Poilly, Francois M.M French engraver, was born at Abbeville in 1622 or 1623. Hi- father was a gold- smith. After working for three years in the studio of Pierre Daret, be wenl to Rome in 1649. and remained there until 1656. He engraved during his stay in Italy >Hinr drawings in a manner which resembles thai of rt. « > 1 1 his return to France, he engraved with 1 1 rails and historical subjects. His por- traits are Bought for even now, perhaps less on account of the merits of an art which must be confessed to be Bomewhal cold and monotonous, than of the persons they represent. Poilly was honored with the title of ordinary engraver to the king, ll^ reproduced the works of Raffaelle, Giulio Romano, Guido, Carraccio, Le Brun, Mignard, Le^Sueur, Poussin, Ph. de Cham- i real reputation he enjoyed in his time attracted to his studio a number of pupils, among iar.1 Edelinck, Nicolas de Poilly, his brother, Scotin, Roullet, etc. Poilly and his brother lived t<>- gether uiih the Uariette family, tor whom Gerard worked. Poilly died at Paris, March, 1693. Though
Poilly's style is very laborious, there are al 1 four
hundred print s which 1m ar his name, in which how- ever he was of course assisted by his pupils. His mas- terpiece i- the print from Mignard's celebrated picture, now lost,of&an Carlo Borromeo administering tht Sac- rament ■ attacked with the Plague. A of his prints was published by R. Hecquel in II lefer, Nouv. fiiog. Generate, 8. v. ; .Mrs. Clement, Handbook of Painters, Sculptors, Architects, travi 1 8, b. v. Poimen 1 notur/i/), i.e. pastor, is a name given to ministers of the Gospel in lie- New-Testament writ- Ibj the early ( burch. h is a term recommend- ed by the circumstance that Christ had compared him-
shepherd and his | pic to a flock; and the
Pi ter had called him the Chief Shepherd. See
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freak of the architect, an accident, or irregularity. Some authors have traced its origin to the avenues of a forest ; others have seen it in the palm, in the wooden churches ol an earlier period, or the intersecting arcade. Some nlVr it to the Goths, like Warburton; or to the Saracen-, like Christopher Wren. See GOTHIC Am 111- im 1 1 1.1 .
Pointer, John, an English divine of some note, flourished in the first halfol the 18th century as chap- lain of Merton College, Oxford, where he was probably educated, and as rector of Slapton. He published, be- sides several works of an altogether secular character, Oxonienses Academia (Lond. 1749, 12mo). See Alli- bone, Did. of Brit, and .1 nu r. .1 uthors, s. v.
Points, Hebrew. See M vsorah.
Pointz, Robert, an English theologian of some re- pute, flourished near the middle of the li'.ih century. lie was educated at Oxford University, and was made perpetual fellow of New College in 1554. He was obliged to go abroad alter the accession of qui en Man. he having embraced the Reformed doctrines, and pre- ferring exile to abnegation of his religious convictions. He went to Louvain, and settled there as pastor of a Protestant congregation. He wrote several contro- versial works against the Romanists, examining their different characteristic doctrines. Among these arc Testimonies for th Real Presena (Lond. 1566, l6mo): —Miracles performed by the Eucharist (1570). See Wood. Athena Oxonienses, iii, 715.
Poiret, Pierre, a French philosopher of mystical tendency, and a writer whose works are of greal im- portance to the students of French theological thought, was horn at Met/. April 15, 1646. He lost his fath< r. a mechanic, when but six years of age. As he showed some disposition for the fine arts, he entered as an ap- prentice the .studio of a sculptor, where he learned the elements of drawing. At thirteen years he studied hu- manities, and from 1661 to 1663 he was tutor al Basle, and there studied at the same time philosophy and the- ology. He finally entered the evangelical ministry, and after residing for a while at llanau. was called as pastor to Heidelberg in 1667; married there, and ac- quired the reputation of a good preacher. In lf>7'_' he was appointed pastor at Anweiler, in the duchy of Zweibrucken. Here he familiarized himself with the writings of the philosopher Descartes, and of the mys- tics RLempis, Tauler, and Antoinette Bourignon, and commenced to turn his thoughts towards the spir- itual life. In H'>7;; a dangerous illness converted him fully to mysticism. The war having disturbed his peaceful studies, he first took refuge in Holland, then ai Hamburg, in the house of Mile. Bourignon. to whom he had been long attached by feelings ol' 1 -teem and