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 CHRIST seuru ; Pietro Perugino, Vienna Museum ; Juan Fernandez Navarrete, Madrid Museum ; Lorenzo di Credi, Uffizi, Florence ; Vincen- zo Civercbio, Louvre ; Vincenzo Carducbo, Madrid Museum. CHRIST, BETRAYAL OF. See Judas, Kiss of. CHRIST, BIRTH OF. See Nativity. CHRIST AND THE BLIND. See Jeri- cho, Blind men of. CHRIST ON CALVARY, Mihail Mun- kacsy, Paris ; canvas, H. 19 ft. x 25 ft The three crosses in foreground, at right, against a sky black with clouds and illuminated with lightnings, the city being just discern- ible on the horizon ; Christ, pale and lean- ing forward, has just expired ; the Virgin, Mary Magdalen, and John are kneeling at the foot of the cross, beside which the Cen- turion has dropped in terror ; all the re- mainder of the canvas filled with the terror- stricken-crowd Jewish men and women, the executioners with their implements, rab- bis discussing the event, Roman cavalry, and in front Judas all hastening down the hill. Painted in 1883-84. CHRIST ON WAY TO CALVARY. See ; Calvary, Procession to. CHRIST AND THE CENTURION (Mat- thew, viii. 5), Paolo Veronese, Madrid Mu- seum ; canvas, H. 6 ft. 3 in. x 9 f t 6 in. The centurion kneeling between two soldiers on the marble pavement of a spacious edi- fice, before Christ, who is accompanied by ' two apostles and others ; background, a splendid building of Renaissance architect- ure. Placed by Philip IV. in the Escorial, whence brought to the Museum. A smaller j canvas, same subject, in the Museum, from Collection of Charles H. Cat. Museo del Prado. CHRIST AND THE CHILDREN, Lucas Cranach, the elder, Baring Collection, Lon- don. The mothers and the children are in ' quaint, old German costumea Other treat- ments of the subject, which Cranach painted several times, are in the Stadtkirche, Naum- ' burg, and the Pauliuerkirche, Leipsie. By Johann Friedrich Ooerlx-ck, Meyer Collection, Hamburg. Christ standing in a landscape, with both hands raised, is bless- ing the children who are gathered, some kneeling, some standing, around him ; at sides, the mothers, and in background, dis- ciples. Subject treated also by Rembrandt (at- tributed), National Gallery, London ; Jan de Bray, Haarlem Museum ; Sebastien Bour- don, Louvre. CHRIST, CmCUMCISION OF. See ! Circumcision. CHRIST AT THE COLUMN. See Fla- gellation. CHRIST BEARING THE CROSS, Paolo Moratulo, Verona Gallery. Christ, with a rope around his body and led by an executioner, is bearing the cross on his right shoulder, aided by Simon of Gyrene, who is holding up the lower end ; background, a rocky landscape. Jameson, Hist. Our Lord, ii. 114. By llaphael. See Spaximo di Sicilia. By Titian, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice ; can- 'vas. Four figures: Christ, bending under the cross, is dragged by an executioner with a cord, while two persons, one at each side, look on. Painted before 1517 ; worshipped for the miracles it was supposed to perform, and attracted such offerings that the breth- ren of S. Rocco were enabled to rebuild their house from the fortune it brought them. Vasari ascribes it both to Titian and to Giorgione. Vasari, ed. Mil, iv. 97 ; vii. 437 ; Sansovino, Ven. desc., 288 ; C. & C., Titian, i. 60. Subject treated also by Albrecht Dftrer, Bergamo Gallery, Dresden Gallery ; Pie- ter Brueghel, the elder, Uffizi, Florence ; Polidoro da Caravaggio, Naples Museum ; Garofolo, Palazzo Corsini, Rome, Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Pieter Brueghel, the young- er, Antwerp Museum ; Titian, Madrid Mu- seum ; Paolo Veronese, Louvre, Paris ; Luis Morales, Louvre ; Eustache Le Sueur, Lou- vre ; Lodovico Carracci, Hermitage, St. Pe- tersburg ; Andrea da Solario, Palazzo Borg- asa