A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 225
rgixe Dea,nor the Virgo Dei Genetrix ;but she is still the Alma Ma-ter Redemptoris, the young,and lovely, and most puremother of a divine Christ. Sheis not sustained in mid-air byangels; she dwells lowly onearth ; but the angels leavetheir celestial home to waitupon her. A version of thisMadonna is… … ILLUSTRATED LN ART. 209 Virgin worships tte babe, but the accessoiies determine the differ-ence betvreen them. And lastly there are the Pastoral Madonnas,in which numerous persons, such as the relatives of the Virgin orSt. Joseph, the saints and holy personages, are introduced as partici-pating…
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