A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 213
y, 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 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 Egjpt. 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…
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