A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 212
gends. There are many Avays of representing the threetravellers on this remarkable journey, but all easily recognized.There are a feAv in which they are either embarking, or are in aboat crossing one of the streams or lakes Avhich interce])t<d thecourse of their journey. Sometimes an angel… … ILLUSTRATED IN ART. 195 ject of this picture is really an incident of the Flight, but it is notfound in very early art, rarely, if at all, before the sixteenth century,^Vlien other figures than those of the Virgin and child with Josephare introduced it is not a Lipnso, but a Holi/ Family. The…
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