Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine artsForming the second series of Sacred and legendary art . ed with the Franciscans at Marseilles,was afterwards carried away by Alphonso of Aragon, and en-shrined at Valencia. Louis, bishop of Toulouse, is in general represented as youth-ful, beardless, and with a mild expre>sion; wearing his episcopalrobes over his Franciscan habit. His cope is sometimes richlyembroidered with golden fleurs-de-lis upon a blue ground, or thefleur-de-lis is introduced as an ornament on Borne part of hisdress: or a crown and sceptre lie at his feet,
Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine artsForming the second series of Sacred and legendary art . ed with the Franciscans at Marseilles,was afterwards carried away by Alphonso of Aragon, and en-shrined at Valencia. Louis, bishop of Toulouse, is in general represented as youth-ful, beardless, and with a mild expre>sion; wearing his episcopalrobes over his Franciscan habit. His cope is sometimes richlyembroidered with golden fleurs-de-lis upon a blue ground, or thefleur-de-lis is introduced as an ornament on Borne part of hisdress: or a crown and sceptre lie at his feet, alluding to hiflrejected kingdom of Naples. He wears the mitre ;i> bishop,or he carries it in his hand, or it is borne by an angeL ST. LOUIS OF TOULOUSE, M7 lurchesaa in a In the altar-pieces of the Franciscan convenls anhe is often grouped with the other saints of hia Ordbeautiful picture by Moretto, in which he stands with San Ber- mii.,,..nardino: in another by Cosimo Roselli, a Coronation of the ,inrVirgin, in which lie stands with St. of this group. I give a p. ouisandSt. Bonaventura. (Cosimo Etoselli.) St. Louis is also conspicuous in a large picture by Carlo Gallery olCiivelli, formerly in the Brera, and certainly painted as an 828 LEGENDS OF THE MONASTIC ORDERS. altar-piece for one of the great Franciscan churches in the northof Italy. In the centre is the Virgin enthroned: on her kneethe Infant Christ, from whom St. Peter, kneeling reverently,receives the mystical keys ; an altogether poetical version of theBacredand subject, as I have already observed. On one side is a martyr-bishop, no otherwise distinguished than by his palm ;? behind 174. him St. Bernardino of Siena, with the standard as the other side stands St. Louis of Toulouse; behind himSt. Bonaventura with the sacramental cup, while the Host issuspended from heaven above his head. St. Francis and , as the two patriarchs of the Order, lo
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