A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 266
he bottom on whose head she must tread in order tomount the first step. One scene from her life represented in mod-ern art, is her flirewell to her infant child. There are many inci-dents in her story Avhich would be most interesting subjects for theartist, that as yet remain without… … (Sarcophagus, 3d century.) Repentance of St. Peter. and St. Paul are so associated in history that it is quite unpoi?-iible to separate them in our minds, or entirely to do so in de-bcriptions of them. And in works of art thev are constantlv asso- 250 LEGENDS AND STORIES ciated. St. Peter is a…
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