. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. ations of this most popular of all the monasticsaints, and of the wild and often revolting legends whichrelate to him, weary and disgust by their endless must do so if regarded as mere pictures ; for there arefew out of the vast number which are really good; and thefiner they are, the more painful;—too often, at least, it is effect depends, however, on the amount of faith or ofwise thoughtfulness, not less than on the taste, of the have said enough to show what sad, what thrilling, whatsolem
. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. ations of this most popular of all the monasticsaints, and of the wild and often revolting legends whichrelate to him, weary and disgust by their endless must do so if regarded as mere pictures ; for there arefew out of the vast number which are really good; and thefiner they are, the more painful;—too often, at least, it is effect depends, however, on the amount of faith or ofwise thoughtfulness, not less than on the taste, of the have said enough to show what sad, what thrilling, whatsolemn interest lies in the most beautiful and most ancient ofthese pictured monuments; what associations of terror andpity may be excited by some of the meanest. Many of thesubjects and groups I have slightly touched upon will bebetter understood as we proceed to review the companionsand followers of St. Francis, who are supposed to sharehis beatitude in heaven, and upon whom Art has bestowed onearth a glory hardly less than his own. LEGENDS OP THE MONASTIC 52 St. Clara. (Peruyino.) St. Claea. Lat. Sancta Clara. Ital. Santa Chiara. Fr. Sainte 11, 1253. 1 Clara claris praeclara meritis magna) in coclo claritate glorise ac in terramiraculorum sublimium clare claret. St. Clara, from some inevitable association of ideas, alwayscomes before us as the very ideal of a 1 Grey Sister, sedateand sweet; or of a beautiful saintly abbess, sober, steadfast,and demure; and her fame and popularity as a patroness haverendered her musical and significant name popular from one ST. CLARA. end of Europe to the other, but more especially in story is so eminently picturesque, that we have reason toregret that as a picturesque subject so little use has been madeof it. Clara dAssisi was the daughter of Favorino ScifFo, a nobleknight; her mothers name was Ortolana. She was the eldestof their children; and her uncommon beauty, and the greatwealth of her parents, exposed her
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