Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . 83 Birth of the Virgin, ( 1300.) 2. There is both dignity and simplicity in the fresco byTaddeo Gaddi. St. Anna is sitting up in bed; an attendantpours water over her hands. In front, two women are af-fectionately occupied with the child, a lovely infant with aglory round its head. Three other attendants are at the footof the bed. 3. Here is next the elegant composition by Joachim and Anna were exceedingly rich, he has sur-rounded them with all the luxuries of life.
Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . 83 Birth of the Virgin, ( 1300.) 2. There is both dignity and simplicity in the fresco byTaddeo Gaddi. St. Anna is sitting up in bed; an attendantpours water over her hands. In front, two women are af-fectionately occupied with the child, a lovely infant with aglory round its head. Three other attendants are at the footof the bed. 3. Here is next the elegant composition by Joachim and Anna were exceedingly rich, he has sur-rounded them with all the luxuries of life. The scene is achamber richly decorated ; a frieze of angelic boys ornamentsthe alcove ; St. Anna lies on a couch. Yasari says ^ certainwomen are ministering to her; but in Lasinios engravingthey are not to be found. In front a female attendant pours. THE BIRTH OF THE VIRGIN. 161 water into a vase; two others seated hold the infant. A noblelady^ habited in the elegant Florentine costume of the fifteenthcentury, enters with four others — all portraits, and, as isusual with Ghirlandajo, looking on without taking any partin the action. 4. The composition by Albert Durer gives us an exact tran-script of antique German life, quite wonderful for the homelytruth of the delineation, but equally without the simplicity ofa scriptural or the dignity of an historical scene. In an old-fashioned German chamber lies St. Anna in an old-fashionedcanopied bedstead. Two women bring her a soup and some-thing to drink, while the midwife, tired with her exertions,leans her head on the bedside, and has sunk to sleep. Acrowd of women fill up the foreground, one of whom attendsto the new-born child; others, who appear to have watchedthrough the night, as we may suppose from the nearly ex-tinguished, candles, are intent on good cheer; they con err a-tulat
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