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![A.J.~] by a religious and imaginative painter; unhappily, though drawn and executed with much cleverness, the conception is in the worst style of Art, intolerably mannered and affected.] The parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins takes its place in the ‘ Speculum Salvationis ’ as a type of the Last Judgment. We give an illustration (No. 137) from the Speculum facsimiled by M. Ber- jeau. The Wise Virgins are here seen with their lamps burning and ascending the steps of a building, where they are welcomed by Christ and by an angel. The Foolish Virgins, whose lamps are reversed, are descending the steps on the other side, directly into the jaws of hell.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24876239_0001_0435.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
