Gardner, Edmund Garratt, 1869-1935 · London : J.M. Dent & co. · leaf 216
while Angels, each distinct in splendourand in art, their brows decked with such jewels as theseer of Patmos saw in the New Jerusalem of his revelation,cluster round her throne, bearing the mystical wands thatend in the symbol of the Blessed Trinity. The Prince ofthe Apostles, the two Johns, the… … The Opera del Diiomo Queens feet kneel Sienas sainted patrons: Crescentiusand Victor, Savinus and Ansanus. And their prayer isthe painters own, that he has inscribed upon the base ofthe throne: Holy Mother of God, be Thou the causeof rest to Siena, be life to Duccio because he has paintedThee thus.…
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