The Madonna in Art

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Title: The Madonna in Art
Author: Estelle M. Hurll
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Language: English
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[Illustration: Madonna of Castelfranco Photogravure from the Painting by Giorgione in the Parish Church, Castelfranco]
THE
MADONNA IN ART
BY
ESTELLE M. HURLL
Illustrated

A mother is a mother still-- The holiest thing alive. --COLERIDGE.

BOSTON L.C. PAGE AND COMPANY (_INCORPORATED_) 1898
_Copyright, 1897_ BY L.C. PAGE AND COMPANY (INCORPORATED)

CONTENTS.
CHAPTER
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
I. THE PORTRAIT MADONNA
II. THE MADONNA ENTHRONED
III. THE MADONNA IN THE SKY
IV. THE PASTORAL MADONNA
V. THE MADONNA IN A HOME ENVIRONMENT
VI. THE MADONNA OF LOVE
VII. THE MADONNA IN ADORATION
VIII. THE MADONNA AS WITNESS
BIBLIOGRAPHY

ILLUSTRATIONS.
GIORGIONE Madonna of Castelfranco Frontispiece _Parish Church, Castelfranco._
JACOPO BELLINI Madonna and Child _Venice Academy._
GABRIEL MAX Madonna and Child
PERUGINO Madonna and Saints (Detail.) _Vatican Gallery, Rome._
GIOVANNI BELLINI Madonna of San Zaccaria. (Detail.) _Church of San Zaccaria, Venice._
VERONESE Madonna and Saints _Venice Academy._
QUENTIN MASSYS Madonna and Child _Berlin Gallery._
FRA ANGELICO Madonna della Stella _Monastery of San Marco, Florence._
UMBRIAN SCHOOL Glorification of the Virgin _National Gallery, London._
MORETTO Madonna in Glory _Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Verona._
SPANISH SCHOOL Madonna on the Crescent Moon _Dresden Gallery._
BOUGUEREAU Madonna of the Angels
RAPHAEL Madonna in the Meadow _Belvedere Gallery, Vienna._
LEONARDO DA VINCI Madonna of the Rocks _National Gallery, London._
PALMA VECCHIO Santa Conversazione _Belvedere Gallery, Vienna._
FILIPPINO LIPPI Madonna in a Rose Garden _Pitti Gallery, Florence._
SCHONGAUER Holy Family _Belvedere Gallery, Vienna._
RAPHAEL Madonna dell' Impannata _Pitti Gallery, Florence._
CORREGGIO Madonna della Scala _Parma Gallery._
TITIAN Madonna and Saints. (Detail.) _Belvedere Gallery, Vienna._
D��RER Madonna and Child _Belvedere Gallery, Vienna._
BODENHAUSEN Madonna and Child _Private Gallery, Washington, D.C._
ANDREA DELLA ROBBIA Madonna in Adoration _National Museum, Florence._
LORENZO DI CREDI Nativity _Uffizi Gallery, Florence._
FILIPPO LIPPI Madonna in Adoration _Uffizi Gallery, Florence_.
LUIGI VIVARINI Madonna and Child 179 _Church of the Redentore, Venice._
GIOVANNI BELLINI Madonna between St. George and St. Paul. (Detail.) _Venice Academy._
LUINI Madonna with St. Barbara and St. Anthony _Brera Gallery, Milan._
BOTTICELLI Madonna of the Pomegranate _Uffizi Gallery, Florence._
MURILLO Madonna and Child _Pitti Gallery, Florence._
RAPHAEL Sistine Madonna _Dresden Gallery._

PREFACE.
This little book is intended as a companion volume to "Child-Life in Art," and is a study of Madonna art as a revelation of motherhood. With the historical and legendary incidents in the life of the Virgin it has nothing to do. These subjects have been discussed comprehensively and finally in Mrs. Jameson's splendid work on the "Legends of the Madonna." Out of the great mass of Madonna subjects are selected, here, only the idealized and devotional pictures of the Mother and Babe. The methods of classifying such works are explained in the Introduction.
Great pains have been taken to choose as illustrations, not only the pictures which are universal favorites, but others which are less widely known and not easily accessible.
The cover was designed by Miss Isabelle A. Sinclair, in the various colors appropriate to the Virgin Mary. The lily is the Virgin's flower, la fleur de Marie, the highest symbol of her purity. The gold border surrounding the panel is copied from the ornamentation of the mantle worn by Botticelli's Dresden Madonna.
ESTELLE M. HURLL.
_New Bedford, Mass., May, 1897._

INTRODUCTION.
It is now about fifteen centuries since the Madonna with her Babe was first introduced into art, and it is safe to say that, throughout all this time, the subject has been unrivalled in popularity. It requires no very profound philosophy to discover the reason for this. The Madonna is the universal type of motherhood, a subject which, in its very nature, appeals to all classes and conditions of people. No one is too ignorant to understand it, and none too wise to be superior to its charm. The little child appreciates it as readily as the old man, and both, alike, are drawn to it by an irresistible attraction. Thus, century after century, the artist has poured out his soul in this all-prevailing theme of mother love until we have an accumulation of Madonna pictures so great that no one would dare to estimate their number. It would seem that every conceivable type was long since exhausted; but the end is not yet. So long as we have mothers, art will continue to produce Madonnas.
With so much available material, the student of Madonna art would be discouraged at the outset were it not possible to approach the subject systematically. Even the vast number of Madonna pictures becomes manageable when studied by some method of classification. Several plans are possible.