The new international encyclopaedia . Kiinst- ler iialimis (Leipzig, 1877) ; Pietro Caliari (Rome. 1888), and Meissner (Bielefeld, 1897).Consult also Yriarte, Vie dun patricien de Venise (Paris, n. d.) ; Mlintz, Hisfoire de Iart pendant la Renaissance (Paris, 1889-95). VERONICA. The name applied, demon-strably in the thirteenth century (from amediaval corruption of the Latin rrrn icon, trueimage), to a supposed authentic likeness of thefeatures of Christ, said to have been miraculouslyimpressed upon a linen cloth which one of thewomen of Jerusalem (see Luke xxiii. 27) offeredhim to wipe his fa
The new international encyclopaedia . Kiinst- ler iialimis (Leipzig, 1877) ; Pietro Caliari (Rome. 1888), and Meissner (Bielefeld, 1897).Consult also Yriarte, Vie dun patricien de Venise (Paris, n. d.) ; Mlintz, Hisfoire de Iart pendant la Renaissance (Paris, 1889-95). VERONICA. The name applied, demon-strably in the thirteenth century (from amediaval corruption of the Latin rrrn icon, trueimage), to a supposed authentic likeness of thefeatures of Christ, said to have been miraculouslyimpressed upon a linen cloth which one of thewomen of Jerusalem (see Luke xxiii. 27) offeredhim to wipe his face as he was carrying hiscross toward Calvary, and later transferred tothe woman herself as a proper name. Themiraculous picture is reported to have been pre-scived in Rome since the year 700. and its pos-session has been claimed also by Milan and face has been frequently reproduced, espe-cially by the Spanish painter Morales. Consult:Pearson, Die Fronicn (Strassl)urg, 1887) ; VonDobschiitz, Christusbildcr (Leipzig, 1899).. ^ I o 2 3 o < ^ a. - VEEPLANCK. 87 VEBROCCHIO. VEBPLANCK, Guliait Cbommelin (1786-1870). Au Aiuei-ican scholar and essayist, bornin New York City. He graduated at Columbiain 1801, studied law, practiced in New York,spent several years in European travel, was ac-tive in State polities, and from 1821 to 1825was professor of the evidences of revealed re-ligion in the General Theological Seminary, NewYork. He was then a member of Congress (1825-33), State Senator (1838-41), and vice-chancel-lor of tire State University (1855-70). He wasalso pi-esident of the Board of Kmigration (184G-61). His chief books are: Evidences of RevealedReligion (1824) ; Essay on the Doctrinv of Con-tracts (1825) ; Discourses and Addresses onAmerican Bistort), Arts, and Literalure (1833) ;and an edition of Shakespeares Plays, (3 vols.,1844-46). With Bryant and R. C. Sands, heedited the Talisman (1828-30), an annual. As acritic and a Shakespearean scholar he filled in hisda
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