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In the charge to Peter, “Feed my sheep,” Raphael has produced something quite at variance with his ordinary plan of construction. Christ occupies one side of the canvas, the disciples following along the foreplane toward him. Here is an isolated figure the equivalent of a group. The sleeping senator of Gerome’s picture effects a like purpose among the empty benches and pillars.
In the photographic realm of the nude, this quality is compulsory. We don’t want to have offered us so intimate a likeness of a nude figure that we ask, “Who is she, or he?” The general and not the particular suffices; the type not the person. The painter’s art contains few stronger touches through this means than the incident of the sleeping senator in Gérôme’s “Death of Cæsar”.
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