Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . THE VIRGIN AND CHILD ENTHRONED. 99 tin, St. Elizabeth of Hungary, St. Roch, or other beneficentsaints, waiting round the Virgin with kneeling beggars, orthe blind, the lame, the sick, at their feet, always expressedthe Virgin as the mother of mercy, the Consolatrix affiic-torum. Such pictures were commonly found in hospitals, andthe chapels and churches of the Order of Mercy, and othercharitable institutions. The examples are numerous. I re-member one, a striking picture, by Bartolomeo
Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . THE VIRGIN AND CHILD ENTHRONED. 99 tin, St. Elizabeth of Hungary, St. Roch, or other beneficentsaints, waiting round the Virgin with kneeling beggars, orthe blind, the lame, the sick, at their feet, always expressedthe Virgin as the mother of mercy, the Consolatrix affiic-torum. Such pictures were commonly found in hospitals, andthe chapels and churches of the Order of Mercy, and othercharitable institutions. The examples are numerous. I re-member one, a striking picture, by Bartolomeo Montagna,where the Virgin and Child are enthroned in the centre asusual. On her right the good St. Omobuono, dressed as aburgher, in a red gown and fur cap, gives alms to a poorbeggar; on the left, St. Francis presents a celebrated friarof his Order, Bernardino da Feltri, the first founder of amont-de-piete, who kneels, holding the emblem of his institu-tion, a little green mountain with a cross at the top. I givea sketch from this curious picture, which has never beenengraved. Besides these saints, who
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