Art: Warmth

Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto Peter, Art not thou also one of this man's disciples? He saith, I am not.

And the servants and the officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself.

In 1660, bankrupt old Painter Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, inspired by this scene from the Gospels, painted his famous St. Peter Denying Christ. Last week Americans, studying at first hand the burnished faces of servant woman and erring Peter, could...

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