A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 226
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… … (Francesco Francia.) The Madonna, St. Dominick, and St. Barbara. La Madonna della Sedla. The pretty and poetical legend ofthis famous picture relates that centuries ago there d>velt among theItalian hills a venerable hermit, whom the people called Father Ber-nardo. He was renowned for wisdom and…
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