Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . , the picture is most interesting in every point ofview. It was carried ofip by the French from Milan in 1797 ;and considering the occasion on which it was painted, theymust have had a special pleasure in placing it in their Louvre,where it still remains. * Qui rend graces du pretendu succes obtenu sur Charles VIII. a la bataillede Fornone, as the French catalogue expresses it. 2 Both, however, may be right; for St. Elizabeth was the patron saint of theMarchesana: the
Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . , the picture is most interesting in every point ofview. It was carried ofip by the French from Milan in 1797 ;and considering the occasion on which it was painted, theymust have had a special pleasure in placing it in their Louvre,where it still remains. * Qui rend graces du pretendu succes obtenu sur Charles VIII. a la bataillede Fornone, as the French catalogue expresses it. 2 Both, however, may be right; for St. Elizabeth was the patron saint of theMarchesana: the head has quite the air of a portrait, and may be Isabella inlikeness of a saint. ^ Si les soldats avaient mieux seconde la bravoure de leur chef, Iarmee deCharles VIII. ctait perdue sans resource. — lis se disperserent pour piller ctlaissercnt aux Fran9ais le temps de continuer leur route. 106 LEGENDS OF THE MADONNA. Madonna delVoto. There is a very curious and much more ancient Madonna ofthis class preserved at Siena, and styled the Madonna delYoto. The Sienese being at war with Florence, placed their. 45 La Madonna del Voto. city under the protection of the Virgin, and made a solemnvow that, if victorious, they would make over their wholeterritory to her as a perpetual possession, and hold it fromher as her loyal vassals. After the victory of Arbia, whichplaced Florence itself for a time in such imminent danger,a picture was dedicated by Siena to the Virgin delta Vit-toria. She is enthroned and crowned, and the infant Christ,standing on her knee, holds in his hand the deed of gift. 2ndly. For Deliverance from Plague and Pestilence, thosescourges of the middle ages. In such pictures the Virgin isgenerally attended by St. Sebastian, with St. Roch or St. PUBLIC VOTIVE MADONNAS. 107 George; sometimes, also, bj St. Cosmo and St. Damian, all ofthem protectors and healers in time of sickness and intercessors are often accompanied by the patrons ofthe church or local
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