Архитектурные шедевры Великобритании. Рябцева Е.В. - 49 стр.

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QUEEN’S PRESENCE CHAMBER
Words and Expressions
– prudence – благоразумие
– fortitude – сила духа, стойкость
– draught – улов
– benignity – доброта, добрые дела
– a fowl – домашняя птица
– a vessel – корабль, судно
– to heal – исцелять
– a cripple – калека
– lameness – хромота
– a crutch – костыль
– a lappet – складка, лацкан
– garment – одеяние
– a limb – конечность
The ceiling of this room is adorned with the representation of Queen Catharine, attended by Religion, Pru-
dence, Fortitude, and the other virtues. She is under a curtain spread by Time, and supported by Zephyrs, with
Fame sounding the happiness of Britain; underneath Justice is seen driving away Sedition, Envy, and other evil
Genii.
The paintings are three of the cartoons, lately removed from Hampton Court.
1. The Miraculous Draught of Fishes.
In the first of these celebrated cartoons, Christ appears with an air of diving benignity. The exotic birds,
and large fowl placed on the shore in the foreground, have a sea-wildness in them, and, as their food was fish,
contribute to express the business in hand, which was fishing; and being thus placed on the shore, prevent the
heaviness which that part would otherwise have had. However, in this cartoon Raphael has made a boat too lit-
tle to hold the figures he has placed in it; but had he lade it large enough for those figures, the picture would
have been all boat and to have made his figures small enough for a vessel of that size, would have rendered
them unsuitable to the rest of the set, and less considerable; there would have been too much boat and too little
figure.
2. Peter and John healing the Cripple at the Gate of the Temple.
The story of the second is finely told: "The man healed of his lameness, to express his sense of the divine
goodness which appeared in these apostles, and to show it to be him, not only a crutch under his feet on the
ground, but an old man takes up the lappet of his garment, and looks upon the limb he remembers to have been
crippled, expressing great devotion and amazement, which are sentiments seen in the other with a mixture of
joy.
3. St Paul and Barnabas at Lystra.
In the third, all the figures are admirably performed: ‘The boys are done with great judgement, and by be-
ing naked make a fine contrast. The figures are placed at one end near the corner, which varies the side of the
picture, and gives an opportunity to enlarge the building with a fine portico, the like of which you must imagine
to be on the other side of the main structure; all which together make a noble piece of architecture’.
QUEEN’S AUDIENCE CHAMBER
Words and Expressions
– a tapestry – гобелен
On the ceiling of this room, Britannia is represented in the person of Queen Catharine, seated in a trium-
phal car, drawn by swans to the Temple of Virtue, attended by Ceres, Pomona, Flora, etc., with other decora-
tions, heightened with gold. The tapestry of this room is of a rich gold ground, made at Coblentz, in Germany,
and presented to King Henry VIII. The canopy is of fine English velvet, set up by Queen Ann. The paintings
are: William, Prince of Orange – Honthorst, King James the First's Queen – Van Somer, Frederick Henry,
Prince of Orange – Honthorst.

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