A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1890)
Clement, Clara Erskine, 1834-1916 · Boston Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 211
rely, if at all, before the sixteenth century.When other figures than those of the Virgin and child with Josephare introduced it is not a Riposo, but a Holy Family. The legendteaches that the Holy Family reposed beneath a sycamore grove nearthe village of Matarea, and that near the same village a… … (N. Poussin.) Flight into Egypt. guides, a few miles from Cairo. Mary is sometimes painted dippingwater, and again washing linen in this fountain, which the legendalso teaches that she did. In pictures of the Repose, angels oftenminister to the comfort of the travellers, in various ways and…
Art and mythology · Christian art and symbolism
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