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TINTORETTO
dedicated to S. Roch, and that S. Roch was the patron saint of
the sick and pl ague-stricken, and also of those who performed
special acts of mercy on their behalf.
The principal paintings in the upper hall are therefore con-
cerned with acts of divine mercy and deliverance. The subjects
which fill the roof are the three most important miracles of mercy
performed on behalf of the Chosen People ; relief from hunger,
from thirst, and from pestilence. The paintings on the walls
relate the life of Christ on earth, regarded as the greatest con-
ceivable Act of Mercy, and we must regard the paintings on
both roof and walls as having been chosen and placed with a
definite interdependence, each being linked to others, in one
harmonious plan.
As we stand at the upper end of the hall, opposite the door of
the refectory, the ‘ Fall of Man ’ is immediately overhead. On
the right wall is the ‘Nativity,’ and above it is a small monochrome
of the ‘ Fiery Furnace,’ with the three children and their deliverer,
a type of the advent of the Son of God. On the left wall is the
‘ Temptation,’ the offering of bread compared with the offering of
the apple, but met by obedience instead of disobedience, and the
monochrome on this side is the ‘ Birth of Moses,’ again typical of
the coming of Christ. The south wall continues the life of Christ
in the ‘ Baptism,’ obedient preparation for a life of ministry, and
opposite this is the ‘ Pool of Bethesda,’ at Jerusalem by the sheep
market, ‘ having five porches.’ ‘ In these lay a great multitude
of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of
the waters.’ On the roof above is the subject of ‘ Moses Striking
the Rock in the Wilderness.’ On the south of it is ‘Moses on
Mount Horeb,’ chosen as the leader of the Hebrews. Here we
have God choosing His servant to deliver the people from the
bondage of Egypt, as a type of Christ’s dedication to His mission.
Opposite this and above the ‘ Pool of Bethesda,’ is ‘ Moses work-
ing deliverance at the Red Sea.’ In the monochrome on the
south, which flanks the representatives of the Church of Israel
refreshed with miraculous draughts after their deliverance, we have
‘ Samson drinking from the jawbone,’ the weapon with which he
had slaughtered his enemies. ‘And he was sore athirst, and
called on the Lord, and said, Thou hast given this great deliver-
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dedicated to S. Roch, and that S. Roch was the patron saint of
the sick and pl ague-stricken, and also of those who performed
special acts of mercy on their behalf.
The principal paintings in the upper hall are therefore con-
cerned with acts of divine mercy and deliverance. The subjects
which fill the roof are the three most important miracles of mercy
performed on behalf of the Chosen People ; relief from hunger,
from thirst, and from pestilence. The paintings on the walls
relate the life of Christ on earth, regarded as the greatest con-
ceivable Act of Mercy, and we must regard the paintings on
both roof and walls as having been chosen and placed with a
definite interdependence, each being linked to others, in one
harmonious plan.
As we stand at the upper end of the hall, opposite the door of
the refectory, the ‘ Fall of Man ’ is immediately overhead. On
the right wall is the ‘Nativity,’ and above it is a small monochrome
of the ‘ Fiery Furnace,’ with the three children and their deliverer,
a type of the advent of the Son of God. On the left wall is the
‘ Temptation,’ the offering of bread compared with the offering of
the apple, but met by obedience instead of disobedience, and the
monochrome on this side is the ‘ Birth of Moses,’ again typical of
the coming of Christ. The south wall continues the life of Christ
in the ‘ Baptism,’ obedient preparation for a life of ministry, and
opposite this is the ‘ Pool of Bethesda,’ at Jerusalem by the sheep
market, ‘ having five porches.’ ‘ In these lay a great multitude
of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of
the waters.’ On the roof above is the subject of ‘ Moses Striking
the Rock in the Wilderness.’ On the south of it is ‘Moses on
Mount Horeb,’ chosen as the leader of the Hebrews. Here we
have God choosing His servant to deliver the people from the
bondage of Egypt, as a type of Christ’s dedication to His mission.
Opposite this and above the ‘ Pool of Bethesda,’ is ‘ Moses work-
ing deliverance at the Red Sea.’ In the monochrome on the
south, which flanks the representatives of the Church of Israel
refreshed with miraculous draughts after their deliverance, we have
‘ Samson drinking from the jawbone,’ the weapon with which he
had slaughtered his enemies. ‘And he was sore athirst, and
called on the Lord, and said, Thou hast given this great deliver-
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