My design in this book is to study, not the portraits, but the Portrait, of Christ. I am not concerned with the products of Italian art. I am not occupied with a criticism of the various views which have been taken of Christ in literature. I am not even engaged in a comparison of the four aspects of Christ in the New Testament The Portrait which I study is one hung up in the heart - the combined effect of all the different aspects which the Gospels reveal.<br><br>The work is not critical, but introspective. I do not seek to paint a Christ; I stand before the Christ already painted, and try to analyse its Features. Necessarily, I limit myself to that which is human.