Connected with this class, in the same manner as the Fancies are with the Epic pictures, is a whole class composed of single figures of an historical character. Among the first of these is Bellini’s Christ[175]: several of Raffaelle’s Madonnas find their place here. His Apostles certainly do[176], as well as his Saint Margaret[177]. There are many beautiful examples of this kind of picture by Giotto at Florence, by Luini at Milan and Soronno, and by Bellini at Venice, especially one in the little church of Santa Maria del Fiore. The Judith of Allori is likewise a fine specimen[178]; but among the very finest are Fra Bartolomeo’s Christ, and his Saint Mark[179]. These will not belong to the pictures where supernatural beings are introduced, they have too much the character of portraits, and might indeed be called imaginary portraits; and no doubt the feeling intended to be excited by the earliest of them was, the belief in their being true representations of the objects of veneration. Among pictures of this character are many _Ecce Homos_, of which the most afflicting to look upon is that of Cigoli[180]; and we must also class here Coreggio’s beautiful Magdalene[181]. The imaginary heads called Sybils, by Domenichino, Guido, and Guercino, the Magdalenes of Guido, the Cleopatras, Sophonisbas, and Lucretias, are surely left near enough to their old dignity of historical pictures, when ranged under the same head with those I have just named. DRAMATIC PICTURES. This class is naturally divided into two sections: the higher Tragedy, and Drama of a mixed character. The ancients, from what we learn by description, cultivated both kinds. For examples of the first we have the Iphigenia of Timanthes; the Theban mother of Aristides, and the Medea of Timomachus. Of the second kind, there were the Feigned Madness of Ulysses by Euphranor; the Great Sacrifice by Pausias, and several others, which we can now never know but by description. When I speak of the higher tragedy, I do not mean such only where blood is shed before the spectator, but that grave kind which brings all the inmost serious thoughts together, and prepares the mind for the sublime and the terrible.