for they exhibit the greatest multiplicity of forms, the greatest richness and deep significance of phenomena, and reveal to us most completely the nature of will, whether in its violence, its terribleness, its satisfaction or its aberration (the latter in tragic situations), or finally in its change and self-surrender, which is the peculiar theme of christian painting; as the Idea of the will enlightened by full knowledge is the object of historical painting in general, and of the drama.
zeren horrelakoek taxuen askotarikotasuna, agerpenen aberastasuna eta garrantzi sakona aurkezten baitute eta nahimenaren esentzia perfektukien jartzen baitute agirian, bere bizikortasun, lazkarritasun, asekuntza edo hausturan (azken hori antzezpen tragikoetan), azkenik, konbertsio edo autoezabaketan, zeina pintura kristauaren gaia baita nagusiki; historien pinturak eta dramak ezagutza beteak argituriko nahimenaren ideia objektutzat daukan bezala.