[181] Brancacci Chapel, Florence.
[182] Berlin Gal., No. 313.
[183] Louvre, No. 685.
[184] As in the Greek mosaics in the Cathedral of Monreale, near Palermo.
[185] Several such pictures are in the royal collections at Windsor and Hampton Court.
[186] Moore makes a characteristic remark on this fresco; he is amazed at the self-denial of the painter who could cross this fine group with the black iron bars which represent the prison.
[187] Some Protestant writers have set aside St. Peter’s ministry at Rome, as altogether apocryphal; but Gieseler, an author by no means credulous, considers that the historical evidence is in favour of the tradition (v. Text-book of Eccles. Hist. p. 53). This is the more satisfactory because, even to Protestants, it is not agreeable to be at Rome and to be obliged to reject certain associations which add to the poetical, as well as to the religious, interest of the place.
[188] He represented her as a resuscitation of the famous Helen of Troy, which is said to have suggested to Goethe the resuscitation of Helena in the second part of ‘Faust.’
[189] MS., Vatican, No. 6409. 10th century.
[190] In the sacristy of the Vatican.