The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 323
st believed : blessed are they that have notseen, and yet have believed. This picture, the figures of which are of the naturalsize, formed a part of the collection of paintings tran-sported from Flanders to Paris. It appears to have beenpainted by Rubens, for Nicholas Rockox, burgomaster ofthe city… … 1 HERO AND LEANDER. TAILLASSON. Hero was one of the priestesses of the temple con-secrated to Venus in Sestos, a city in Europe on thebanks of the Hellespont. Leander lived at Abydos, inAsia, on the opposite side of the Strait. At a fetecelebrated in honour of the goddess, Leander beheldHero, who,…
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