Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . -=-^21Vs_,^ ^-^~^ 03 S 2 132 LEGENDS OF THE MADONNA. Andrea Mantegna, though a fantastic painter, had generallyFi. Gal. some meaning in his fancies. There is a fine picture of his inwhich the Virgin and Child are seated in a landscape, and inthe background is a stone quarry, where a number of figuresare seen busily at work; perhaps hewing the stone to buildthe new temple of which our Saviour was the a group by Cristofano Allori, the Child places a wreath of. 64 flowers
Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . -=-^21Vs_,^ ^-^~^ 03 S 2 132 LEGENDS OF THE MADONNA. Andrea Mantegna, though a fantastic painter, had generallyFi. Gal. some meaning in his fancies. There is a fine picture of his inwhich the Virgin and Child are seated in a landscape, and inthe background is a stone quarry, where a number of figuresare seen busily at work; perhaps hewing the stone to buildthe new temple of which our Saviour was the a group by Cristofano Allori, the Child places a wreath of. 64 flowers on the brow of his Mother, holding in his other handhis own crown of thorns : one of the fancies of the laterschools of art. The introduction of the little St. John into the group of the Virgin and Child lends it a charming significance and . variety, and is very popular; we must, however, discriminate between the familiarity of the domestic subject and the purely religious treatment. When the Giovannino adores THE MATER AMABILIS. 133 with folded hands, as acknowledging in Christ a superiorpower, or kisses his feet humbly, or points to him exulting,then it is evident that we have the two Children in theirspiritual character, the Child Priest and King, and the ChildProphet. In a picture by Leonardo da Vinci, the Madonna, serious coii. ofand beautiful, without either crown or veil, and adorned only her long fair hair, is seated on a rock. On one side, thelittle Christ, supported in the arms of an angel, raises hishand in benediction; on the other side, the young St
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