Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . t. Anna and St. Joachim werepresent at the marriage of their daughter; hence they aresupposed to have been dead before it took place. This hasnot prevented some of the old German artists from introducingthem, because, according to their ideas of domestic propriety,they ought to have been present. I observe that the later painters who treated the subject,Rubens and Poussin for instance, omit the disappointedsuitors. 176 LEGENDS OF THE MADONNA. After the marriage^ or betrothal, Joseph co
Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . t. Anna and St. Joachim werepresent at the marriage of their daughter; hence they aresupposed to have been dead before it took place. This hasnot prevented some of the old German artists from introducingthem, because, according to their ideas of domestic propriety,they ought to have been present. I observe that the later painters who treated the subject,Rubens and Poussin for instance, omit the disappointedsuitors. 176 LEGENDS OF THE MADONNA. After the marriage^ or betrothal, Joseph conducts his wife to his house. The group of the returning procession has been cappeiiadeir beautifullv treated in Giottos series at Padua; still more Arena. .... beautifully by Luini in the fragment of fresco now in theBrera. Here Joseph and Mary walk together hand in looks at her, just touching her fingers with an air oftender veneration ; she looks down, serenely modest. Thusthey return together to their humble home; and with thisscene closes the first part of the life of the Virgin Mary. 88 3Biatnrirnl $u\i]ub. PART 11. %\)t SCiTe of tfte Wirgut JMarp from tfte annunciationto ti^e Return from ®ffgpt* 1. THE ANNUNCIATION. 2. THE SALUTATION OP ELIZABETH, 3. THE JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM. 4. THE NATIVITY. 5. THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS. 6. THE ADORATION OP THE MAGI. 7. THE PRESENTATION IN THE TEMPLE, 8. THE PLIGHT INTO EGYPT. 9. THE RIPOSO. 10. THE RETURN FROM EGYPT. A A \
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