Cutts, Edward Lewes, 1824-1901 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 266
nunciation with the conventional allusionto the prophecy of the Star, presented in the wall-painting. The so-called Madonna of St. Agnes isan orante and her child painted in the lunette of anarcosolium.* In the Cemetery of St. Valentine, on theFlaminian Way, there is an undoubted Madonna * Sec… … P-C- Oiante and child, the so-called Madonna of the Cemeteryof St. Agnes. Rabula manuscript f is a representation of anAscension (see p. 315), in which a female figure |occupies the centre, with an angel on each side of her,each addressing a group of six Apostles, who fill up thepicture. In the…
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