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| Biagio d'Antonio Christ carrying the Cross ca. 1480-90 oil on panel Musée du Louvre |
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| attributed to Marco d'Oggiono Christ carrying the Cross ca. 1495-1500 oil on panel Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Raphael and workshop Christ falls with the Cross 1515-16 oil on panel, transferred to canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Sebastiano del Piombo Christ carrying the Cross ca. 1516 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Sebastiano del Piombo Christ carrying the Cross ca. 1532-35 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Giampietrino Christ carrying the Cross ca. 1530-35 oil on panel Museo Diocesano, Milan |
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| Marco Palmezzano Christ carrying the Cross ca. 1535 oil on panel Temple Newsam House, Leeds |
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| Girolamo Romanino Christ carrying the Cross ca. 1542 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Titian Christ and Simon the Cyrenian ca. 1565 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Cornelis van Haarlem Christ holding the Cross and Chalice 1591 oil on panel National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Annibale Carracci Domine, quo vadis? 1601-1602 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Orazio Gentileschi Christ carrying the Cross 1605 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Nicolas Tournier Christ carrying the Cross ca. 1620-30 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Nicolas Tournier Christ carrying the Cross ca. 1632 oil on canvas private collection |
Prayer of a Soldier in France
My shoulders ache beneath my pack
(Lie easier, Cross, upon His back).
I march with feet that burn and smart
(Tread, Holy Feet, upon my heart).
Men shout at me who may not speak
(They scourged Thy back and smote Thy cheek).
I may not lift a hand to clear
My eyes of salty drops that sear.
(Then shall my fickle soul forget
Thy agony of Bloody Sweat?)
My rifle hand is stiff and numb
(From Thy pierced palm red rivers come).
Lord, Thou didst suffer more for me
Than all the hosts of land and sea.
So let me render back again
This millionth of Thy gift. Amen.
– Joyce Kilmer (1918)