Cynthia Carr

I ended up going into this big art historical argument.' [Barry Blinderman] invoked, for example, Matthias Grünewald__ Isenheim altarpiece, painted in the sixteenth century for a monastery where monks cared for people with skin diseases__o the suffering Christ in that painting shows symptoms of skin disease. 'It__ because he__ the man of sorrows,' Blinderman argued. 'He takes on the suffering of the world. So if Christ were to appear physically today, one of the sicknesses he would have to take on would be drug addiction.