[201] The clergy who permitted Sir James Thornhill to paint the cupola of St. Paul’s with Scripture scenes, refused to admit any other paintings into the church. Perhaps they were justified; but not by the plea of Bishop Terrick—the fear of idolatry.
[202] This series, the most important work of the painter, Hans Schaufelein, is not mentioned in Kugler’s Handbook. It is engraved in outline in the ‘New Florence Gallery,’ published in 1837.
[203] ‘St. Paul prevents his jailor from killing himself’ (Acts xvi.) has been lately painted by Claude Hallé, and is now in the Louvre. (École française, No. 283.)
[204] In the Dresden Gal., No. 821.
[205] Bartsch, vii. 79.
[206] Théologie des Peintres.
[207] In several ancient pictures and bas-reliefs the cross has the usual form, but he is not nailed—always bound with cords, as in the ancient bas-relief over the portal of his church at Vercelli.
[208] Gallery of the Vatican.
[209] Munich, 363.
[210] In the collection of Mr. Miles at Leigh Court.