Georges Rouault believed we lived our lives in "an anguised world of shadows and pretences," and the greatness of humanity in its fallen state came by emulating Christ in the acceptance of redemptive suffering. This religious world view was shaped by the writings of the 17th Century French Philosopher Blaise Pascal. Rouault kept a copy of Pascal's Pensees alongside the Bible on his nightstand and incorporated quotations from Pascal into his art, making up his own aphorisms in the style of his spiritual mentor for the captions of his Miserere print series. This week's featured works of art are a pair of prints Rouault created of Christ humiliated and crucified as a frontispiece and an text insert for Avec Pascal, an essay-portrait of the great French thinker by Literary Critic Marcel Arland, published in 1946. (John Kohan)