Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine artsForming the second series of Sacred and legendary art . She stands in royal attire,ministering to some diseasedbeggars who kneel at her feet,the leprous boy being conspi-cuous among them. 8. She stands, veiled as awidow, giving a vest to a kneel-ing beggar. As is usual withancient votive pictures, thesaint is colossal, the beggardiminutive. 9. St. Elizabeth spinningwith five of her maids; in aprint by Hans Burgmair. Of the subjects taken from her life, the most ancient, Ipresume, are the sculptures over the altar of her chapel in
Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine artsForming the second series of Sacred and legendary art . She stands in royal attire,ministering to some diseasedbeggars who kneel at her feet,the leprous boy being conspi-cuous among them. 8. She stands, veiled as awidow, giving a vest to a kneel-ing beggar. As is usual withancient votive pictures, thesaint is colossal, the beggardiminutive. 9. St. Elizabeth spinningwith five of her maids; in aprint by Hans Burgmair. Of the subjects taken from her life, the most ancient, Ipresume, are the sculptures over the altar of her chapel in the 1 .Santa EHisabetta, che e bellissima figura, con aria ridente e volto grarioso, eeon il grcmbo pieno di rose; e pare che gioisca reggendo per miraeolo di Dm cheil pane, che ella stessa, gran signora, portava ai povcri, fosse convertito in rose, insegno che era accetta a Dio quella sua umile carita.— Vasari, i. ;9. FI. othor saints in this fine picture are St. Francis, St. Antony of Padua, St. LouieKing, St. Louis of Toulouse, St. Bonaventura. St. Ives of Bretagne, and St. Eleazarof Sal» St. Elizabeth. (Paolo Morando.) ST. ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY. Cathedral at Marbourg. They are carved in wood, in very higbrelief, and in the pure German religions style, somewhat like thatof Albert Diirer, but certainly more ancient. In the centre isthe death of St. Elizabeth. Seven figures of priests and atten-dants surround her bed; the most conspicuous and authoritativeof these, which I presume to represent her confessor, Conrad,has the head broken off, and is the only figure mutilated. Onone side, she is carried to the tomb; on the other, is the exal-tation of her relics after her canonisation in presence of theEmperor Frederick. On the doors which close in this sculpture are painted severalsubjects from her life ; among them the following :— 1. She gives her royal mantle to the beggar. 2. The miracleof the poor leper laid in her bed. 3. The parting of Elizabethand h
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