A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 213
ers of legends. There are many ways of representing the threetravellers on this remarkable journey, but all easily recognized.There are a feAV in Avhich they are either embarking, or are in aboat crossing one of the streams or lakes Avliich intercepted thecourse of their journey. Sometimes an angel… … I ILLUSTRATED IN ART. 195 ject of this picture is really an incident of the Flight, but it is notfound in very early art, rarely, if at all, before the sixteenth century.Wlien other figures than those of the Virgin and child with Josephare introduced it is not a Riposo, but a Holy Family. The…
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