. Illustrated catalogue of the very valuable art property belonging to the estate of the well-known connoisseur, the late James a. Garland, Esq. a former trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art [electronic resource]. The Virgin, bearing a lily, the emblem of purity, is rep-resented according- to the artistic formula prescribed by theSpanish Church as an interpretation of Revelation xii, 1: Andthere appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothedwith the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her heada crown of twelve stars. The splendor of the sun radiatesbehind her figure, her feet a
. Illustrated catalogue of the very valuable art property belonging to the estate of the well-known connoisseur, the late James a. Garland, Esq. a former trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art [electronic resource]. The Virgin, bearing a lily, the emblem of purity, is rep-resented according- to the artistic formula prescribed by theSpanish Church as an interpretation of Revelation xii, 1: Andthere appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothedwith the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her heada crown of twelve stars. The splendor of the sun radiatesbehind her figure, her feet are on the moon, and eleven starsencircle her. The twelfth, detached from her, hangs from abough a little to the right. It is, as the letters indicate, StellaMatittina, the Morning Star. Grouped about the Virgin are the emblems of her virtue,drawn from the praise of Wisdom in Ecclesiastieus xxiv: Iwas exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree uponthe mountains of Hermon. I was exalted like a palm tree inLngaddi, and as a rose plant in Jericho, as a fair olive tree in apleasant field, and grew up as a plane tree by the water. AlsoCanticles ii has supplied two: I am the lily of the valleys andthe flow
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