O Cross! all hail! sole hope, abide
With us now in this Passion-tide:
To give fresh merit to the saint
And pardon to the penitent.
Grunewald's
dark and harrowing portrayal of the Crucifixion shows a horribly wounded,
twisted Christ, nailed to the cross. Christ's
flesh bristles with jagged splinters, as well as the developing sepsis and
necrosis.
His
nail-pierced hands seem to acquire movement through rigor mortis. The
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