. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. 152, and that of Cunegunda by Innocent III. in 1200. The single devotional figuresof St. Henry exhibit him in com-plete armour, wearing the im-perial crown ; in one hand, hissword, or the orb of sovereignty;in the other he usually holds theCathedral of Bamberg. The effigies of Cunegunda re-present her as Empress, wearinga Ions: veil under her diadem;and in her hand she also bearsthe Cathedral of Bamberg asjoint founder,—or it may be theChurch of St. Stephen at Bam-berg, of which she was solefounder. In a print by HansBurgmair,
. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. 152, and that of Cunegunda by Innocent III. in 1200. The single devotional figuresof St. Henry exhibit him in com-plete armour, wearing the im-perial crown ; in one hand, hissword, or the orb of sovereignty;in the other he usually holds theCathedral of Bamberg. The effigies of Cunegunda re-present her as Empress, wearinga Ions: veil under her diadem;and in her hand she also bearsthe Cathedral of Bamberg asjoint founder,—or it may be theChurch of St. Stephen at Bam-berg, of which she was solefounder. In a print by HansBurgmair, she is stepping overthe red-hot ploughshares, andholds a ploughshare in her hand. Henry, having been a greatprotector of religion in Italy aswell as in Germany, is some-times found in Italian pictures,particularly at Florence, wherehe built and endowed the Church of San Miniato, so famousin Florentine story. The legend of 1 St. Laurence and theEmperor Henry occurs frequently in old Florentine Art. Ifound in the Pitti Palace a picture representing St. Henry and. 3S St. Henry. (I. v. Melem.) ST. STEPHEN OF HUNGARY. m St. Cunegunda standing with a lily between them,—emblemof their chastity. The most beautiful monument to the sanctity and glory ofthis imperial pair is their sepulchre or shrine in the Cathedralof Bamberg. They lie together, under a rich Gothic canopy,arrayed in their imperial robes ; the heads and hands are ad-mirably sculptured; but finer still are the bas-reliefs whichdecorate the pedestal or sarcophagus on which they are four subjects:—1. Cunegunda undergoes the fieryordeal, a beautiful composition of eight figures. 2. Cunegundapays, out of her dower, the architects and masons who arebuilding the Church of St. Stephen at Bamberg. 3. Henry, 1H Sacred andhis last illness, takes leave of his wife. 4. Henry receives the ±iei. Ajtlast offices from the Bishop of Bamberg. 5. The legend ofSt. Laurence, which I have already related at length. Thesesc
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