Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers (1899)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr · New York : Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 117
onstellated with crosses and golden stars; Saint Catherineof Alexandria leans upon the wheel, the instrument of herexecution, as calmly and peacefully as if it were a spinning-wheel ; and Saint Agnes holds in her arms a little whiteiamb, the symbol of innocent purity. Fra Beato Angelico has given… … The Coronation of the Virgin. rra Angelico. THE CORONATION OF THE VIRGIN 79 of white, rose, and blue, sown with stars and embroidered,clothed as might be the happy spirits who rejoice in theeternal light of Paradise. If there be paintings in Heaven,surely they must resemble those of Fra Angelico.…
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