166 
sengers 
in 
the 
glory 
above, 
bearing 
the 
Palm 
branches 
the 
emblem 
of 
reward 
for 
martyrdom, form 
being the sky and 
the second light; the first 
cloud, which gives relief to 
the 
black 
the wounded 
drapery of 
companion ; 
while 
the 
rays 
of 
light 
from 
the 
emanation 
above, 
sparkling 
OI1 
the 
dark 
branches of 
the 
trees as so many diamonds, 
tie together by their 
light 
all 
the 
others 
from 
the top to the bottom 
of the picture. The terror which the act of 
the murderer has spread, is denoted by the 
speed of the 
horseman 
passing into the gloomy 
a distant part of the forest. 
recesses of 
GS 
This 
picture, 
taken 
in 
the 
3381' egate, 
is 
the 
first work 
in 
art in which the human figure 
and 
landscape 
are 
combined 
3S 
311 
historical 
landscape, 
and where all the objects are the full 
size of 
nature. 
66 
picture at Venice in 1751, 
saw this 
When I 
it was 
then 
in the same 
state of purity as when 
the 
Bologna 
artists 
Saw and 
studied it ; 
and it 
Caracci 
is recorded that 
declared this picture to 
be without fault. 
But we 
have 
to 
lanrient 
the