Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . Santa Maria Vergine. (Guido.) Virgin, the Madonna, the Santa Maria Vergine. Such headsare very rare in the earlier schools of art, which seldom re- LA VERGINE GLORIOSA. 13 presented the Virgin without her Child, but became favouritestudies of the later painters, and were multiplied and variedto infinitude from the beginning of the seventeenth these every trace of the mystical and solemn concep-tion of antiquity gradually disappeared ; till, for the majesticideal of womanho

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Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . Santa Maria Vergine. (Guido.) Virgin, the Madonna, the Santa Maria Vergine. Such headsare very rare in the earlier schools of art, which seldom re- LA VERGINE GLORIOSA. 13 presented the Virgin without her Child, but became favouritestudies of the later painters, and were multiplied and variedto infinitude from the beginning of the seventeenth these every trace of the mystical and solemn concep-tion of antiquity gradually disappeared ; till, for the majesticideal of womanhood, we have merely inane prettiness, orrustic, or even meretricious grace, the borrowed charms ofsome earthly 10 14 LEGENDS OF THE MADONNA.

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