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Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is a 1986 book by David J. Garrow about Martin Luther King Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Freedom Rides, The March on Washington and the American Civil Rights Movement.
David Jeffries Garrow (born May 11, 1953) is an American author and historian.He wrote the book Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1986), which won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Christ Bearing the Cross is a painting in tempera attributed to the Greek painter Nikolaos Tzafouris. Tzafouris is considered one of the founding members of the Cretan School along with Andreas Ritzos , Andreas Pavias , and Angelos Akotantos .
Christ Carrying the Cross (also referred to as Christ Bearing the Cross) is a painting attributed to a follower of Hieronymus Bosch. It was painted in the early 16th century, presumably between 1510 and 1535. The work is housed in the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium. Various aspects of the painting have been a source of scholarly debate. [1]
The Louvre panel (Christ Bearing the Cross) was bought from a man named L. Saint-Denis in 1834. [2] The Berlin panel (the Entombment) was bought from the Paris art dealer Émile Pacully in 1904. Originally it had the same golden background as the other panels, but this was painted over in red, probably in the middle of the 15th century. [1]
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The Blood "deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin". [5] As Nee progressively moves along in his book, he first touches upon the Blood and then focuses upon the Cross for the remainder of the book. [1]
It shows the common subject of Christ Carrying the Cross to his crucifixion, at the moment when he fell and his mother suffers a spasm of agony, the Swoon of the Virgin, or "Lo Spasimo". [2] All the emotion of the painting is densely crammed into the foreground and the background is similar to that of a stage set with distant groups of people ...