Excerpt from The Life of Christ: As Represented in Art<br><br>My desire, then, has been, among other things, to indi cate the influences, upon Christian Art, of the faithful or unfaithful, the pure or superstitious, the deeply devout or the wholly undevout, feelings of the epochs and the artists by whom it was produced. Such sketches of the treatment of the Life of Christ in Art as are here given should have a real importance as indicating the great phases of relig ious thought which have changed and are changing from age to age.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.