Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . 51 The Virgin and Child, the little St. John, with St. Joseph and Zacharias. (Cesare da Sesto.) R 2 124 LEGENDS OF THE 52 The Mater Amabilis. Itah La Madonna col Bambino. La Madonna col celeste suo La Vierge et Tenfant Jesus. Ger. Maria mit dem Kind. There is yet another treatment of the Madonna and Child,in which the Virgin no longer retains the lofty goddess-likeexaltation given to her in the old time. She is broughtnearer to our sympathies. She is not seated in
Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . 51 The Virgin and Child, the little St. John, with St. Joseph and Zacharias. (Cesare da Sesto.) R 2 124 LEGENDS OF THE 52 The Mater Amabilis. Itah La Madonna col Bambino. La Madonna col celeste suo La Vierge et Tenfant Jesus. Ger. Maria mit dem Kind. There is yet another treatment of the Madonna and Child,in which the Virgin no longer retains the lofty goddess-likeexaltation given to her in the old time. She is broughtnearer to our sympathies. She is not seated in a chair ofstate with the accompaniments of earthly power; she isnot enthroned on clouds, nor glorified and star-crowned inheaven; she is no longer so exclusively the Yergine Dea,nor the Virgo Dei Genitrix ; but she is still the AlmaMater Redemptoris, the young, and lovely, and mostpure mother of a divine Christ. She is not sustained in mid-air by angels ; she dwells lowly on earth; but the angelsleave their celestial home to wait upon her. Such effigies, THE MATER AMABILIS. 125 when conceived in a strictly ideal and devotional sense^ Ishall designate as the Matek Amabilis. The first and simplest form of this beautiful and familiar
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