The Prostrate Christ

Colour Me Dead - Chapter 6

How the body is laid out, kept flat, left lying, made horizontal

(i) Life Drain

1. 3. 4.

2.

5. 6.

(ii) Blood Drain

7. 8. 9.

10. 11.

(iii) Energy Drain

12. 13.

14. 15.

16. 17.

18.

1. Andrea Mantegna’s Lamentation Over The Dead Christ (1480)
2. Hans Holbein’s The Body Of The Dead Christ in The Tomb (1521)
3. Francisco De Zurbaran’s Sainte Face (1626-1640)
4. Leon Frederick’s Sainte Face (1897 c)
5. Arnold Böcklin’s Mary Magdalena Mourning At The Corpse Of Christ (1867)
6. William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s The First Mourning (1888)

7. William Etty’s Nude Woman Asleep (1830 c)
8. Luigi Gonzaga Giuditti’s Maria Domenica Lazzari (after L.G. de Ségur) (1846)
9. Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant’s Reclining Slave (1870)
10. John William Waterhouse’s St. Eulalia (1885)
11. Leighton Frederick’s Flaming June (1895)

12. Käthe Kollwitz’s From many wounds, you bleed, Oh people (1900)
13. Francis Bacon’s Crucifixion (1933)
14. Balthus’ The Guitar Lesson (1934)
15. Frida Kahlo’s Henry Ford Hospital (1932)
16. Hermann Nitsch’s Stretcher (1963-1964)
17. Lucian Freud’s Naked Girl Asleep (1968)
18. Gerhard Richter’s Man Shot Down 1 (1988)