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EARLY ITALIAN PAINTERS.
this series of compositions he represented the
power and glory of the Church and her miraculous
deliverances from her secular enemies : all these
being an indirect honour paid to, or rather claimed
by, Julius II., who made it a subject of pride that
he had not only expelled all enemies from the
Papal territories, but also enlarged their bounda-
ries—by no scrupulous means. On the ceiling of
this room are four beautiful pictures—the promises
of God to the four Patriarchs, Noah, Abraham,
Jacob, and Moses. On the four side walls, the
Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple at Jeru-
salem : the Miracle of Bolsena, by which, as it was
said, heretics were silenced; Attila, 'King of the
Huns, terrified by the apparition of St. Peter and
St. Paul; and St. Peter delivered from Prison. Of
these the Heliodorus is one of the grandest and
most poetical of all Raphael’s creations : the group
of the celestial warrior trampling on the prostrate
Heliodorus, with the avenging spirits rushing,
floating along, air-borne, to scourge the despoiler,
is wonderful for its supernatural power: it is a
vision of beauty and terror.
Before this chamber was finished, Julius II. died,
and was succeeded by Leo X. in 1513.
Though the character of Pope Leo X. was in
all respects different from that of Julius, he was
not less a patron of Raphael than his predecessor
had been, and certainly the number of learned and
EARLY ITALIAN PAINTERS.
this series of compositions he represented the
power and glory of the Church and her miraculous
deliverances from her secular enemies : all these
being an indirect honour paid to, or rather claimed
by, Julius II., who made it a subject of pride that
he had not only expelled all enemies from the
Papal territories, but also enlarged their bounda-
ries—by no scrupulous means. On the ceiling of
this room are four beautiful pictures—the promises
of God to the four Patriarchs, Noah, Abraham,
Jacob, and Moses. On the four side walls, the
Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple at Jeru-
salem : the Miracle of Bolsena, by which, as it was
said, heretics were silenced; Attila, 'King of the
Huns, terrified by the apparition of St. Peter and
St. Paul; and St. Peter delivered from Prison. Of
these the Heliodorus is one of the grandest and
most poetical of all Raphael’s creations : the group
of the celestial warrior trampling on the prostrate
Heliodorus, with the avenging spirits rushing,
floating along, air-borne, to scourge the despoiler,
is wonderful for its supernatural power: it is a
vision of beauty and terror.
Before this chamber was finished, Julius II. died,
and was succeeded by Leo X. in 1513.
Though the character of Pope Leo X. was in
all respects different from that of Julius, he was
not less a patron of Raphael than his predecessor
had been, and certainly the number of learned and