this marvellous beauty they strive to preserve even in his moments of deepest agony and passion. but there was no such beauty in rogojin’s picture. this was the presentment of a poor mangled body which had evidently suffered unbearable anguish even before its crucifixion, full of wounds and bruises, marks of the violence of soldiers and people, and of the bitterness of the moment when he had fallen with the cross all this combined with the anguish of the actual crucifixion.