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Variations on a Theme Part 1

Art has the power to teach us something new about the mundane in life.  Sometimes art portrays the beautiful, sometimes the ugly.  This past fall when I had the opportunity to walk through several museums in the Netherlands and Germany, I came across four paintings that presented the biblical account of the crucifixion of Christ in unexpected or at least different ways.  They present four artist perspectives from painters who lived in four different centuries. Perhaps the oldest Crucifixion image that entranced me while visiting museums last fall was a painting done in 1512 by Hans Baldu...