A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 226
the rep-resentation of the Virgin as The Mother alone, and its exquisitebeauty and feeling, when painted as it should and may be, is only tobe felt, it cannot be told. Here she is brought nearer to our sym-pathies. She is not seated in achair of state with the accom-paniments of earthly power;… … and lovely, and most puremother of a divine Christ. Sheis not sustained in mid-air bvangels; she dwells lowly onearth ; but the ano;els leavetheir celestial home to waitupon her. A version of this]\Iadonna is styled the MadrePia, and represents the Virginas acknowledging the divinity…
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