. Sacred and legendary art . he liftshis robe to show the plague-spot, or pointsto it. In general he is accompanied byhis dog. This figure will give an idea ofthe usual manner of treatment in dressand deportment. 1. One of the happiest and truest rep-resentations of St. Roch I ever saw, con-sistently with the idea we form of hischaracter, is a figure in an old Florentinepicture, I think by Gerino da Pistoia;St. Roch is here a thin pale young man,with light hair and small beard, and milddelicate features. (Uffizi, Florence.) 2. St. Roch intercedes for CardinalAlessandro dEste (in a picture by P
. Sacred and legendary art . he liftshis robe to show the plague-spot, or pointsto it. In general he is accompanied byhis dog. This figure will give an idea ofthe usual manner of treatment in dressand deportment. 1. One of the happiest and truest rep-resentations of St. Roch I ever saw, con-sistently with the idea we form of hischaracter, is a figure in an old Florentinepicture, I think by Gerino da Pistoia;St. Roch is here a thin pale young man,with light hair and small beard, and milddelicate features. (Uffizi, Florence.) 2. St. Roch intercedes for CardinalAlessandro dEste (in a picture by Parmi-giano). The cardinal kneels, with joined hands, and , bending over him, with a benevolent air, lays his handon his fur robe. The dog is in the background. This ap-pears to have been a votive picture, on the occasion of the [A Camaldolese monk was so fortunate as to be able to abstract the body of , which was guarded with greatest care in Ugheria, a castle in the Milaneseterritory, and carry it to Venice.]. St. Roch (Flandrin) 424 THE PATRON SAINTS OF CHRISTENDOM cardinal being struck with illness, and healed at the interces-sion of St. E-och. Such votive figures of St. E-och are fre-quently met with in the chapels and churches dedicated tohim, and more particularly in the hospitals, convents, andother institutions of the Order of Charity. 3. St. Roch, very richly dressed, stands in the usual attitude,pointing to the plague-spot; a small but very fine picture byGarofalo in the Belvedere Gallery at Vienna. 4. St. E-och with the Angel: a beautiful picture by Anni-bal Caracci, in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 5. The great altar-piece painted by Eubens for the churchat Alost is strictly a devotional picture, though treated in themost dramatic manner. The upper part of the picture repre-sents the interior of a prison, illuminated by a supernaturallight. St. Eoch, kneeling, not as a suppliant, but with anexpression of the most animated gratitude, looks up in th
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