Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . 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 \. The Annunciation. Ital. LAnnunciazione. La B. Verglne Annunziata. Fr. LAnnonci-ation. La Salutation A
Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . 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 \. The Annunciation. Ital. LAnnunciazione. La B. Verglne Annunziata. Fr. LAnnonci-ation. La Salutation Angelique. Ger. Die Verkiindigung. DerEnglisclie Gruss. The second part of the life of the Virgin Mary begins withthe Annunciation and ends with the Crucifixion, comprisingall those scriptural incidents which connect her history withthat of her divine Son. But to the scenes narrated in the Gospels the painters didnot confine themselves. Not only were the simple scripturehistories coloured throughout by the predominant and en-thusiastic veneration paid to the Virgin — till the life ofChrist was absolutely merged in that of His mother, and itsvarious incidents became the seven joys and the sevensorrows of Mary,—but we find the artistic representations A A 2 180 LEGENDS OF THE MADONNA. of her life curiously embroidered and variegated by the in-troduction of traditional and apocryphal circumstances, inmost cases sanctioned by the Church authorities of the doubtful or repuls
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