Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . butthere are some instances. On one of the carved stalls of theCathedral of Amiens it is very poetically treated. Mary is scaiies J t/ d Amiens, seated on a throne under a magnificent canopy; Joseph, kneel- p- 2^- ing before her and presented by two angels, pleads for pardon. She extends one hand to him ; in the other is the volume of the Holy Scriptures. There is a similar version of the text in sculpture over one of the doors of Notre-Dame at Paris. There is also a picture by Alessan
Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . butthere are some instances. On one of the carved stalls of theCathedral of Amiens it is very poetically treated. Mary is scaiies J t/ d Amiens, seated on a throne under a magnificent canopy; Joseph, kneel- p- 2^- ing before her and presented by two angels, pleads for pardon. She extends one hand to him ; in the other is the volume of the Holy Scriptures. There is a similar version of the text in sculpture over one of the doors of Notre-Dame at Paris. There is also a picture by Alessandro Tiarini, and reckoned Louvre, 1250. by Malvasia his finest work, wherein Joseph kneels before the Virgin, who stands with a dignified air, and, while she raises him with one hand, points with the other up to heaven. Behind is seen the angel Gabriel with his finger on his lip, as commanding silence, and two other angels. The figures are life-size, the execution and colour very fine; the whole conception in the grand but mannered style of the Guido school. E E 2 212 LEGENDS OF THE 104 The Sibyls Prophecy. (Baldassare Peruzzi.) The Nativity. Ital. II Presepio. II Nascimento del Nostro Signore. Fr. La Nativitc. Ger. Die Geburt Christi. The birth of our Saviour is related with characteristic sim-plicity and brevity in the Gospels ; but in the early Christiantraditions this great event is preceded and accompanied byseveral circumstances which have assumed a certain import-ance and interest in the artistic representations. According to an ancient legend, the Emperor Augustus THE NATIVITY. 213 Cgesar repaired to the sibyl Tiburtina^ to inquire whether heshould consent to allow himself to be worshipped with divinehonours, which the Senate had decreed to him. The sibyl,after some days of meditation, took the Emperor apart, andshowed him an altar; and above the altar, in the openingheavens, and in a glory of light, he beheld a beautiful Virginholding an Infant in her arms, a
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