A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 228
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… … (Francesco Fx-ancia.) The Madonna, St. Dominick, and St. Barbara. La Madonna della Sedia. The pretty and poetical legend ofthis famous picture relates that centuries ago there dwelt among theItalian hills a venerable hermit, whom the people called Father Ber-nardo. He was renowned for wisdom and…
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