Introduction / Using ARAS: The Symbolism of the Cross

[aras-image:5Fk.092,,9,260,364,Crucifix from the Book of Hours]
  A very different response is elicited from an illustration for the Book of Hours of the Duc de Berry. Here the crucifix is raised high above the soldiers and populace milling below. In an arc about the head of Christ, God is looking in the event, thus placing the crucifixion about the daily human flux in a divinely approved plan
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