. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). s likeness of the Chancellor. Bezas portraitsare as a rule almost wholly devoid of accessories, 183 Bezas Portraits of Reformers only a very few of them containing a book, pre-sumably a Bible. But in the case of de IHopital,it will be observed, there is a strange accessory,which occupies a peculiar position. Upon a tinycandlestick of primitive design there is a candlegiving forth rays of light ; and this lighted ta
. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). s likeness of the Chancellor. Bezas portraitsare as a rule almost wholly devoid of accessories, 183 Bezas Portraits of Reformers only a very few of them containing a book, pre-sumably a Bible. But in the case of de IHopital,it will be observed, there is a strange accessory,which occupies a peculiar position. Upon a tinycandlestick of primitive design there is a candlegiving forth rays of light ; and this lighted taperis placed neither at the side nor in front of thesubject, but behind him. The candle of illumina-tion may be taken to represent the Protestant faith,and by depicting his countryman with his backturned upon the luminous point Beza would seemto indicate that, knowing the true faith, this manfailed to profit by his knowledge or to conformhis public conduct to his private creed. That isthe reading of the symbolism that commends itselfto the most recent biographer of Michel deIHopital—Mr. Atkinson, of Oxford (1900)—and there seems no reason to call in question 184
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