A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1871)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 221
209 ILLUSTRATED IN ART, Virgin worships the babe, but the accessories determine the differ- ence between them. And lastly there are the Pastoral Madonnas, in which numerous persons, such as the relatives of the Virgin or St. Joseph, the saints and holy personages, are introduced as partici- pating… … (Francesco Francia.) The Madonna, St. Dominick, and St. Barbara. La Madonna della Sedia. The pretty and poetical legend of this famous picture relates that centuries ago there dwelt among the Italian hills a venerable hermit, whom the people called Father Ber- nardo. He was renowned for wisdom and…
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