Volltext: The life, studies and works of Benjamin West, Esq. president of The Royal Academy of London

67 
Trallsiiguratioli is anotheij incident, which 
happened long before the Ascension, and is 
recited in the ninth chapter of St. Luke:-_ 
" When the countenance of Jesus was changed, 
and his clothing was white, 
5-rsgov, 
and he became 
and 
lightened." 
The 
robe 
of 
the 
ascending 
Christ is BLUE. 
The painter brings different incidents together 
to constitute one plot. The picture consists of 
three 
separate 
combined 
and 
united 
or action. 
in one scheme 
Jesus 
ascending 
perpendicularly 
into 
the 
airs 
clothed 
in 
blue raiment, 
and 
attended 
by 
two other figures. 
Mount, 
Some of his disciples on the 
who 
see the ascent, 
and 
lie 
dazzled. and confounded 
by the sight. 
III. A number of persons at the bottom of 
the Mount, who appear to look intently on 
a young man possessed by a. devil, and con- 
vulsed. None of them see the Ascension but
	        
Waiting...

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