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beckoned unto them, and remained speechless” (St. Luke i. 21, 22).

X H. S. ZAHARIAS EXIT

MUTUS AD PPLM

“Hic sanctus Zacharias exit mutus ad populum.”

“Here saint Zacharias comes out dumb to the people.”

III. “He departed to his own house” (St. Luke i. 23). Zacharias embracing his wife Elizabeth.

X S. ZAHA

RIAS.S. ELI

SABETA

137. b. He is born and named (opposite the door into the church).-Zacharias is seated to the left* of the picture, and has a book or “writing table” in front of him, in which he has written “Johannes est nomen ejus”-“His name is John” (Luke i. 63). To the right an aged woman, Elizabeth, points to the child inquiringly, “How would you have him called?” further to the right, another and younger woman kneels, holding out the child to his father. At the back a servant with a basket in her arms looks on. Unlike the other two women, she has no glory about her head. Above is a tablet inscribed:-

NATIVITAS

SANCTI JOHANNIS

BAPTISTÆ

and below another tablet, with the date and artist’s name-

FRAN’ TURESSIVS V.F. MDCXXVIII.¹

* By “right” and “left” in this Appendix is meant always the right and left hand of the spectator as he faces his subject.

¹ [The date is exact, but the work was done not by Francis Turresio, but by his uncle, Lorenzo Ceccato (Boito, p. 802).]

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