By a follower of (James) Jacques-Joseph Tissot, French, 1836-1902. Gouache on board.
https://archive.org/details/james_tissot_old_testament_images
Phillip Medhurst
A Pilgrimage to Truth
Tag: Jesse
Image | Feb 19, 2018
By a follower of (James) Jacques-Joseph Tissot, French, 1836-1902. Gouache on board.
https://archive.org/details/james_tissot_old_testament_images
Image | Feb 18, 2018
By a follower of (James) Jacques-Joseph Tissot, French, 1836-1902. Gouache on board.
https://archive.org/details/james_tissot_old_testament_images
Feb 16, 2016
The Rood
A tree is butchered into beams,
Torn flesh emblematised,
As Jesse’s rod is re-conceived –
Delivered cruciform.
Adorned with jewels, hung with gold,
The ark becomes a rood.
A flotsam of humanity
Drowns in a sea of blood.
