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Title: A treatise on painting : In four parts ... The whole illustrated by examples from the Italian, Venetian, Flemish, and Dutch schools
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Burnet, John, 1784-1868
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: London : James Carpenter
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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ny others. Lanzi, speaking of this quality of Raffaelle,says, Various writers have mentioned the St. Paul at Lystra, one of theCartoons, as an example, (Plate ii.) The artist has there represented thesacrifice prepared for him and St. Barnabas as to two gods, for havingrestored a lame man to the use of his limbs. The altar, the attendants,the victims, the musicians, and the axe, sufficiently indicate the intentionsof the Lystrians; St. Paul, who is in the act of tearing his robe, showsthat he rejects and abhors the sacrilegious honours, and is endeavouringto dissuade the populace from persisting in them ; but all this were vain,if it had not indicated the miracle which had just happened, and whichhad given rise to the event. Raffaelle therefore added to the group thelame man restored to the use of his limbs, now easily recognised by thespectators: he stands before the apostles rejoicing in his restoration, andraises his hands in transport towards his benefactors, while at his feet lie
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EDUCATION OF THE EYE. 37 the crutches, now cast away as useless; this had been sufficient for anyother artist, but Raflaelle, who wished to give a greater appearance ofreality, has added several people, who, in their eager curiosity, removethe garment of the man to behold his limbs restored to their natural state.As the people called St. Paul, Mercury, from his being chief speaker,RafTaelle has alluded to this by a statue of Mercury in the distance, and afigure in the foreground with a chaplet of ivy, bringing in a ram, bothindicative of the sacrifices to that god. By the uplifted hands of therestored cripple, and the youth who stretches out his hand to arrest thearm of the sacrificers, we perceive the effect of St. Pauls persuasions, inthe same way as he indicates the conversion to Christianity of the womanof Damaris and Dionysius in the Cartoon of Paul preaching at Athens.In the inventions of Raflaelle we find the representation of any eventextending its effects on the several spect

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