. What pictures to see in America. ime visiting prisons andinterceding for captives whom the king oftenpardoned. He grew w^eary of court life andretired to a desert near Limoges, France. Oneday the king and queen were journeyingthrough that section when the queen was smit-ten with the pains of childbirth and likely todie. The prayers of St. Leonard relieved thepain and brought her through safely. Ingratitude the king gave him a large portion ofthe forest and there St. Leonard founded areligious community. He wears the brownrobe of the Benedictines and his chain refersto his work among prisoner
. What pictures to see in America. ime visiting prisons andinterceding for captives whom the king oftenpardoned. He grew w^eary of court life andretired to a desert near Limoges, France. Oneday the king and queen were journeyingthrough that section when the queen was smit-ten with the pains of childbirth and likely todie. The prayers of St. Leonard relieved thepain and brought her through safely. Ingratitude the king gave him a large portion ofthe forest and there St. Leonard founded areligious community. He wears the brownrobe of the Benedictines and his chain refersto his work among prisoners. His name sig-nifies Brave as a Lion. The Four Saintsis the only work by Correggio in the Museum. The portrait of Christopher Columbus(Fig. 59), by Sebastiano del Piombo (1485-1547), was probably painted for FerdinandColumbus, who wrote a life of his father. Theartist possibly may have seen Columbus,though this portrait was painted after thegreat discoverers death (1506). At least theportrait has that warmth of personality which. Jo . aXI O 6< O (DTO -3 . a22
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