The article analyzes the significance of Hans Holbein's painting "Christ in the Tomb" in the structure of "The Idiot," a novel written by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. In doing so, the author argues that not only is Myshkin different, but that the painting helps explain changes not...
“We live in a world of suffering, a world broken and disintegrated, in which Christ’s Transfiguration uncovers reality and reveals to our skeptical minds a new humanity that has either entered into the light of the Risen One or is still called to do so … [W]e need to put on a rob...
The dead Christ was no longer in the tomb. Il Cristo morto non si trovava più nella tomba. LDS A drawing entitled Anointing the Dead Christ in the Fogg Museum has been attributed to del Monte. Un disegno intitolato Unzione del Cristo morto, presente nel Fogg Art Museum, è stato...
Word and image in Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov": From an analysis of the dialectic in the novel to an interpretation of Dostoevsky's confrontation with Hans Holbein the Younger's "The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb". There is a comparative emphasis between Dostoevsky's dialectic...
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Ever since Hans Holbein the Younger completed his painting, The Dead Christ in the Tomb, in 1522, a question has been looming over it, namely, what message does this dead body convey? Having seen the painting in 1847, the Russian classic writer Fyodor Dostoevsky was also intrigued ...