Identifier: opencourt_may1912caru (find matches)
Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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burnt offering in the middle. Titus and the conquering Romansare entering the holy place in the background on the right. In frontof them and upon the very altar are blown the trumpets of victory.Beyond the columns on the left we see the burning fortifications.The remnant of Jews around the columns are despairing of further KAULBACH S FRESCOES. 295 defence; old men raise their clenched fists to heaven in their help-lessness. In the center of the foreground the high priest is stabbinghimself in front of the altar of burnt offerings. Several groups ofterrified people surround the tragic scene, and in the left corner
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Ahasverus the Wandering Jew is driven out into the world by thethree furies. A ray of brighter prospects comes into the horror ofthis scene through the group of escaping Christians whom we seein the lower right-hand corner. A boy chanting psalms precedesthem, and angels carrying the chalice with the eucharist attend them 296 THE OPEN COURT. as a guard. Three little orphans beg to join them and are welcomedby a little boy who is seated behind his mother on an ass. Several centuries elapse. Christianity having been establishedin the Roman empire is now threatened by the pagan Huns, and thefate of Europe is decided on the Catalaunian plains (the presentChalons-sur-Marne). The legend goes that the dead warriors arise on stormy nightsand fight the battle over again. Here stood Attila supported byhis Teutonic allies, the Ostrogoths, Gepides and others, while theRoman governor, Aetius with the Visigoths, Burgundians andFranks withstood the Scourge of God. The artist shows the deadon the batt

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