ÿþ<html><head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>DANIEL MITSUI ~ LILY CROSS DRAWING</title> <style type="text/css"> .style1 {font-family: Times; font-size: 40px; color: #aaaaaa;} .style2 {font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; color: #aaaaaa;} </style> </head><body leftmargin="150" rightmargin="150" topmargin="100" text="#aaaaaa" vlink="#aaaaaa" bgcolor="#000000" link="#aaaaaa" marginheight="100" marginwidth="150"><header></header> <center> <span class="style1">LILY CROSS DRAWING<br>by DANIEL MITSUI</span><br> <span class="style2">danmitsui [at] hotmail [dot] com<br><br><a href="http://www.danielmitsui.com/artwork/religious.html">return to religious art</a></span> <br> <br> <br> <a href="http://www.danielmitsui.com/artwork/big/religious/lily_cross.jpg"><img src="http://www.danielmitsui.com/artwork/big/religious/small_lily_cross.jpg" border="0" alt="LILY CROSS DRAWING" /></a> <br><br> <table border="0"> <tr> <td><a href="http://danielmitsui.tripod.com/artwork/big/religious/lily_cross_detail1.jpg"><img border="0" alt="DETAIL" src="http://danielmitsui.tripod.com/artwork/thumbs/religious/thumb_lily_cross_detail1.jpg"></a> <td><a href="http://danielmitsui.tripod.com/artwork/big/religious/lily_cross_detail2.jpg"><img border="0" alt="DETAIL" src="http://danielmitsui.tripod.com/artwork/thumbs/religious/thumb_lily_cross_detail2.jpg"></a> <tr> <td><a href="http://danielmitsui.tripod.com/artwork/big/religious/lily_cross_detail3.jpg"><img border="0" alt="DETAIL" src="http://danielmitsui.tripod.com/artwork/thumbs/religious/thumb_lily_cross_detail3.jpg"></a> <td><a href="http://danielmitsui.tripod.com/artwork/big/religious/lily_cross_detail4.jpg"><img border="0" alt="DETAIL" src="http://danielmitsui.tripod.com/artwork/thumbs/religious/thumb_lily_cross_detail4.jpg"></a> </table> <br><br><i>Click above for larger images.</i> <br><br></center> This drawing of Christ crucified on a lily was based on a late mediaeval wall painting at Godshill, on the Isle of Wight. Scholar <a href="http://www.paintedchurch.org/godshill.htm">Anne Marshall</a> believes that this was painted to commemorate an occasion of Good Friday and the Feast of the Annunciation falling on the same day. <br><br> <center><img src="http://danielmitsui.tripod.com/newblogpics/godshill2.jpg"></center> <br><br> At the bottom right of the drawing, I wrote by hand eight lines from John Donne's poem <a href="http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&p=c&a=p&ID=5270&c=87"><i>Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day, 1608</i></a>: <br><br> <center> At once a Sonne is promis d her & gone, <br>Gabriell gives Christ to her, He her to John; <br>Not fully a mother, Shee s in Orbity, <br>At once receiver & the legacy. <br>All this, and all betweene, this day hath showne, <br>Th Abridgement of Christs story, which makes one <br>(As in plaine Maps, the furthest West is East) <br>Of th'Angels s Ave & Consummatum est. </center> <br><br> Opposite these is a responsory from the Office of the Dead: <i>Domine secundum actum meum noli me iudicare: nihil dignum in conspectu tuo egi: ideo deprecor maiestatem tuam, Ut tu Deus deleas iniquitatem meam.</i> <br><br> Fleurs-de-lis, scallop shells, St. Cuthbert's crosses, and two angels decorate the background of the main section of the drawing, as if frescoed on a church wall. Figures of St. Mary Magdalen, the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John stand at the foot of the cross, and a monk holding a model of St. Michael's Abbey at Farnborough kneels. <br><br /><br /> <center> <span class="style2">all works (c) Daniel Mitsui<span> </center></body></html>