. Sacred and legendary art . together as patronsaints of two of the greatest ports onthe eastern shore of the is also standing with St. Nicholas,and accompanied by St. Barbara andSt. Christina kneeling, in a beautiful little ^Coronation of the Virgin, by the same painter. [LordWantage.] In the devotional pictures, St. Julian is represented youngand graceful, often with flowing hair; with a melancholy yetbenign aspect, richly dressed in the secular habit, bearing hispalm, sometimes the standard of victory, and the sword. His whole history is painted in the Church of San Giulianoat R
. Sacred and legendary art . together as patronsaints of two of the greatest ports onthe eastern shore of the is also standing with St. Nicholas,and accompanied by St. Barbara andSt. Christina kneeling, in a beautiful little ^Coronation of the Virgin, by the same painter. [LordWantage.] In the devotional pictures, St. Julian is represented youngand graceful, often with flowing hair; with a melancholy yetbenign aspect, richly dressed in the secular habit, bearing hispalm, sometimes the standard of victory, and the sword. His whole history is painted in the Church of San Giulianoat Rimini. One of the scenes represents him as thrown intothe sea in a sack full of serpents: in another the sarcophaguscontaining his body is guided over the waves by angels till itarrives on the shores of the territory of Kimini. I have neverseen these pictures, which are by Bettino, an early artist ofRimini, and dated 1408 ; but Lord Lindsay praises them highly.^ 1 [Vide History of Christian Art (2d ed. 1885), voL i. p. 16.]. St. Julian (Lorenzo diCredi) 640 MARTYRS OF TUSCANY, LOMBARDY, SPAIN, FRANCE In the same church is the Martyrdom of the saint, over thehigh altar, by Paul Veronese. There are no less than twelve saints of this name; but thetwo most famous are this St. Julian the Martyr, who is repre-sented young and with the palm and sword; and St. JulianHospitator, the patron saint of travellers, who is generally inthe dress of a hermit, and accompanied by a stag. The Martyrs who appear in the pictures of the Lombardschool, though in some instances obscure, and confined to cer-tain localities, are interesting from the beauty and value of thepictures in which they are represented. I begin with those of Milan. St. Gervasius and St. Protasius Ital. SS. Gervasio e Protasio. Fr. Saint Gervais et Saint Protais. (June 19, a. d. 69.) The passion for relics (for I can call it by no other name),which prevailed from the third to the fourteenth century, hadbeen introduced from the ima
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