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8. The Transfiguration.
9. ;
Christ and the Eleven
the Temple in the
background is represented by a stiff" Byzantine
building with three domes and oblong
windows.
10. Christ blessing two children.
11. (Centre) The Resurrection. Christ standing
on the tomb and holding a flag of victory ;
at each side an angel sitting.
12. The Crucifixion.
13. The Last Supper.
14. The Entry into Jerusalem.
15. Christ in Glory, or the Transfiguration. An
aureole with rays, and at the four corners
the apocalyptic symbols. This somewhat
resembles a fresco in the apse of the crypt of
the cathedral at Auxerre twelfth century 1 .
1 6. The Ascension. Christ in an azure medallion
upheld by two flying angels ;
below gazing upwards.
'
the
disciples
i 7. Christ with a boy who carries balanced on his
head a sort of cradle surrounded by an open
railing. The subject is doubtful, but it may
be the sick of the palsy carrying his bed, our
Lord being drawn on a larger scale, as was
the custom sometimes in the West.
1 8. The woman of Samaria. In the foreground
is the well with a coping round it. A hori-
zontal rope slung between two tree-tops up-
holds another rope from which the pitcher
hangs by a pulley. One of the trees is
beside the well, the other behind in the
1
Didron's Christian tr. Iconography, by Millington, vol. i. p. 108.