Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . 1 THE MATER DOLOROSA. 39. 22 Mater Doloroso. swords, in allusion to theseven sorrows. This verymaterial and palpable ver-sion of the allegorical pro- Luke, a. has been found ex-tremely effective as anappeal to the popular feel-ings, so that there are fewRoman Catholic churcheswithout such a painful andliteral interpretation of thetext. It occurs perpetuallyin prints, and there is afine example after Yan-dyck; sometimes the swordsare placed round her head;— but there is no inst
Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . 1 THE MATER DOLOROSA. 39. 22 Mater Doloroso. swords, in allusion to theseven sorrows. This verymaterial and palpable ver-sion of the allegorical pro- Luke, a. has been found ex-tremely effective as anappeal to the popular feel-ings, so that there are fewRoman Catholic churcheswithout such a painful andliteral interpretation of thetext. It occurs perpetuallyin prints, and there is afine example after Yan-dyck; sometimes the swordsare placed round her head;— but there is no instance from the best period of religious art, and it must be con-sidered as any thing but artistic: in this case, the more materialised and the morematter of fact, the moreunreal. A second representationof the Madre di Dolore isthat figure of the Virginwhich, from the very earliesttimes, was placed on theright of the crucifix, the Evangelist beinginvariably on the left. Iam speaking here of thecrucifix as a wholly idealand mystical emblem of ourfaith in a crucified Saviour;not of the crucifixion as an
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