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Show Amerieaii Sculplor Sets London Talking LONDON, Feb. 28. Jacob Eptein, American sculptor, has sot London talking by ho exhibition of his statue of the Risen Christ. - The Savior is represented by a more than life sized stone figure, bearing the wrappings of the tomb. The arms are free and the right hand Is held upon a level with tho breast while the left hand points to tho wound in the .palm caused by a nail of the Crucifixion. Crucifix-ion. The body is slender and unaccentu-aled, unaccentu-aled, and the effect of slimness is intensified in-tensified by the long line of a portion of the grave clothes hanging from the right arm to the ground. The face Js strange, grave and dignified, dig-nified, with a small chin, a high ridged but delicate nose and the- suggestion of a beard. The head is square and high, poised strongly upon a slim, but straight neck. There is nothing of the conventional softness of feature so general in the Italian representation of the Christ. "Every man has his own Idea of Christ and 1 have tried to express my Idea in stone," said the sculptor. "The head is not a racial head, it is neither Jewish or European. All the great Italian Christs had something some-thing of humanity in them, something universal. That is what I have aimed at, to picture Christ first of all a man." nn |