Friday, April 17, 2020
Popular Religious Art
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), "The Wonderful Old Gentleman," The Collected Stories (New York: The Modern Library, 1942), pp. 19-39 (at 21):
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The opposite wall was devoted to the religious in art; a steel-engraving of the Crucifixion, lavish of ghastly detail; a sepia-print of the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, the cords cutting deep into the arms writhing from the stake, arrows bristling in the thick, soft-looking body; a water-color copy of a "Mother of Sorrows," the agonized eyes raised to a cold heaven, great, bitter tears forever on the wan cheeks, paler for the grave-like draperies that wrapped the head.This reminds me of the house in which I grew up.
