A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 227
Vergine Dea,nor the Virgo Dei Genetrix;but she is still the Alma Ma-ter Redemitoris, 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 IN ART. 209 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 orSt. Joseph, the saints and holy personages, are introduced as partici-pating with…
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