" The tender moment was over.
He stopped the painting, simply saying, "Another was with me."
74. He who smites the rock: Moses, whose experience in smiting the
rock for water (Exodus 17.1-7; Numbers 20.1-11) is likened to the
sorrow of the artist, serving a reckless world.
97. Sinai-forehead's . . . brilliance: Exodus 19.9, 16; 34.30.
101. Jethro's daughter: Moses' wife, Zipporah (Exodus 2.16, 21).
102. AEthiopian bondslave: Numbers 12.1.
122. Liberal hand: the free hand of the fresco-painter cramped to do
the exquisite little designs fit for the missal marge = margin of a
Prayer-book.
150. Samminiato: San Miniato, a church in Florence.
161. Turn a new side, etc.: the side turned away from the earth
which our world never sees.
163. Zoroaster: (589-513 B. C.), founder of the Persian religion,
and worshipper of light, whose habit it was to observe the heavens
from his terrace,
164. Galileo: (1564-1642), constructor of the first telescope,
leading him to discover that the Milky Way was an assemblage of
starry worlds, and the earth a planet revolving on its axis and
about an orbit, for which opinion he was tried and condemned. When
forced to retire from his professorship at Padua, he continued his
observations from his own house in Florence.
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