. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. first depositedwith the Franciscans at Marseilles, was afterwards carriedaway by Alphonso of Aragon, and enshrined at Valencia. Louis, bishop of Toulouse, is in general represented as youth-ful, beardless, and with a mild expression; wearing his epis-copal robes over his Franciscan habit. His cope is sometimesrichly embroidered with golden fleurs-de-lis upon a blue ground,or the fleur-de-lis is introduced as an ornament on some partof his dress: or a crown and sceptre lie at his feet, alludingto his rejected kingdom of Naples.
. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. first depositedwith the Franciscans at Marseilles, was afterwards carriedaway by Alphonso of Aragon, and enshrined at Valencia. Louis, bishop of Toulouse, is in general represented as youth-ful, beardless, and with a mild expression; wearing his epis-copal robes over his Franciscan habit. His cope is sometimesrichly embroidered with golden fleurs-de-lis upon a blue ground,or the fleur-de-lis is introduced as an ornament on some partof his dress: or a crown and sceptre lie at his feet, alludingto his rejected kingdom of Naples. He wears the mitre asbishop, or he carries it in his hand, or it is borne by an angel. ST. LOUIS OF TOULOUSE. 327 In the altarpieces of the Franciscan convents and churcheshe is often grouped with the other saints of his Order; as in abeautiful picture by Moretto, in which he stands with San : in another by Cosimo Roselli, a Coronation of Bren*the Virgin, in which with St. Bonaventura. I give Lnuvrca sketch of this group. se°e Pf 64 St. Louis and St. Bonaventura. (Cosimo Roselli.) St. Louis is also conspicuous in a large picture by Carlo uaiieryofCrivelli, formerly in the Brera, and certainly painted as analtarpiece for one of the great Franciscan churches in the north 858 LEGENDS OP THE MONASTIC ORDERS. of Italy. In the centre is the Virgin enthroned: on her kneethe Infant Christ, from whom St. Peter, kneeling reverently,receives the mystical keys; an altogether poetical version of theSacred and subject, as I have already observed. On one side is a , kighop, no otherwise distinguished than by his palm ;1 behindhim St. Bernardino of Siena, with the standard as the other side stands St. Louis of Toulouse; behind himSt. Bonaventura with the sacramental cup, while the Host issuspended from heaven above his head. St. Francis and , as the two patriarchs of the Order, look out frombehind the I
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