The early northern painters : studies in the National Gallery (1922)
Peers, Gertrude Katherine · London, Medici Society · leaf 186
shelter, and his crucifix hangs bythe lintel. The saint in his brown habit is sittingbeneath a tree in a flower-grown glade. His hind,driven in terror by the huntsmen, has rushed to herfriend, and her front feet, like a dogs paws, lie on theold mans knee. The hand with which he caresses… … The Legend of St. Giles No. 1419 THE MASTER OF ST. GILES ST. GILES 143 is happy in his wound, gained in an act of Christ-likecharity, and the men from the world recognise him atonce as a man of holy life. Their own lives are prob-ably far from holy, but they have at any rate thesaving quality of…
National Gallery (Great Britain) · Painting
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