My summer art festival of new images of the Good Shepherd concludes this week with a second "metaphysical mezzotint" from Czech Graphic Artist Jan Hisek. His theme this time is the Adoration of the Lamb, also depicted in the central panel of the Psalm 23 triptych by American Iconmaker Jodi Simmon, which I featured last week. Working with the same ghostly, tubular forms he used in his small format print, Lambs, Hisek presents an apocalyptic vision of Christ, the enthroned Lamb of God, taken from the fourth and fifth chapters of Revelation, whom we see surrounded by a throng of "ten thousand times ten thousand," praising his name in words we all know from Handel's Messiah: "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing."(Revelation 5:12, KJV) In Hisek's version of the scene, the Lamb of God stands on a pedestal atop a high hill, holding a pennant symbolizing Christ's victory over death, an iconographic motif dating back to the Middle Ages. Fluttering in the nocturnal sky beside the figure of the Lamb are the four winged creatures described in Revelations 4:7 with the features of a lion, a calf, an eagle, and a human. The turreted towers in the background, no doubt, represent the New Jerusalem. This final mystical vision of the Good Shepherd become the Exalted Lamb of God can be found in the East European Ex Libris page in the Schools of Sacred Art section. (John Kohan)