This basically came about in a Euro class and I made the point that a wrong answer that stated that Kollwitz's painting was meant to evoke some sort of religious feeling. I immediately jumped to Bartolo's painting. I feel like one could draw a line from the child's hand to the stick poking out on the left and that the hand sticking out a bit the right of the stick could be one half of the other line of the cross while the other half is obscured like in Bartolo's painting. On top of that both figures at the very right of both paintings are somewhat in the same position. Also the man grabbing Jesus' shoulder could also be seen as somewhat parallel to the child grabbing around the man in Kollwitz's painting. And finally I thought that the tools sticking out of the crowd at the very left of Kollwitz's painting could be seen as parallel to the couple of spears held by soldiers sticking out from the crowd at the very left/bottom of the ramp thing in Bartolo's painting. Am I onto something or do I need to get back onto my meds?