Art, Symbol & Imagination
Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem
A mounted central figure advances through a company carrying branches and stretching garments across the route. Palms and distant buildings frame the crowded welcome. The caption identifies Christ entering Jerusalem. Doré makes arrival a movement negotiated among bodies rather than a solitary triumph above them. The lowered garments and lifted branches carry the gestures of reception at different heights, while the donkey keeps the traveller close to the gathered people. The distant city gives their immediate enthusiasm a destination beyond the foreground.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem" [editorial title]. In The Bible Gallery, Gustave Dore; Talbot W. Chambers. Undated Cassell & Company edition; one hundred illustrations with supplied descriptive letterpress, undated edition, Cassell & Company, Limited. Source scan leaf 289. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-288
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Original source design and caption inspected; composition retained with scan margins trimmed. No reconstructed or recoloured details.
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Gustave Doré (design). Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 289. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-288