Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine ArtsHoughton Mifflin, 1892 - 483 pages |
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accessories adoring Albert Durer altar altar-piece ancient angels Anna Annibale Caracci Annunciation apostles appears arms artists attended beautiful blessed bosom Catherine celebrated chapel character Church Cimabue composition Coronation crown dedicated divine early effigies engraved enthroned Evangelist example expression fifteenth century figures Florence Francis Franciscan fresco Gallery Ghirlandajo Giotto glory grace Greek hand Hans Hemling head heaven holds Holy Family Immaculate Conception infant Christ instance Italian Joachim John the Baptist John the Evangelist Joseph King knee kneels Lady legend looks Lord Lorenzo di Credi Louvre Madonna Maria Mater mosaic Mother mystical Nestorius painted painters patron personages picture placed poetical Raphael religious representations represented robe sacred saints sarcophagi Saviour scene seen sentiment side Siena sometimes style Taddeo Gaddi temple thou throne tion Titian treated treatment ture veil Venetian Virgin and Child Virgin is seated Virgin Mary votaries woman worship
Popular passages
Page 354 - And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. 13 AND when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word : for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
Page 311 - But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife ; for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
Page 330 - I shall see him, but not now ; I shall behold him, but not nigh : there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Page 382 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Page 184 - My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
Page 64 - The King's daughter is all glorious within ; her clothing is of wrought gold. She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework : the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
Page 443 - And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
Page 331 - Who having heard the king, went their way, and behold the star which they had seen in the East went before them, until it came and stood over where the child was.
Page 54 - And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; 2 she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery.
Page 291 - Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! The time, the clime, the spot, where I so oft Have felt that moment in its fullest power Sink o'er the earth so beautiful and soft, While swung the deep bell in the distant tower. Or the faint dying day-hymn stole aloft, And not a breath crept through the rosy air, And yet the forest leaves seem'd stirr'd with prayer.