Legends of the Madonna

Legends of the Madonna

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LEGENDS
OF
THE MADONNA,
AS
REPRESENTED IN THE FINE ARTS.
BY MRS. JAMESON.
CORRECTED AND ENLARGED EDITION.
BOSTON: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY. The Riverside
Press, Cambridge. 1881.

NOTE BY THE PUBLISHERS.
Some months since Mrs. Jameson kindly consented to prepare for this
Edition of her writings the series of Sacred and Legendary Art, but
dying before she had time to fulfil her promise, the arrangement has
been intrusted to other hands. The text of the whole series will be an
exact reprint of the last English Edition.
TICKNOR & FIELDS.
BOSTON, Oct. 1st, 1860.

CONTENTS.
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION-- Origin of the Worship of the Madonna. Earliest
artistic Representations. Origin of the Group of the Virgin and Child in
the Fifth Century. The First Council at Ephesus. The Iconoclasts. First
Appearance of the Effigy of the Virgin on Coins. Period of
Charlemagne. Period of the Crusades. Revival of Art in the Thirteenth
Century. The Fourteenth Century. Influence of Dante. The Fifteenth
Century. The Council of Constance and the Hussite Wars. The
Sixteenth Century. The Luxury of Church Pictures. The Influence of
Classical Literature on the Representations of the Virgin. The
Seventeenth Century. Theological Art. Spanish Art. Influence of
Jesuitism on Art. Authorities followed by Painters in the earliest Times.
Legend of St. Luke. Character of the Virgin Mary as drawn in the
Gospels. Early Descriptions of her Person; how far attended to by the
Painters. Poetical Extracts descriptive of the Virgin Mary.
SYMBOLS AND ATTRIBUTES OF THE VIRGIN. Proper Costume
and Colours.
DEVOTIONAL SUBJECTS AND HISTORICAL SUBJECTS.
Altar-pieces. The Life of the Virgin Mary as treated in a Series. The
Seven Joys and Seven Sorrows as a Series. Titles of the Virgin, as
expressed in Pictures and Effigies. Churches dedicated to her.
Conclusion.
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES
DEVOTIONAL SUBJECTS.

PART I.

THE VIRGIN WITHOUT THE CHILD.
LA VERGINE GLORIOSA. Earliest Figures. The Mosaics. The Virgin
of San Venanzio. The Virgin of Spoleto.
The Enthroned Virgin without the Child, as type of heavenly Wisdom.
Various Examples.
L'INCORONATA, the Type of the Church triumphant. The Virgin
crowned by her Son. Examples from the old Mosaics. Examples of the
Coronation of the Virgin from various Painters.
The VIRGIN OF MERCY, as she is represented in the Last Judgment.
The Virgin, as Dispenser of Mercy on Earth. Various Examples.
The MATER DOLOROSA seated and standing, with the Seven
Swords.
The Stabat Mater, the Ideal Pietà. The Votive Pieta by Guido.
OUR LADY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION Origin of the
Subject. History of the Theological Dispute. The First Papal Decree
touching the Immaculate Conception. The Bull of Paul V. The
Popularity of the Subject in Spain. Pictures by Guido, by Roelas,
Velasquez, Murillo.
The Predestination of the Virgin. Curious Picture by Cotignola.

PART II.
THE VIRGIN AND CHILD.
THE VIRGIN AND CHILD ENTHRONED. Virgo Deipara. The
Virgin in her Maternal Character. Origin of the Group of the Mother
and Child. Nestorian Controversy.

The Enthroned Virgin in the old Mosaics. In early Italian Art The
Virgin standing as Regina Coeli.
La Madre Pia enthroned. _Mater Sapientiæ_ with the Book.
The Virgin and Child enthroned with attendant Figures; with Angels;
with Prophets; with Apostles.
With Saints: John the Baptist; St. Anna; St. Joachim; St. Joseph.
With Martyrs and Patron Saints.
Various Examples of Arrangement. With the Fathers of the Church;
with St. Jerome and St. Catherine; with the Marriage of St. Catherine.
The Virgin and Child between St. Catherine and St. Barbara; with
Mary Magdalene; with St. Lucia.
The Virgin and Child between St. George and St. Nicholas; with St.
Christopher; with St. Leonard. The Virgin of Charity.
The Madonnas of Florence; of Siena; of Venice and Lombardy. How
attended.
The Virgin attended by the Monastic Saints. Examples from various
Painters.
Votive Madonnas. For Mercies accorded; for Victory; for Deliverance
from Pestilence; against Flood and Fire.
Family Votive Madonnas, Examples. The Madonna of the Bentivoglio
Family. The Madonna of the Sforza Family. The Madonna of the
Moyer Family, The Madonna di Foligno. German Votive Madonna at
Rouen. Madonna of Réné, Duke of Anjou; of the Pesaro Family at
Venice.
Half-length Enthroned Madonnas; first introduced by the Venetians.
Various Examples.
The MATER