. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. rom Florence: it is nowruined and deserted, but the vastspace it covers shows its formermagnificence. In the refectory stillexists Andrea del Sartos LastSupper, to which many a pilgrim-age is still made. The church ofthe Trinita at Florence, so familiarto those who have dwelt there, alsobelongs to the monks of Vallom-brosa. St. John Gualberto died in devotional figures of this saint,which are to be found only in thepictures painted for the conventsof his Order, exhibit him in thelight-grey habit, and in generalholding
. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. rom Florence: it is nowruined and deserted, but the vastspace it covers shows its formermagnificence. In the refectory stillexists Andrea del Sartos LastSupper, to which many a pilgrim-age is still made. The church ofthe Trinita at Florence, so familiarto those who have dwelt there, alsobelongs to the monks of Vallom-brosa. St. John Gualberto died in devotional figures of this saint,which are to be found only in thepictures painted for the conventsof his Order, exhibit him in thelight-grey habit, and in generalholding a cross in his hand, some-times also a crutch. He is gener- 21 st. John Gualbert0. (P. Angelico. jally beardless. With regard to the subjects from his life, some of them areof extreme interest in the history of Florentine Art. I havealways regretted that the most beautiful and most affectingincident in his story, the meeting with the murderer on theroad to San Miniato, has never been worthily treated. Thespot where the meeting took place lias been consecrated to. ST. JOHN GUALBERTO. 121 memory by a small tabernacle surmounted by a cross, withinwhich the scene is represented; and I remember, in thechurches at Florence and in the convents of the Order of Yal-lombrosa, several miserably bad pictures of this incident,where Gualberto is generally an armed cavalier on horseback, fi. sautaand the murderer kneels at his stirrup entreating mercy. Tnnl There may possibly exist better examples, but I have not metwith them. As the Order increased in importance and inriches, the subjects selected by the monks were those relatingto the religious life of their founder, and to the legends con-nected with it. The following are the most important:— 1. John Gualberto, among his other virtues, was remarkablefor his simplicity and his humility. On a certain occasion,visiting one of his dependent monasteries, that of Moscetta, or which he had placed, as superior, one of his disciples
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