Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . e devotional treatment ofthe subject; a distinction I have been careful to keep in viewthroughout the whole range of sacred art, and which, in thisparticular subject, dependson a difference in sentimentand intention, more easilyfelt than set down in is, I must repeat, a de-votional group where thesacred personages are placedin direct relation to the wor-shippers, and where theirsupernatural character is pa-ramount to every other. Itis a domestic or an historicalgroup, a Holy F
Legends of the Madonna, as represented in the fine artsForming the third series of Sacred and legendary art . e devotional treatment ofthe subject; a distinction I have been careful to keep in viewthroughout the whole range of sacred art, and which, in thisparticular subject, dependson a difference in sentimentand intention, more easilyfelt than set down in is, I must repeat, a de-votional group where thesacred personages are placedin direct relation to the wor-shippers, and where theirsupernatural character is pa-ramount to every other. Itis a domestic or an historicalgroup, a Holy Family pro-perly so called, when thepersonages are placed indirect relation to each otherby some link of action orsentiment, which expressesthe family connection be-tween them, or by someaction which has a dra-matic rather than a reli-gious significance. TheItalians draw this distinc-tion in the title SacraConversazione^ giYen to thefirst-named subject, andthat of ^^ Sacra Famiglia^^given to the last. Forinstance, if the Virgin,watching her sleeping Child, puts her finger on 126 Sacm Famiglla. (Domestic.). 125 Sacra Conversazione. (Devotional.)
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